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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 349 359
Rank change year-on-year +110 +10 +84
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 207 31 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.25% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 22 14
10th Percentile £408 £300 £421
25th Percentile £500 £417 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £624 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £723 £713 £797
90th Percentile £925 £749 £813
England median daily rate £570 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +3.64% -15.38% +4.00%
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 17,923 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.03% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +6 22 £570 +17.22% 14
West London -13 9 £680 - 2
South London - 1 £400 -
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 9 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.42%) CMS
3 3 (1.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (8.70%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.97%) Finacle
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.97%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.48%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.48%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.48%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.11%) Azure
2 11 (5.31%) AWS
2 11 (5.31%) SaaS
3 8 (3.86%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.90%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.42%) OCI
7 3 (1.45%) GCP
7 3 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.97%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.48%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.48%) Serverless
9 1 (0.48%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) 5G
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) LAN
2 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.38%) Power BI
2 3 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.45%) Metadata
2 3 (1.45%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) OLAP
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Hudson
2 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 108 (52.17%) Finance
2 68 (32.85%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.11%) Retail
4 22 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.18%) Legal
7 16 (7.73%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (7.25%) Banking
8 15 (7.25%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (7.25%) Marketing
9 7 (3.38%) Local Government
9 7 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.90%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.93%) Aviation
11 4 (1.93%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.93%) Law
12 3 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.45%) Front Office
12 3 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (27.54%) Programme Manager
2 36 (17.39%) Project Manager
3 30 (14.49%) Lead
4 20 (9.66%) Senior
5 18 (8.70%) Programme Director
6 12 (5.80%) Senior Manager
7 11 (5.31%) Analyst
7 11 (5.31%) Consultant
7 11 (5.31%) Technical Manager
8 10 (4.83%) Transformation Manager
9 8 (3.86%) PMO Analyst
9 8 (3.86%) Technical Programme Manager
10 7 (3.38%) SAP Manager
11 6 (2.90%) SAP Programme Manager
12 5 (2.42%) Architect
12 5 (2.42%) Digital Programme Manager
12 5 (2.42%) PMO Lead
12 5 (2.42%) PMO Manager
12 5 (2.42%) Senior Project Manager
13 4 (1.93%) Digital Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.42%) Middleware
3 3 (1.45%) XML
4 2 (0.97%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.48%) ADO
5 1 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) Spring
5 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.18%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.86%) FMCG
4 7 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.93%) IoT
6 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.93%) Life Science
6 4 (1.93%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.93%) PropTech
7 3 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.45%) NHS
8 2 (0.97%) CMDB
8 2 (0.97%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.97%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 69 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 59 (28.50%) Agile
4 52 (25.12%) Programme Delivery
5 51 (24.64%) Migration
6 48 (23.19%) Roadmaps
7 41 (19.81%) Risk Management
8 40 (19.32%) Project Management
9 39 (18.84%) Project Delivery
10 38 (18.36%) Change Management
10 38 (18.36%) Programme Management
11 37 (17.87%) Decision-Making
11 37 (17.87%) PRINCE2
12 27 (13.04%) ERP
13 26 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (10.63%) Data Migration
15 21 (10.14%) Technology Transformation
16 20 (9.66%) DevOps
17 18 (8.70%) Dependency Management
18 17 (8.21%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.86%) SQL
2 3 (1.45%) Java
2 3 (1.45%) Korn
3 2 (0.97%) Python
4 1 (0.48%) Ruby
4 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.70%) Degree
2 18 (8.70%) PMP
2 18 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.76%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.86%) CISSP
5 7 (3.38%) CISM
6 5 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.42%) RIBA
7 4 (1.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.97%) ISACA
9 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.48%) MBA
10 1 (0.48%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (19.81%) PMO
2 24 (11.59%) QA
3 12 (5.80%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.90%) GRC
4 6 (2.90%) SLA
5 4 (1.93%) P3O
6 3 (1.45%) GDPR
7 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.97%) NIST
8 1 (0.48%) GAAP
8 1 (0.48%) GxP
8 1 (0.48%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.48%) IFRS
8 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.48%) ITGC
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
8 1 (0.48%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.97%) Terraform
2 1 (0.48%) Ansible
2 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.08%) SAP
3 17 (8.21%) Oracle
4 8 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.38%) Workday
6 6 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.42%) Databricks
7 5 (2.42%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.45%) Intapp
9 2 (0.97%) Ariba
9 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.97%) Citrix
9 2 (0.97%) Google
9 2 (0.97%) Progress
9 2 (0.97%) Temenos
10 1 (0.48%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.48%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.48%) Planview