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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 335 373
Rank change year-on-year +46 +38 +86
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 109 18 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 7 13
10th Percentile £400 £412 £453
25th Percentile £475 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +4.09% -5.38%
75th Percentile £806 £738 £611
90th Percentile £915 £948 £690
England median daily rate £575 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - £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 14,581 11,761 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.81% 91.05% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,791 7,833 11,491
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% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 158 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.98% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £69.87 £77.77 £69.05
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

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 13 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 13 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 -3 13 £650 +18.18% 8
West London -18 1 £329 - 1
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 (4.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.76%) Azure
2 10 (9.17%) AWS
3 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.67%) GCP
4 4 (3.67%) SaaS
5 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.83%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.92%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.92%) OCI
7 1 (0.92%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) 5G
2 1 (0.92%) DNS
2 1 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.92%) LAN
2 1 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.92%) WAN
2 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) Power BI
2 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) Hudson
General
1 52 (47.71%) Finance
2 30 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.09%) Retail
4 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.17%) Legal
4 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Marketing
5 6 (5.50%) Police
6 5 (4.59%) Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Law
7 4 (3.67%) Back Office
8 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Local Government
9 2 (1.83%) Publishing
9 2 (1.83%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.92%) Advertising
10 1 (0.92%) Billing
Job Titles
1 35 (32.11%) Programme Manager
2 17 (15.60%) Lead
3 13 (11.93%) Project Manager
4 11 (10.09%) Programme Director
5 10 (9.17%) Analyst
6 9 (8.26%) Senior
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Manager
8 6 (5.50%) Consultant
8 6 (5.50%) Technical Manager
9 5 (4.59%) PMO Lead
9 5 (4.59%) PMO Manager
9 5 (4.59%) Technical Programme Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Architect
10 4 (3.67%) PMO Analyst
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Project Manager
11 3 (2.75%) Product Owner
11 3 (2.75%) Security Manager
11 3 (2.75%) Technical Leader
12 2 (1.83%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 2 (1.83%) Performance Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.92%) Middleware
3 1 (0.92%) REST
3 1 (0.92%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.59%) IoT
4 4 (3.67%) FMCG
4 4 (3.67%) PropTech
5 3 (2.75%) CMDB
5 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.83%) PMI
7 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.92%) Life Science
7 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Android
1 1 (0.92%) Linux
1 1 (0.92%) VMS
1 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (33.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 28 (25.69%) Agile
4 27 (24.77%) Migration
5 22 (20.18%) PRINCE2
5 22 (20.18%) Risk Management
6 21 (19.27%) Roadmaps
7 19 (17.43%) Change Management
8 18 (16.51%) Project Management
9 17 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (15.60%) ERP
10 16 (14.68%) Decision-Making
11 15 (13.76%) Programme Delivery
12 14 (12.84%) Programme Management
12 14 (12.84%) Project Delivery
13 12 (11.01%) Change Control
14 10 (9.17%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (8.26%) Data Migration
16 8 (7.34%) Data Governance
16 8 (7.34%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (1.83%) Korn
1 2 (1.83%) SQL
2 1 (0.92%) Bicep
2 1 (0.92%) Python
2 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) Degree
3 9 (8.26%) PMI Certification
4 7 (6.42%) PMP
5 4 (3.67%) RIBA
6 2 (1.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) CISM
7 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.92%) MBA
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.60%) PMO
2 9 (8.26%) GRC
3 8 (7.34%) QA
4 6 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.59%) SLA
6 4 (3.67%) NCSC
7 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 3 (2.75%) P3O
8 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.83%) GDPR
8 2 (1.83%) NIST
8 2 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.92%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.92%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.92%) RACF
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.92%) QRadar
1 1 (0.92%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.59%) SAP
4 4 (3.67%) Planview
5 3 (2.75%) Oracle
5 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.75%) Workday
6 2 (1.83%) Databricks
6 2 (1.83%) Intapp
7 1 (0.92%) Avaya
7 1 (0.92%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco
7 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.92%) Genesys
7 1 (0.92%) Monzo
7 1 (0.92%) Okta
7 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.92%) Progress
7 1 (0.92%) Tenable
7 1 (0.92%) Zopa