Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Programme Management (Program Management)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Programme Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 15 32
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 3 20 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 1.55% 10.05% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 13.61% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - £513 -
25th Percentile £725 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -3.36% +164.44%
75th Percentile £775 £642 -
90th Percentile - £662 -
South West median daily rate £563 £560 £595
% change year-on-year +0.45% -5.88% +3.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

Programme Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 147 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 90.67% 73.87% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 87 119
10th Percentile £185 £200 £198
25th Percentile £263 £347 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £650
90th Percentile £720 £680 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 29
10th Percentile - £12.50 £34.48
25th Percentile - £14.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -51.82% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.75 £66.23
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.05%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Somerset

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Programme Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Programme Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bath - 2 £750 -
Programme Management
South West

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Transition Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Awareness
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Information Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) VMware