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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 182 150
Rank change year-on-year -84 -32 -2
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 498 507 626
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.54% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.70% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 298 406
10th Percentile £381 £318 £300
25th Percentile £435 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.49% -5.21%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £725
90th Percentile £850 £788 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 24
10th Percentile £45.00 £27.19 £12.75
25th Percentile £77.00 £35.60 £16.69
Median hourly rate £88.00 £49.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% +41.43% -13.63%
75th Percentile - £65.25 £60.31
90th Percentile £99.17 £75.05 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £35.60 £20.46
% change year-on-year +147.19% +74.04% -48.28%

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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -75 442 £586 -6.26% 368
London -11 255 £625 - 230
UK excluding London -125 217 £500 -16.67% 162
Work from Home -52 165 £525 -12.50% 114
South East -35 90 £559 -14.00% 55
North of England -62 43 £500 -9.09% 27
Scotland -9 30 £450 -5.26% 8
Yorkshire -33 24 £500 -9.09% 13
Midlands -80 23 £450 -25.00% 17
North West -55 19 £499 -5.85% 12
South West -85 18 £700 +14.29% 25
West Midlands -80 14 £425 -29.17% 10
East of England -22 11 £500 - 19
East Midlands -10 9 £525 +10.53% 7
Northern Ireland 0 2 £775 +77.14% 9
Wales -11 2 £425 +153.73% 5

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 23 (4.62%) Confluence
2 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.00%) CMS
3 5 (1.00%) IIS
4 1 (0.20%) nginx
4 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (7.03%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (4.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Notion
7 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.00%) SAP MDG
3 4 (0.80%) Magento
4 3 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (0.60%) 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%) ENOVIA
6 1 (0.20%) Finacle
6 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (7.83%) Azure
2 24 (4.82%) SaaS
3 17 (3.41%) AWS
3 17 (3.41%) Power Platform
4 12 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.41%) Smartsheet
5 9 (1.81%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.61%) Google Workspace
7 5 (1.00%) GCP
8 4 (0.80%) ClickUp
8 4 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.80%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.40%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.40%) Google Drive
10 2 (0.40%) OCI
10 2 (0.40%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.41%) Network Security
2 5 (1.00%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.80%) LAN
3 4 (0.80%) WAN
4 3 (0.60%) DNS
4 3 (0.60%) Firewall
5 2 (0.40%) DHCP
5 2 (0.40%) IPv4
5 2 (0.40%) IPv6
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%) 3G
6 1 (0.20%) 4G
6 1 (0.20%) 5G
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 14 (2.81%) Power BI
2 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Big Data
4 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.40%) Tableau
5 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
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 (10.24%) JIRA
2 28 (5.62%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.80%) Git
4 4 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.80%) Subversion
General
1 231 (46.39%) Finance
2 185 (37.15%) Social Skills
3 74 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 47 (9.44%) Retail
6 46 (9.24%) Organisational Skills
7 45 (9.04%) Aerospace
8 36 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (6.63%) Banking
10 29 (5.82%) Marketing
11 26 (5.22%) Legal
12 20 (4.02%) Manufacturing
13 16 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (3.21%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.21%) Local Government
15 9 (1.81%) Front Office
15 9 (1.81%) Law
15 9 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.61%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.20%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 113 (22.69%) Project Manager
2 95 (19.08%) Programme Manager
3 65 (13.05%) Lead
4 64 (12.85%) Senior
5 45 (9.04%) Delivery Manager
6 42 (8.43%) Senior Manager
7 31 (6.22%) Analyst
7 31 (6.22%) Product Manager
7 31 (6.22%) Technical Manager
8 30 (6.02%) Product Delivery Manager
9 24 (4.82%) Transformation Manager
10 23 (4.62%) Senior Project Manager
11 22 (4.42%) Systems Manager
12 21 (4.22%) Systems Delivery Manager
13 17 (3.41%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.21%) SAP Manager
15 15 (3.01%) Transformation Programme Manager
16 14 (2.81%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.81%) PMO Lead
17 13 (2.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.61%) Middleware
2 5 (1.00%) REST
3 4 (0.80%) RESTful
3 4 (0.80%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.80%) VML
4 3 (0.60%) XML
5 2 (0.40%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.40%) React
6 1 (0.20%) ADO
6 1 (0.20%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.04%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 21 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.61%) PMI
6 12 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.81%) FMCG
8 9 (1.81%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.41%) NHS
10 6 (1.20%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.00%) CCTV
11 5 (1.00%) CMDB
11 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.41%) 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
1 228 (45.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 180 (36.14%) Agile
3 134 (26.91%) Project Management
4 123 (24.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 119 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (23.09%) PRINCE2
7 93 (18.67%) Change Management
8 91 (18.27%) Decision-Making
9 88 (17.67%) Roadmaps
10 71 (14.26%) Risk Management
11 70 (14.06%) Programme Delivery
12 68 (13.65%) Migration
12 68 (13.65%) Project Delivery
13 61 (12.25%) Programme Governance
14 57 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (11.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 55 (11.04%) AI
17 53 (10.64%) Change Control
18 51 (10.24%) Matrix Organization
19 43 (8.63%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.20%) SQL
2 3 (0.60%) 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 94 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.27%) Degree
3 60 (12.05%) PMP
4 51 (10.24%) PMI Certification
5 44 (8.84%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.21%) CISM
7 11 (2.21%) CISSP
8 9 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.00%) MBA
12 4 (0.80%) APMP
12 4 (0.80%) HND
13 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.60%) PgMP
14 2 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.20%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (16.47%) PMO
2 23 (4.62%) QA
3 19 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.01%) GDPR
4 10 (2.01%) SLA
5 9 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.61%) GRC
7 7 (1.41%) NIST
8 6 (1.20%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.80%) MiFID
11 3 (0.60%) EMIR
11 3 (0.60%) NCSC
11 3 (0.60%) P3O
11 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.40%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.60%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) ISA Server
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 2 (0.40%) Ansible
1 2 (0.40%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.20%) MOM
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.44%) SAP
3 28 (5.62%) IBM
4 17 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.81%) Google
6 10 (2.01%) Oracle
7 9 (1.81%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.20%) Databricks
9 5 (1.00%) Workday
9 5 (1.00%) Zscaler
10 4 (0.80%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.60%) Ariba
11 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.60%) Charles River
11 3 (0.60%) VMware
12 2 (0.40%) BT
12 2 (0.40%) Qualys
12 2 (0.40%) Siebel
12 2 (0.40%) Temenos