Programme Manager Contracts

Programme Manager
UK

The median Programme Manager daily rate in the UK is £684 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 215 240
Rank change year-on-year -63 +25 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 349 682 1,074
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.22% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.29% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 482 802
10th Percentile £500 £525 £463
25th Percentile £569 £577 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £684 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £775
90th Percentile £863 £900 £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £652 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +0.38% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £38.80 £39.50 £39.87
25th Percentile £43.74 £53.75 £50.89
Median hourly rate £44.74 £80.00 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.08% +13.48% +49.30%
75th Percentile £54.88 £85.00 £77.75
90th Percentile £75.65 £86.50 £81.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.74 £57.50 £33.05
% change year-on-year -22.19% +73.98% -30.01%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -60 307 £675 -3.57% 96
London -7 187 £700 -2.61% 35
UK excluding London -69 127 £652 +0.38% 69
Work from Home -18 115 £675 +3.85% 32
North of England +16 39 £625 - 11
North West +22 27 £613 - 5
South East -56 26 £625 -10.71% 18
Midlands +15 23 £738 +9.26% 12
West Midlands +13 19 £750 +5.26% 10
Scotland +25 16 £650 +8.33% 4
South West -10 13 £725 +11.54% 15
Yorkshire +10 12 £613 -2.00% 2
East of England -17 10 £663 -1.85% 8
East Midlands +7 4 £610 +6.09% 2
North East - 2 £625 - 4
Wales +18 1 £800 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 119 (34.10%) Finance
2 99 (28.37%) Programme Management
3 88 (25.21%) Social Skills
4 81 (23.21%) Agile
4 81 (23.21%) Project Management
5 79 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (12.03%) PRINCE2
7 41 (11.75%) Migration
8 39 (11.17%) Change Management
8 39 (11.17%) Project Delivery
9 33 (9.46%) Programme Delivery
10 32 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (8.60%) Risk Management
13 27 (7.74%) Business Case
14 25 (7.16%) Waterfall
15 24 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (6.88%) Public Sector
16 23 (6.59%) Security Cleared
16 23 (6.59%) Banking
16 23 (6.59%) ERP
17 22 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
18 21 (6.02%) Budget Management
18 21 (6.02%) Roadmaps
18 21 (6.02%) Oracle
19 20 (5.73%) SAP
19 20 (5.73%) Microsoft
19 20 (5.73%) Azure
20 19 (5.44%) Legal
21 18 (5.16%) 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 6 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.86%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.43%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.57%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.57%) Shopify
5 1 (0.29%) Endur
5 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.29%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.29%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (5.73%) Azure
2 18 (5.16%) AWS
3 8 (2.29%) GCP
4 6 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (1.72%) SaaS
5 4 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.15%) Google Workspace
6 3 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.86%) OCI
6 3 (0.86%) PaaS
6 3 (0.86%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.57%) BigCommerce
7 2 (0.57%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.29%) dbt
8 1 (0.29%) IaaS
8 1 (0.29%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.29%) Serverless
8 1 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.29%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.15%) LAN
1 4 (1.15%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (0.57%) WAN
3 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.29%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.29%) SAN
3 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.29%) Power BI
3 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (4.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 119 (34.10%) Finance
2 88 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 24 (6.88%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.59%) Banking
5 22 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.44%) Legal
7 18 (5.16%) Retail
8 17 (4.87%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.72%) Law
10 10 (2.87%) Local Government
11 9 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.43%) Marketing
14 4 (1.15%) Billing
14 4 (1.15%) Front Office
14 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.86%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.57%) VML
3 1 (0.29%) ADO
3 1 (0.29%) JWT
3 1 (0.29%) MACH
3 1 (0.29%) OpenID
3 1 (0.29%) PySpark
3 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.72%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.58%) NHS
3 7 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.72%) FMCG
4 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.57%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.57%) Equities
7 2 (0.57%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.57%) Life Science
7 2 (0.57%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.29%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.29%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.29%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.43%) Linux
2 3 (0.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (28.37%) Programme Management
2 81 (23.21%) Agile
2 81 (23.21%) Project Management
3 79 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (12.03%) PRINCE2
5 41 (11.75%) Migration
6 39 (11.17%) Change Management
6 39 (11.17%) Project Delivery
7 33 (9.46%) Programme Delivery
8 32 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (8.60%) Risk Management
11 27 (7.74%) Business Case
12 25 (7.16%) Waterfall
13 24 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (6.59%) ERP
15 21 (6.02%) Budget Management
15 21 (6.02%) Roadmaps
16 18 (5.16%) Decision-Making
16 18 (5.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.15%) SQL
2 1 (0.29%) Java
2 1 (0.29%) Python
2 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (6.59%) Security Cleared
2 16 (4.58%) PMP
3 15 (4.30%) Degree
3 15 (4.30%) PMI Certification
4 14 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 7 (2.01%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.72%) PgMP
6 6 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.29%) CAPM
8 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.16%) PMO
2 9 (2.58%) QA
3 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.15%) SLA
4 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.57%) GRC
4 2 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) NCSC
5 1 (0.29%) P3O
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (0.29%) Docker
1 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.57%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.29%) Ansible
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (6.02%) Oracle
2 20 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.73%) SAP
3 8 (2.29%) Cadence
4 7 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.72%) Cisco
6 5 (1.43%) Google
7 3 (0.86%) Ariba
7 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.86%) BT
7 3 (0.86%) Charles River
7 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.57%) Adobe
8 2 (0.57%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.57%) Ceridian
8 2 (0.57%) NetCracker
8 2 (0.57%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.57%) Sophis
8 2 (0.57%) webMethods