Programme Management Contracts

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Programme Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 118 152
Rank change year-on-year -46 +34 -21
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 507 841 1,040
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 1.93% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.24% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 591 777
10th Percentile £308 £270 £292
25th Percentile £463 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 26
10th Percentile £20.26 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.68 £27.75
Median hourly rate £33.50 £36.50 £37.45
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% -2.52% -18.60%
75th Percentile £51.20 £63.13 £50.13
90th Percentile £68.50 £71.43 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £25.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year -9.80% -35.52% +22.07%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -44 432 £575 -1.71% 554
UK excluding London -9 287 £575 - 177
London -44 176 £575 -6.12% 403
Work from Home -27 145 £575 - 297
South East +27 88 £625 +83.82% 42
North of England -6 51 £525 -18.60% 39
South West -12 51 £570 -5.00% 28
Scotland +14 42 £525 +0.48% 15
Midlands +4 34 £563 -9.27% 30
West Midlands +2 23 £600 -11.11% 20
North West -27 23 £525 -19.23% 17
Yorkshire +8 16 £550 - 16
East of England +24 13 £550 +46.67% 10
North East +9 12 £515 -1.90% 6
East Midlands +5 11 £481 +21.68% 10
Wales +8 4 £675 -32.50% 5
Northern Ireland -10 4 £275 +22.22% 10

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.37%) Confluence
3 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.39%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.20%) Camunda
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.20%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.20%) WinCC
Applications
1 29 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (4.14%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.39%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.20%) InVision
8 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.20%) Simulink
8 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.38%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.39%) Primavera
3 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.39%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.39%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.39%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.20%) Finacle
4 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 59 (11.64%) Azure
2 27 (5.33%) AWS
3 21 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (2.76%) GCP
6 9 (1.78%) Entra ID
6 9 (1.78%) SaaS
7 8 (1.58%) OneDrive
7 8 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.79%) Serverless
10 3 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.59%) PaaS
10 3 (0.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.59%) Smartsheet
10 3 (0.59%) Yammer
11 2 (0.39%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.39%) GitHub
11 2 (0.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.97%) Firewall
2 9 (1.78%) VPN
3 7 (1.38%) LAN
3 7 (1.38%) SAN
3 7 (1.38%) Wireless
4 6 (1.18%) DNS
5 5 (0.99%) DHCP
5 5 (0.99%) Network Security
5 5 (0.99%) WAN
6 4 (0.79%) Internet
6 4 (0.79%) NAS
7 3 (0.59%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.59%) Skype
8 2 (0.39%) BGP
8 2 (0.39%) Broadband
8 2 (0.39%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.39%) IMAP
8 2 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.39%) OSPF
8 2 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (4.14%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.38%) Power BI
4 6 (1.18%) Big Data
5 5 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.59%) Metadata
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.39%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.20%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (5.72%) Jenkins
2 24 (4.73%) JIRA
3 21 (4.14%) Gradle
3 21 (4.14%) JUnit
3 21 (4.14%) Liquibase
3 21 (4.14%) Mockito
4 16 (3.16%) GitLab
5 10 (1.97%) Git
6 8 (1.58%) MSI
7 7 (1.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.59%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.39%) NUnit
9 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.20%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.20%) Maven
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.20%) Postman
10 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 321 (63.31%) Finance
2 226 (44.58%) Public Sector
3 205 (40.43%) Manufacturing
4 200 (39.45%) Marketing
5 196 (38.66%) Telecoms
6 191 (37.67%) Electronics
7 177 (34.91%) Social Skills
8 65 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
9 29 (5.72%) Banking
10 22 (4.34%) Legal
11 21 (4.14%) Retail
12 20 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (3.55%) Local Government
