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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 330 373
Rank change year-on-year +48 +43 +66
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 131 18 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 9 15
10th Percentile £400 £373 £456
25th Percentile £475 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £825 £738 £656
90th Percentile £925 £905 £838
England median daily rate £550 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.23% +5.68%
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 £40.50 - £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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 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 21 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 -5 12 £676 +40.42% 9
West London -22 3 £680 -
South London - 1 £400 -
East London - 1 £500 - 1
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 4 (3.05%) Confluence
1 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.53%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.98%) Azure
2 8 (6.11%) AWS
3 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.05%) GCP
5 3 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.29%) SaaS
5 3 (2.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (2.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.76%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.76%) OCI
6 1 (0.76%) Serverless
6 1 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) 5G
1 1 (0.76%) DNS
1 1 (0.76%) Firewall
1 1 (0.76%) LAN
1 1 (0.76%) Network Security
1 1 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.76%) WAN
1 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.29%) Power BI
1 3 (2.29%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.76%) Metadata
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.76%) Hudson
General
1 67 (51.15%) Finance
2 33 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.45%) Retail
4 12 (9.16%) Legal
4 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.87%) Marketing
7 7 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Banking
8 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.05%) Back Office
10 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Local Government
10 3 (2.29%) Police
10 3 (2.29%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.53%) Billing
11 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.53%) Publishing
11 2 (1.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Programme Manager
2 19 (14.50%) Lead
3 16 (12.21%) Programme Director
4 14 (10.69%) Project Manager
5 13 (9.92%) Analyst
5 13 (9.92%) Senior
6 11 (8.40%) Senior Manager
7 8 (6.11%) Technical Manager
8 7 (5.34%) PMO Analyst
8 7 (5.34%) Technical Programme Manager
9 5 (3.82%) Consultant
9 5 (3.82%) PMO Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Architect
10 4 (3.05%) SAP Manager
10 4 (3.05%) SAP Programme Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Programme Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Transformation Manager
11 3 (2.29%) Finance Manager
11 3 (2.29%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.29%) Middleware
2 3 (2.29%) XML
3 2 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.76%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.58%) FMCG
4 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.82%) IoT
4 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.05%) PropTech
6 3 (2.29%) CMDB
6 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.53%) Life Science
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.76%) NHS
8 1 (0.76%) PMI
8 1 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Android
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
1 1 (0.76%) VMS
1 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (32.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 32 (24.43%) Migration
4 31 (23.66%) Agile
5 28 (21.37%) Roadmaps
6 24 (18.32%) Programme Management
7 22 (16.79%) Programme Delivery
7 22 (16.79%) Risk Management
8 20 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (15.27%) Project Management
9 19 (14.50%) ERP
10 18 (13.74%) Decision-Making
11 17 (12.98%) Change Management
11 17 (12.98%) PRINCE2
12 14 (10.69%) Project Delivery
13 13 (9.92%) Change Control
14 12 (9.16%) Data Migration
14 12 (9.16%) DevOps
15 11 (8.40%) Data Governance
16 9 (6.87%) AI
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.29%) SQL
2 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (1.53%) Korn
3 1 (0.76%) Bicep
3 1 (0.76%) Python
3 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
3 7 (5.34%) PMP
4 6 (4.58%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.05%) RIBA
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) MBA
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.27%) PMO
2 12 (9.16%) QA
3 9 (6.87%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.34%) GRC
5 5 (3.82%) SLA
6 3 (2.29%) GDPR
7 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.76%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.76%) NIST
8 1 (0.76%) P3O
8 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.76%) SEPA
8 1 (0.76%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.76%) RACF
1 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.76%) QRadar
1 1 (0.76%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
1 11 (8.40%) SAP
2 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.58%) Oracle
3 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.29%) Intapp
4 3 (2.29%) Planview
4 3 (2.29%) Workday
5 2 (1.53%) Databricks
6 1 (0.76%) Carbon Black
6 1 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.76%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.76%) Monzo
6 1 (0.76%) Okta
6 1 (0.76%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.76%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.76%) Tenable
6 1 (0.76%) Zopa