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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 186 138
Rank change year-on-year -64 -48 +11
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 483 457 741
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.54% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.69% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 259 493
10th Percentile £363 £348 £281
25th Percentile £425 £466 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £730
90th Percentile £850 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 24 21
10th Percentile £43.46 £26.85 £12.75
25th Percentile £73.22 £28.60 £22.50
Median hourly rate £88.00 £49.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% +39.44% -19.06%
75th Percentile - £65.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £98.50 £73.83 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £27.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year +221.17% +37.03% -55.57%

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 42,754 27,087 37,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,630 17,192 23,755
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,570 1,249 2,608
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.87 £16.02
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 June 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 June 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 18 June 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 -72 426 £550 -12.00% 141
UK excluding London -90 234 £525 -12.50% 89
London -15 218 £575 -11.54% 83
Work from Home -37 148 £533 -14.80% 68
South East -39 85 £463 -28.85% 26
Midlands -50 42 £550 -4.35% 11
North of England -66 39 £500 -5.66% 9
Scotland -16 29 £450 -4.00% 7
Yorkshire -49 25 £507 -7.91% 4
South West -53 24 £525 -8.70% 11
East Midlands -9 23 £550 +14.29% 5
West Midlands -60 19 £470 -21.67% 6
North West -41 13 £484 -8.68% 5
East of England -27 10 £450 -20.00% 8
Northern Ireland 0 5 £700 +60.00% 9
Wales -15 1 £425 -10.53% 9
North East -38 1 £300 -50.62%

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 16 (3.31%) Confluence
2 10 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.04%) IIS
4 4 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (6.83%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.83%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.62%) SAP MDG-F
4 2 (0.41%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) iTrent
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
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 MDG-S
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 33 (6.83%) Azure
2 25 (5.18%) Google Workspace
3 20 (4.14%) SaaS
4 18 (3.73%) Google Sheets
5 17 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (2.69%) AWS
7 13 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.48%) Smartsheet
9 6 (1.24%) GCP
10 5 (1.04%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.83%) ClickUp
12 3 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.62%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.41%) Google Drive
13 2 (0.41%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.24%) Network Security
2 5 (1.04%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.83%) LAN
3 4 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
3 4 (0.83%) WAN
4 3 (0.62%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.21%) 2G
5 1 (0.21%) 3G
5 1 (0.21%) 4G
5 1 (0.21%) 5G
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.11%) Power BI
2 6 (1.24%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.62%) Tableau
5 1 (0.21%) Big Data
5 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.21%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.21%) QlikView
5 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (10.14%) JIRA
2 28 (5.80%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
General
1 231 (47.83%) Finance
2 198 (40.99%) Social Skills
3 67 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 61 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (11.18%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (9.11%) Retail
7 43 (8.90%) Aerospace
8 38 (7.87%) Marketing
9 29 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (5.59%) Banking
10 27 (5.59%) Manufacturing
11 21 (4.35%) Legal
12 19 (3.93%) Telecoms
13 16 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (2.69%) Electronics
15 9 (1.86%) Local Government
16 8 (1.66%) Advertising
16 8 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.45%) Front Office
17 7 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 111 (22.98%) Project Manager
2 96 (19.88%) Programme Manager
3 61 (12.63%) Lead
4 50 (10.35%) Senior
5 43 (8.90%) Delivery Manager
6 36 (7.45%) Technical Manager
7 35 (7.25%) Analyst
8 34 (7.04%) Senior Manager
9 29 (6.00%) Product Manager
10 28 (5.80%) Product Delivery Manager
11 22 (4.55%) Business Analyst
11 22 (4.55%) Systems Manager
12 21 (4.35%) Systems Delivery Manager
13 19 (3.93%) Senior Project Manager
14 16 (3.31%) IT Manager
14 16 (3.31%) SAP Manager
15 15 (3.11%) Transformation Manager
16 14 (2.90%) PMO Lead
16 14 (2.90%) Technical Project Manager
17 12 (2.48%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.24%) Middleware
2 5 (1.04%) REST
3 4 (0.83%) ADO
3 4 (0.83%) RESTful
4 3 (0.62%) React
4 3 (0.62%) XML
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.21%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.11%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.18%) Data Protection Act
3 23 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.93%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.52%) NHS
7 14 (2.90%) PMI
8 13 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.66%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.45%) FMCG
12 6 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.24%) Learning Management System
13 5 (1.04%) CCTV
14 3 (0.62%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.62%) CMDB
14 3 (0.62%) LIMS
14 3 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
14 3 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.69%) Windows
2 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Solaris
3 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (42.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 158 (32.71%) Agile
3 123 (25.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 122 (25.26%) Project Management
5 110 (22.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 106 (21.95%) PRINCE2
7 86 (17.81%) Change Management
8 78 (16.15%) Migration
9 73 (15.11%) Decision-Making
9 73 (15.11%) Risk Management
9 73 (15.11%) Roadmaps
10 59 (12.22%) Project Delivery
11 55 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (11.18%) Change Control
12 54 (11.18%) Programme Delivery
13 48 (9.94%) Programme Governance
14 47 (9.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 44 (9.11%) AI
16 39 (8.07%) Matrix Organization
17 38 (7.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.55%) SQL
2 3 (0.62%) Java
3 2 (0.41%) Python
4 1 (0.21%) ABAP
4 1 (0.21%) Bicep
4 1 (0.21%) Korn
4 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 98 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 92 (19.05%) Degree
3 57 (11.80%) PMP
4 51 (10.56%) PMI Certification
5 46 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.48%) APMP
6 12 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.28%) CISM
7 11 (2.28%) CISSP
8 7 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.83%) HND
11 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.62%) MBA
11 3 (0.62%) PgMP
11 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) APMG
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.21%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.36%) PMO
2 25 (5.18%) QA
3 19 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.07%) SLA
5 9 (1.86%) GDPR
6 8 (1.66%) GRC
7 7 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.24%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.04%) NIST
9 5 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.83%) MiFID
10 4 (0.83%) NCSC
11 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.62%) EMIR
11 3 (0.62%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.62%) P3O
11 3 (0.62%) RMADS
12 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 4 (0.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.21%) Ansible
2 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
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 51 (10.56%) SAP
2 42 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.42%) Google
4 28 (5.80%) IBM
5 13 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.07%) Oracle
7 7 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.24%) Databricks
9 5 (1.04%) Workday
10 4 (0.83%) Cisco
10 4 (0.83%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.62%) Ariba
11 3 (0.62%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.62%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.41%) Concur
12 2 (0.41%) Instagram
12 2 (0.41%) Qualys
12 2 (0.41%) Tenable
12 2 (0.41%) Wrike
12 2 (0.41%) Xactly