Project Governance Contracts in the Thames Valley

Project Governance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Project Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Governance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 136 117
Rank change year-on-year +49 -19 +12
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 15 9 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.99% 0.34% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.38% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 25
10th Percentile £149 £276 £350
25th Percentile £339 £406 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +4.55% +19.57%
75th Percentile £607 £594 £588
90th Percentile £632 £625 £800
South East median daily rate £463 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -17.78% +2.27% +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Project 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Project Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Project Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Project Governance in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Governance in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Project Governance in the Thames Valley

Project Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Governance in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Governance in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Governance in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Project Governance in the Thames Valley

Project Governance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Governance within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +34 10 £463 -19.57% 3
Oxfordshire +7 4 £525 +87.84% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Project Governance
South East

Project Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle CX
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Coordinator
3 3 (20.00%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (13.33%) OSS Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Service Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Smart Metering Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Life Science
1 3 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) PMI
2 1 (6.67%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
1 8 (53.33%) Project Delivery
1 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) Budgeting
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Deadline-Driven
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Project Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Register
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Time Management
4 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (13.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) PMO
2 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Cramer
2 2 (13.33%) Infoblox
2 2 (13.33%) Remedy
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle