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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 182 150
Rank change year-on-year -87 -32 -1
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 515 513 629
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.56% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.72% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 305 409
10th Percentile £391 £310 £286
25th Percentile £447 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% -4.66%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £713
90th Percentile £831 £795 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -15.58% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 26 24
10th Percentile £40.25 £26.85 £12.75
25th Percentile £67.50 £32.15 £16.69
Median hourly rate £88.00 £46.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.27% +32.14% -11.50%
75th Percentile - £65.19 £50.94
90th Percentile £98.84 £71.38 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £35.60 £16.92
% change year-on-year +147.19% +110.40% -57.22%

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 45,374 29,740 33,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.47% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,514 21,188
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,725 1,782
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +19.72%

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 18 August 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 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Top 16 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 18 August 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 -85 450 £595 -0.83% 554
London -22 258 £625 - 321
UK excluding London -118 219 £507 -15.58% 297
Work from Home -38 174 £525 -12.50% 227
South East -43 91 £568 -12.62% 87
North of England -77 45 £503 -8.50% 62
Scotland -18 29 £450 -5.26% 25
Yorkshire -32 25 £500 -10.31% 18
Midlands -77 23 £453 -24.50% 41
North West -54 20 £514 -3.02% 34
South West -85 18 £700 +19.15% 36
West Midlands -71 14 £425 -29.17% 28
East of England -28 11 £550 -15.38% 27
East Midlands -18 9 £575 +4.26% 13
Northern Ireland 0 2 £775 +102.61% 16
Wales -19 2 £425 +153.73% 8

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 26 (5.05%) Confluence
2 8 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.97%) CMS
3 5 (0.97%) IIS
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (6.21%) Microsoft Project
2 30 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (4.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Notion
6 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (4.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.97%) SAP MDG
3 4 (0.78%) Magento
4 3 (0.58%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.58%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.58%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.39%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (0.39%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.39%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.39%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.19%) Finacle
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (7.57%) Azure
2 24 (4.66%) SaaS
3 18 (3.50%) AWS
4 15 (2.91%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (2.33%) Smartsheet
6 9 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.55%) Google Workspace
7 8 (1.55%) OCI
8 6 (1.17%) GCP
9 5 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.78%) ClickUp
10 4 (0.78%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.39%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (0.39%) Google Drive
12 2 (0.39%) Google Sheets
12 2 (0.39%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.36%) Network Security
2 5 (0.97%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.58%) DNS
3 3 (0.58%) Firewall
3 3 (0.58%) LAN
3 3 (0.58%) WAN
4 2 (0.39%) DHCP
4 2 (0.39%) FTP
4 2 (0.39%) IPv4
4 2 (0.39%) IPv6
4 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.39%) VLAN
4 2 (0.39%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) Internet
5 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.19%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.33%) Power BI
2 4 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.58%) Big Data
3 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.58%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.19%) Tableau
5 1 (0.19%) Trino
Development Applications
1 52 (10.10%) JIRA
2 28 (5.44%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.78%) Git
4 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 244 (47.38%) Finance
2 201 (39.03%) Social Skills
3 81 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.71%) Retail
6 46 (8.93%) Aerospace
7 45 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (8.54%) Influencing Skills
9 35 (6.80%) Banking
10 28 (5.44%) Marketing
11 27 (5.24%) Legal
12 22 (4.27%) Manufacturing
13 16 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (2.72%) Telecoms
15 12 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (2.14%) Local Government
17 10 (1.94%) Law
18 9 (1.75%) Front Office
19 8 (1.55%) Investment Banking
19 8 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (22.72%) Project Manager
2 96 (18.64%) Programme Manager
3 69 (13.40%) Lead
4 66 (12.82%) Senior
5 45 (8.74%) Delivery Manager
5 45 (8.74%) Senior Manager
6 34 (6.60%) Technical Manager
7 31 (6.02%) Product Manager
8 30 (5.83%) Product Delivery Manager
9 28 (5.44%) Analyst
10 25 (4.85%) Transformation Manager
11 23 (4.47%) Senior Project Manager
12 22 (4.27%) Systems Manager
13 21 (4.08%) Systems Delivery Manager
14 19 (3.69%) Consultant
15 17 (3.30%) SAP Manager
16 16 (3.11%) IT Manager
16 16 (3.11%) Transformation Programme Manager
17 15 (2.91%) Business Analyst
18 14 (2.72%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.55%) Middleware
3 7 (1.36%) REST
4 5 (0.97%) XML
5 4 (0.78%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.78%) VML
6 3 (0.58%) RESTful
7 2 (0.39%) JSON
7 2 (0.39%) ModSecurity
7 2 (0.39%) OAuth
7 2 (0.39%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.39%) SOAP
7 2 (0.39%) Web Services
7 2 (0.39%) XSD
7 2 (0.39%) XSLT
8 1 (0.19%) ADO
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.19%) React
8 1 (0.19%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.66%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.72%) PMI
7 13 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.94%) FMCG
8 10 (1.94%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.36%) NHS
11 6 (1.17%) Learning Management System
11 6 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.78%) Digital Currency
13 4 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Solaris
2 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (46.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 187 (36.31%) Agile
3 140 (27.18%) Project Management
4 125 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (24.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 122 (23.69%) PRINCE2
6 98 (19.03%) Decision-Making
7 96 (18.64%) Change Management
8 91 (17.67%) Roadmaps
9 73 (14.17%) Project Delivery
9 73 (14.17%) Risk Management
10 72 (13.98%) Programme Delivery
11 68 (13.20%) Migration
12 66 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (12.43%) Programme Governance
14 62 (12.04%) AI
15 58 (11.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 53 (10.29%) Matrix Organization
17 51 (9.90%) Change Control
18 46 (8.93%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 4 (0.78%) SQL
2 2 (0.39%) Java
2 2 (0.39%) Python
3 1 (0.19%) ABAP
3 1 (0.19%) Bicep
3 1 (0.19%) Korn
3 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 105 (20.39%) Degree
3 66 (12.82%) PMP
4 56 (10.87%) PMI Certification
5 54 (10.49%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.14%) CISM
7 11 (2.14%) CISSP
8 9 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.97%) MBA
13 4 (0.78%) APMP
13 4 (0.78%) HND
13 4 (0.78%) PgMP
13 4 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
15 1 (0.19%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (16.70%) PMO
2 24 (4.66%) QA
3 18 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.94%) GDPR
6 9 (1.75%) GRC
6 9 (1.75%) SLA
7 7 (1.36%) NIST
8 6 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.97%) NCSC
9 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.78%) MiFID
11 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.58%) EMIR
11 3 (0.58%) P3O
11 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.39%) Docker
4 1 (0.19%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.39%) Ansible
1 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.19%) MOM
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.19%) SCCM
2 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.32%) SAP
3 28 (5.44%) IBM
4 20 (3.88%) Oracle
5 19 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.72%) Google
7 12 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.17%) Databricks
10 5 (0.97%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.78%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.58%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.58%) Charles River
12 3 (0.58%) VMware
12 3 (0.58%) Workday
13 2 (0.39%) FIS
13 2 (0.39%) Qualys
13 2 (0.39%) Siebel
13 2 (0.39%) SimCorp
13 2 (0.39%) Temenos