Programme Management Contract Job Trends

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 183 140
Rank change year-on-year -78 -43 +10
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 482 484 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.53% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.69% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 274 479
10th Percentile £363 £329 £303
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £850 £825 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 23
10th Percentile £47.60 £27.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £83.00 £30.40 £19.25
Median hourly rate £88.00 £49.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% +41.43% -20.20%
75th Percentile - £65.25 £53.13
90th Percentile £99.51 £73.83 £74.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £28.55 £20.00
% change year-on-year +208.23% +42.79% -55.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,890 28,628 37,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.04% 90.75% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,271 18,064 23,618
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,636 1,406 2,527
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +8.91%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Programme Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Programme Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. 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
England -78 423 £550 -12.00% 210
UK excluding London -86 232 £550 -8.33% 129
London -34 220 £600 -7.69% 114
Work from Home -49 157 £550 -12.00% 122
South East -36 88 £550 -15.38% 42
North of England -68 41 £516 -2.69% 21
Midlands -58 35 £550 -4.35% 21
Scotland -17 30 £450 -5.26% 15
Yorkshire -42 25 £516 -6.23% 8
South West -59 23 £613 +2.08% 13
East Midlands -6 18 £550 +12.82% 10
West Midlands -75 17 £470 -21.67% 11
North West -45 15 £550 +3.77% 11
East of England -30 10 £450 -25.00% 9
Northern Ireland 0 5 £700 +60.00% 6
Wales -19 1 £425 +32.30% 5
North East -36 1 £300 -53.85% 4

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.53%) Confluence
2 11 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.04%) IIS
4 4 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.21%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (6.85%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (4.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.62%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.62%) SAP MDG-F
3 3 (0.62%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.41%) Magento
4 2 (0.41%) SAP BRIM
4 2 (0.41%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Finacle
5 1 (0.21%) iTrent
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG-S
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 30 (6.22%) Azure
2 21 (4.36%) SaaS
3 20 (4.15%) Google Workspace
4 15 (3.11%) Power Platform
5 14 (2.90%) AWS
6 13 (2.70%) Google Sheets
6 13 (2.70%) Smartsheet
7 11 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.24%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.24%) GCP
9 4 (0.83%) ClickUp
9 4 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.41%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.41%) Google Drive
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.41%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.41%) PaaS
11 2 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.66%) Network Security
2 5 (1.04%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.62%) Firewall
3 3 (0.62%) LAN
3 3 (0.62%) WAN
4 2 (0.41%) DHCP
4 2 (0.41%) DNS
4 2 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.41%) VLAN
4 2 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) 2G
5 1 (0.21%) 3G
5 1 (0.21%) 4G
5 1 (0.21%) 5G
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.70%) Power BI
2 5 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.62%) Tableau
5 1 (0.21%) Big Data
5 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.21%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.21%) QlikView
5 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (10.58%) JIRA
2 28 (5.81%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.41%) Git
4 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 227 (47.10%) Finance
2 193 (40.04%) Social Skills
3 65 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 47 (9.75%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (9.13%) Retail
7 43 (8.92%) Aerospace
8 33 (6.85%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (6.43%) Marketing
10 28 (5.81%) Banking
11 23 (4.77%) Manufacturing
12 22 (4.56%) Legal
13 18 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (2.70%) Telecoms
15 11 (2.28%) Local Government
16 9 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.66%) Law
18 7 (1.45%) Electronics
18 7 (1.45%) Front Office
18 7 (1.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (22.82%) Project Manager
2 100 (20.75%) Programme Manager
3 56 (11.62%) Senior
4 54 (11.20%) Lead
5 40 (8.30%) Delivery Manager
6 37 (7.68%) Senior Manager
7 34 (7.05%) Technical Manager
8 33 (6.85%) Analyst
9 29 (6.02%) Product Manager
10 28 (5.81%) Product Delivery Manager
11 22 (4.56%) Systems Manager
12 21 (4.36%) Senior Project Manager
12 21 (4.36%) Systems Delivery Manager
13 19 (3.94%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.53%) SAP Manager
15 16 (3.32%) IT Manager
15 16 (3.32%) Transformation Manager
16 14 (2.90%) PMO Lead
17 12 (2.49%) Senior Technical Manager
17 12 (2.49%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.87%) Middleware
2 5 (1.04%) REST
2 5 (1.04%) RESTful
3 4 (0.83%) React
4 3 (0.62%) XML
5 2 (0.41%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.41%) VML
6 1 (0.21%) ADO
6 1 (0.21%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.98%) Data Protection Act
3 23 (4.77%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.70%) PMI
6 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.87%) NHS
7 9 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 8 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.66%) FMCG
9 6 (1.24%) Learning Management System
10 5 (1.04%) CCTV
11 4 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.62%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Solaris
2 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (43.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 165 (34.23%) Agile
3 125 (25.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 117 (24.27%) Project Management
5 114 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 105 (21.78%) PRINCE2
7 88 (18.26%) Change Management
8 76 (15.77%) Decision-Making
9 75 (15.56%) Roadmaps
10 72 (14.94%) Migration
11 69 (14.32%) Risk Management
12 62 (12.86%) Programme Delivery
13 61 (12.66%) Project Delivery
14 53 (11.00%) Change Control
15 52 (10.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 51 (10.58%) Programme Governance
17 50 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
18 47 (9.75%) AI
19 41 (8.51%) Matrix Organization
20 38 (7.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.32%) SQL
2 4 (0.83%) Java
3 2 (0.41%) Python
4 1 (0.21%) ABAP
4 1 (0.21%) Bicep
4 1 (0.21%) Korn
4 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 92 (19.09%) Degree
2 89 (18.46%) Security Cleared
3 53 (11.00%) PMP
4 48 (9.96%) PMI Certification
5 38 (7.88%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.49%) CISM
7 12 (2.49%) CISSP
8 9 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.83%) APMP
10 4 (0.83%) HND
11 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.62%) MBA
11 3 (0.62%) PgMP
11 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) APMG
12 1 (0.21%) CISA
12 1 (0.21%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (17.01%) PMO
2 24 (4.98%) QA
3 19 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.07%) GDPR
4 10 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.07%) SLA
5 8 (1.66%) GRC
6 7 (1.45%) NIST
7 6 (1.24%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.04%) NCSC
8 5 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.83%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.83%) MiFID
10 3 (0.62%) EMIR
10 3 (0.62%) P3O
10 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.41%) RMADS
12 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (1.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.21%) Ansible
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (10.37%) SAP
2 41 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.81%) IBM
4 25 (5.19%) Google
5 14 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.28%) Oracle
7 6 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.04%) Workday
9 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.83%) Cisco
9 4 (0.83%) Rapid7
10 3 (0.62%) Ariba
10 3 (0.62%) Databricks
10 3 (0.62%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.41%) Concur
11 2 (0.41%) Planview
11 2 (0.41%) Qualys
11 2 (0.41%) Temenos
11 2 (0.41%) Tenable
11 2 (0.41%) Xactly