Programme Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Programme Management (Program Management)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 94 67
Rank change year-on-year +34 -27 +26
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 39 38 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.66% 1.44% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 1.68% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 59
10th Percentile £583 £194 £400
25th Percentile £600 £286 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £431 £600
Median % change year-on-year +50.72% -28.13% +41.18%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £700
90th Percentile - £763 £800
South East median daily rate £650 £518 £500
% change year-on-year +25.60% +3.51% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
South East median hourly rate £18.31 £39.25 -
% change year-on-year -53.36% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,360 2,268 2,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.90% 85.88% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,245 1,756
10th Percentile £300 £213 £315
25th Percentile £409 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.77% +4.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 166 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.09 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.51 £19.25 £24.86
Median hourly rate £25.23 £46.25 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.46% -11.57% +200.23%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.42 £72.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £26.53 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -44.15% -9.52% +138.80%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the Thames Valley

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the Thames Valley

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the Thames Valley

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the Thames Valley

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Berkshire +37 35 £650 +62.50% 51
Oxfordshire +4 3 £850 +193.10% 12
Buckinghamshire +10 1 - - 16
Programme Management
South East

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (2.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Broadband
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.56%) Junos
2 1 (2.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
1 4 (10.26%) Selenium
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 34 (87.18%) Finance
2 30 (76.92%) Manufacturing
3 29 (74.36%) Telecoms
4 27 (69.23%) Electronics
4 27 (69.23%) Marketing
4 27 (69.23%) Public Sector
5 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
6 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (56.41%) Architect
2 21 (53.85%) Active Directory Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 3 (7.69%) SAP Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Finance Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Lead
4 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.13%) SAP Programme Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Scrum Master
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (2.56%) SAP Financial Project Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Senior
5 1 (2.56%) Transformation Director
5 1 (2.56%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Transformation Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Life Science
2 2 (5.13%) PMI
2 2 (5.13%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) CMDB
3 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (64.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) Agile
2 27 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (69.23%) Digital Marketing
3 22 (56.41%) Test Automation
4 21 (53.85%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (15.38%) Project Management
5 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.82%) PRINCE2
6 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (7.69%) Migration
8 3 (7.69%) Product Backlog
8 3 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 3 (7.69%) Risk Management
8 3 (7.69%) Scrum
8 3 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (61.54%) DV Cleared
1 24 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) PMI Certification
4 3 (7.69%) PMP
5 2 (5.13%) PgMP
6 1 (2.56%) CISA
6 1 (2.56%) CISM
6 1 (2.56%) CISSP
6 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.56%) SAP Certification
6 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) NIST
1 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Ansible
1 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 31 (79.49%) SAP
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix
3 1 (2.56%) F5
3 1 (2.56%) Juniper
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow