Programme Governance Contract Job Trends in London

Programme Governance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Programme Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 326 378
Rank change year-on-year +64 +52 +68
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 158 24 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 13 18
10th Percentile £400 £401 £451
25th Percentile £475 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £721 £725 £797
90th Percentile £925 £748 £832
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.12 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 - £44.74

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

Programme Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Programme Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Programme Governance job vacancy trend in London

Programme Governance
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Programme Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Programme Governance

Programme Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Governance in London over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Governance in London

Programme Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Programme Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Programme Governance

Programme Governance
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
Central London -7 15 £595 +44.24% 3
West London -19 4 £680 - 1
South London - 1 £400 - 2
East London - 1 £500 -
Programme Governance
England

Programme Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.53%) CMS
3 3 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.39%) Azure
2 13 (8.23%) AWS
3 8 (5.06%) SaaS
4 6 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.90%) GCP
6 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.27%) OCI
7 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.27%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.63%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.63%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) Network Security
2 2 (1.27%) LAN
2 2 (1.27%) WAN
3 1 (0.63%) 5G
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.90%) Metadata
1 3 (1.90%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.27%) Power BI
3 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 12 (7.59%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Hudson
General
1 84 (53.16%) Finance
2 48 (30.38%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.39%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.39%) Retail
4 17 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.13%) Legal
6 11 (6.96%) Marketing
7 10 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.80%) Local Government
8 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.53%) Banking
9 4 (2.53%) Law
9 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.90%) Billing
11 2 (1.27%) Advertising
11 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.27%) Police
12 1 (0.63%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 50 (31.65%) Programme Manager
2 23 (14.56%) Project Manager
3 21 (13.29%) Lead
4 17 (10.76%) Senior
5 14 (8.86%) Programme Director
6 12 (7.59%) Senior Manager
7 11 (6.96%) Analyst
8 10 (6.33%) Technical Manager
9 8 (5.06%) PMO Analyst
9 8 (5.06%) Technical Programme Manager
10 7 (4.43%) Consultant
11 5 (3.16%) Architect
11 5 (3.16%) PMO Lead
11 5 (3.16%) PMO Manager
11 5 (3.16%) SAP Manager
11 5 (3.16%) SAP Programme Manager
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Project Manager
12 4 (2.53%) Finance Manager
12 4 (2.53%) Senior Technical Manager
12 4 (2.53%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.53%) Middleware
3 3 (1.90%) XML
4 2 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.63%) REST
5 1 (0.63%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.63%) SOAP
5 1 (0.63%) Spring
5 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.23%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.33%) FMCG
3 7 (4.43%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.53%) IoT
5 4 (2.53%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.53%) PropTech
6 3 (1.90%) CMDB
6 3 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.90%) Life Science
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 1 (0.63%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
1 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (49.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 52 (32.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 43 (27.22%) Agile
4 40 (25.32%) Migration
5 33 (20.89%) Programme Delivery
5 33 (20.89%) Roadmaps
6 30 (18.99%) Programme Management
6 30 (18.99%) Risk Management
7 27 (17.09%) Project Management
8 26 (16.46%) ERP
9 25 (15.82%) Decision-Making
10 24 (15.19%) PRINCE2
10 24 (15.19%) Project Delivery
11 21 (13.29%) Change Management
12 19 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (10.76%) Data Migration
14 16 (10.13%) Change Control
14 16 (10.13%) DevOps
15 14 (8.86%) Technology Transformation
16 13 (8.23%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.06%) SQL
2 3 (1.90%) Java
3 2 (1.27%) Korn
3 2 (1.27%) Python
4 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.86%) Degree
4 10 (6.33%) PMP
5 7 (4.43%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.53%) CISSP
6 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.53%) RIBA
7 3 (1.90%) CISM
7 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.99%) PMO
2 18 (11.39%) QA
3 12 (7.59%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.80%) GRC
5 5 (3.16%) GDPR
5 5 (3.16%) SLA
6 2 (1.27%) P3O
7 1 (0.63%) GAAP
7 1 (0.63%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.63%) IFRS
7 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
7 1 (0.63%) NIST
7 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.63%) SEPA
7 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Ansible
1 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.63%) QRadar
1 1 (0.63%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.76%) SAP
3 11 (6.96%) Oracle
4 9 (5.70%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.53%) Databricks
7 3 (1.90%) Intapp
7 3 (1.90%) Workday
7 3 (1.90%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.27%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.27%) Planview
8 2 (1.27%) Progress
9 1 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco
9 1 (0.63%) Google
9 1 (0.63%) IBM
9 1 (0.63%) PTC
9 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.63%) VMware