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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 324 358
Rank change year-on-year +70 +34 +54
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 212 45 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 0.34% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.36% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 33 16
10th Percentile £435 £315 £438
25th Percentile £525 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £723 £725 £791
90th Percentile £920 £791 £809
England median daily rate £595 £573 £586
% change year-on-year +3.84% -2.35% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £44.08
England median hourly rate £69.75 - £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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £663 £675
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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 27 £600 +7.14% 20
West London -5 13 £680 - 2
East London - 1 £775 -
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 7 (3.30%) CMS
1 7 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.94%) Apache
2 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.94%) Confluence
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.47%) nginx
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.13%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.42%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.94%) Finacle
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.94%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.94%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.47%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.47%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.47%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.38%) Azure
2 15 (7.08%) AWS
3 11 (5.19%) SaaS
4 8 (3.77%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.36%) OCI
6 4 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.89%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.42%) GCP
7 3 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.47%) Asana
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.36%) Network Security
2 1 (0.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.47%) LAN
2 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.25%) Metadata
2 7 (3.30%) Power BI
3 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.47%) OLAP
6 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (0.94%) eggPlant
2 2 (0.94%) Selenium
2 2 (0.94%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.47%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.47%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (0.47%) SilkTest
3 1 (0.47%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.47%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 116 (54.72%) Finance
2 85 (40.09%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.21%) Banking
4 27 (12.74%) Public Sector
5 24 (11.32%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (8.49%) Legal
8 15 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (5.66%) Marketing
10 11 (5.19%) Manufacturing
10 11 (5.19%) Retail
11 8 (3.77%) Local Government
12 6 (2.83%) Front Office
12 6 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.36%) Aviation
13 5 (2.36%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.89%) Law
14 4 (1.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (26.89%) Programme Manager
2 45 (21.23%) Project Manager
3 33 (15.57%) Lead
4 23 (10.85%) Senior
5 15 (7.08%) Transformation Manager
6 12 (5.66%) Programme Director
6 12 (5.66%) Senior Manager
7 8 (3.77%) Analyst
7 8 (3.77%) Consultant
7 8 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (3.77%) Digital Programme Manager
7 8 (3.77%) Technical Manager
8 7 (3.30%) Architect
8 7 (3.30%) Engineering Manager
8 7 (3.30%) Transformation Programme Manager
9 6 (2.83%) Data Manager
9 6 (2.83%) Development Manager
9 6 (2.83%) Senior Programme Manager
9 6 (2.83%) Senior Project Manager
9 6 (2.83%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.42%) .NET
2 3 (1.42%) Middleware
2 3 (1.42%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) ADO
3 2 (0.94%) Web Services
4 1 (0.47%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.47%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.47%) HTML
4 1 (0.47%) Kafka
4 1 (0.47%) PySpark
4 1 (0.47%) React
4 1 (0.47%) SOAP
4 1 (0.47%) Spring
4 1 (0.47%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.47%) Vue
4 1 (0.47%) WPF
4 1 (0.47%) XBRL
4 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.02%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.83%) FMCG
5 6 (2.83%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.89%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.42%) Derivative
8 3 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.42%) NHS
8 3 (1.42%) PMI
8 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.94%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.94%) Life Science
9 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
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
1 147 (69.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 64 (30.19%) Agile
3 62 (29.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 60 (28.30%) Roadmaps
5 53 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 53 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
6 52 (24.53%) Risk Management
7 50 (23.58%) Project Management
8 46 (21.70%) Change Management
8 46 (21.70%) Migration
9 45 (21.23%) Programme Management
10 39 (18.40%) PRINCE2
10 39 (18.40%) Project Delivery
11 35 (16.51%) Technology Transformation
12 29 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (12.74%) ERP
14 24 (11.32%) Data Migration
14 24 (11.32%) Dependency Management
15 21 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (9.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.72%) SQL
2 4 (1.89%) Java
2 4 (1.89%) Python
3 2 (0.94%) Korn
4 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.79%) PMP
3 21 (9.91%) PMI Certification
3 21 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.49%) Degree
5 10 (4.72%) CISSP
6 9 (4.25%) CISM
7 7 (3.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.83%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.94%) ISACA
10 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.94%) PgMP
10 2 (0.94%) RIBA
10 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CAPM
11 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (19.81%) PMO
2 18 (8.49%) QA
3 17 (8.02%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.83%) GDPR
5 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.42%) GRC
6 3 (1.42%) NCSC
6 3 (1.42%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) P3O
7 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.47%) GAAP
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) ITGC
8 1 (0.47%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Docker
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 36 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.32%) SAP
3 18 (8.49%) Oracle
4 10 (4.72%) Databricks
5 9 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.77%) Workday
7 6 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.36%) Ariba
8 5 (2.36%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.94%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (0.94%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.94%) Charles River
9 2 (0.94%) Citrix
9 2 (0.94%) Google
9 2 (0.94%) Temenos
10 1 (0.47%) IFS
10 1 (0.47%) Pega
10 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) WSO2