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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 137 150
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 467 736 979
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 1.69% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.99% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 482 741
10th Percentile £351 £282 £275
25th Percentile £475 £444 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £573 £575
% change year-on-year +4.80% -0.43% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 21
10th Percentile £26.85 £12.75 £30.00
25th Percentile £28.60 £22.50 £34.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £35.25 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year +40.43% -19.63% -4.54%
75th Percentile £65.25 £55.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £75.58 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.40 £23.99 £45.00
% change year-on-year +14.21% -46.69% +41.96%

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 27,318 37,049 49,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 84.91% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,274 23,584 34,309
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,292 2,612 1,701
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.70 £11.50
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -47 402 £625 +6.84% 1,876
UK excluding London -28 246 £600 +4.80% 864
London -23 179 £650 +6.34% 1,085
Work from Home -17 147 £625 +13.64% 752
South East +2 66 £650 +24.70% 195
South West +4 52 £575 -8.00% 128
North of England +2 38 £530 -9.40% 219
Midlands -15 36 £588 -2.08% 124
Scotland +8 35 £475 -9.09% 64
West Midlands -2 27 £600 -7.69% 86
North West -6 22 £530 -9.40% 102
Yorkshire -3 13 £550 +3.53% 93
East of England +10 10 £663 +103.85% 88
East Midlands -1 9 £488 +21.88% 38
Northern Ireland -5 6 £438 +136.49% 24
Wales +7 3 £475 -52.50% 31
North East +2 3 £608 +15.71% 24

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 12 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) Camunda
4 1 (0.21%) CMS
4 1 (0.21%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.21%) SAS
4 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.21%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 20 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) InVision
6 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.21%) Simulink
6 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (5.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.28%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.86%) Primavera
4 3 (0.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.43%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.43%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.21%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (9.85%) Azure
2 27 (5.78%) AWS
3 18 (3.85%) GCP
4 17 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.57%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.36%) SaaS
8 8 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (1.07%) Google Workspace
10 4 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.86%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.86%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.64%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.43%) Google Docs
12 2 (0.43%) Google Sheets
12 2 (0.43%) OCI
12 2 (0.43%) Yammer
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (0.21%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.28%) Firewall
2 4 (0.86%) PSTN
2 4 (0.86%) VoIP
3 3 (0.64%) DNS
3 3 (0.64%) Internet
3 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.43%) Broadband
4 2 (0.43%) DHCP
4 2 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) MPLS
4 2 (0.43%) Network Security
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.21%) Intranet
5 1 (0.21%) Junos
5 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.93%) Relational Database
2 22 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.36%) Power BI
4 8 (1.71%) Big Data
5 7 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (1.28%) Tableau
7 5 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.64%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.43%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.43%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (4.71%) Jenkins
2 21 (4.50%) Gradle
2 21 (4.50%) JUnit
2 21 (4.50%) Liquibase
2 21 (4.50%) Mockito
3 20 (4.28%) JIRA
4 14 (3.00%) GitLab
5 7 (1.50%) Git
6 4 (0.86%) Selenium
7 3 (0.64%) MSI
8 2 (0.43%) Clang
8 2 (0.43%) GCC
8 2 (0.43%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.43%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.21%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
General
1 302 (64.67%) Finance
2 185 (39.61%) Public Sector
3 177 (37.90%) Social Skills
4 174 (37.26%) Manufacturing
5 172 (36.83%) Telecoms
6 171 (36.62%) Marketing
7 163 (34.90%) Electronics
8 60 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
9 33 (7.07%) Banking
10 24 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (4.28%) Legal
12 16 (3.43%) Retail
13 15 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (3.21%) Local Government
14 14 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.50%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (17.99%) Programme Manager
2 54 (11.56%) Project Manager
3 51 (10.92%) Lead
4 33 (7.07%) Architect