14 13 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.99%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.99%) Law
18 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 82 (16.17%) Programme Manager
2 64 (12.62%) Project Manager
3 46 (9.07%) Senior
4 44 (8.68%) Lead
5 40 (7.89%) Architect
6 32 (6.31%) Developer
7 24 (4.73%) Delivery Manager
8 22 (4.34%) Analyst
9 21 (4.14%) Active Directory Architect
9 21 (4.14%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.94%) Senior Manager
11 19 (3.75%) Technical Manager
12 17 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (3.35%) IT Manager
13 12 (2.37%) Java Developer
13 12 (2.37%) SAP Manager
13 12 (2.37%) Software Engineer
14 11 (2.17%) Desktop Engineer
14 11 (2.17%) Desktop Support
14 11 (2.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.73%) React
2 22 (4.34%) OpenAPI
2 22 (4.34%) Swagger
3 21 (4.14%) Kafka
3 21 (4.14%) Spring
3 21 (4.14%) Spring Boot
4 13 (2.56%) .NET
5 11 (2.17%) CSS
5 11 (2.17%) HTML
6 7 (1.38%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.79%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.79%) PySpark
8 4 (0.79%) Web Services
9 3 (0.59%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.59%) pytest
10 2 (0.39%) Node.js
10 2 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.39%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.73%) NHS
2 23 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 21 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.17%) PMI
6 10 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (1.97%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.38%) CMDB
9 5 (0.99%) FMCG
9 5 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (0.99%) Social Media
10 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.41%) Windows
2 16 (3.16%) Linux
3 14 (2.76%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Unix
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (40.04%) Business Intelligence
2 191 (37.67%) Digital Marketing
3 161 (31.76%) Agile
4 144 (28.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 143 (28.21%) Project Management
6 94 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (13.61%) Project Delivery
8 65 (12.82%) Risk Management
9 61 (12.03%) Decision-Making
10 59 (11.64%) Change Management
10 59 (11.64%) DevOps
11 52 (10.26%) PRINCE2
12 50 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 47 (9.27%) CI/CD
14 44 (8.68%) Test Automation
15 43 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (8.48%) Migration
16 36 (7.10%) Budget Management
16 36 (7.10%) TDD
17 33 (6.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 35 (6.90%) SQL
3 26 (5.13%) Java
4 24 (4.73%) TypeScript
5 22 (4.34%) Python
6 14 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.56%) C#
8 11 (2.17%) Bash
9 9 (1.78%) C++
10 5 (0.99%) C
11 4 (0.79%) Groovy
12 3 (0.59%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.39%) VB
14 1 (0.20%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.20%) JCL
14 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.20%) Natural
14 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 85 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 74 (14.60%) Degree
4 43 (8.48%) DV Cleared
5 34 (6.71%) PMI Certification
6 33 (6.51%) PMP
7 12 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.99%) MRICS
11 5 (0.99%) RIBA
12 4 (0.79%) ACCA
12 4 (0.79%) CIMA
12 4 (0.79%) CISSP
13 3 (0.59%) Dell Certification
13 3 (0.59%) PgMP
13 3 (0.59%) PhD
14 2 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.05%) PMO
2 12 (2.37%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.37%) QA
3 11 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.78%) GDPR
4 9 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.38%) NIST
7 5 (0.99%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.99%) JSP 440
8 4 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.79%) GRC
9 3 (0.59%) HL7
9 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.59%) WCAG
10 2 (0.39%) DICOM
10 2 (0.39%) IFRS
10 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.39%) RMADS
10 2 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.72%) Docker
3 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Firmware
5 2 (0.39%) NFS
5 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.97%) Terraform
4 4 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) Grafana
6 2 (0.39%) Puppet
6 2 (0.39%) vRealize
6 2 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 224 (44.18%) SAP
2 60 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.56%) Oracle
4 12 (2.37%) Google
4 12 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 10 (1.97%) Databricks
5 10 (1.97%) HP
5 10 (1.97%) VMware
6 8 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.38%) Dell
8 6 (1.18%) Cisco
8 6 (1.18%) Splunk
9 5 (0.99%) NEC
10 4 (0.79%) Siemens
11 3 (0.59%) Citrix
11 3 (0.59%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (0.59%) IBM
11 3 (0.59%) Workday
12 2 (0.39%) Concur
12 2 (0.39%) Spotify