Technical Programme Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Programme Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Programme Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 395 455
Rank change year-on-year +68 +60 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Programme Manager 9 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.021% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £478 £481 -
25th Percentile £519 £538 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £588 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -12.96% +21.08%
75th Percentile £575 £661 £688
90th Percentile £725 £759 -
UK median daily rate £575 £775 £775
% change year-on-year -25.81% - +29.17%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Technical Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Programme Manager 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
Midlands - 4 £539 -
North of England +19 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 £538 -
North West +18 2 - -
South East +46 1 - - 5
Yorkshire +7 1 - -
East of England - 1 £800 - 1
Technical Programme Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Programme Manager in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Project Management
3 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
4 4 (44.44%) JIRA
4 4 (44.44%) Programme Management
4 4 (44.44%) Confluence
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Budget Management
5 3 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) Objectives and Key Results
6 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
6 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (22.22%) SaaS
6 2 (22.22%) Servant Leadership
6 2 (22.22%) Validation
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (11.11%) Network Security
7 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (11.11%) Data Validation

Technical 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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Programme Management
4 3 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
4 3 (33.33%) Budget Management
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (22.22%) Objectives and Key Results
5 2 (22.22%) Servant Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
6 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) AlgoSec
1 1 (11.11%) SAP