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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 130 142
Rank change year-on-year -54 +12 +42
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 569 694 857
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.90% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.21% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 394 629
10th Percentile £159 £278 £300
25th Percentile £402 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.32%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 13 15
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.04 £24.91
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.50 £29.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £48.28
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% -34.76% +22.07%
75th Percentile £43.00 £44.08 £76.05
90th Percentile £65.25 £89.25 £85.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £24.09 £70.50
% change year-on-year -0.35% -65.84% +24.90%

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 31,942 31,430 40,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.97% 86.20% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,014 18,916 27,596
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,079 1,112 1,584
10th Percentile £14.48 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.73 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +51.80%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 -67 486 £550 -0.90% 269
UK excluding London -54 334 £537 -2.36% 170
London -41 185 £575 +4.55% 105
Work from Home -13 168 £598 +3.91% 143
South West -9 79 £563 +6.13% 30
North of England -9 64 £537 +7.40% 33
Midlands -51 56 £538 +7.50% 14
South East -62 54 £531 -15.00% 66
West Midlands -56 35 £613 +19.51% 11
Scotland +9 32 £488 +2.63% 6
North West -19 32 £550 -8.33% 24
East of England -12 28 £625 +28.87% 19
East Midlands +3 21 £360 -28.00% 3
Yorkshire -16 21 £537 -6.61% 9
Wales +5 11 £168 -72.31% 2
North East -3 11 £175 -51.72%
Northern Ireland 0 10 £140 -24.32% 3

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 29 (5.10%) Confluence
2 20 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) CMS
Applications
1 41 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (5.98%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.70%) Trello
6 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Blender
7 1 (0.18%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (4.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.88%) CA PPM
2 5 (0.88%) Primavera
3 4 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.53%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.53%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.35%) Maximo
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (6.33%) Azure
3 34 (5.98%) AWS
4 29 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 17 (2.99%) SaaS
6 14 (2.46%) Smartsheet
7 12 (2.11%) GCP
8 9 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.23%) Slack
11 5 (0.88%) Entra ID
11 5 (0.88%) Figma
11 5 (0.88%) GitHub
12 4 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.70%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.70%) Miro
12 4 (0.70%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.70%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.57%) Wireless
2 6 (1.05%) 5G
2 6 (1.05%) LAN
3 5 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (0.88%) Skype
3 5 (0.88%) VPN
4 4 (0.70%) Broadband
4 4 (0.70%) Internet
4 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.70%) Network Security
4 4 (0.70%) PSTN
4 4 (0.70%) Unified Communications
4 4 (0.70%) VoIP
5 3 (0.53%) WAN
6 2 (0.35%) BGP
6 2 (0.35%) DNS
6 2 (0.35%) Junos
6 2 (0.35%) OSPF
6 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.57%) Power BI
2 9 (1.58%) Relational Database
2 9 (1.58%) Tableau
3 7 (1.23%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.53%) Big Data
5 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.53%) MySQL
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.35%) Power Query
7 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.18%) Metadata
7 1 (0.18%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.18%) QlikView
7 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (11.42%) JIRA
2 4 (0.70%) Clang
2 4 (0.70%) GCC
2 4 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.53%) Git
3 3 (0.53%) JUnit
3 3 (0.53%) Storybook
4 2 (0.35%) GitLab
4 2 (0.35%) Mercurial
4 2 (0.35%) Subversion
5 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.18%) GoCD
5 1 (0.18%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.18%) Postman
5 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 364 (63.97%) Finance
2 243 (42.71%) Public Sector
3 238 (41.83%) Social Skills
4 223 (39.19%) Manufacturing
5 217 (38.14%) Telecoms
6 216 (37.96%) Marketing
7 210 (36.91%) Electronics
8 62 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (7.91%) Banking
10 25 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (3.16%) Legal
13 18 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (2.28%) Investment Banking
15 12 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.58%) Retail
17 8 (1.41%) Automotive
18 7 (1.23%) Local Government
19 6 (1.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 79 (13.88%) Programme Manager
