Programme Manager Contracts

Programme Manager
UK

The median Programme Manager daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 231 237
Rank change year-on-year -36 +6 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 368 714 1,097
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 1.21% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.28% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 516 812
10th Percentile £500 £513 £438
25th Percentile £575 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £800 £800 £775
90th Percentile £851 £900 £862
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £38.80 £36.40 £17.81
25th Percentile £43.74 £46.00 £32.53
Median hourly rate £44.74 £62.00 £38.03
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +63.03% -19.46%
75th Percentile £53.44 £72.25 £40.25
90th Percentile £71.63 £78.40 £59.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.74 £30.00 £35.54
% change year-on-year +49.13% -15.59% -24.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 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 -54 317 £700 - 92
London -8 198 £700 -3.45% 36
UK excluding London -43 134 £675 +3.85% 57
Work from Home +3 123 £700 +7.69% 31
North of England +14 34 £625 +4.17% 14
South East -39 31 £625 -10.71% 15
Midlands +23 24 £725 +8.21% 9
North West +20 24 £625 +4.17% 5
Scotland +35 23 £620 +3.33% 3
West Midlands +25 20 £738 +4.42% 7
South West -1 12 £700 +7.69% 11
Yorkshire +8 10 £613 +3.16% 7
East of England -19 8 £738 +9.26% 7
East Midlands +19 4 £620 +10.22% 2
Wales +17 3 £775 - 1
North East - 2 £625 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 123 (33.42%) Finance
2 115 (31.25%) Programme Management
3 88 (23.91%) Agile
3 88 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (23.91%) Social Skills
4 87 (23.64%) Project Management
5 47 (12.77%) Migration
6 44 (11.96%) PRINCE2
7 41 (11.14%) Project Delivery
8 38 (10.33%) Change Management
9 35 (9.51%) Public Sector
9 35 (9.51%) Programme Delivery
10 32 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (8.70%) Security Cleared
11 30 (8.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (8.15%) Risk Management
12 28 (7.61%) Roadmaps
13 27 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
13 27 (7.34%) Waterfall
14 26 (7.07%) Business Case
15 25 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (6.79%) Banking
16 24 (6.52%) Oracle
16 24 (6.52%) ERP
17 21 (5.71%) Microsoft
17 21 (5.71%) Azure
18 20 (5.43%) SAP
18 20 (5.43%) PMP
18 20 (5.43%) Telecoms
18 20 (5.43%) PMO

Programme Manager Skill Set
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 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.36%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Endur
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (5.71%) Azure
2 17 (4.62%) AWS
3 8 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (2.17%) GCP
3 8 (2.17%) SaaS
4 5 (1.36%) Google Workspace
5 4 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.09%) OCI
6 3 (0.82%) Asana
7 2 (0.54%) Miro
7 2 (0.54%) PaaS
7 2 (0.54%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.54%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.27%) BigCommerce
8 1 (0.27%) Dropbox
8 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.27%) IaaS
8 1 (0.27%) MailChimp
8 1 (0.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) LAN
1 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.36%) WAN
2 3 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.27%) 3G
4 1 (0.27%) 4G
4 1 (0.27%) 5G
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.27%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
4 1 (0.27%) SAN
4 1 (0.27%) SNA
4 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.27%) Power BI
3 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.27%) Selenium
2 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 123 (33.42%) Finance
2 88 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.51%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.79%) Banking
6 20 (5.43%) Telecoms
7 19 (5.16%) Legal
8 15 (4.08%) Local Government
8 15 (4.08%) Retail
9 12 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.72%) Law
12 5 (1.36%) Billing
12 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Marketing
14 3 (0.82%) Front Office
14 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.82%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.27%) ADO
2 1 (0.27%) MACH
2 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.27%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.53%) Data Centre
2 10 (2.72%) NHS
3 7 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (1.90%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.63%) FMCG
4 6 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.82%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.54%) e-Health
8 2 (0.54%) Equities
8 2 (0.54%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.54%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.54%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.27%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.27%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.36%) Linux
2 3 (0.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (31.25%) Programme Management
2 88 (23.91%) Agile
2 88 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (23.64%) Project Management
4 47 (12.77%) Migration
5 44 (11.96%) PRINCE2
6 41 (11.14%) Project Delivery
7 38 (10.33%) Change Management
8 35 (9.51%) Programme Delivery
9 32 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (8.15%) Risk Management
10 30 (8.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (7.61%) Roadmaps
12 27 (7.34%) Waterfall
13 26 (7.07%) Business Case
14 25 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (6.52%) ERP
16 19 (5.16%) Scrum
17 18 (4.89%) Decision-Making
17 18 (4.89%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.82%) SQL
2 1 (0.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 20 (5.43%) PMP
3 19 (5.16%) Degree
4 18 (4.89%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (1.09%) PgMP
10 2 (0.54%) APMG
10 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) ACCA
11 1 (0.27%) APMP
11 1 (0.27%) CAPM
11 1 (0.27%) CISM
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.43%) PMO
2 11 (2.99%) QA
3 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.36%) SLA
4 3 (0.82%) NIST
5 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.54%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) COBIT
6 1 (0.27%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) P3O
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.27%) Docker
1 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.54%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.27%) Ansible
2 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (6.52%) Oracle
2 21 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.43%) SAP
4 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.17%) Cadence
6 7 (1.90%) Cisco
7 6 (1.63%) Google
8 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.54%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.54%) BT
9 2 (0.54%) Ceridian
9 2 (0.54%) Charles River
9 2 (0.54%) Civica
9 2 (0.54%) Concur
9 2 (0.54%) Sophis
9 2 (0.54%) VMware
9 2 (0.54%) Yardi
10 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto