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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 337 373
Rank change year-on-year +81 +36 +46
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 207 37 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 26 14
10th Percentile £428 £300 £440
25th Percentile £513 £455 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £797
90th Percentile £925 £750 £813
England median daily rate £575 £573 £625
% change year-on-year +0.44% -8.40% +19.05%
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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 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 10 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 -3 23 £675 +11.57% 11
West London -7 11 £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 (4.83%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.90%) CMS
3 3 (1.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.97%) Aladdin
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
2 2 (0.97%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.48%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
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
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.63%) Azure
2 13 (6.28%) AWS
3 11 (5.31%) SaaS
4 9 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.86%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.42%) OCI
8 4 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.97%) GCP
10 2 (0.97%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.97%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
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 8 (3.86%) Power BI
2 5 (2.42%) Metadata
3 3 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.45%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
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 (6.28%) JIRA
2 2 (0.97%) eggPlant
2 2 (0.97%) Selenium
2 2 (0.97%) SOAtest
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
1 112 (54.11%) Finance
2 80 (38.65%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.59%) Banking
4 23 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.66%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.21%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (7.73%) Retail
9 14 (6.76%) Legal
10 12 (5.80%) Marketing
11 8 (3.86%) Manufacturing
12 7 (3.38%) Local Government
13 6 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.90%) Telecoms
14 5 (2.42%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.93%) Aviation
15 4 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.93%) Front Office
16 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 55 (26.57%) Programme Manager
2 36 (17.39%) Project Manager
3 33 (15.94%) Lead
4 19 (9.18%) Senior
5 15 (7.25%) Programme Director
6 11 (5.31%) Transformation Manager
7 10 (4.83%) Analyst
7 10 (4.83%) Senior Manager
7 10 (4.83%) Technical Manager
8 8 (3.86%) Consultant
8 8 (3.86%) PMO Analyst
9 7 (3.38%) Architect
9 7 (3.38%) Digital Programme Manager
9 7 (3.38%) SAP Manager
9 7 (3.38%) Technical Programme Manager
10 6 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.90%) SAP Programme Manager
10 6 (2.90%) Test Manager
11 5 (2.42%) Data Manager
11 5 (2.42%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.42%) Middleware
3 4 (1.93%) XML
4 2 (0.97%) ADO
4 2 (0.97%) Terraform
4 2 (0.97%) Web Services
5 1 (0.48%) .NET
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) Spring
5 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.48%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.86%) FMCG
2 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.93%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.45%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.45%) Life Science
6 3 (1.45%) NHS
6 3 (1.45%) PMI
7 2 (0.97%) Derivative
7 2 (0.97%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.97%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.45%) Windows
2 2 (0.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (63.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 65 (31.40%) Agile
3 64 (30.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 55 (26.57%) Programme Delivery
5 53 (25.60%) Roadmaps
6 48 (23.19%) Decision-Making
7 46 (22.22%) Project Management
8 44 (21.26%) Programme Management
9 42 (20.29%) Migration
9 42 (20.29%) Risk Management
10 40 (19.32%) Project Delivery
11 38 (18.36%) PRINCE2
12 36 (17.39%) Change Management
13 31 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.56%) Technology Transformation
15 22 (10.63%) DevOps
15 22 (10.63%) ERP
16 19 (9.18%) AI
16 19 (9.18%) Data Migration
16 19 (9.18%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.83%) SQL
2 4 (1.93%) Java
3 2 (0.97%) Korn
3 2 (0.97%) Python
4 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.11%) PMP
3 19 (9.18%) PMI Certification
4 18 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.73%) Degree
6 9 (4.35%) CISSP
7 8 (3.86%) CISM
8 6 (2.90%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.97%) ISACA
10 2 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.97%) PgMP
10 2 (0.97%) RIBA
10 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.48%) CAPM
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (21.26%) PMO
2 21 (10.14%) QA
3 12 (5.80%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.45%) GDPR
5 3 (1.45%) GRC
5 3 (1.45%) NIST
5 3 (1.45%) P3O
6 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.97%) NCSC
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.48%) GxP
7 1 (0.48%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.48%) IFRS
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.48%) ITGC
7 1 (0.48%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.48%) SEPA
7 1 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) 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 33 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.56%) SAP
3 17 (8.21%) Oracle
4 8 (3.86%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.38%) Workday
6 5 (2.42%) Databricks
6 5 (2.42%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.45%) Ariba
7 3 (1.45%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.97%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (0.97%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.97%) Charles River
8 2 (0.97%) Citrix
8 2 (0.97%) Intapp
8 2 (0.97%) Temenos
9 1 (0.48%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.48%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.48%) Pega
9 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv