Programme Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Programme Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 260 205
Rank change year-on-year +33 -55 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 113 132 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.87% 0.65% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.70% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 98 197
10th Percentile £428 £513 £513
25th Percentile £499 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £665 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% +2.30% +8.33%
75th Percentile £713 £775 £788
90th Percentile £793 £841 £900
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £42.35 £35.25
25th Percentile - - £43.13
Median hourly rate - £44.74 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.19% +61.79%
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile - £71.90 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £44.74 £80.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -44.08% +110.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +8 30 £650 +4.00% 15
Midlands +18 27 £545 -24.83% 8
South East +35 19 £625 - 31
East Midlands +21 15 £500 -19.35% 5
North West +4 15 £650 +8.27% 5
Scotland +1 15 £650 - 2
Yorkshire +19 13 £663 +8.16% 6
East of England +28 11 £750 +12.15% 3
West Midlands -5 11 £638 -13.56% 3
South West +37 7 £525 -25.00% 6
Wales +1 3 £550 -29.03%
North East -5 2 £650 +4.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Programme Manager
UK

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 55 (48.67%) Finance
2 54 (47.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
4 34 (30.09%) Programme Management
5 27 (23.89%) Agile
6 26 (23.01%) Risk Management
7 21 (18.58%) Programme Delivery
8 18 (15.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (15.04%) Change Management
10 16 (14.16%) Project Delivery
11 15 (13.27%) Project Management
11 15 (13.27%) PRINCE2
11 15 (13.27%) Migration
12 13 (11.50%) ERP
13 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (9.73%) Decision-Making
15 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
15 10 (8.85%) Banking
15 10 (8.85%) Budget Management
16 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
16 9 (7.96%) JIRA
16 9 (7.96%) SAP
16 9 (7.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 8 (7.08%) Confluence
17 8 (7.08%) CRM
17 8 (7.08%) Business Case
18 7 (6.19%) Business Strategy
18 7 (6.19%) Resource Allocation
18 7 (6.19%) PMO
19 6 (5.31%) Programme Governance

Programme Manager Skill Set
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 8 (7.08%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.77%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (1.77%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (3.54%) SaaS
3 3 (2.65%) Azure
4 2 (1.77%) AWS
4 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.77%) Datadog
5 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Slack
5 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
1 1 (0.88%) Network Security
1 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.88%) Skype
1 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.77%) Big Data
1 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
1 2 (1.77%) Metadata
2 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) JIRA
General
1 55 (48.67%) Finance
2 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.85%) Banking
4 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.42%) Law
6 4 (3.54%) Legal
6 4 (3.54%) Local Government
7 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Marketing
8 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.88%) Back Office
9 1 (0.88%) Billing
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.88%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.65%) PMI
3 3 (2.65%) SCADA
4 2 (1.77%) Life Science
4 2 (1.77%) NHS
4 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.88%) FMCG
5 1 (0.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (0.88%) IoT
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (47.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 34 (30.09%) Programme Management
3 27 (23.89%) Agile
4 26 (23.01%) Risk Management
5 21 (18.58%) Programme Delivery
6 18 (15.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (15.04%) Change Management
8 16 (14.16%) Project Delivery
9 15 (13.27%) Migration
9 15 (13.27%) PRINCE2
9 15 (13.27%) Project Management
10 13 (11.50%) ERP
11 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (9.73%) Decision-Making
13 10 (8.85%) Budget Management
14 9 (7.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 8 (7.08%) Business Case
15 8 (7.08%) CRM
16 7 (6.19%) Business Strategy
16 7 (6.19%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 6 (5.31%) Degree
2 5 (4.42%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.54%) PMP
3 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) APMG
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) CCA
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) ISEB
5 1 (0.88%) PgMP
5 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) PMO
2 3 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) GRC
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) HL7
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) MiFID
4 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Grafana
1 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.96%) SAP
3 6 (5.31%) Oracle
4 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.77%) AlgoSec
5 2 (1.77%) Ariba
5 2 (1.77%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.77%) Splunk
5 2 (1.77%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.88%) Capita
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.88%) Snow
6 1 (0.88%) Workday