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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 189 147
Rank change year-on-year -85 -42 -1
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 494 502 659
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.52% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.68% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 286 442
10th Percentile £375 £300 £304
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £716 £700 £738
90th Percentile £854 £819 £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 22 23
10th Percentile £47.60 £27.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £83.00 £35.96 £16.46
Median hourly rate £88.00 £49.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% +41.43% -15.66%
75th Percentile - £65.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £99.51 £76.28 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £32.08 £16.92
% change year-on-year +174.36% +89.57% -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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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 27 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 27 July 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 27 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 -83 433 £590 -5.60% 221
London -20 242 £625 - 134
UK excluding London -102 221 £500 -16.67% 110
Work from Home -46 163 £533 -14.80% 65
South East -49 87 £550 -15.38% 38
North of England -63 46 £510 -3.73% 21
Scotland -8 31 £450 -5.26% 8
Yorkshire -30 28 £516 -6.23% 9
Midlands -73 23 £453 -24.50% 13
North West -52 18 £499 -5.85% 10
South West -77 18 £700 +12.00% 13
West Midlands -70 15 £438 -27.08% 6
East of England -21 12 £500 - 16
East Midlands -14 8 £525 +46.65% 7
Northern Ireland 0 4 £738 +68.57% 5
Wales -15 1 £425 +153.73% 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 20 (4.05%) Confluence
2 9 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.01%) CMS
3 5 (1.01%) IIS
4 1 (0.20%) Apache
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.20%) nginx
4 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (6.68%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Notion
7 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.01%) SAP MDG
3 4 (0.81%) Magento
4 3 (0.61%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.61%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.61%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.40%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (0.40%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.40%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.20%) ENOVIA
6 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.20%) iTrent
6 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (7.89%) Azure
2 23 (4.66%) SaaS
3 18 (3.64%) Power Platform
4 17 (3.44%) AWS
5 12 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (2.43%) Smartsheet
6 9 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.62%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.21%) GCP
9 4 (0.81%) ClickUp
9 4 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (0.81%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.40%) Asana
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.40%) Google Drive
11 2 (0.40%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.40%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.62%) Network Security
2 5 (1.01%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.81%) LAN
3 4 (0.81%) WAN
4 3 (0.61%) Firewall
5 2 (0.40%) DHCP
5 2 (0.40%) DNS
5 2 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.40%) VLAN
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.20%) 2G
6 1 (0.20%) 3G
6 1 (0.20%) 4G
6 1 (0.20%) 5G
6 1 (0.20%) Broadband
6 1 (0.20%) HTTP
6 1 (0.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.04%) Power BI
2 5 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.61%) SAP HANA
3 3 (0.61%) Tableau
4 2 (0.40%) Big Data
4 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.20%) QlikView
5 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (10.32%) JIRA
2 28 (5.67%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.01%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.81%) Git
4 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 227 (45.95%) Finance
2 180 (36.44%) Social Skills
3 69 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.72%) Organisational Skills
4 48 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 47 (9.51%) Retail
6 43 (8.70%) Aerospace
7 34 (6.88%) Influencing Skills
8 31 (6.28%) Banking
9 30 (6.07%) Marketing
10 21 (4.25%) Legal
11 19 (3.85%) Manufacturing
12 16 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.23%) Local Government
13 11 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.82%) Law
14 9 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.62%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.42%) Front Office
17 6 (1.21%) Billing
Job Titles
1 112 (22.67%) Project Manager
2 96 (19.43%) Programme Manager
3 61 (12.35%) Lead
4 59 (11.94%) Senior
5 43 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
6 37 (7.49%) Senior Manager
7 36 (7.29%) Technical Manager
8 32 (6.48%) Analyst
9 30 (6.07%) Product Manager
10 28 (5.67%) Product Delivery Manager
11 22 (4.45%) Systems Manager
12 21 (4.25%) Systems Delivery Manager
12 21 (4.25%) Transformation Manager
13 20 (4.05%) Senior Project Manager
14 18 (3.64%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.64%) SAP Manager
15 15 (3.04%) IT Manager
15 15 (3.04%) Transformation Programme Manager
16 14 (2.83%) PMO Lead
16 14 (2.83%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.82%) Middleware
2 5 (1.01%) REST
2 5 (1.01%) RESTful
3 4 (0.81%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.81%) VML
4 3 (0.61%) React
4 3 (0.61%) XML
5 2 (0.40%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.20%) ADO
6 1 (0.20%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.31%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.66%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.63%) PMI
7 11 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.82%) FMCG
8 9 (1.82%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.62%) NHS
10 6 (1.21%) CCTV
10 6 (1.21%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.01%) CMDB
11 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Solaris
2 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (44.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 177 (35.83%) Agile
3 124 (25.10%) Project Management
4 122 (24.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 116 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 111 (22.47%) PRINCE2
7 88 (17.81%) Change Management
7 88 (17.81%) Roadmaps
8 84 (17.00%) Decision-Making
9 72 (14.57%) Programme Delivery
10 67 (13.56%) Project Delivery
11 66 (13.36%) Migration
12 65 (13.16%) Risk Management
13 60 (12.15%) Programme Governance
14 56 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
14 56 (11.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 53 (10.73%) AI
16 52 (10.53%) Change Control
17 47 (9.51%) Matrix Organization
18 41 (8.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.21%) SQL
2 4 (0.81%) Java
3 2 (0.40%) Python
4 1 (0.20%) ABAP
4 1 (0.20%) Bicep
4 1 (0.20%) Korn
4 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 84 (17.00%) Degree
3 55 (11.13%) PMP
4 48 (9.72%) PMI Certification
5 42 (8.50%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.43%) CISM
6 12 (2.43%) CISSP
7 11 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.81%) HND
11 4 (0.81%) PgMP
12 3 (0.61%) APMP
12 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.61%) MBA
13 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.20%) RIBA
13 1 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (16.80%) PMO
2 24 (4.86%) QA
3 20 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.02%) GDPR
4 10 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.02%) SLA
5 8 (1.62%) GRC
5 8 (1.62%) NIST
6 6 (1.21%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.81%) MiFID
8 4 (0.81%) NCSC
9 3 (0.61%) EMIR
9 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.40%) GMP
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.40%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.40%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (0.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.20%) Ansible
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.92%) SAP
3 28 (5.67%) IBM
4 17 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.83%) Google
6 10 (2.02%) Oracle
7 9 (1.82%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.21%) Databricks
10 5 (1.01%) Workday
10 5 (1.01%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.81%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.61%) Ariba
12 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.61%) Charles River
13 2 (0.40%) BT
13 2 (0.40%) Planview
13 2 (0.40%) Siebel
13 2 (0.40%) Temenos
13 2 (0.40%) VMware