Programme Management Contracts in the South East

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Programme Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 98 72
Rank change year-on-year +31 -26 +24
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 87 105 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.89% 1.89% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.23% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 65 121
10th Percentile £202 £200 £200
25th Percentile £550 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £335 £500
Median % change year-on-year +86.57% -33.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £563 £653
90th Percentile - £735 £790
England median daily rate £575 £584 £600
% change year-on-year -1.50% -2.71% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £18.96 £24.05 -
25th Percentile £20.09 £36.13 -
Median hourly rate £22.90 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% - -
75th Percentile £26.54 £69.62 -
90th Percentile £28.17 £70.15 -
England median hourly rate £39.04 £35.50 £38.95
% change year-on-year +9.96% -8.86% -10.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the South East

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the South East

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the South East

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the South East

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Thames Valley +50 50 £650 +62.50% 14
Berkshire +43 45 £650 +62.50% 10
Hampshire +32 12 £625 - 10
Surrey +13 8 £195 -65.79% 6
West Sussex +6 5 £663 +26.19% 1
Oxfordshire +7 4 £738 +154.31% 5
Kent -5 4 £205 -
East Sussex -4 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +13 1 - - 3
Middlesex - 1 £600 - 2
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.15%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.15%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (3.45%) AWS
2 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
3 2 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.30%) GCP
3 2 (2.30%) PaaS
4 1 (1.15%) OCI
4 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) DHCP
1 3 (3.45%) DNS
1 3 (3.45%) iSCSI
1 3 (3.45%) LAN
2 2 (2.30%) Broadband
2 2 (2.30%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) VPN
2 2 (2.30%) WAN
2 2 (2.30%) Wireless
3 1 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.15%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.15%) Junos
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) SAN
3 1 (1.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Git
1 5 (5.75%) JIRA
2 4 (4.60%) Selenium
3 3 (3.45%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) Maven
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 72 (82.76%) Finance
2 65 (74.71%) Manufacturing
2 65 (74.71%) Telecoms
3 62 (71.26%) Electronics
3 62 (71.26%) Marketing
3 62 (71.26%) Public Sector
4 16 (18.39%) Social Skills
5 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.15%) Avionics
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Law
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Architect
2 21 (24.14%) Active Directory Architect
3 8 (9.20%) Programme Manager
3 8 (9.20%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Desktop Support
4 7 (8.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) IT Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Lead
6 4 (4.60%) Senior
6 4 (4.60%) Transformation Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) SAP Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) Gherkin
1 3 (3.45%) PySpark
2 2 (2.30%) YAML
3 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.15%) CSS
3 1 (1.15%) Google Maps API
3 1 (1.15%) HTML
3 1 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.15%) J2EE
3 1 (1.15%) Java EE
3 1 (1.15%) React
3 1 (1.15%) Vaadin
3 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) NHS
2 5 (5.75%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.45%) LIMS
4 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Life Science
5 2 (2.30%) PMI
5 2 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) CMDB
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) FPGA
6 1 (1.15%) IoT
6 1 (1.15%) SCADA
6 1 (1.15%) Verilog
6 1 (1.15%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 33 (37.93%) Windows
2 7 (8.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (71.26%) Business Intelligence
1 62 (71.26%) Digital Marketing
2 36 (41.38%) Agile
3 24 (27.59%) Test Automation
4 21 (24.14%) Identity Access Management
5 15 (17.24%) Project Management
6 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (12.64%) Risk Management
8 10 (11.49%) PRINCE2
9 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (6.90%) Change Management
10 6 (6.90%) CI/CD
10 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (6.90%) DevOps
11 5 (5.75%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (5.75%) Roadmaps
11 5 (5.75%) Scrum
11 5 (5.75%) SIEM
12 4 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (4.60%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.74%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.90%) Python
3 4 (4.60%) Bash
3 4 (4.60%) SQL
4 2 (2.30%) Bicep
4 2 (2.30%) Java
5 1 (1.15%) C
5 1 (1.15%) C++
5 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (47.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.20%) Degree
5 5 (5.75%) PMI Certification
5 5 (5.75%) PMP
6 2 (2.30%) PgMP
7 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.15%) CISA
7 1 (1.15%) CISM
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) Dell Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.45%) JSP 440
2 3 (3.45%) NIST
2 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.45%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.30%) PMO
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 21 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.30%) NFS
2 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.30%) vRealize
1 2 (2.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (1.15%) Ansible
2 1 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 66 (75.86%) SAP
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.45%) Cisco
3 3 (3.45%) Databricks
3 3 (3.45%) Dell
3 3 (3.45%) HP
4 2 (2.30%) IBM
4 2 (2.30%) LogRhythm
4 2 (2.30%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.30%) VMware
5 1 (1.15%) Citrix
5 1 (1.15%) F5
5 1 (1.15%) Google
5 1 (1.15%) Juniper
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.15%) Splunk
5 1 (1.15%) Tenable