Programme Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 131 160
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 -25
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 147 253 408
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 1.65% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.88% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 177 306
10th Percentile £366 £377 £278
25th Percentile £493 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £709 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £788 £838
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 10
10th Percentile - - £31.13
25th Percentile £35.00 £12.75 £33.33
Median hourly rate £43.08 £19.87 £51.78
Median % change year-on-year +116.78% -61.62% +8.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £35.00 £76.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £45.13 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £35.50 £37.45
% change year-on-year -5.63% -5.19% -18.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Programme Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Programme Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Programme Management.

Programme Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Programme Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Programme Management.

Programme Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Programme Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.04%) Confluence
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (0.68%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.72%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.68%) InVision
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.36%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.68%) Primavera
3 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.01%) Azure
2 12 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.12%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.44%) OneDrive
5 6 (4.08%) AWS
6 3 (2.04%) SaaS
6 3 (2.04%) Yammer
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.36%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (1.36%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.36%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.36%) GitHub
7 2 (1.36%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.36%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
1 2 (1.36%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) Big Data
2 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.44%) MSI
2 5 (3.40%) JIRA
3 2 (1.36%) Git
3 2 (1.36%) NUnit
4 1 (0.68%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) Maven
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.68%) Postman
4 1 (0.68%) Selenium
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (55.78%) Finance
2 72 (48.98%) Social Skills
3 48 (32.65%) Public Sector
4 40 (27.21%) Manufacturing
5 38 (25.85%) Marketing
6 35 (23.81%) Telecoms
7 34 (23.13%) Electronics
8 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (4.08%) Banking
10 6 (4.08%) Legal
10 6 (4.08%) Retail
11 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.04%) Multimedia
14 2 (1.36%) Automotive
14 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.36%) Italian Language
14 2 (1.36%) Law
14 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Programme Manager
2 20 (13.61%) Project Manager
3 19 (12.93%) Lead
3 19 (12.93%) Senior
4 10 (6.80%) Senior Manager
5 8 (5.44%) Developer
5 8 (5.44%) IT Manager
6 6 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (4.08%) IT Programme Manager
6 6 (4.08%) Technical Manager
6 6 (4.08%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (3.40%) Analyst
7 5 (3.40%) Architect
7 5 (3.40%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (2.72%) Programme Delivery Manager
8 4 (2.72%) SAP Manager
8 4 (2.72%) Security Manager
8 4 (2.72%) Senior Developer
8 4 (2.72%) Splunk Engineer
9 3 (2.04%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.40%) .NET
2 4 (2.72%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.04%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.04%) React
3 3 (2.04%) SailPoint
3 3 (2.04%) Web Services
4 2 (1.36%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.36%) CSS
4 2 (1.36%) HTML
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.36%) Playwright
4 2 (1.36%) YAML
5 1 (0.68%) EntireX
5 1 (0.68%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.68%) Google Maps API
5 1 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.68%) Java EE
5 1 (0.68%) Plotly
5 1 (0.68%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.76%) PMI
3 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.40%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.72%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.04%) Social Media
7 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.36%) IoT
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.36%) NHS
8 1 (0.68%) CMDB
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Life Science
8 1 (0.68%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.68%) SCADA
8 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.04%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.69%) Project Management
2 48 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (25.85%) Agile
3 38 (25.85%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (23.13%) Digital Marketing
5 33 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (17.69%) Project Delivery
7 19 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (12.24%) PRINCE2
9 17 (11.56%) Decision-Making
9 17 (11.56%) Roadmaps
10 16 (10.88%) Risk Management
11 15 (10.20%) Change Management
11 15 (10.20%) DevOps
12 13 (8.84%) Budget Management
13 12 (8.16%) Business Case
14 11 (7.48%) Migration
14 11 (7.48%) Programme Delivery
15 9 (6.12%) Client Onboarding
15 9 (6.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.08%) SQL
3 4 (2.72%) C#
4 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.04%) Python
4 3 (2.04%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.36%) Bicep
6 1 (0.68%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.68%) C
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) JCL
6 1 (0.68%) Natural
Qualifications
1 33 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.61%) Degree
4 15 (10.20%) PMI Certification
5 14 (9.52%) PMP
6 5 (3.40%) MRICS
6 5 (3.40%) RIBA
7 3 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) AAT
8 1 (0.68%) ACCA
8 1 (0.68%) APMP
8 1 (0.68%) CIMA
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) ISEB
8 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) PgMP
8 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.29%) PMO
2 5 (3.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (2.72%) GDPR
3 4 (2.72%) QA
4 3 (2.04%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) COBIT
6 1 (0.68%) COSO
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.68%) GAAP
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 48 (32.65%) SAP
2 29 (19.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.72%) Splunk
4 3 (2.04%) Oracle
4 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.36%) Databricks
5 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.36%) Workday
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe
6 1 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.68%) eFront
6 1 (0.68%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) HP
6 1 (0.68%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Pega
6 1 (0.68%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.68%) Software AG
6 1 (0.68%) Tenable
6 1 (0.68%) webMethods