5 32 (6.85%) Senior
6 28 (6.00%) Developer
7 27 (5.78%) Delivery Manager
8 24 (5.14%) SAP Manager
9 21 (4.50%) Active Directory Architect
9 21 (4.50%) Analyst
10 19 (4.07%) Technical Manager
11 17 (3.64%) Support Engineer
12 15 (3.21%) IT Manager
13 13 (2.78%) Azure Developer
13 13 (2.78%) C# Developer
13 13 (2.78%) SAP Programme Manager
14 12 (2.57%) Consultant
15 11 (2.36%) Desktop Support
15 11 (2.36%) Java Developer
15 11 (2.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.71%) OpenAPI
1 22 (4.71%) React
1 22 (4.71%) Swagger
2 21 (4.50%) Kafka
2 21 (4.50%) Spring
2 21 (4.50%) Spring Boot
3 16 (3.43%) .NET
4 8 (1.71%) .NET Core
4 8 (1.71%) CSS
4 8 (1.71%) HTML
4 8 (1.71%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.64%) REST
5 3 (0.64%) Web Services
6 2 (0.43%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.43%) FHIR
6 2 (0.43%) Node.js
6 2 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.21%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.21%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.71%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.50%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.00%) NHS
5 13 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.71%) CMDB
8 8 (1.71%) Operational Technology
8 8 (1.71%) PMI
9 7 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.28%) Life Science
11 5 (1.07%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.86%) FPGA
12 4 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 51 (10.92%) Windows
2 9 (1.93%) Linux
2 9 (1.93%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.86%) Unix
4 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.43%) Windows 8
5 2 (0.43%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (38.33%) Business Intelligence
2 163 (34.90%) Digital Marketing
3 149 (31.91%) Agile
3 149 (31.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 125 (26.77%) Project Management
5 87 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (15.42%) Project Delivery
7 54 (11.56%) Migration
8 53 (11.35%) Risk Management
9 52 (11.13%) Change Management
10 50 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 49 (10.49%) PRINCE2
12 48 (10.28%) DevOps
13 47 (10.06%) Decision-Making
14 43 (9.21%) CI/CD
15 41 (8.78%) Budget Management
16 38 (8.14%) Roadmaps
17 37 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (7.71%) TDD
19 33 (7.07%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.21%) PowerShell
2 38 (8.14%) SQL
3 24 (5.14%) Java
4 21 (4.50%) TypeScript
5 16 (3.43%) C#
6 15 (3.21%) Python
7 10 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.50%) Bash
8 7 (1.50%) C++
9 6 (1.28%) C
10 3 (0.64%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (0.43%) Go
11 2 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.43%) PHP
11 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.21%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.21%) JCL
12 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.21%) Natural
12 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 129 (27.62%) Security Cleared
2 95 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 63 (13.49%) Degree
4 43 (9.21%) DV Cleared
5 40 (8.57%) PMI Certification
6 39 (8.35%) PMP
7 13 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.71%) CISSP
10 7 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.07%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (1.07%) CLAS
12 4 (0.86%) ACCA
12 4 (0.86%) CIMA
12 4 (0.86%) PhD
13 3 (0.64%) CCNP
13 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.64%) Dell Certification
13 3 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.43%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.92%) PMO
2 15 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 12 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.36%) NIST
5 10 (2.14%) GDPR
5 10 (2.14%) QA
6 9 (1.93%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.71%) GxP
7 8 (1.71%) JSP 440
8 7 (1.50%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.28%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.07%) GRC
10 5 (1.07%) RMADS
11 3 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.43%) HL7
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS
12 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.21%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 32 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.78%) Docker
3 3 (0.64%) Firmware
3 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.43%) vSphere
4 2 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (3.21%) Terraform
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.28%) Ansible
3 6 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.64%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (0.64%) Puppet
5 2 (0.43%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (0.43%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (0.43%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 211 (45.18%) SAP
2 57 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.21%) Oracle
4 14 (3.00%) Google
4 14 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.50%) Databricks
6 7 (1.50%) HP
7 6 (1.28%) Dell
7 6 (1.28%) Splunk
8 5 (1.07%) NEC
8 5 (1.07%) VMware
9 4 (0.86%) Cisco
9 4 (0.86%) Citrix
10 3 (0.64%) Adobe
10 3 (0.64%) Apple
10 3 (0.64%) Ariba
11 2 (0.43%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.43%) Sage
11 2 (0.43%) Symantec