Programme Management Contracts

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Programme Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Programme Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 151 130
Rank change year-on-year +33 -21 +7
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 837 1,039 1,816
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.75% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.94% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 775 1,436
10th Percentile £270 £291 £369
25th Percentile £425 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £675
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 30
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.25 £25.56
25th Percentile £21.12 £27.75 £31.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.45 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -18.60% +26.03%
75th Percentile £59.38 £50.13 £62.94
90th Percentile £69.70 £73.00 £72.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £39.55 £32.40
% change year-on-year -59.54% +22.07% +12.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Programme Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,562 53,490 80,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.88% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,188 37,115 56,434
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,451 1,742 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +32 766 £584 -2.71% 371
UK excluding London +17 426 £575 +4.55% 216
London +38 324 £613 -2.00% 164
Work from Home +30 255 £575 - 146
South West +5 119 £600 - 24
South East -26 105 £335 -33.00% 67
North of England +60 86 £645 +22.86% 44
North West +50 61 £650 +36.84% 31
Midlands +39 54 £635 +12.39% 31
West Midlands +28 38 £675 +15.38% 15
Scotland +29 37 £523 +4.50% 13
Yorkshire +36 23 £550 -10.20% 12
East of England +6 22 £375 -42.31% 29
East Midlands +29 16 £396 -25.38% 15
Northern Ireland +11 5 - - 9
North East +22 3 £525 +101.92% 2
Wales +9 1 £1,000 +81.82% 5

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 47 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.99%) Confluence
3 15 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (0.36%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.24%) SAS
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 37 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.24%) InDesign
6 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.48%) Primavera
4 3 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 83 (9.92%) Azure
2 37 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (4.30%) AWS
4 31 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 24 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (2.27%) PaaS
7 13 (1.55%) IaaS
8 12 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (1.19%) SaaS
10 7 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (0.72%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (0.60%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.60%) GCP
13 4 (0.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 4 (0.48%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.87%) Firewall
2 23 (2.75%) LAN
2 23 (2.75%) VPN
3 22 (2.63%) WAN
4 16 (1.91%) Internet
5 14 (1.67%) Network Security
6 13 (1.55%) DNS
7 11 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
7 11 (1.31%) VoIP
8 10 (1.19%) FTP
8 10 (1.19%) HTTP
8 10 (1.19%) PBX
8 10 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.19%) Wireless
8 10 (1.19%) WLAN
9 9 (1.08%) MPLS
9 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.84%) 3G
10 7 (0.84%) 4G
10 7 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.42%) Metadata
2 24 (2.87%) Power BI
3 20 (2.39%) Data Vault
3 20 (2.39%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.03%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
5 14 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
6 8 (0.96%) Tableau
7 6 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.72%) Ingres
7 6 (0.72%) Pentaho
7 6 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.72%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (0.72%) QlikView
7 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.48%) GIS
8 4 (0.48%) MS Access
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 62 (7.41%) JIRA
2 11 (1.31%) ERwin
3 10 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.84%) JMeter
4 7 (0.84%) Selenium
5 6 (0.72%) Git
6 5 (0.60%) NUnit
7 4 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.12%) GitLab
10 1 (0.12%) GoCD
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 482 (57.59%) Finance
2 404 (48.27%) Public Sector
3 351 (41.94%) Telecoms
4 350 (41.82%) Marketing
5 341 (40.74%) Manufacturing
6 330 (39.43%) Electronics
7 239 (28.55%) Social Skills
8 101 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (6.21%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (3.82%) Legal
13 31 (3.70%) Retail
14 27 (3.23%) Banking
15 24 (2.87%) Local Government
16 13 (1.55%) Military
17 9 (1.08%) German Language
17 9 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 7 (0.84%) Advertising
18 7 (0.84%) Billing
Job Titles
1 145 (17.32%) Project Manager
2 119 (14.22%) Programme Manager
3 84 (10.04%) Architect
4 79 (9.44%) Lead
5 50 (5.97%) Analyst
6 46 (5.50%) Senior
7 41 (4.90%) Consultant
8 40 (4.78%) Support Engineer
9 37 (4.42%) Data Architect
