Programme Manager Contracts in England

Programme Manager
UK > England

The median Programme Manager daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 214 227
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 308 599 873
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 1.24% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.31% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 438 640
10th Percentile £500 £513 £487
25th Percentile £585 £600 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +8.43%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £775
90th Percentile £850 £900 £863
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £650
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £38.15 £39.50 £17.81
25th Percentile £42.75 £53.75 £32.53
Median hourly rate £44.74 £80.00 £38.03
Median % change year-on-year -44.08% +110.36% -19.46%
75th Percentile £57.12 £85.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £77.70 £86.50 £59.15
UK median hourly rate £44.74 £80.00 £38.03
% change year-on-year -44.08% +110.36% -19.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London -9 188 £700 -3.45% 31
North of England +21 37 £625 +1.01% 14
South East -30 27 £625 -10.71% 15
North West +20 26 £600 -1.03% 8
Midlands +17 24 £725 +7.81% 13
West Midlands +24 20 £738 +4.42% 12
South West -14 12 £700 +7.69% 11
Yorkshire +4 11 £613 -2.00% 5
East of England -19 9 £669 -0.93% 4
East Midlands +9 4 £620 +7.83% 1
North East - 2 £625 - 1
Programme Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 101 (32.79%) Finance
2 96 (31.17%) Programme Management
3 81 (26.30%) Agile
4 75 (24.35%) Project Management
4 75 (24.35%) Social Skills
5 72 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (12.34%) PRINCE2
7 36 (11.69%) Migration
8 35 (11.36%) Change Management
8 35 (11.36%) Project Delivery
9 30 (9.74%) Programme Delivery
10 29 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (9.42%) Risk Management
10 29 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (8.44%) Waterfall
12 24 (7.79%) Business Case
13 22 (7.14%) Microsoft
14 21 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (6.82%) Roadmaps
15 20 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
15 20 (6.49%) Banking
15 20 (6.49%) SAP
16 19 (6.17%) Security Cleared
16 19 (6.17%) Decision-Making
16 19 (6.17%) Public Sector
17 18 (5.84%) ERP
17 18 (5.84%) Legal
17 18 (5.84%) Scrum
18 17 (5.52%) Retail
18 17 (5.52%) Azure

Programme Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.97%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.65%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.65%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.65%) Shopify
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.32%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 17 (5.52%) Azure
2 15 (4.87%) AWS
3 7 (2.27%) SaaS
4 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (1.95%) GCP
5 4 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.97%) OCI
6 3 (0.97%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.65%) BigCommerce
7 2 (0.65%) PaaS
8 1 (0.32%) Asana
8 1 (0.32%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.32%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.32%) IaaS
8 1 (0.32%) Miro
8 1 (0.32%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.32%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.32%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.97%) WAN
2 2 (0.65%) LAN
2 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.32%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.62%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (4.87%) JIRA
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 101 (32.79%) Finance
2 75 (24.35%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.49%) Banking
4 19 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.84%) Legal
6 17 (5.52%) Retail
7 14 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.22%) Local Government
9 12 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.57%) Law
11 9 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.30%) Billing
13 4 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.30%) Marketing
13 4 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.97%) Front Office
14 3 (0.97%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.65%) VML
3 1 (0.32%) ADO
3 1 (0.32%) MACH
3 1 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.90%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.60%) NHS
3 6 (1.95%) FMCG
3 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.62%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.65%) Equities
6 2 (0.65%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.65%) Life Science
6 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.32%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.32%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.32%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.32%) PACS
7 1 (0.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.62%) Linux
2 3 (0.97%) Windows
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.17%) Programme Management
2 81 (26.30%) Agile
3 75 (24.35%) Project Management
4 72 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 38 (12.34%) PRINCE2
6 36 (11.69%) Migration
7 35 (11.36%) Change Management
7 35 (11.36%) Project Delivery
8 30 (9.74%) Programme Delivery
9 29 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (9.42%) Risk Management
9 29 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (8.44%) Waterfall
11 24 (7.79%) Business Case
12 21 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (6.82%) Roadmaps
13 19 (6.17%) Decision-Making
14 18 (5.84%) ERP
14 18 (5.84%) Scrum
15 16 (5.19%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.97%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (6.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.19%) Degree
3 15 (4.87%) PMP
4 14 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 9 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.60%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (1.95%) PgMP
8 6 (1.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.32%) APMP
9 1 (0.32%) CAPM
9 1 (0.32%) CISM
9 1 (0.32%) CISSP
9 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.52%) PMO
2 8 (2.60%) QA
3 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.30%) SLA
4 3 (0.97%) NIST
5 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) COBIT
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) GxP
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) P3O
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (0.32%) Docker
1 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 22 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.49%) SAP
3 13 (4.22%) Oracle
4 8 (2.60%) Cadence
5 4 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.97%) Google
6 3 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.65%) Adobe
7 2 (0.65%) Ariba
7 2 (0.65%) Avaloq
7 2 (0.65%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.65%) Ceridian
7 2 (0.65%) Charles River
7 2 (0.65%) Cisco
7 2 (0.65%) Civica
7 2 (0.65%) Concur
7 2 (0.65%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.65%) Sophis
7 2 (0.65%) Yardi