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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 104 114
Rank change year-on-year -36 +10 +19
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Programme Management 281 365 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.83% 2.01% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.43% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 236 351
10th Percentile £181 £265 £205
25th Percentile £454 £449 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £595
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% +5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 12
10th Percentile £19.27 - £21.23
25th Percentile £26.85 £12.75 £29.04
Median hourly rate £35.60 £20.46 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +74.04% -48.28% -11.56%
75th Percentile £37.02 £26.35 £46.74
90th Percentile £70.75 £34.39 £51.14
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £35.25 £39.55
% change year-on-year +31.21% -10.87% -35.69%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,687 15,011 19,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.11% 82.65% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 8,893 12,773
10th Percentile £238 £245 £260
25th Percentile £367 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,395 1,400 1,211
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.30 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Programme Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Programme Management

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Programme Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Programme Management

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 28 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +1 71 £563 +2.27% 22
North of England -15 50 £550 - 27
Midlands -23 50 £600 +14.29% 30
South East -51 47 £650 +13.04% 96
West Midlands -15 42 £600 +14.29% 17
Scotland +14 36 £475 +2.70% 6
North West -5 34 £540 -7.69% 16
East of England -6 15 £663 +73.77% 21
Yorkshire -9 13 £558 +1.36% 8
Northern Ireland -6 9 £165 -10.81% 10
East Midlands -8 8 £552 +41.05% 12
Wales +7 3 £168 - 8
North East +1 3 £606 - 4
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 12 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.42%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.36%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Blender
3 1 (0.36%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (0.36%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.71%) CA PPM
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.71%) Primavera
2 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.71%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.34%) Azure
2 9 (3.20%) AWS
3 7 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.49%) Smartsheet
4 5 (1.78%) Figma
4 5 (1.78%) GCP
4 5 (1.78%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.42%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.07%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.07%) Miro
6 3 (1.07%) SaaS
6 3 (1.07%) Slack
6 3 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.71%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.36%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.36%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.07%) Firewall
1 3 (1.07%) Internet
2 2 (0.71%) DNS
2 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.71%) LAN
2 2 (0.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.36%) VLAN
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
3 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.63%) Relational Database
2 11 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.42%) Power BI
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.71%) Metadata
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.36%) Big Data
6 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.56%) Gradle
2 10 (3.56%) JIRA
2 10 (3.56%) JUnit
2 10 (3.56%) Liquibase
2 10 (3.56%) Mockito
3 6 (2.14%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.36%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) GoCD
4 1 (0.36%) MSI
4 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 194 (69.04%) Finance
2 131 (46.62%) Public Sector
3 122 (43.42%) Social Skills
4 118 (41.99%) Telecoms
5 117 (41.64%) Manufacturing
6 113 (40.21%) Marketing
7 112 (39.86%) Electronics
8 30 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (8.19%) Banking
10 18 (6.41%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (3.56%) Investment Banking
12 10 (3.56%) Legal
13 6 (2.14%) Retail
14 5 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.78%) Automotive
14 5 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.42%) Local Government
15 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (13.17%) Programme Manager
2 33 (11.74%) Project Manager
3 28 (9.96%) Architect
4 21 (7.47%) Lead
5 18 (6.41%) Active Directory Architect
5 18 (6.41%) Senior
6 17 (6.05%) Analyst
7 14 (4.98%) Desktop Support
8 13 (4.63%) Consultant
8 13 (4.63%) Developer
8 13 (4.63%) IT Support
9 12 (4.27%) Security Consultant
10 10 (3.56%) Installation Technician
10 10 (3.56%) IT Manager
11 9 (3.20%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
11 9 (3.20%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (3.20%) Programme Director
12 7 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.49%) RF Engineer
12 7 (2.49%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.56%) Kafka
1 10 (3.56%) OpenAPI
1 10 (3.56%) React
1 10 (3.56%) Spring
1 10 (3.56%) Spring Boot
1 10 (3.56%) Swagger
2 8 (2.85%) .NET
3 5 (1.78%) CSS
3 5 (1.78%) HTML
4 4 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.07%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.71%) Web Services
7 1 (0.36%) ADO
7 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.36%) FHIR
7 1 (0.36%) Framer.js
7 1 (0.36%) ODBC
7 1 (0.36%) XML
7 1 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.27%) CMDB
1 12 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.85%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.85%) Operational Technology
4 8 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.14%) NHS
6 5 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.78%) PMI
6 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.07%) Life Science
9 2 (0.71%) CCTV
9 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.71%) EPoS
9 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.71%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.88%) Windows
2 5 (1.78%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.42%) Linux
3 4 (1.42%) Unix
3 4 (1.42%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.42%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (42.35%) Business Intelligence
2 112 (39.86%) Digital Marketing
3 79 (28.11%) Agile
4 77 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (22.06%) Project Management
6 48 (17.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 45 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (15.30%) Project Delivery
9 34 (12.10%) Migration
9 34 (12.10%) Risk Management
10 33 (11.74%) Test Automation
11 32 (11.39%) Service Management
12 29 (10.32%) Change Management
13 27 (9.61%) Change Control
14 25 (8.90%) ITIL
15 24 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (8.54%) Waterfall
16 23 (8.19%) PRINCE2
17 21 (7.47%) CI/CD
17 21 (7.47%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.25%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.76%) SQL
3 14 (4.98%) Java
4 10 (3.56%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.49%) C#
6 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.71%) Bash
8 2 (0.71%) C
8 2 (0.71%) C++
8 2 (0.71%) Python
9 1 (0.36%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 106 (37.72%) Security Cleared
2 67 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.95%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.83%) Degree
5 13 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 13 (4.63%) PMP
6 10 (3.56%) CESG Certified Professional
6 10 (3.56%) CISSP
7 5 (1.78%) CISM
7 5 (1.78%) CLAS
7 5 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 5 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.71%) OCP
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.30%) PMO
2 12 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.56%) RMADS
5 8 (2.85%) JSP 440
5 8 (2.85%) NCSC
6 7 (2.49%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.49%) QA
7 6 (2.14%) NIST
8 5 (1.78%) GxP
8 5 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.42%) P3O
10 3 (1.07%) SLA
11 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.71%) GDPR
11 2 (0.71%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.71%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.71%) WCAG
12 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (9.61%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.78%) Terraform
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.07%) Data Guard
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
5 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.36%) SCCM
5 1 (0.36%) SCOM
5 1 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 129 (45.91%) SAP
2 28 (9.96%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.98%) Oracle
4 10 (3.56%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.78%) Remedy
5 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.42%) Google
6 4 (1.42%) NEC
6 4 (1.42%) Planview
7 3 (1.07%) Apple
7 3 (1.07%) VMware
8 2 (0.71%) Adobe
8 2 (0.71%) Citrix
8 2 (0.71%) Computacenter
8 2 (0.71%) MobileIron
8 2 (0.71%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) Spotify
8 2 (0.71%) Teradata
9 1 (0.36%) Databricks
9 1 (0.36%) Extreme Networks