Programme Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 165 143
Rank change year-on-year +15 -22 -2
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 216 379 846
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.47% 1.55% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.72% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 284 717
10th Percentile £391 £300 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £590 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% +5.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £706 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £593 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -1.25% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile - £31.13 £34.09
25th Percentile £12.75 £39.55 £39.22
Median hourly rate £19.87 £54.50 £50.81
Median % change year-on-year -63.54% +7.27% +76.84%
75th Percentile £35.00 £76.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £45.13 £80.00 £51.63
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £41.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -15.06% -1.19% +15.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Programme Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Programme Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Programme Management.

Programme Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Programme Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Programme Management.

Programme Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Programme Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Management
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 10 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.31%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 16 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.04%) Azure
2 13 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (2.78%) AWS
4 5 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.85%) SaaS
6 3 (1.39%) GCP
6 3 (1.39%) PaaS
7 2 (0.93%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (0.93%) ChatGPT
7 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.93%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.46%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.46%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.46%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.70%) 4G
2 7 (3.24%) 3G
2 7 (3.24%) VPN
3 5 (2.31%) LAN
3 5 (2.31%) Network Security
3 5 (2.31%) WAN
4 3 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.39%) MPLS
4 3 (1.39%) PBX
4 3 (1.39%) VoIP
4 3 (1.39%) WLAN
5 2 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.93%) SAN
5 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.93%) SNA
6 1 (0.46%) 5G
6 1 (0.46%) DNS
6 1 (0.46%) HTTP
6 1 (0.46%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.17%) Metadata
2 6 (2.78%) Ingres
3 5 (2.31%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.93%) Power BI
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.46%) Big Data
5 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
5 1 (0.46%) MySQL
5 1 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.63%) JIRA
2 7 (3.24%) ERwin
3 4 (1.85%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.85%) Git
4 3 (1.39%) NUnit
4 3 (1.39%) Postman
4 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) RStudio
General
1 120 (55.56%) Finance
2 96 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 89 (41.20%) Telecoms
4 87 (40.28%) Marketing
5 82 (37.96%) Electronics
6 81 (37.50%) Manufacturing
7 60 (27.78%) Social Skills
8 36 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (5.09%) Banking
10 10 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (4.17%) Retail
12 7 (3.24%) Local Government
13 6 (2.78%) Legal
14 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.85%) Military
15 4 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.93%) Advertising
17 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.93%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 41 (18.98%) Project Manager
2 30 (13.89%) Programme Manager
3 24 (11.11%) Architect
3 24 (11.11%) Lead
4 13 (6.02%) Change Manager
4 13 (6.02%) Technical Manager
5 12 (5.56%) Analyst
5 12 (5.56%) Senior
6 10 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (4.17%) DBA
7 9 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 8 (3.70%) Data Architect
8 8 (3.70%) Security Manager
9 7 (3.24%) Business Manager
9 7 (3.24%) Consultant
9 7 (3.24%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (3.24%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.24%) Support Engineer
9 7 (3.24%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.78%) .NET
2 5 (2.31%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.85%) RESTful
3 4 (1.85%) Web Services
4 3 (1.39%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.39%) Playwright
5 2 (0.93%) CSS
5 2 (0.93%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.93%) LangChain
5 2 (0.93%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.46%) ADO
6 1 (0.46%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.46%) HTML
6 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.46%) Vue
6 1 (0.46%) XML
6 1 (0.46%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.09%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.24%) Wiki
4 6 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.78%) NHS
5 5 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.39%) FMCG
6 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.93%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.93%) Social Media
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.46%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.46%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.09%) Linux
2 9 (4.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.85%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (37.96%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
3 63 (29.17%) Agile
4 62 (28.70%) Project Management
5 40 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (18.06%) Project Delivery
7 35 (16.20%) Change Management
8 30 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (11.57%) PRINCE2
11 24 (11.11%) Waterfall
12 23 (10.65%) Risk Management
13 20 (9.26%) DevOps
14 19 (8.80%) Business Case
15 17 (7.87%) Decision-Making
16 16 (7.41%) Roadmaps
17 13 (6.02%) Budget Management
17 13 (6.02%) Data Governance
17 13 (6.02%) Data Management
17 13 (6.02%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.33%) SQL
2 10 (4.63%) Python
3 8 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (2.31%) C#
6 3 (1.39%) Java
6 3 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.46%) Bash
7 1 (0.46%) Bicep
7 1 (0.46%) C
7 1 (0.46%) Perl
7 1 (0.46%) R
7 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.65%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.80%) Degree
5 12 (5.56%) PMI Certification
6 11 (5.09%) PMP
6 11 (5.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.85%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.39%) CCIE
8 3 (1.39%) CCIE Data Center
8 3 (1.39%) CCNP
8 3 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.39%) CISSP
9 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) APMP
10 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.94%) PMO
2 9 (4.17%) SLA
3 7 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.24%) GDPR
4 5 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.31%) QA
5 1 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (2.78%) Docker
2 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) Firmware
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.39%) Terraform
2 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Ansible
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 93 (43.06%) SAP
2 26 (12.04%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.24%) Sparx
4 6 (2.78%) Cisco
5 5 (2.31%) Pega
5 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.31%) VMware
6 4 (1.85%) Computacenter
7 3 (1.39%) Cadence
7 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Actian
8 2 (0.93%) Dell
8 2 (0.93%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.46%) Ariba
9 1 (0.46%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.46%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.46%) ForeScout
9 1 (0.46%) Genesys
9 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.46%) Palo Alto