Programme Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 80 97
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 26 35 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.84% 1.80% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.17% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 29
10th Percentile £504 £375 £220
25th Percentile £549 £563 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £585
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +15.38% +1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £708
90th Percentile £775 £1,040 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,253 1,610 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.80% 82.95% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 1,077 1,325
10th Percentile £200 £267 £263
25th Percentile £375 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £606
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 116 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.22 £13.70
Median hourly rate £21.03 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £31.19 £40.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.75
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the West Midlands

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the West Midlands

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the West Midlands

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the West Midlands

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Warwickshire -9 17 £625 -10.71% 8
Birmingham +16 7 £575 -14.81% 13
Worcestershire +1 2 £825 +266.67% 3
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP BPC
1 2 (7.69%) SAP GRC
1 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
1 2 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
2 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.69%) SAP BW
2 2 (7.69%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Tableau
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 14 (53.85%) Finance
3 10 (38.46%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Games
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Project Manager
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (11.54%) IT Manager
3 3 (11.54%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) IT Director
4 2 (7.69%) PMO Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Programme Director
4 2 (7.69%) Report Manager
4 2 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) SAP Security Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) ERP Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) SailPoint
1 2 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.85%) ADO
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Operational Technology
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) CCTV
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (38.46%) Project Management
3 8 (30.77%) Change Control
4 5 (19.23%) Change Management
4 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) Process Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) Business Case
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 3 (11.54%) Business Continuity
6 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.54%) ERP
6 3 (11.54%) Project Governance
6 3 (11.54%) Supplier Management
7 2 (7.69%) Agile
7 2 (7.69%) BCP
7 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) PMO
2 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GRC
2 2 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) NEC
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) Apple
3 2 (7.69%) Concur
4 1 (3.85%) Cognizant