2 70 (12.30%) Project Manager
3 50 (8.79%) Lead
4 48 (8.44%) IT Support
5 45 (7.91%) Analyst
6 44 (7.73%) Senior
7 42 (7.38%) Desktop Support
8 32 (5.62%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 32 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
9 28 (4.92%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 22 (3.87%) Architect
11 21 (3.69%) Consultant
12 20 (3.51%) Senior Manager
13 19 (3.34%) Technical Manager
14 17 (2.99%) SAP Manager
15 16 (2.81%) Support Engineer
16 14 (2.46%) Data Analyst
16 14 (2.46%) IT Engineer
16 14 (2.46%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.46%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.58%) .NET
1 9 (1.58%) SailPoint
2 7 (1.23%) REST
3 6 (1.05%) OAuth
3 6 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.88%) .NET Core
4 5 (0.88%) SAML
5 4 (0.70%) CSS
5 4 (0.70%) HTML
5 4 (0.70%) React
5 4 (0.70%) RESTful
6 3 (0.53%) FHIR
6 3 (0.53%) PySpark
6 3 (0.53%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.53%) Spring
6 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.53%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.53%) Vitest
7 2 (0.35%) NumPy
7 2 (0.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.80%) Data Centre
2 21 (3.69%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.16%) CMDB
3 18 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (2.99%) NHS
5 15 (2.64%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.46%) PMI
7 13 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.93%) Life Science
10 10 (1.76%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.23%) FMCG
13 6 (1.05%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.98%) Windows
2 29 (5.10%) Mac OS
3 28 (4.92%) Android
4 11 (1.93%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.76%) Linux
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.35%) Unix
8 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (41.65%) Business Intelligence
2 211 (37.08%) Digital Marketing
3 156 (27.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 147 (25.83%) Agile
5 125 (21.97%) Project Management
6 106 (18.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 92 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 79 (13.88%) Risk Management
10 77 (13.53%) Migration
11 76 (13.36%) Project Delivery
12 66 (11.60%) Change Management
12 66 (11.60%) Decision-Making
13 58 (10.19%) PRINCE2
14 48 (8.44%) Roadmaps
14 48 (8.44%) Waterfall
15 46 (8.08%) ITIL
16 39 (6.85%) Project Governance
17 37 (6.50%) Service Delivery
17 37 (6.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (4.57%) SQL
2 21 (3.69%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.51%) Python
4 13 (2.28%) Java
5 8 (1.41%) C++
6 7 (1.23%) C#
7 6 (1.05%) C
8 5 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.70%) Bash
9 4 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.53%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.53%) Korn
10 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.35%) Go
11 2 (0.35%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.18%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 178 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 147 (25.83%) SC Cleared
3 74 (13.01%) Degree
4 52 (9.14%) PMI Certification
5 47 (8.26%) PMP
6 35 (6.15%) DV Cleared
7 22 (3.87%) CISSP
8 18 (3.16%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.64%) CISM
9 15 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.58%) CESG Certified Professional
11 9 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (1.41%) PhD
13 6 (1.05%) OCP
13 6 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.88%) CCNP
14 5 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.88%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.01%) PMO
2 22 (3.87%) QA
3 14 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.58%) GDPR
5 9 (1.58%) NIST
5 9 (1.58%) RMADS
5 9 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.41%) GxP
6 8 (1.41%) NCSC
6 8 (1.41%) P3O
7 7 (1.23%) JSP 440
8 4 (0.70%) GMP
8 4 (0.70%) SLA
9 3 (0.53%) HL7
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.53%) WCAG
10 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.05%) Docker
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (1.41%) Terraform
2 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.70%) Ansible
4 3 (0.53%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (0.53%) vRealize
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.35%) Puppet
5 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.18%) FreeIPA
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
6 1 (0.18%) SCOM
6 1 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 251 (44.11%) SAP
2 81 (14.24%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.85%) Cisco
4 27 (4.75%) Apple
5 24 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 23 (4.04%) Dell
6 23 (4.04%) HP
7 17 (2.99%) Oracle
8 14 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.58%) Google
10 7 (1.23%) BiZZdesign
10 7 (1.23%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.05%) VMware
12 5 (0.88%) Ariba
12 5 (0.88%) Planview
12 5 (0.88%) Remedy
13 4 (0.70%) Centrify
14 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.53%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.53%) Samsung