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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 335 375
Rank change year-on-year +54 +40 +99
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 114 19 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 8 13
10th Percentile £400 £422 £453
25th Percentile £475 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +2.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £813 £675 £611
90th Percentile £908 £926 £690
England median daily rate £575 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -6.12% +11.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £33.73 - -
25th Percentile £34.65 - -
Median hourly rate £36.81 - -
75th Percentile £39.59 - -
90th Percentile £40.89 - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 - £44.74
% change year-on-year - - -40.35%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +5 13 £650 +18.18% 6
West London -17 1 £329 -
South London - 1 £400 -
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 5 (4.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.04%) Azure
2 10 (8.77%) AWS
3 7 (6.14%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.51%) GCP
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.63%) SaaS
6 2 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.75%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.88%) OCI
7 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) 5G
2 1 (0.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.88%) LAN
2 1 (0.88%) Network Security
2 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.88%) WAN
2 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.14%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Hudson
General
1 54 (47.37%) Finance
2 31 (27.19%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.53%) Retail
5 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (8.77%) Legal
7 6 (5.26%) Banking
7 6 (5.26%) Marketing
7 6 (5.26%) Police
8 5 (4.39%) Law
9 4 (3.51%) Back Office
9 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Local Government
11 2 (1.75%) Publishing
11 2 (1.75%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (32.46%) Programme Manager
2 18 (15.79%) Lead
3 14 (12.28%) Project Manager
4 12 (10.53%) Programme Director
5 10 (8.77%) Senior
6 9 (7.89%) Analyst
7 8 (7.02%) Senior Manager
8 7 (6.14%) Technical Manager
9 6 (5.26%) Consultant
9 6 (5.26%) Technical Programme Manager
10 5 (4.39%) PMO Lead
10 5 (4.39%) PMO Manager
11 4 (3.51%) Architect
11 4 (3.51%) PMO Analyst
11 4 (3.51%) Senior Project Manager
12 3 (2.63%) SAP Manager
12 3 (2.63%) SAP Programme Manager
12 3 (2.63%) Security Manager
12 3 (2.63%) Senior Programme Manager
12 3 (2.63%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (1.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.88%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.39%) FMCG
3 5 (4.39%) IoT
4 4 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.51%) PropTech
5 3 (2.63%) CMDB
5 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.75%) PMI
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Android
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) VMS
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (45.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (34.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 29 (25.44%) Agile
4 27 (23.68%) Migration
5 22 (19.30%) PRINCE2
5 22 (19.30%) Risk Management
5 22 (19.30%) Roadmaps
6 20 (17.54%) Change Management
7 19 (16.67%) Project Management
8 18 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (15.79%) ERP
8 18 (15.79%) Programme Delivery
9 17 (14.91%) Decision-Making
10 16 (14.04%) Programme Management
11 15 (13.16%) Project Delivery
12 13 (11.40%) Change Control
13 10 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (8.77%) Data Migration
14 9 (7.89%) Data Governance
15 8 (7.02%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (1.75%) Korn
1 2 (1.75%) SQL
2 1 (0.88%) Bicep
2 1 (0.88%) Python
2 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) Degree
3 9 (7.89%) PMI Certification
4 7 (6.14%) PMP
5 4 (3.51%) RIBA
6 2 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CISM
7 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) MBA
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.79%) PMO
2 10 (8.77%) QA
3 9 (7.89%) GRC
4 6 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.39%) SLA
6 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.51%) NCSC
7 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 3 (2.63%) P3O
8 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.75%) GDPR
8 2 (1.75%) NIST
8 2 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.88%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.88%) SEPA
9 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) RACF
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.88%) QRadar
1 1 (0.88%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) SAP
2 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.51%) Oracle
3 4 (3.51%) Planview
4 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.63%) Workday
5 2 (1.75%) Databricks
5 2 (1.75%) Intapp
6 1 (0.88%) Avaya
6 1 (0.88%) Carbon Black
6 1 (0.88%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.88%) Genesys
6 1 (0.88%) Monzo
6 1 (0.88%) Okta
6 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.88%) Progress
6 1 (0.88%) Tenable
6 1 (0.88%) Zopa