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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 339 368
Rank change year-on-year +22 +29 +119
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 64 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 8 15
10th Percentile £463 £422 £456
25th Percentile £506 £516 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £574 £608
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -5.56% +9.21%
75th Percentile £810 £675 £663
90th Percentile £894 £926 £745
England median daily rate £600 £600 £518
% change year-on-year - +15.94% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £44.08 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% - -
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 £44.08 £44.74
% change year-on-year +109.85% -1.48% -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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +1 14 £701 +27.41% 4
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 (7.81%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) Maximo
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
3 9 (14.06%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.81%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.56%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.56%) LAN
2 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.56%) WAN
2 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Power BI
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 32 (50.00%) Finance
2 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Banking
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Law
4 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Police
5 3 (4.69%) Back Office
5 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Retail Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Local Government
6 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 2 (3.13%) Publishing
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 2 (3.13%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Programme Manager
2 10 (15.63%) Lead
3 8 (12.50%) Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) PMO Lead
4 6 (9.38%) Programme Director
5 5 (7.81%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (4.69%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) PMO Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.69%) Security Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Data Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.13%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Report Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) ADO
1 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) FMCG
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.13%) PMI
5 1 (1.56%) CMDB
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Android
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
1 1 (1.56%) VMS
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (39.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (31.25%) Agile
4 15 (23.44%) Change Management
4 15 (23.44%) Decision-Making
5 13 (20.31%) PRINCE2
5 13 (20.31%) Roadmaps
6 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.19%) Programme Management
7 11 (17.19%) Project Management
7 11 (17.19%) Risk Management
8 10 (15.63%) Migration
9 9 (14.06%) Change Control
10 8 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (10.94%) Cloud Security
11 7 (10.94%) Programme Delivery
11 7 (10.94%) Waterfall
12 6 (9.38%) CRM
12 6 (9.38%) DevOps
12 6 (9.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.25%) Korn
2 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (3.13%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) Bicep
3 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
1 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 6 (9.38%) PMP
4 4 (6.25%) Degree
5 2 (3.13%) CISSP
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) CISM
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) PMO
2 6 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.25%) GRC
3 4 (6.25%) NCSC
4 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 3 (4.69%) QA
4 3 (4.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.13%) GDPR
5 2 (3.13%) NIST
5 2 (3.13%) P3O
6 1 (1.56%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.56%) RACF
1 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.56%) QRadar
1 1 (1.56%) RSA Archer
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.69%) Planview
5 2 (3.13%) Workday
6 1 (1.56%) Avaya
6 1 (1.56%) Carbon Black
6 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.56%) Monzo
6 1 (1.56%) Okta
6 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.56%) Qualys
6 1 (1.56%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk
6 1 (1.56%) Tenable
6 1 (1.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Zopa