Programme Manager Contracts in Sheffield

Programme Manager
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Programme Manager daily rate in Sheffield is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% - 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% - 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.00%
75th Percentile £625 - £594
90th Percentile - - £605
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £488
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 291 340 445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 89.71% 98.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 210 311
10th Percentile £220 £360 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -12.50% +10.00%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £675
90th Percentile £641 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +24.15% +8.21%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 - £33.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
% change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in Sheffield

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Manager in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in Sheffield

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) Cloudera
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Banking

Programme Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cloudera