Programme Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 102 128
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 -22
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 286 429 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.24% 2.07% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.44% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 323 366
10th Percentile £301 £205 £205
25th Percentile £459 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £712 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £790
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile £18.41 - £23.00
25th Percentile £20.26 £12.75 £30.53
Median hourly rate £23.00 £16.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -59.54% +22.07%
75th Percentile £38.19 £35.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £69.50 £69.10 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £35.50 £37.45
% change year-on-year -5.63% -5.19% -18.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +27 88 £625 +83.82% 69
South West -10 51 £570 -5.00% 29
North of England -14 51 £525 -18.60% 39
Scotland +16 41 £527 +0.81% 15
Midlands +3 34 £563 -9.27% 31
West Midlands 0 23 £600 -11.11% 20
North West -21 23 £525 -19.23% 17
Yorkshire +1 16 £550 - 16
East of England +21 13 £550 +46.67% 14
North East +9 12 £515 -1.90% 6
East Midlands +5 11 £481 +21.68% 10
Wales +4 4 £675 -32.50% 5
Northern Ireland -10 4 £275 +22.22% 10
Programme Management
UK

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.10%) Confluence
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.70%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.70%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.35%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.35%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 21 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (2.80%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.70%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) Primavera
2 2 (0.70%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.70%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.35%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.59%) Azure
2 21 (7.34%) AWS
3 11 (3.85%) GCP
4 10 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.75%) SaaS
6 3 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.70%) Cohesity
7 2 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.70%) Kong
7 2 (0.70%) PaaS
7 2 (0.70%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.35%) OCI
8 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.45%) VPN
2 6 (2.10%) Firewall
3 5 (1.75%) LAN
4 4 (1.40%) DNS
5 3 (1.05%) DHCP
5 3 (1.05%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.05%) Network Security
5 3 (1.05%) SAN
5 3 (1.05%) WAN
5 3 (1.05%) Wireless
6 2 (0.70%) Broadband
6 2 (0.70%) IMAP
6 2 (0.70%) Internet
6 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.70%) Skype
6 2 (0.70%) SMTP
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.35%) Intranet
7 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.05%) Metadata
5 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.70%) Big Data
5 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.70%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.70%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.35%) Power BI
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (5.59%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.24%) JIRA
3 10 (3.50%) Git
3 10 (3.50%) GitLab
3 10 (3.50%) Gradle
3 10 (3.50%) JUnit
3 10 (3.50%) Liquibase
3 10 (3.50%) Mockito
4 7 (2.45%) Selenium
5 3 (1.05%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.70%) NUnit
6 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.35%) GCC
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) MSI
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 199 (69.58%) Finance
2 148 (51.75%) Public Sector
3 137 (47.90%) Manufacturing
4 132 (46.15%) Telecoms
5 130 (45.45%) Marketing
6 129 (45.10%) Electronics
7 99 (34.62%) Social Skills
8 35 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.90%) Banking
11 10 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (3.15%) Retail
13 7 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (2.10%) Legal
14 6 (2.10%) Local Government
15 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
16 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (1.05%) Law
16 3 (1.05%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 37 (12.94%) Programme Manager
2 36 (12.59%) Project Manager
3 34 (11.89%) Architect
4 26 (9.09%) Lead
5 21 (7.34%) Active Directory Architect
5 21 (7.34%) Support Engineer
6 20 (6.99%) Senior
7 17 (5.94%) Developer
8 16 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.90%) Analyst
10 12 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
11 11 (3.85%) Desktop Support
11 11 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 11 (3.85%) IT Manager
12 10 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.15%) IT Engineer
13 9 (3.15%) Technical Manager
14 8 (2.80%) Senior Manager
15 7 (2.45%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.85%) .NET
1 11 (3.85%) OpenAPI
1 11 (3.85%) React
1 11 (3.85%) Swagger
2 10 (3.50%) CSS
2 10 (3.50%) HTML
2 10 (3.50%) Kafka
2 10 (3.50%) Spring
2 10 (3.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.40%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.05%) PySpark
5 2 (0.70%) Jest
5 2 (0.70%) Playwright
5 2 (0.70%) pytest
5 2 (0.70%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.70%) Sass
5 2 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.99%) NHS
2 15 (5.24%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.80%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.45%) CMDB
6 7 (2.45%) PMI
7 5 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.05%) LIMS
9 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.70%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.70%) iPhone
10 2 (0.70%) Life Science
10 2 (0.70%) Robotics
10 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.13%) Windows
2 12 (4.20%) Windows 10
3 7 (2.45%) Linux
4 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.70%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (45.10%) Digital Marketing
3 98 (34.27%) Agile
4 75 (26.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 64 (22.38%) Project Management
6 44 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.99%) Test Automation
8 35 (12.24%) Project Delivery
8 35 (12.24%) Risk Management
9 33 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 33 (11.54%) Decision-Making
10 32 (11.19%) DevOps
11 31 (10.84%) Change Management
12 26 (9.09%) PRINCE2
13 23 (8.04%) Service Management
14 22 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (7.69%) TDD
15 21 (7.34%) Identity Access Management
16 20 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (6.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.49%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.94%) SQL
3 15 (5.24%) Java
4 13 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.85%) Python
6 10 (3.50%) C#
7 7 (2.45%) Bash
8 4 (1.40%) C++
9 3 (1.05%) Bicep
10 2 (0.70%) C
10 2 (0.70%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.78%) SC Cleared
3 41 (14.34%) DV Cleared
4 33 (11.54%) Degree
5 14 (4.90%) PMI Certification
6 12 (4.20%) PMP
7 8 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.05%) CISSP
11 2 (0.70%) ACCA
11 2 (0.70%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.70%) CIMA
11 2 (0.70%) CLAS
11 2 (0.70%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.70%) PgMP
12 1 (0.35%) AAT
12 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.35%) CISA
12 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.89%) PMO
2 11 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.75%) JSP 440
4 5 (1.75%) NIST
4 5 (1.75%) QA
5 4 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) GDPR
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.70%) RMADS
7 2 (0.70%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.35%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 26 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.59%) Docker
3 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.70%) NFS
5 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.80%) Terraform
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.40%) Ansible
5 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Puppet
6 2 (0.70%) vRealize
6 2 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 144 (50.35%) SAP
2 35 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.80%) Google
4 8 (2.80%) HP
5 7 (2.45%) Oracle
6 6 (2.10%) Dell
7 5 (1.75%) VMware
8 4 (1.40%) Cisco
8 4 (1.40%) Databricks
9 3 (1.05%) Citrix
9 3 (1.05%) Siemens
10 2 (0.70%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.70%) IBM
10 2 (0.70%) LogRhythm
10 2 (0.70%) NEC
10 2 (0.70%) NetApp
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.70%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.70%) TOWER Software