Programme Governance Contracts in the North West

Programme Governance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Programme Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Governance over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 123 150
Rank change year-on-year +2 +27 +18
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 6 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.28% 0.33% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.39% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £329 £440 £450
25th Percentile £346 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £655 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +30.99% -4.76%
75th Percentile £475 £740 £566
90th Percentile £485 £746 £663
England median daily rate £585 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -6.48% +6.38% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £44.74 -
England median hourly rate - £44.74 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,900 2,282 2,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.00% 84.30% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,397 1,915
10th Percentile £296 £300 £307
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
75th Percentile £570 £582 £588
90th Percentile £669 £672 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 255 159
10th Percentile £13.36 £11.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £15.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.85% +21.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.20 £67.14 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

Programme Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Programme Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Governance in the North West

Programme Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Governance in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Programme Governance in the North West

Programme Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Governance in the North West over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Governance in the North West

Programme Governance
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 14 July 2025. 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
Cheshire -7 4 £463 -7.50%
Lancashire -3 1 - - 1
Manchester - 1 £363 - 2
Programme Governance
England

Programme Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) SaaS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Publishing
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Service Transition Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Transition Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
2 4 (66.67%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Release Management
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Service Design
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) Test Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) AlgoSec
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP