Programme Manager Contracts in England

Programme Manager
UK > England

The median Programme Manager daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 211 225
Rank change year-on-year -66 +14 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 305 597 888
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 1.25% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.32% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 434 661
10th Percentile £500 £513 £481
25th Percentile £573 £593 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.87%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £775
90th Percentile £851 £900 £863
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £38.15 £39.50 £39.87
25th Percentile £42.75 £53.75 £50.89
Median hourly rate £44.74 £80.00 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.08% +13.48% +59.18%
75th Percentile £57.12 £85.00 £77.75
90th Percentile £77.70 £86.50 £81.35
UK median hourly rate £44.74 £80.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year -44.08% +13.48% +59.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,083 45,136 67,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,425 32,131 48,554
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,578 1,311 1,787
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.57
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London -13 186 £700 -1.75% 43
North of England +19 38 £625 - 10
North West +10 26 £625 +2.04% 5
South East -55 26 £625 -10.71% 18
Midlands +16 23 £738 +9.26% 11
West Midlands +15 19 £750 +5.26% 10
South West -7 13 £725 +11.54% 13
Yorkshire +7 12 £613 -2.00% 2
East of England -17 10 £663 -1.85% 8
East Midlands +5 4 £610 +6.09% 1
North East - 2 £625 - 3
Programme Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 across the England region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 109 (35.74%) Finance
2 91 (29.84%) Programme Management
3 78 (25.57%) Agile
4 76 (24.92%) Social Skills
5 74 (24.26%) Project Management
6 70 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (13.44%) PRINCE2
8 37 (12.13%) Change Management
9 36 (11.80%) Migration
10 34 (11.15%) Project Delivery
11 31 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (9.84%) Risk Management
12 30 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (9.51%) Programme Delivery
14 25 (8.20%) Business Case
14 25 (8.20%) Waterfall
15 22 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (6.56%) Banking
16 20 (6.56%) SAP
16 20 (6.56%) Microsoft
17 19 (6.23%) Legal
17 19 (6.23%) Azure
17 19 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
18 18 (5.90%) PMO
18 18 (5.90%) Decision-Making
18 18 (5.90%) Budget Management
18 18 (5.90%) Security Cleared
18 18 (5.90%) Retail
18 18 (5.90%) ERP
19 17 (5.57%) Scrum

Programme Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.66%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.66%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.66%) Shopify
4 1 (0.33%) Endur
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.33%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 19 (6.23%) Azure
2 16 (5.25%) AWS
3 7 (2.30%) GCP
4 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.64%) SaaS
6 4 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.98%) OCI
7 3 (0.98%) PaaS
7 3 (0.98%) WhatsApp
8 2 (0.66%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.33%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.33%) IaaS
9 1 (0.33%) MailChimp
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.33%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.33%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) LAN
1 2 (0.66%) WAN
2 1 (0.33%) IP Telephony
2 1 (0.33%) SAN
2 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.64%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (5.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 109 (35.74%) Finance
2 76 (24.92%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.56%) Banking
4 19 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.23%) Legal
5 18 (5.90%) Retail
6 15 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (4.26%) Law
7 13 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.28%) Local Government
9 8 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Marketing
12 4 (1.31%) Billing
12 4 (1.31%) Front Office
12 4 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.98%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.66%) VML
3 1 (0.33%) ADO
3 1 (0.33%) JWT
3 1 (0.33%) MACH
3 1 (0.33%) OpenID
3 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.26%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.95%) NHS
3 7 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.97%) FMCG
5 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.66%) Equities
8 2 (0.66%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.66%) Life Science
8 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.66%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.33%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.33%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.33%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.64%) Linux
2 3 (0.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (29.84%) Programme Management
2 78 (25.57%) Agile
3 74 (24.26%) Project Management
4 70 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 41 (13.44%) PRINCE2
6 37 (12.13%) Change Management
7 36 (11.80%) Migration
8 34 (11.15%) Project Delivery
9 31 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (9.84%) Risk Management
10 30 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (9.51%) Programme Delivery
12 25 (8.20%) Business Case
12 25 (8.20%) Waterfall
13 22 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (5.90%) Budget Management
14 18 (5.90%) Decision-Making
14 18 (5.90%) ERP
15 17 (5.57%) Programme Governance
15 17 (5.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.66%) SQL
2 1 (0.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (5.90%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.25%) PMP
3 15 (4.92%) PMI Certification
4 14 (4.59%) Degree
5 11 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (1.97%) PgMP
7 6 (1.97%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (1.64%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) CAPM
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.90%) PMO
2 8 (2.62%) QA
3 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.31%) SLA
4 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.66%) GRC
4 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
5 1 (0.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.33%) P3O
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Docker
1 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (6.56%) Microsoft
1 20 (6.56%) SAP
2 13 (4.26%) Oracle
3 8 (2.62%) Cadence
4 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.98%) Charles River
4 3 (0.98%) Google
4 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.66%) Adobe
5 2 (0.66%) Ariba
5 2 (0.66%) Avaloq
5 2 (0.66%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.66%) Ceridian
5 2 (0.66%) Concur
5 2 (0.66%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.66%) Sophis
5 2 (0.66%) Yardi
6 1 (0.33%) Databricks
6 1 (0.33%) Palo Alto