Programme Management Contracts in the South West

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Programme Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Programme Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 53 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 112 145 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.53% 4.09% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 4.56% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 125 152
10th Percentile £410 £403 £401
25th Percentile £550 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £738 £688 £652
90th Percentile £788 £783 £775
England median daily rate £595 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.23 -
25th Percentile - £37.29 £31.65
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.55 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +22.07% -
75th Percentile - £54.63 £36.64
90th Percentile - £69.85 £38.74
England median hourly rate £35.50 £39.55 £43.50
% change year-on-year -10.24% -9.08% +19.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Programme Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,638 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.17% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the South West

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the South West

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the South West

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the South West

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire -1 45 £750 +20.00% 6
Bristol -4 40 £570 -5.00% 7
Gloucestershire +9 10 £688 -15.64% 6
Somerset +4 10 £581 +29.89% 5
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.64%) Azure
2 10 (8.93%) AWS
3 7 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) GCP
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.79%) SaaS
6 1 (0.89%) IaaS
6 1 (0.89%) PaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) 3G
1 7 (6.25%) 4G
1 7 (6.25%) Network Security
2 4 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (1.79%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.79%) FTP
3 2 (1.79%) LAN
3 2 (1.79%) SAN
3 2 (1.79%) VPN
3 2 (1.79%) WAN
3 2 (1.79%) Wireless
4 1 (0.89%) DNS
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.89%) Git
2 1 (0.89%) GitLab
2 1 (0.89%) GoCD
2 1 (0.89%) NUnit
2 1 (0.89%) Postman
2 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (62.50%) Finance
2 66 (58.93%) Manufacturing
3 65 (58.04%) Public Sector
4 64 (57.14%) Electronics
4 64 (57.14%) Marketing
4 64 (57.14%) Telecoms
5 26 (23.21%) Social Skills
6 18 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (9.82%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (7.14%) Military
9 5 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.57%) Banking
11 2 (1.79%) Advertising
11 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.89%) Aviation
12 1 (0.89%) Local Government
12 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.11%) Architect
2 18 (16.07%) Project Manager
3 15 (13.39%) Lead
4 13 (11.61%) Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.71%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Technical Architect
7 10 (8.93%) Change Manager
8 7 (6.25%) Change and Release Manager
8 7 (6.25%) ITIL Change Manager
8 7 (6.25%) ITIL Manager
8 7 (6.25%) ITIL Release Manager
8 7 (6.25%) Release Manager
8 7 (6.25%) Senior
8 7 (6.25%) SOC Manager
9 6 (5.36%) Analyst
9 6 (5.36%) Lead Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Support Officer
11 4 (3.57%) Information Assurance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 12 (10.71%) React
2 12 (10.71%) Spring
3 2 (1.79%) .NET
3 2 (1.79%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.89%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.89%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.89%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
1 8 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 8 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.79%) NHS
4 2 (1.79%) Replication
4 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.89%) CSOC
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.89%) PKI
5 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Windows
2 5 (4.46%) Linux
3 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 64 (57.14%) Digital Marketing
2 43 (38.39%) Agile
3 36 (32.14%) Change Management
4 25 (22.32%) Project Management
5 19 (16.96%) DevOps
6 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (12.50%) ITIL
9 13 (11.61%) OO
9 13 (11.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 13 (11.61%) Unit Testing
10 12 (10.71%) Full Stack Development
10 12 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 12 (10.71%) OOP
10 12 (10.71%) Secure Coding
10 12 (10.71%) Software Architecture
11 10 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (8.93%) Resource Management
12 9 (8.04%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.61%) Java
1 13 (11.61%) Python
2 12 (10.71%) C
3 7 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.68%) SQL
5 2 (1.79%) C#
5 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.89%) Bash
6 1 (0.89%) Bicep
6 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (65.18%) Security Cleared
2 42 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 40 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.82%) CISSP
5 6 (5.36%) CISM
6 5 (4.46%) CESG Certified Professional
6 5 (4.46%) Degree
7 4 (3.57%) CLAS
8 3 (2.68%) PMP
9 2 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.50%) QA
2 11 (9.82%) NIST
2 11 (9.82%) PMO
3 7 (6.25%) NIST 800
4 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.46%) JSP 440
4 5 (4.46%) RMADS
5 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.89%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.89%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.79%) Ansible
1 2 (1.79%) Terraform
1 2 (1.79%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.89%) Grafana
2 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.89%) Puppet
2 1 (0.89%) SCOM
Vendors
1 64 (57.14%) SAP
2 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.57%) VMware
4 3 (2.68%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.79%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.79%) Cisco
5 2 (1.79%) Dell
5 2 (1.79%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.79%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.79%) Pegasus
5 2 (1.79%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.79%) Veeam
6 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.89%) Citrix
6 1 (0.89%) Sparx