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 £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 234 213
Rank change year-on-year +25 -21 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 109 106 269
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 0.75% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.80% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 67 187
10th Percentile £450 £500 £515
25th Percentile £538 £540 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +3.17%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £800
90th Percentile £875 £910 £852
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - - £34.75
25th Percentile - - £41.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.28% -18.65% -29.03%
75th Percentile - £46.06 £69.38
90th Percentile - £48.42 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £44.74 £55.03
% change year-on-year +42.49% -18.69% -24.36%

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 9,627 13,236 22,370
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.56% 95.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,429 8,970 15,778
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.50% +0.57%
75th Percentile £627 £631 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 486 539
10th Percentile £13.56 £15.45 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £23.63 £23.86
Median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% -13.00% +24.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 52 (47.71%) Finance
2 45 (41.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
4 37 (33.94%) Programme Management
5 32 (29.36%) Agile
6 25 (22.94%) Risk Management
7 21 (19.27%) Project Management
8 16 (14.68%) Change Management
8 16 (14.68%) Programme Delivery
9 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.76%) Project Delivery
10 14 (12.84%) Migration
11 13 (11.93%) PRINCE2
11 13 (11.93%) Banking
12 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (11.01%) Roadmaps
13 11 (10.09%) Decision-Making
13 11 (10.09%) SAP
14 10 (9.17%) JIRA
14 10 (9.17%) PMO
15 9 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
15 9 (8.26%) Programme Governance
15 9 (8.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
16 8 (7.34%) Service Management
16 8 (7.34%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 7 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
17 7 (6.42%) ERP

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 6 (5.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) CMS
2 2 (1.83%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.92%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.92%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.92%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (2.75%) AWS
3 2 (1.83%) Azure
3 2 (1.83%) Datadog
4 1 (0.92%) GCP
4 1 (0.92%) Heroku
4 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.92%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.92%) GIS
2 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) Selenium
2 1 (0.92%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 52 (47.71%) Finance
2 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.93%) Banking
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.59%) Retail
6 4 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
7 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.75%) Legal
7 3 (2.75%) Local Government
8 2 (1.83%) Billing
8 2 (1.83%) Front Office
8 2 (1.83%) Law
8 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Military
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.67%) Life Science
2 4 (3.67%) Reinsurance
3 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.75%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.83%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (1.83%) PMI
4 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.92%) FMCG
5 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.92%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (0.92%) IoT
5 1 (0.92%) LIMS
5 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.92%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (33.94%) Programme Management
3 32 (29.36%) Agile
4 25 (22.94%) Risk Management
5 21 (19.27%) Project Management
6 16 (14.68%) Change Management
6 16 (14.68%) Programme Delivery
7 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.76%) Project Delivery
8 14 (12.84%) Migration
9 13 (11.93%) PRINCE2
10 12 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (11.01%) Roadmaps
10 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.09%) Decision-Making
12 9 (8.26%) Programme Governance
12 9 (8.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 8 (7.34%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 8 (7.34%) Service Management
14 7 (6.42%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.92%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (6.42%) Degree
1 7 (6.42%) PMP
1 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.50%) PMI Certification
2 6 (5.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.83%) APMG
3 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) APMP
4 1 (0.92%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (0.92%) CISM
4 1 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) PMO
2 4 (3.67%) NIST
3 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.75%) QA
4 2 (1.83%) GRC
4 2 (1.83%) GxP
4 2 (1.83%) NCSC
4 2 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) COBIT
5 1 (0.92%) MiFID
5 1 (0.92%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.83%) Grafana
2 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.92%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) SAP
2 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
2 6 (5.50%) Workday
3 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.83%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.83%) Snow
4 2 (1.83%) Splunk
5 1 (0.92%) AlgoSec
5 1 (0.92%) Ariba
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco
5 1 (0.92%) Databricks
5 1 (0.92%) ESRI
5 1 (0.92%) HP
5 1 (0.92%) IFS
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle
5 1 (0.92%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.92%) VMware
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