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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 345 370
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 +100
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 70 19 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 8 14
10th Percentile £442 £422 £454
25th Percentile £494 £516 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £574 £579
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% -0.86% +5.23%
75th Percentile £800 £675 £640
90th Percentile £863 £926 £693
England median daily rate £594 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £44.08 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% - -
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 £44.08 £44.74
% change year-on-year +109.85% -1.48% -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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 12 £676 +22.86% 4
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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.43%) Maximo
1 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) Azure
2 10 (14.29%) AWS
3 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.29%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) SaaS
5 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.43%) Serverless
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.43%) LAN
2 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.43%) WAN
2 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) JIRA
General
1 34 (48.57%) Finance
2 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Law
5 4 (5.71%) Legal
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
5 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Police
5 4 (5.71%) Retail
6 3 (4.29%) Back Office
6 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Local Government
7 2 (2.86%) Publishing
7 2 (2.86%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.43%) Billing
8 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Programme Manager
2 9 (12.86%) Analyst
2 9 (12.86%) Lead
2 9 (12.86%) Project Manager
3 6 (8.57%) Programme Director
4 5 (7.14%) Senior
5 4 (5.71%) PMO Lead
5 4 (5.71%) PMO Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.29%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.29%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.29%) Security Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Technical Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Data Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Performance Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) FMCG
3 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) CMDB
4 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.86%) IoT
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.86%) PMI
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.43%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) PropTech
5 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) VMS
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (51.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (34.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (28.57%) Agile
4 16 (22.86%) Change Management
5 15 (21.43%) PRINCE2
5 15 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 14 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 13 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (18.57%) Migration
7 13 (18.57%) Project Management
7 13 (18.57%) Risk Management
8 11 (15.71%) Programme Management
9 10 (14.29%) Change Control
10 9 (12.86%) Programme Delivery
11 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (10.00%) Cloud Security
12 7 (10.00%) Project Delivery
12 7 (10.00%) Waterfall
13 6 (8.57%) Data Migration
13 6 (8.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.29%) Korn
2 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (2.86%) SQL
3 1 (1.43%) Bicep
3 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) SC Cleared
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) PMI Certification
3 7 (10.00%) PMP
4 5 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (2.86%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.43%) CISM
6 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.43%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) PMO
2 6 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.14%) GRC
3 5 (7.14%) QA
4 4 (5.71%) NCSC
5 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.86%) GDPR
6 2 (2.86%) NIST
6 2 (2.86%) P3O
6 2 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.43%) ISO 31000
7 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.43%) RACF
1 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.43%) QRadar
1 1 (1.43%) RSA Archer
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.29%) Planview
4 1 (1.43%) Avaya
4 1 (1.43%) Carbon Black
4 1 (1.43%) Cisco
4 1 (1.43%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.43%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.43%) Genesys
4 1 (1.43%) Okta
4 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.43%) Qualys
4 1 (1.43%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.43%) SAP
4 1 (1.43%) Splunk
4 1 (1.43%) VMware
4 1 (1.43%) Workday