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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 161 142
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 -3
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 213 376 837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.45% 1.55% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.73% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 281 700
10th Percentile £400 £315 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £719 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 5
10th Percentile - £31.13 £33.83
25th Percentile £12.75 £39.55 £35.42
Median hourly rate £26.24 £54.50 £50.61
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +7.69% +61.35%
75th Percentile £35.00 £76.50 £52.25
90th Percentile £70.25 £80.00 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £42.68 £42.00
% change year-on-year -14.48% +1.62% +10.53%

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 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 14 (6.57%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.21%) Azure
2 13 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (2.35%) AWS
3 5 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.88%) SaaS
5 3 (1.41%) GCP
5 3 (1.41%) PaaS
6 2 (0.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (0.94%) ChatGPT
6 2 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.47%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.47%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.47%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.23%) 4G
2 8 (3.76%) 3G
3 7 (3.29%) VPN
4 5 (2.35%) LAN
4 5 (2.35%) WAN
5 3 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.41%) MPLS
5 3 (1.41%) PBX
5 3 (1.41%) VoIP
5 3 (1.41%) WLAN
6 2 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.94%) Network Security
6 2 (0.94%) SAN
6 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.94%) SNA
7 1 (0.47%) DNS
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
7 1 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.76%) Metadata
2 6 (2.82%) Ingres
3 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.47%) Big Data
4 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.47%) GIS
4 1 (0.47%) MySQL
4 1 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (4.69%) JIRA
2 5 (2.35%) ERwin
3 4 (1.88%) Git
4 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.41%) NUnit
4 3 (1.41%) Postman
4 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.47%) RStudio
General
1 117 (54.93%) Finance
2 94 (44.13%) Public Sector
3 85 (39.91%) Telecoms
4 82 (38.50%) Marketing
5 77 (36.15%) Electronics
5 77 (36.15%) Manufacturing
6 59 (27.70%) Social Skills
7 33 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.63%) Banking
9 10 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.76%) Retail
11 7 (3.29%) Local Government
12 6 (2.82%) Legal
13 5 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.88%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.88%) Military
14 4 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.41%) Public Speaking
16 2 (0.94%) Advertising
16 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (20.19%) Project Manager
2 29 (13.62%) Programme Manager
3 23 (10.80%) Architect
3 23 (10.80%) Lead
4 13 (6.10%) Technical Manager
5 12 (5.63%) Analyst
5 12 (5.63%) Change Manager
5 12 (5.63%) Senior
6 10 (4.69%) Technical Architect
7 9 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (3.29%) Consultant
8 7 (3.29%) DBA
8 7 (3.29%) Security Manager
8 7 (3.29%) Senior Manager
8 7 (3.29%) Technical Project Manager
8 7 (3.29%) Test Engineer
9 6 (2.82%) IT Manager
9 6 (2.82%) Support Engineer
9 6 (2.82%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.82%) .NET
2 5 (2.35%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.88%) RESTful
3 4 (1.88%) Web Services
4 3 (1.41%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.41%) Playwright
5 2 (0.94%) CSS
5 2 (0.94%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.94%) LangChain
5 2 (0.94%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.47%) ADO
6 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.47%) HTML
6 1 (0.47%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.47%) Vue
6 1 (0.47%) XML
6 1 (0.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.35%) Wiki
5 4 (1.88%) NHS
6 3 (1.41%) FMCG
6 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.47%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.47%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.69%) Linux
2 7 (3.29%) Windows
3 4 (1.88%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.15%) Business Intelligence
2 76 (35.68%) Digital Marketing
3 63 (29.58%) Agile
4 60 (28.17%) Project Management
5 39 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (17.37%) Project Delivery
7 33 (15.49%) Change Management
8 27 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (11.74%) Risk Management
9 25 (11.74%) Waterfall
10 23 (10.80%) PRINCE2
11 21 (9.86%) Business Case
12 19 (8.92%) DevOps
13 17 (7.98%) Decision-Making
14 16 (7.51%) Roadmaps
15 13 (6.10%) Budget Management
16 12 (5.63%) Data Governance
16 12 (5.63%) Data Management
16 12 (5.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.04%) SQL
2 9 (4.23%) Python
3 8 (3.76%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (2.35%) C#
6 3 (1.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.94%) Java
7 2 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) C
8 1 (0.47%) Perl
8 1 (0.47%) R
8 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.27%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.92%) Degree
5 12 (5.63%) PMI Certification
6 11 (5.16%) PMP
7 10 (4.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (1.88%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.41%) CCIE
9 3 (1.41%) CCIE Data Center
9 3 (1.41%) CCNP
9 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.41%) CISSP
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.47%) APMP
11 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) PMO
2 7 (3.29%) SLA
3 5 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.35%) GDPR
3 5 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.47%) GRC
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (2.82%) Docker
2 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 87 (40.85%) SAP
2 26 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.29%) Cisco
4 5 (2.35%) Pega
4 5 (2.35%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.35%) Sparx
4 5 (2.35%) VMware
5 4 (1.88%) Computacenter
6 3 (1.41%) Cadence
7 2 (0.94%) Actian
7 2 (0.94%) Dell
7 2 (0.94%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.47%) Ariba
8 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.47%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.47%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto