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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 324 364
Rank change year-on-year +72 +40 +60
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 209 38 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 27 14
10th Percentile £431 £300 £440
25th Percentile £513 £459 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.96%
75th Percentile £722 £725 £797
90th Percentile £933 £750 £813
England median daily rate £575 £560 £625
% change year-on-year +2.68% -10.40% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £33.12 - £44.08
England median hourly rate £62.00 - £44.08

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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -13 23 £675 +11.57% 16
West London -10 12 £680 - 2
East London - 2 £638 -
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 10 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.35%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.96%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.96%) Finacle
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.96%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.96%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.48%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.48%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.48%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.48%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.09%) Azure
2 13 (6.22%) AWS
3 11 (5.26%) SaaS
4 9 (4.31%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.83%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.39%) OCI
8 4 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.96%) GCP
10 2 (0.96%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.96%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.48%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) LAN
2 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.83%) Power BI
2 6 (2.87%) Metadata
3 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.44%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.48%) OLAP
5 1 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.22%) JIRA
2 2 (0.96%) eggPlant
2 2 (0.96%) Selenium
2 2 (0.96%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.48%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.48%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (0.48%) SilkTest
3 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.48%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (54.55%) Finance
2 82 (39.23%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.48%) Banking
4 23 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 22 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (7.66%) Legal
9 14 (6.70%) Retail
10 13 (6.22%) Marketing
11 8 (3.83%) Local Government
11 8 (3.83%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.39%) Front Office
13 5 (2.39%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.91%) Aviation
14 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.91%) Law
15 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (26.79%) Programme Manager
2 38 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 33 (15.79%) Lead
4 20 (9.57%) Senior
5 14 (6.70%) Programme Director
6 12 (5.74%) Senior Manager
6 12 (5.74%) Transformation Manager
7 10 (4.78%) Analyst
8 8 (3.83%) Consultant
8 8 (3.83%) Digital Programme Manager
8 8 (3.83%) PMO Analyst
8 8 (3.83%) Technical Manager
9 7 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.87%) Architect
10 6 (2.87%) Development Manager
10 6 (2.87%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (2.87%) SAP Manager
10 6 (2.87%) Senior Programme Manager
10 6 (2.87%) Software Development Manager
10 6 (2.87%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.91%) Middleware
2 4 (1.91%) XML
3 3 (1.44%) Terraform
4 2 (0.96%) .NET
4 2 (0.96%) ADO
4 2 (0.96%) Web Services
5 1 (0.48%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.48%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) React
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) Spring
5 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.48%) Vue
5 1 (0.48%) WPF
5 1 (0.48%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.13%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.35%) FMCG
5 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.91%) NHS
6 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.44%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.44%) Derivative
7 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.44%) Life Science
7 3 (1.44%) PMI
7 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.96%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.44%) Windows
2 2 (0.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (66.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 64 (30.62%) Agile
3 61 (29.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 55 (26.32%) Programme Delivery
5 53 (25.36%) Roadmaps
6 50 (23.92%) Decision-Making
7 48 (22.97%) Project Management
8 44 (21.05%) Programme Management
8 44 (21.05%) Risk Management
9 43 (20.57%) Migration
10 40 (19.14%) Project Delivery
11 39 (18.66%) PRINCE2
12 36 (17.22%) Change Management
13 31 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (14.83%) Technology Transformation
14 22 (10.53%) ERP
15 21 (10.05%) DevOps
16 20 (9.57%) Data Migration
16 20 (9.57%) Dependency Management
16 20 (9.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.78%) SQL
2 4 (1.91%) Java
3 3 (1.44%) Python
4 2 (0.96%) Korn
5 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.96%) PMP
3 20 (9.57%) PMI Certification
4 19 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.66%) Degree
6 9 (4.31%) CISSP
7 8 (3.83%) CISM
8 7 (3.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (2.87%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.96%) ISACA
11 2 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.96%) PgMP
11 2 (0.96%) RIBA
11 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.48%) CAPM
12 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (21.05%) PMO
2 20 (9.57%) QA
3 11 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.91%) GDPR
6 3 (1.44%) GRC
6 3 (1.44%) NCSC
6 3 (1.44%) NIST
6 3 (1.44%) P3O
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.48%) Ansible
2 1 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 34 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.96%) SAP
3 17 (8.13%) Oracle
4 10 (4.78%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.35%) Workday
7 5 (2.39%) Databricks
7 5 (2.39%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.44%) Ariba
8 3 (1.44%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.96%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (0.96%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.96%) Charles River
9 2 (0.96%) Citrix
9 2 (0.96%) Google
9 2 (0.96%) Temenos
10 1 (0.48%) FIS
10 1 (0.48%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.48%) IFS