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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 335 366
Rank change year-on-year +53 +31 +96
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 127 16 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 7 13
10th Percentile £400 £382 £453
25th Percentile £475 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.06%
75th Percentile £825 £738 £611
90th Percentile £925 £948 £690
England median daily rate £570 £613 £581
% change year-on-year -6.94% +5.38% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £33.73 - -
25th Percentile £34.65 - -
Median hourly rate £36.81 - -
75th Percentile £39.59 - -
90th Percentile £40.89 - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 - £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 15,277 11,605 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.33% 91.50% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,260 7,873 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 169 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -4 12 £676 +22.86% 9
West London -20 2 £505 -
South London - 1 £400 -
East London - 1 £500 -
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 (3.94%) Confluence
2 4 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.39%) Azure
2 10 (7.87%) AWS
3 5 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.15%) GCP
4 4 (3.15%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.36%) SaaS
6 2 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.79%) OCI
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
7 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) 5G
1 1 (0.79%) DNS
1 1 (0.79%) Firewall
1 1 (0.79%) LAN
1 1 (0.79%) Network Security
1 1 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.79%) WAN
1 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.15%) Power BI
2 3 (2.36%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.79%) Metadata
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 12 (9.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Hudson
General
1 64 (50.39%) Finance
2 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Retail
4 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.45%) Legal
6 10 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.51%) Marketing
8 6 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.94%) Banking
9 5 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.94%) Police
10 4 (3.15%) Back Office
11 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.36%) Law
11 3 (2.36%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.57%) Local Government
12 2 (1.57%) Publishing
12 2 (1.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (33.86%) Programme Manager
2 19 (14.96%) Lead
3 15 (11.81%) Programme Director
4 14 (11.02%) Project Manager
5 13 (10.24%) Analyst
6 12 (9.45%) Senior
7 10 (7.87%) Senior Manager
8 8 (6.30%) Technical Manager
9 7 (5.51%) PMO Analyst
9 7 (5.51%) Technical Programme Manager
10 5 (3.94%) Consultant
10 5 (3.94%) PMO Manager
11 4 (3.15%) Architect
11 4 (3.15%) PMO Lead
11 4 (3.15%) SAP Manager
11 4 (3.15%) SAP Programme Manager
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Programme Manager
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Project Manager
12 3 (2.36%) IT Analyst
12 3 (2.36%) PMO Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.36%) Middleware
2 3 (2.36%) XML
3 2 (1.57%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.79%) REST
4 1 (0.79%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.45%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.72%) FMCG
2 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.94%) IoT
4 4 (3.15%) PropTech
5 3 (2.36%) CMDB
5 3 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.57%) Life Science
6 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
7 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Android
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) VMS
1 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (46.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (32.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 30 (23.62%) Migration
4 29 (22.83%) Agile
5 24 (18.90%) Roadmaps
6 22 (17.32%) Programme Management
7 21 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (16.54%) Risk Management
8 20 (15.75%) Programme Delivery
9 19 (14.96%) Project Management
10 18 (14.17%) Decision-Making
10 18 (14.17%) ERP
10 18 (14.17%) PRINCE2
11 16 (12.60%) Change Management
12 14 (11.02%) Project Delivery
13 13 (10.24%) Change Control
14 11 (8.66%) Data Migration
15 10 (7.87%) Data Governance
15 10 (7.87%) DevOps
16 9 (7.09%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.36%) SQL
2 2 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.79%) Bicep
3 1 (0.79%) Korn
3 1 (0.79%) Python
3 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.51%) Degree
4 6 (4.72%) PMI Certification
4 6 (4.72%) PMP
5 4 (3.15%) RIBA
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.79%) MBA
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.75%) PMO
2 11 (8.66%) QA
3 8 (6.30%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.51%) GRC
5 5 (3.94%) SLA
6 4 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.36%) GDPR
7 3 (2.36%) NCSC
8 2 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.79%) NIST
9 1 (0.79%) P3O
9 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.79%) SEPA
9 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.79%) RACF
1 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) QRadar
1 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) SAP
3 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.94%) Oracle
4 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.36%) Intapp
5 3 (2.36%) Planview
5 3 (2.36%) Workday
6 2 (1.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.79%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.79%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.79%) Monzo
7 1 (0.79%) Okta
7 1 (0.79%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.79%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.79%) Tenable
7 1 (0.79%) Zopa