Programme Manager Contracts in London

Programme Manager
England > London

The median Programme Manager daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 205 227
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 189 335 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.08% 1.30% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.37% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 240 374
10th Percentile £513 £536 £513
25th Percentile £600 £624 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £688
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £825 £838 £800
90th Percentile £873 £913 £875
England median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £78.00 -
25th Percentile £34.25 £78.75 £69.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £82.50 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.97% +17.02% -
75th Percentile £36.75 £86.25 £71.75
90th Percentile - £87.00 -
England median hourly rate £44.74 £80.00 £38.03
% change year-on-year -44.08% +110.36% -19.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,297 24,521 37,086
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.19% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,779 17,832 27,179
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +0.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 279 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - +14.01%
75th Percentile £44.25 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.61 £82.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Central London +10 25 £725 -6.45% 2
West London +16 5 £665 +2.31% 4
East London -2 4 £733 +27.39% 3
South London +7 3 £575 -11.54%
North London - 2 - -
Programme Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 London region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 64 (33.86%) Agile
2 59 (31.22%) Programme Management
2 59 (31.22%) Finance
3 44 (23.28%) Project Management
4 41 (21.69%) Social Skills
5 38 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (12.70%) Risk Management
6 24 (12.70%) Project Delivery
7 23 (12.17%) Change Management
8 22 (11.64%) PRINCE2
9 21 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (10.05%) Waterfall
10 19 (10.05%) Migration
10 19 (10.05%) Business Case
10 19 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (8.99%) Programme Delivery
11 17 (8.99%) Scrum
11 17 (8.99%) Microsoft
12 16 (8.47%) SAP
12 16 (8.47%) Banking
13 15 (7.94%) Legal
13 15 (7.94%) Security Cleared
14 14 (7.41%) Budget Management
15 13 (6.88%) PMI Certification
15 13 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
15 13 (6.88%) Azure
15 13 (6.88%) AWS
16 12 (6.35%) Matrix Management
16 12 (6.35%) PMP
16 12 (6.35%) Roadmaps

Programme Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (1.06%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.06%) Shopify
3 1 (0.53%) Endur
3 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.53%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.88%) AWS
1 13 (6.88%) Azure
2 6 (3.17%) GCP
3 5 (2.65%) SaaS
4 3 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.06%) BigCommerce
5 2 (1.06%) PaaS
6 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.53%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.53%) IaaS
6 1 (0.53%) MailChimp
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.53%) OCI
6 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.53%) SurveyMonkey
6 1 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) WAN
2 1 (0.53%) LAN
2 1 (0.53%) SAN
2 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (5.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (31.22%) Finance
2 41 (21.69%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.47%) Banking
4 15 (7.94%) Legal
5 13 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.82%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.29%) Local Government
8 8 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.70%) Retail
10 5 (2.65%) Marketing
11 4 (2.12%) Law
11 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Front Office
12 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.59%) Police
13 2 (1.06%) Advertising
13 2 (1.06%) Automotive
13 2 (1.06%) Back Office
13 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.06%) VML
2 1 (0.53%) ADO
2 1 (0.53%) MACH
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.59%) FMCG
4 2 (1.06%) Equities
4 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.06%) NHS
4 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.53%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.53%) EPoS
5 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.53%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.65%) Linux
2 3 (1.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.86%) Agile
2 59 (31.22%) Programme Management
3 44 (23.28%) Project Management
4 38 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (12.70%) Project Delivery
5 24 (12.70%) Risk Management
6 23 (12.17%) Change Management
7 22 (11.64%) PRINCE2
8 21 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (10.05%) Business Case
9 19 (10.05%) Migration
9 19 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (10.05%) Waterfall
10 17 (8.99%) Programme Delivery
10 17 (8.99%) Scrum
11 14 (7.41%) Budget Management
12 12 (6.35%) Matrix Management
12 12 (6.35%) Roadmaps
13 11 (5.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 10 (5.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.88%) PMI Certification
3 12 (6.35%) PMP
4 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.17%) Degree
6 5 (2.65%) PgMP
6 5 (2.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.53%) CAPM
8 1 (0.53%) CISM
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.70%) PMO
2 6 (3.17%) QA
3 4 (2.12%) SLA
4 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.06%) GRC
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) COBIT
6 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.53%) GxP
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Docker
1 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.47%) SAP
3 4 (2.12%) Cadence
3 4 (2.12%) Oracle
3 4 (2.12%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.59%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.59%) Google
5 2 (1.06%) Adobe
5 2 (1.06%) Ariba
5 2 (1.06%) Avaloq
5 2 (1.06%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.06%) Charles River
5 2 (1.06%) Civica
5 2 (1.06%) Concur
5 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.06%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.06%) Sophis
5 2 (1.06%) Yardi
6 1 (0.53%) Databricks
6 1 (0.53%) Intapp