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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 385 422
Rank change year-on-year +32 +37 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Programme Manager 9 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.020% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.021% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £500 £469 £633
25th Percentile £519 £506 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £588 £653
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -9.96% +17.04%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £673
90th Percentile £695 - £682
UK median daily rate £550 £788 £630
% change year-on-year -30.16% +25.00% +5.00%

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 13,470 18,782 21,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.25% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,291 11,391 14,922
10th Percentile £220 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,137 2,202 1,192
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.76
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.72 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +4.34% +85.83%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £25.28 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.81% -5.88% +65.50%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 - 1
North of England +6 3 - -
North West +9 2 - -
South East - 2 £750 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £544 -
Yorkshire -5 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £487 - 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 18 July 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 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Confluence
3 4 (44.44%) JIRA
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 3 (33.33%) Budget Management
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 3 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (22.22%) Servant Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Objectives and Key Results
5 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (11.11%) Network Security
6 1 (11.11%) Time Management
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
6 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 1 (11.11%) SaaS
1 1 (11.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Objectives and Key Results
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Servant Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
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