Technical Programme Manager Contracts

Technical Programme Manager
UK

The median Technical Programme Manager daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 558 689
Rank change year-on-year +54 +131 +116
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Programme Manager 16 24 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.055% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.059% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 11
10th Percentile £498 £455 £475
25th Percentile £523 £566 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £775 £775
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% - +29.17%
75th Percentile £781 £825 £831
90th Percentile £808 - £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £588 £675
% change year-on-year -8.09% -12.96% +21.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Technical Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Programme Manager in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Programme Manager in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Programme Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Programme Manager in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Programme Manager in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Programme Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +48 15 £575 -25.81% 4
UK excluding London +68 9 £540 -8.09% 4
Work from Home +42 7 £644 -4.63%
London +26 6 £750 -3.23%
Midlands - 4 £539 -
North of England +19 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 £538 -
North West +18 2 - -
South East +46 1 - - 4
Yorkshire +7 1 - -
East of England - 1 £800 - 1

Technical Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Technical Programme Manager in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (37.50%) Project Management
4 6 (37.50%) Programme Management
4 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 5 (31.25%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) Confluence
6 4 (25.00%) JIRA
6 4 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
7 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
7 3 (18.75%) Budget Management
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (18.75%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Fintech
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) SDLC
7 3 (18.75%) Agile Project Management
7 3 (18.75%) Validation
7 3 (18.75%) Retail
7 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
8 2 (12.50%) SAP
8 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (12.50%) SaaS

Technical Programme Manager Skill Set
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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Datadog
2 1 (6.25%) IaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (6.25%) FMCG
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (37.50%) Programme Management
3 6 (37.50%) Project Management
4 5 (31.25%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
6 3 (18.75%) Agile Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Budget Management
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Fintech
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (18.75%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) AlgoSec
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
2 1 (6.25%) VMware