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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 344 362
Rank change year-on-year +87 +18 +95
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 179 27 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 17 16
10th Percentile £400 £404 £484
25th Percentile £475 £469 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £626 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -7.26% +12.50%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £800
90th Percentile £925 £743 £841
England median daily rate £573 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.58% -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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +3 18 £595 +22.37% 12
West London -11 6 £680 - 1
South London - 1 £400 - 1
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 7 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.23%) CMS
3 3 (1.68%) Confluence
4 2 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (8.94%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (5.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.12%) Finacle
2 2 (1.12%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.56%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.17%) Azure
2 13 (7.26%) AWS
3 10 (5.59%) SaaS
4 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.79%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.23%) OCI
8 3 (1.68%) GCP
8 3 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.56%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.56%) Serverless
10 1 (0.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) 5G
2 1 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) LAN
2 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.79%) Power BI
2 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.68%) Metadata
2 3 (1.68%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.56%) OLAP
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Hudson
General
1 95 (53.07%) Finance
2 56 (31.28%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.17%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.17%) Retail
4 19 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.50%) Legal
6 13 (7.26%) Marketing
7 11 (6.15%) Banking
7 11 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.91%) Local Government
9 6 (3.35%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.23%) Law
10 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.68%) Aviation
11 3 (1.68%) Billing
11 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.68%) Police
12 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 51 (28.49%) Programme Manager
2 30 (16.76%) Project Manager
3 22 (12.29%) Lead
4 20 (11.17%) Senior
5 16 (8.94%) Programme Director
6 13 (7.26%) Senior Manager
7 11 (6.15%) Analyst
8 10 (5.59%) Consultant
8 10 (5.59%) Technical Manager
9 8 (4.47%) PMO Analyst
9 8 (4.47%) Technical Programme Manager
10 7 (3.91%) PMO Manager
10 7 (3.91%) Transformation Manager
11 6 (3.35%) SAP Manager
12 5 (2.79%) Architect
12 5 (2.79%) PMO Lead
12 5 (2.79%) SAP Programme Manager
12 5 (2.79%) Senior Project Manager
13 4 (2.23%) Finance Manager
13 4 (2.23%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.79%) Middleware
3 3 (1.68%) XML
4 2 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.56%) ADO
5 1 (0.56%) REST
5 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.56%) SOAP
5 1 (0.56%) Spring
5 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.94%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.59%) FMCG
3 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.91%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.23%) IoT
6 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.23%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.23%) PropTech
7 3 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.68%) Life Science
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) CMDB
8 2 (1.12%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.12%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.56%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (51.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (32.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 50 (27.93%) Agile
4 46 (25.70%) Migration
5 41 (22.91%) Programme Delivery
6 40 (22.35%) Roadmaps
7 33 (18.44%) Programme Management
8 32 (17.88%) Decision-Making
8 32 (17.88%) Risk Management
9 31 (17.32%) Project Delivery
10 30 (16.76%) Project Management
11 27 (15.08%) ERP
12 26 (14.53%) Change Management
12 26 (14.53%) PRINCE2
13 21 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.61%) Data Migration
15 17 (9.50%) Change Control
15 17 (9.50%) DevOps
15 17 (9.50%) Technology Transformation
16 16 (8.94%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.47%) SQL
2 3 (1.68%) Java
3 2 (1.12%) Korn
3 2 (1.12%) Python
4 1 (0.56%) Ruby
4 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.38%) Degree
4 10 (5.59%) PMP
5 8 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.23%) CISSP
6 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.23%) RIBA
7 3 (1.68%) CISM
7 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) MBA
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.67%) PMO
2 21 (11.73%) QA
3 12 (6.70%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.35%) GRC
4 6 (3.35%) SLA
5 5 (2.79%) GDPR
6 3 (1.68%) P3O
7 1 (0.56%) GAAP
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.56%) IFRS
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.56%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) SEPA
7 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Ansible
1 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.56%) QRadar
1 1 (0.56%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.56%) Terraform
1 1 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 23 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.61%) SAP
3 14 (7.82%) Oracle
4 9 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.47%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.79%) Workday
7 4 (2.23%) Databricks
8 3 (1.68%) Intapp
8 3 (1.68%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.12%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.12%) Progress
9 2 (1.12%) Temenos
10 1 (0.56%) Avaya
10 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco
10 1 (0.56%) Genesys
10 1 (0.56%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.56%) PTC
10 1 (0.56%) Red Hat