Programme Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Programme Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Programme Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £713, 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 193 217 214
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 111 129 302
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 0.84% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.90% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 88 205
10th Percentile £472 £500 £513
25th Percentile £594 £572 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.70% +4.85%
75th Percentile £866 £788 £800
90th Percentile £938 £908 £852
UK median daily rate £675 £680 £700
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £34.75
25th Percentile - - £41.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.77% -18.65% -
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.06 £69.38
90th Percentile £59.00 £48.42 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £44.74 £62.00
% change year-on-year -21.77% -27.84% +63.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Programme Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Programme Manager
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 Manager.

Programme Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Programme Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Manager
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 Manager.

Programme Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Programme Manager hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 62 (55.86%) Finance
2 49 (44.14%) Agile
3 47 (42.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (31.53%) Programme Management
5 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
6 24 (21.62%) Migration
7 21 (18.92%) Project Management
8 20 (18.02%) Roadmaps
9 18 (16.22%) Risk Management
9 18 (16.22%) Regulatory Compliance
10 17 (15.32%) PRINCE2
10 17 (15.32%) Project Delivery
11 16 (14.41%) Programme Delivery
12 15 (13.51%) Data Lake
12 15 (13.51%) Data Governance
12 15 (13.51%) Front Office
12 15 (13.51%) Investment Management
12 15 (13.51%) Product Ownership
13 14 (12.61%) Derivative
13 14 (12.61%) Equities
13 14 (12.61%) Fixed Income
13 14 (12.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (12.61%) Hedge funds
14 12 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (10.81%) Change Management
15 11 (9.91%) PMO
16 10 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 9 (8.11%) Decision-Making
17 9 (8.11%) Programme Governance
17 9 (8.11%) Banking

Programme Manager Skill Set
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 2 (1.80%) CMS
1 2 (1.80%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.90%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.41%) Azure
2 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (1.80%) AWS
3 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.51%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.90%) GIS
2 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 62 (55.86%) Finance
2 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.51%) Front Office
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 6 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Retail
7 4 (3.60%) Law
7 4 (3.60%) Legal
7 4 (3.60%) Marketing
8 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Local Government
8 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Back Office
10 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.61%) Derivative
2 14 (12.61%) Equities
2 14 (12.61%) Fixed Income
2 14 (12.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (12.61%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.70%) PMI
4 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.90%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.14%) Agile
2 47 (42.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (31.53%) Programme Management
4 24 (21.62%) Migration
5 21 (18.92%) Project Management
6 20 (18.02%) Roadmaps
7 18 (16.22%) Regulatory Compliance
7 18 (16.22%) Risk Management
8 17 (15.32%) PRINCE2
8 17 (15.32%) Project Delivery
9 16 (14.41%) Programme Delivery
10 15 (13.51%) Data Governance
10 15 (13.51%) Investment Management
11 12 (10.81%) Change Management
11 12 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (8.11%) Decision-Making
13 9 (8.11%) Programme Governance
14 8 (7.21%) Budget Management
14 8 (7.21%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.90%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) Degree
2 8 (7.21%) PMP
3 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) APMP
7 1 (0.90%) CFA
7 1 (0.90%) CISA
7 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.90%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) PgMP
7 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) PMO
2 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) COBIT
3 2 (1.80%) NIST
3 2 (1.80%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.90%) COSO
4 1 (0.90%) GRC
4 1 (0.90%) MiFID
4 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.90%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.70%) Oracle
3 3 (2.70%) SAP
4 2 (1.80%) HP
4 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.80%) Snow
5 1 (0.90%) AlgoSec
5 1 (0.90%) Ariba
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco
5 1 (0.90%) Databricks
5 1 (0.90%) eFront
5 1 (0.90%) ESRI
5 1 (0.90%) NEC
5 1 (0.90%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.90%) VMware
5 1 (0.90%) Workday
5 1 (0.90%) Wrike