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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 336 370
Rank change year-on-year +86 +34 +66
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 212 37 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 25 14
10th Percentile £420 £300 £440
25th Percentile £513 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £797
90th Percentile £925 £750 £813
England median daily rate £575 £570 £625
% change year-on-year +0.88% -8.80% +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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
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 £661 £675 £688
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 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -2 23 £675 +11.57% 11
West London -10 10 £680 - 3
East London - 2 £638 - 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 10 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.36%) CMS
3 3 (1.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 17 (8.02%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Finacle
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.94%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.47%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.47%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.85%) Azure
2 13 (6.13%) AWS
3 9 (4.25%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.25%) SaaS
4 8 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.77%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.36%) OCI
6 4 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.94%) GCP
8 2 (0.94%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.94%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.83%) Network Security
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
2 1 (0.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.47%) LAN
2 1 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.77%) Power BI
2 5 (2.36%) Metadata
3 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.42%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.47%) OLAP
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) eggPlant
2 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
2 1 (0.47%) Hudson
2 1 (0.47%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (0.47%) Selenium
2 1 (0.47%) SilkTest
2 1 (0.47%) SOAtest
2 1 (0.47%) Terragrunt
2 1 (0.47%) Tricentis qTest
2 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 110 (51.89%) Finance
2 78 (36.79%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.38%) Banking
5 21 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (8.49%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (8.49%) Retail
7 17 (8.02%) Legal
7 17 (8.02%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.19%) Marketing
9 8 (3.77%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.30%) Local Government
10 7 (3.30%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.36%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.89%) Aviation
12 4 (1.89%) Front Office
12 4 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.42%) Law
13 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (26.89%) Programme Manager
2 35 (16.51%) Lead
3 33 (15.57%) Project Manager
4 20 (9.43%) Senior
5 17 (8.02%) Programme Director
6 12 (5.66%) Technical Manager
7 11 (5.19%) Consultant
7 11 (5.19%) Senior Manager
7 11 (5.19%) Transformation Manager
8 10 (4.72%) Analyst
9 9 (4.25%) Technical Programme Manager
10 8 (3.77%) PMO Analyst
10 8 (3.77%) SAP Manager
11 7 (3.30%) Architect
11 7 (3.30%) SAP Programme Manager
12 6 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (2.83%) Digital Programme Manager
12 6 (2.83%) Senior Programme Manager
13 5 (2.36%) PMO Lead
13 5 (2.36%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.83%) Middleware
3 4 (1.89%) XML
4 2 (0.94%) ADO
4 2 (0.94%) SOAP
4 2 (0.94%) Terraform
5 1 (0.47%) .NET
5 1 (0.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.47%) REST
5 1 (0.47%) Spring
5 1 (0.47%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.47%) Web Services
5 1 (0.47%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.43%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.25%) FMCG
3 8 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.89%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.42%) Life Science
8 3 (1.42%) NHS
8 3 (1.42%) PMI
9 2 (0.94%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.94%) Derivative
9 2 (0.94%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.94%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Windows
2 2 (0.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (59.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 69 (32.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 66 (31.13%) Agile
4 56 (26.42%) Programme Delivery
5 51 (24.06%) Roadmaps
6 46 (21.70%) Migration
7 45 (21.23%) Decision-Making
8 44 (20.75%) Project Management
9 42 (19.81%) Programme Management
9 42 (19.81%) Risk Management
10 41 (19.34%) Project Delivery
11 38 (17.92%) PRINCE2
12 36 (16.98%) Change Management
13 32 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (13.21%) ERP
15 25 (11.79%) Technology Transformation
16 22 (10.38%) DevOps
17 21 (9.91%) Data Migration
18 19 (8.96%) AI
18 19 (8.96%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.25%) SQL
2 4 (1.89%) Java
3 2 (0.94%) Korn
3 2 (0.94%) Python
4 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.43%) PMP
2 20 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.49%) PMI Certification
4 17 (8.02%) Degree
5 9 (4.25%) CISSP
6 8 (3.77%) CISM
7 6 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.42%) RIBA
9 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.94%) ISACA
9 2 (0.94%) PgMP
9 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.47%) CSPO
10 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (21.70%) PMO
2 21 (9.91%) QA
3 13 (6.13%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.89%) GRC
6 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 3 (1.42%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) P3O
6 3 (1.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.94%) NCSC
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.47%) GAAP
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS
8 1 (0.47%) ITGC
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.47%) Ansible
2 1 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 33 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.74%) SAP
3 17 (8.02%) Oracle
4 9 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.30%) Workday
6 5 (2.36%) Databricks
6 5 (2.36%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.42%) Ariba
7 3 (1.42%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.42%) Intapp
8 2 (0.94%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (0.94%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.94%) Charles River
8 2 (0.94%) Citrix
8 2 (0.94%) Temenos
9 1 (0.47%) FIS
9 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.47%) IFS
9 1 (0.47%) Pega