Programme Governance Contracts in England

Programme Governance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Programme Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Governance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 481 575
Rank change year-on-year +45 +94 +65
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 49 61 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 61
10th Percentile £401 £436 £428
25th Percentile £500 £465 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% +1.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £651 £698 £750
90th Percentile £853 £763 £950
UK median daily rate £625 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £44.74 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.74 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Programme Governance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Programme Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Programme Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Governance in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Governance in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Governance in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Governance in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Governance in England

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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 Governance within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +33 18 £550 - 24
South East +46 13 £650 +39.78% 5
Midlands +20 7 £525 +22.09% 4
West Midlands +13 7 £525 +31.25% 2
South West +50 5 £506 -32.50% 4
North of England +10 4 £635 -3.04% 15
Yorkshire +8 2 £635 +0.59% 2
East of England +29 1 £775 - 1
North West +7 1 - - 12
North East - 1 - - 1
Programme Governance
UK

Programme Governance
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 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.24%) Azure
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
2 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.04%) AWS
3 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.04%) Azure API Management
3 1 (2.04%) GCP
3 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.04%) SaaS
3 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.04%) GIS
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) GCC
General
1 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Finance
3 11 (22.45%) Legal
4 8 (16.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Local Government
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Billing
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Programme Manager
2 10 (20.41%) Lead
3 8 (16.33%) Project Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Commercial Manager
5 4 (8.16%) Change Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.16%) PMO Lead
5 4 (8.16%) SAP Manager
5 4 (8.16%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Business Change Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Commercial Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Migration Manager
6 3 (6.12%) SAP Programme Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Programme Director
7 2 (4.08%) SAP Project Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.20%) Operational Technology
3 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.16%) PMI
4 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.04%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (32.65%) Agile
3 14 (28.57%) Project Management
4 13 (26.53%) Project Delivery
5 11 (22.45%) PRINCE2
6 9 (18.37%) Programme Management
7 8 (16.33%) Change Management
8 7 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
8 7 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 7 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.24%) Change Control
9 6 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (12.24%) ERP
9 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (10.20%) Budget Management
10 5 (10.20%) Waterfall
11 4 (8.16%) Budgeting
11 4 (8.16%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (8.16%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) PMI Certification
2 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) Degree
3 7 (14.29%) PMP
3 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) APMP
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) CFA
4 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) MAPM
4 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.04%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.33%) SAP
3 1 (2.04%) AlgoSec
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) eFront
3 1 (2.04%) ESRI
3 1 (2.04%) HP
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Spotify
3 1 (2.04%) Wrike