Programme Governance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Programme Governance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 348 387
Rank change year-on-year +42 +39 +57
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 36 52 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 43
10th Percentile £362 £383 £304
25th Percentile £502 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £650
90th Percentile £779 £721 £975
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £558
% change year-on-year - -1.35% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £44.74 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.74 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,769 17,348 20,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.60% 83.29% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,314 10,293 13,934
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 861 2,136 1,244
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.45 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -24.62% +0.69% +41.16%

Programme Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Programme Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Governance in the UK excluding London

Programme Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Governance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Programme Governance in the UK excluding London

Programme Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Governance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Governance in the UK excluding London

Programme Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Governance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Governance in the UK excluding London

Programme Governance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South East +48 9 £650 +39.78% 59
South West +48 9 £525 -30.00% 32
West Midlands +18 8 £525 +31.25% 27
Midlands +8 8 £525 +22.09% 50
North of England +8 6 £481 -26.52% 55
North West +2 3 £348 -44.52% 27
East of England +31 2 £775 - 37
Yorkshire +12 2 £635 -9.29% 22
Scotland -5 2 £500 +8.70% 12
North East - 1 - - 6
Programme Governance
UK

Programme Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.56%) Windchill
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.56%) Teamcenter
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.78%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) SaaS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
3 1 (2.78%) Datadog
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) OCI
3 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.78%) GIS
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.78%) GCC
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Legal
3 6 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Local Government
6 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Electronics
6 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Publishing
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Programme Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Change Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Commercial Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Business Change Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Commercial Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Project Planner
5 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Author
6 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Manager
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Author
6 2 (5.56%) Workstream Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Management Information System
2 6 (16.67%) Operational Technology
3 5 (13.89%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.33%) PMI
5 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.78%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Project Delivery
2 13 (36.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (30.56%) Project Management
4 10 (27.78%) Change Management
5 8 (22.22%) Agile
5 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (22.22%) Programme Management
6 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
7 6 (16.67%) ERP
7 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (11.11%) Business Analysis
9 4 (11.11%) Business Change Management
9 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.11%) Critical Path Analysis
9 4 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
9 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 4 (11.11%) DevOps
9 4 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
10 3 (8.33%) Dependency Management
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.56%) HNC
4 2 (5.56%) HND
4 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.78%) APMG
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) PMO
2 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Grafana
1 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) SAP
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) AlgoSec
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.78%) ESRI
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Spotify