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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 322 377
Rank change year-on-year +52 +55 +78
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 136 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 9 16
10th Percentile £400 £373 £470
25th Percentile £475 £406 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year - -1.23% -6.18%
75th Percentile £800 £713 £722
90th Percentile £925 £805 £831
England median daily rate £550 £550 £581
% change year-on-year - -5.38% -3.13%
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 16,137 11,264 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.21% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,779 7,595 11,054
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 182 310
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.67 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% +13.83% -29.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.23 £66.78
England median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%

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 May 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 May 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 -6 12 £475 +15.15% 14
West London -26 3 £680 -
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 6 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.21%) CMS
2 3 (2.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.50%) Azure
2 8 (5.88%) AWS
3 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.21%) GCP
5 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.21%) SaaS
5 3 (2.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.74%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.74%) OCI
7 1 (0.74%) Serverless
7 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) Network Security
2 2 (1.47%) Firewall
2 2 (1.47%) LAN
2 2 (1.47%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) 5G
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.21%) Power BI
1 3 (2.21%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.47%) Metadata
3 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 9 (6.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) Hudson
General
1 70 (51.47%) Finance
2 37 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.50%) Retail
4 13 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.56%) Legal
4 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.09%) Marketing
6 7 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Banking
7 5 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Local Government
8 4 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.21%) Billing
9 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Advertising
10 2 (1.47%) Back Office
10 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.47%) Law
10 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (32.35%) Programme Manager
2 20 (14.71%) Lead
3 19 (13.97%) Project Manager
4 14 (10.29%) Analyst
4 14 (10.29%) Senior
5 13 (9.56%) Programme Director
6 12 (8.82%) Senior Manager
7 9 (6.62%) PMO Analyst
7 9 (6.62%) Technical Manager
8 8 (5.88%) Technical Programme Manager
9 6 (4.41%) PMO Manager
10 5 (3.68%) Senior Project Manager
11 4 (2.94%) Consultant
11 4 (2.94%) SAP Manager
11 4 (2.94%) SAP Programme Manager
11 4 (2.94%) Senior Programme Manager
11 4 (2.94%) Transformation Manager
12 3 (2.21%) Finance Manager
12 3 (2.21%) IT Analyst
12 3 (2.21%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.21%) Middleware
2 3 (2.21%) XML
3 2 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.74%) REST
4 1 (0.74%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.88%) FMCG
3 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.41%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.94%) IoT
6 4 (2.94%) PropTech
7 3 (2.21%) CMDB
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.21%) Life Science
8 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.47%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.74%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (46.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 46 (33.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 37 (27.21%) Agile
4 31 (22.79%) Migration
4 31 (22.79%) Roadmaps
5 27 (19.85%) Programme Delivery
6 26 (19.12%) Programme Management
6 26 (19.12%) Project Management
7 24 (17.65%) Risk Management
8 23 (16.91%) PRINCE2
9 21 (15.44%) Decision-Making
10 20 (14.71%) ERP
11 19 (13.97%) Project Delivery
12 17 (12.50%) Change Management
12 17 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.56%) AI
13 13 (9.56%) Change Control
13 13 (9.56%) DevOps
14 12 (8.82%) Data Migration
15 11 (8.09%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.21%) SQL
2 2 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (1.47%) Korn
2 2 (1.47%) Python
3 1 (0.74%) Bicep
3 1 (0.74%) Java
3 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.82%) Degree
3 11 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.35%) PMP
5 8 (5.88%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.94%) RIBA
7 3 (2.21%) CISSP
8 2 (1.47%) CISM
8 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) MBA
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.85%) PMO
2 14 (10.29%) QA
3 10 (7.35%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.41%) GRC
5 5 (3.68%) SLA
6 4 (2.94%) GDPR
7 2 (1.47%) P3O
8 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.74%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.74%) NCSC
8 1 (0.74%) NIST
8 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.74%) SEPA
8 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.74%) QRadar
1 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.82%) SAP
3 9 (6.62%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.15%) Oracle
4 7 (5.15%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.21%) Databricks
5 3 (2.21%) Intapp
5 3 (2.21%) Planview
5 3 (2.21%) Workday
6 2 (1.47%) Progress
6 2 (1.47%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.74%) Avaya
7 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco
7 1 (0.74%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.74%) Genesys
7 1 (0.74%) Google
7 1 (0.74%) IBM
7 1 (0.74%) PTC
7 1 (0.74%) VMware