Project Governance Contracts

Project Governance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Project Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Governance over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 399 401
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +66
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 194 342 559
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.64% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 242 388
10th Percentile £362 £350 £362
25th Percentile £454 £452 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £599
90th Percentile £728 £746 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 31
10th Percentile - £31.74 -
25th Percentile - £33.53 £15.90
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.77 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +123.10% -32.28%
75th Percentile - £43.26 £17.97
90th Percentile - £45.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.77 £16.93
% change year-on-year -7.33% +123.10% -44.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Governance 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Project Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Governance.

Daily rate trend for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Governance over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Governance.

Hourly rate trend for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Governance within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +11 163 £538 -2.27% 55
UK excluding London -10 99 £500 -4.76% 44
Work from Home +92 84 £550 +10.00% 26
London +50 82 £625 +8.70% 18
South West +24 32 £465 -19.13% 10
South East -11 23 £563 +2.27% 8
North of England +14 16 £513 +3.80% 10
Scotland +16 12 £375 -30.23% 10
Wales +21 11 £508 +26.88% 1
North West +22 9 £538 +7.50% 6
Yorkshire +6 7 £513 +3.80% 2
Midlands +7 5 £600 +20.00% 2
West Midlands +16 4 £600 +17.07% 1
East Midlands +14 1 - - 1

Project Governance
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 18 (9.28%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (15.98%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (13.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (11.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (11.86%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (3.61%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Loan IQ
2 4 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.03%) Temenos Globus
4 1 (0.52%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 12 (6.19%) Power Platform
2 11 (5.67%) Azure
3 7 (3.61%) SaaS
4 6 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.55%) GitHub
5 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (0.52%) AWS
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.52%) Boomi
7 1 (0.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.52%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) 4G
2 1 (0.52%) 5G
2 1 (0.52%) ATM
2 1 (0.52%) ISDN
2 1 (0.52%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.19%) Power BI
2 4 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.55%) MySQL
4 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) IDMS
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (7.22%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 85 (43.81%) Finance
2 81 (41.75%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.98%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.76%) Banking
5 15 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.64%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.64%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.09%) Local Government
10 6 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.58%) Billing
11 5 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.06%) Legal
13 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.03%) Back Office
14 2 (1.03%) Marketing
15 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 124 (63.92%) Project Manager
2 30 (15.46%) Analyst
3 26 (13.40%) Senior
4 25 (12.89%) Senior Manager
5 23 (11.86%) Senior Project Manager
6 17 (8.76%) PMO Analyst
7 10 (5.15%) IT Manager
7 10 (5.15%) Migration Manager
7 10 (5.15%) Migration Project Manager
8 9 (4.64%) IT Project Manager
9 8 (4.12%) SC Cleared Project Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Finance Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Finance Project Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
10 6 (3.09%) Security Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Security Project Manager
10 6 (3.09%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.55%) ADO
2 1 (0.52%) Express.js
2 1 (0.52%) MERN Stack
2 1 (0.52%) Middleware
2 1 (0.52%) Node.js
2 1 (0.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.22%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.09%) Derivative
4 6 (3.09%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.06%) PMI
5 4 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.55%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.55%) Freedom of Information Act
6 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.55%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.03%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.03%) NHS
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.12%) Windows
2 4 (2.06%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.03%) AIX
5 1 (0.52%) Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (55.15%) Project Management
2 87 (44.85%) Project Delivery
3 80 (41.24%) Agile
4 50 (25.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (18.56%) PRINCE2
6 33 (17.01%) Business Case
7 32 (16.49%) Budget Management
7 32 (16.49%) Change Management
8 27 (13.92%) Decision-Making
8 27 (13.92%) Waterfall
9 26 (13.40%) Migration
9 26 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (12.89%) Risk Management
11 23 (11.86%) Project Planning
12 22 (11.34%) Change Control
13 20 (10.31%) Scrum
14 16 (8.25%) Data Migration
14 16 (8.25%) Programme Management
14 16 (8.25%) SDLC
15 15 (7.73%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.58%) SQL
2 3 (1.55%) PHP
2 3 (1.55%) VBA
3 1 (0.52%) Java
3 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.98%) Degree
3 20 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (2.58%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.58%) PMP
7 4 (2.06%) APMP
7 4 (2.06%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.55%) CISA
8 3 (1.55%) CISM
8 3 (1.55%) CISSP
9 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.52%) APMG
10 1 (0.52%) ISEB
10 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.32%) PMO
2 5 (2.58%) QA
3 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.55%) P3O
5 2 (1.03%) Basel III
5 2 (1.03%) COREP
5 2 (1.03%) FINREP
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) PowerHA
1 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.55%) Argo
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.64%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.61%) SAP
4 5 (2.58%) Oracle
5 4 (2.06%) Cadence
6 3 (1.55%) Cisco
6 3 (1.55%) Progress
7 2 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.03%) Google
7 2 (1.03%) IFS
7 2 (1.03%) Planview
7 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Citrix
8 1 (0.52%) Dell
8 1 (0.52%) EMC
8 1 (0.52%) Epicor
8 1 (0.52%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.52%) Openreach
8 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.52%) Zscaler