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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 175 131
Rank change year-on-year -80 -44 +25
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 484 476 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.66% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.83% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 274 517
10th Percentile £363 £313 £281
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £821 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 21 18
10th Percentile £23.16 £26.85 £12.75
25th Percentile £36.49 £28.60 £18.56
Median hourly rate £84.00 £45.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% +27.66% -17.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £56.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £89.90 £65.25 £68.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £27.98 £14.75
% change year-on-year +214.57% +89.66% -65.11%

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 40,998 26,034 36,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 91.02% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,676 16,714 23,582
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,064 2,485
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £74.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.35 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.32% -32.93% +7.14%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -79 431 £550 -8.33% 221
UK excluding London -107 240 £525 -8.70% 113
London -38 212 £550 -12.87% 131
Work from Home -47 140 £525 -12.50% 81
South East -54 79 £500 -23.08% 30
Midlands -51 48 £550 -4.35% 7
North of England -72 41 £503 -5.05% 30
East Midlands -11 30 £550 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire -44 27 £516 -1.76% 13
South West -54 27 £525 -7.08% 12
Scotland -16 23 £450 -12.11% 9
West Midlands -68 18 £470 -21.67% 4
East of England -33 15 £450 -18.18% 15
North West -45 12 £484 -8.25% 16
Northern Ireland +2 5 £700 +60.00% 7
Wales -14 2 £293 -49.13% 4
North East -24 2 £300 -46.90% 1

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 (3.51%) Confluence
2 10 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.83%) CMS
4 3 (0.62%) IIS
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (7.02%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.62%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.62%) SAP MDG-F
4 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.41%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.21%) iTrent
5 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 30 (6.20%) Azure
2 26 (5.37%) Google Workspace
3 21 (4.34%) Google Sheets
4 20 (4.13%) SaaS
5 19 (3.93%) Power Platform
6 18 (3.72%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.27%) Smartsheet
9 10 (2.07%) AWS
10 7 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.03%) GCP
12 4 (0.83%) ClickUp
12 4 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.62%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.62%) Google Ads
13 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.62%) OCI
14 2 (0.41%) Asana
14 2 (0.41%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.45%) Network Security
2 4 (0.83%) LAN
2 4 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (0.83%) WAN
3 3 (0.62%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.62%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.41%) Broadband
4 2 (0.41%) DNS
4 2 (0.41%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) 2G
5 1 (0.21%) 3G
5 1 (0.21%) BGP
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) OSPF
5 1 (0.21%) SMTP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.31%) Power BI
2 5 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.62%) Tableau
5 1 (0.21%) Big Data
5 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.21%) Looker
5 1 (0.21%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.21%) QlikView
5 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (11.78%) JIRA
2 28 (5.79%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
General
1 245 (50.62%) Finance
2 203 (41.94%) Social Skills
3 90 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 61 (12.60%) Marketing
5 58 (11.98%) Organisational Skills
6 55 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (9.92%) Manufacturing
8 44 (9.09%) Retail
9 43 (8.88%) Telecoms
10 42 (8.68%) Aerospace
11 35 (7.23%) Electronics
12 24 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (4.75%) Banking
14 18 (3.72%) Legal
15 11 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.65%) Front Office
17 7 (1.45%) Local Government
17 7 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (1.24%) Advertising
18 6 (1.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (21.07%) Programme Manager
2 93 (19.21%) Project Manager
3 57 (11.78%) Lead
4 48 (9.92%) Senior
5 42 (8.68%) Delivery Manager
6 40 (8.26%) Analyst
7 37 (7.64%) Technical Manager
8 34 (7.02%) Senior Manager
9 29 (5.99%) Product Manager
10 28 (5.79%) Product Delivery Manager
11 23 (4.75%) Business Analyst
12 22 (4.55%) Systems Manager
13 21 (4.34%) Systems Delivery Manager
14 18 (3.72%) Senior Project Manager
15 15 (3.10%) IT Manager
15 15 (3.10%) SAP Manager
16 14 (2.89%) Transformation Manager
17 13 (2.69%) Technical Project Manager
18 12 (2.48%) Infrastructure Manager
18 12 (2.48%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.45%) Middleware
3 5 (1.03%) REST
3 5 (1.03%) XML
4 4 (0.83%) ADO
4 4 (0.83%) React
4 4 (0.83%) RESTful
5 2 (0.41%) JSON
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.41%) OAuth
5 2 (0.41%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.41%) SOAP
5 2 (0.41%) Web Services
5 2 (0.41%) XSD
5 2 (0.41%) XSLT
6 1 (0.21%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.21%) CSS
6 1 (0.21%) HTML
6 1 (0.21%) SAML
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (4.96%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.10%) NHS
6 15 (3.10%) PMI
7 14 (2.89%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.24%) FMCG
9 6 (1.24%) Learning Management System
9 6 (1.24%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.03%) CCTV
11 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.62%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.62%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.62%) LIMS
12 3 (0.62%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.27%) Windows
2 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.21%) Android
3 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.21%) Solaris
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (38.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 153 (31.61%) Agile
3 124 (25.62%) Project Management
4 112 (23.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 102 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (21.07%) PRINCE2
6 88 (18.18%) Migration
7 78 (16.12%) Change Management
8 70 (14.46%) Decision-Making
8 70 (14.46%) Risk Management
9 59 (12.19%) Roadmaps
10 58 (11.98%) Change Control
11 57 (11.78%) Project Delivery
12 52 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
13 51 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (9.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 46 (9.50%) Programme Delivery
16 42 (8.68%) Digital Marketing
17 40 (8.26%) Programme Governance
18 38 (7.85%) AI
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.58%) SQL
2 7 (1.45%) Python
3 5 (1.03%) Java
4 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.41%) Go
6 1 (0.21%) ABAP
6 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.80%) Degree
3 62 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 50 (10.33%) PMP
5 47 (9.71%) PMI Certification
6 15 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.69%) APMP
8 10 (2.07%) CISSP
9 8 (1.65%) CISM
10 6 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.62%) PgMP
14 2 (0.41%) CESG Certified Professional
14 2 (0.41%) CLAS
14 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.41%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.41%) CSPO
14 2 (0.41%) GPEN
14 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.70%) PMO
2 23 (4.75%) QA
3 18 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.86%) SLA
5 8 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.45%) GDPR
7 5 (1.03%) JSP 440
7 5 (1.03%) NIST
7 5 (1.03%) RMADS
7 5 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.83%) GRC
8 4 (0.83%) NCSC
9 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.62%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.62%) MiFID
9 3 (0.62%) P3O
9 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.41%) EMIR
11 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 4 (0.83%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.21%) SCCM
2 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 73 (15.08%) SAP
2 39 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.61%) Google
4 28 (5.79%) IBM
5 16 (3.31%) Oracle
6 13 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.24%) Cisco
8 6 (1.24%) Workday
9 4 (0.83%) Databricks
10 3 (0.62%) Ariba
10 3 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.62%) Planview
10 3 (0.62%) Zoho
11 2 (0.41%) BT
11 2 (0.41%) Genesys
11 2 (0.41%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.41%) Nokia
11 2 (0.41%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.41%) VMware