10 27 (3.23%) Change Manager
10 27 (3.23%) Senior Manager
11 26 (3.11%) Developer
11 26 (3.11%) Technical Manager
12 22 (2.63%) Security Manager
13 20 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (2.39%) Desktop Engineer
13 20 (2.39%) Desktop Support
13 20 (2.39%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 20 (2.39%) Enterprise Architect
13 20 (2.39%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.39%) AngularJS
2 13 (1.55%) .NET
2 13 (1.55%) React
2 13 (1.55%) Spring
2 13 (1.55%) Web Services
3 9 (1.08%) ADO
4 7 (0.84%) RESTful
5 6 (0.72%) CSS
5 6 (0.72%) LDAP
6 5 (0.60%) GraphQL
7 4 (0.48%) Hugging Face
7 4 (0.48%) LangChain
7 4 (0.48%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.48%) YAML
8 3 (0.36%) HTML
8 3 (0.36%) Playwright
8 3 (0.36%) XML
9 2 (0.24%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.24%) JSON
9 2 (0.24%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.93%) NHS
2 42 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 27 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 20 (2.39%) Reference Data
5 17 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.31%) Wiki
8 9 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (0.96%) LIMS
9 8 (0.96%) PMI
9 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 8 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (0.96%) Social Media
10 6 (0.72%) e-Health
10 6 (0.72%) Replication
11 4 (0.48%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.41%) Windows
2 27 (3.23%) Linux
3 23 (2.75%) Windows 10
4 12 (1.43%) Unix
5 8 (0.96%) Windows 7
6 7 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (41.46%) Business Intelligence
2 330 (39.43%) Digital Marketing
3 226 (27.00%) Project Management
4 212 (25.33%) Agile
5 149 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 131 (15.65%) Project Delivery
7 124 (14.81%) Change Management
8 120 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (10.63%) PRINCE2
10 69 (8.24%) Business Case
11 67 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (8.00%) Decision-Making
11 67 (8.00%) Risk Management
12 60 (7.17%) Programme Delivery
13 54 (6.45%) Roadmaps
14 53 (6.33%) DevOps
14 53 (6.33%) Waterfall
15 47 (5.62%) Analytics
15 47 (5.62%) Data Modelling
16 44 (5.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.54%) SQL
2 35 (4.18%) Python
3 20 (2.39%) PowerShell
4 18 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.03%) Java
6 15 (1.79%) C
6 15 (1.79%) C#
7 8 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.36%) Perl
9 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.24%) Bash
10 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.12%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.12%) C++
11 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.12%) R
11 1 (0.12%) Scala
11 1 (0.12%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 205 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 126 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 93 (11.11%) Degree
4 79 (9.44%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.54%) PMP
6 36 (4.30%) PMI Certification
7 25 (2.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 16 (1.91%) CISSP
9 12 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.19%) CCIE
12 9 (1.08%) CCIE Data Center
13 8 (0.96%) CISM
14 7 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.72%) CCNP
15 6 (0.72%) PgMP
16 5 (0.60%) APMG
16 5 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.60%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (9.08%) PMO
2 38 (4.54%) QA
3 20 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.03%) GDPR
5 11 (1.31%) NIST
6 10 (1.19%) SLA
7 8 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.96%) HL7
7 8 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.84%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.60%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.60%) RMADS
10 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.36%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
13 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.96%) NFS
3 7 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) Docker
5 4 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.48%) HDFS
6 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (1.55%) Terraform
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.48%) CA Service Virtualization
3 4 (0.48%) Puppet
4 3 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (0.36%) IBM BigFix
4 3 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.36%) Tivoli
5 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.24%) Ansible
5 2 (0.24%) Nessus
5 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.12%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) MOM
6 1 (0.12%) SCCM
6 1 (0.12%) SCOM
6 1 (0.12%) systemd
Vendors
1 370 (44.21%) SAP
2 110 (13.14%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.23%) Oracle
4 25 (2.99%) Sparx
5 17 (2.03%) Cisco
6 15 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.43%) Dell
8 12 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.43%) VMware
9 11 (1.31%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.84%) Cadence
10 7 (0.84%) CheckPoint
10 7 (0.84%) Isilon
10 7 (0.84%) SolarWinds
11 6 (0.72%) Informatica
11 6 (0.72%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.60%) Infoblox
12 5 (0.60%) Remedy
12 5 (0.60%) Symantec