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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 335 372
Rank change year-on-year +81 +37 +73
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 195 30 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 21 11
10th Percentile £405 £300 £419
25th Percentile £475 £406 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £622 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -11.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £775 £713 £800
90th Percentile £945 £750 £819
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.12 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 - £44.74

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 21 £595 +22.37% 6
West London -7 9 £680 - 1
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 9 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.56%) CMS
3 3 (1.54%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.03%) Finacle
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.03%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.51%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.51%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.51%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.28%) Azure
2 12 (6.15%) AWS
3 11 (5.64%) SaaS
4 8 (4.10%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.56%) OCI
7 4 (2.05%) GCP
8 3 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.51%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.51%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.51%) 5G
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) LAN
2 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.59%) Power BI
2 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.54%) Metadata
2 3 (1.54%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.51%) OLAP
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.15%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) Hudson
General
1 106 (54.36%) Finance
2 60 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.77%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.77%) Retail
4 17 (8.72%) Legal
5 15 (7.69%) Banking
6 14 (7.18%) Marketing
7 13 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.59%) Local Government
9 7 (3.59%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.05%) Aviation
10 4 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.05%) Law
10 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.54%) Front Office
11 3 (1.54%) Police
12 2 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 59 (30.26%) Programme Manager
2 31 (15.90%) Project Manager
3 26 (13.33%) Lead
4 20 (10.26%) Senior
5 16 (8.21%) Programme Director
6 12 (6.15%) Senior Manager
7 11 (5.64%) Analyst
8 10 (5.13%) Consultant
8 10 (5.13%) Technical Manager
8 10 (5.13%) Transformation Manager
9 8 (4.10%) PMO Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Technical Programme Manager
10 7 (3.59%) SAP Manager
11 6 (3.08%) PMO Manager
11 6 (3.08%) SAP Programme Manager
12 5 (2.56%) Architect
12 5 (2.56%) Digital Programme Manager
12 5 (2.56%) PMO Lead
12 5 (2.56%) Senior Project Manager
13 4 (2.05%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.56%) Middleware
3 3 (1.54%) XML
4 2 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.51%) ADO
5 1 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.51%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.51%) SOAP
5 1 (0.51%) Spring
5 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.62%) FMCG
2 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.05%) IoT
6 4 (2.05%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.05%) PropTech
7 3 (1.54%) Life Science
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.03%) CMDB
8 2 (1.03%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.03%) NHS
8 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (53.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 65 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 57 (29.23%) Agile
4 49 (25.13%) Migration
5 46 (23.59%) Programme Delivery
6 45 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 39 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 35 (17.95%) Decision-Making
8 35 (17.95%) Programme Management
8 35 (17.95%) Project Delivery
9 34 (17.44%) Change Management
9 34 (17.44%) Project Management
10 29 (14.87%) ERP
10 29 (14.87%) PRINCE2
11 25 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (11.28%) Data Migration
13 21 (10.77%) Technology Transformation
14 20 (10.26%) DevOps
15 18 (9.23%) Change Control
16 16 (8.21%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.10%) SQL
2 3 (1.54%) Java
2 3 (1.54%) Korn
3 2 (1.03%) Python
4 1 (0.51%) Ruby
4 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.18%) Degree
4 12 (6.15%) PMP
5 10 (5.13%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.56%) CISSP
7 4 (2.05%) CISM
7 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.05%) RIBA
8 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.51%) MBA
10 1 (0.51%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.51%) PMO
2 24 (12.31%) QA
3 12 (6.15%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.59%) GRC
5 6 (3.08%) SLA
6 4 (2.05%) GDPR
7 3 (1.54%) P3O
8 1 (0.51%) GAAP
8 1 (0.51%) GxP
8 1 (0.51%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.51%) IFRS
8 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.51%) ITGC
8 1 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.51%) NIST
8 1 (0.51%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.51%) SEPA
8 1 (0.51%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Ansible
1 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.51%) QRadar
1 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.51%) Terraform
1 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 26 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.82%) SAP
3 17 (8.72%) Oracle
4 9 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.08%) Workday
6 5 (2.56%) Databricks
7 3 (1.54%) Intapp
7 3 (1.54%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.03%) Ariba
8 2 (1.03%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.03%) Citrix
8 2 (1.03%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.03%) Google
8 2 (1.03%) Progress
8 2 (1.03%) Temenos
9 1 (0.51%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.51%) Fiserv
9 1 (0.51%) Planview
9 1 (0.51%) Qualys