Programme Governance Contracts

Programme Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 464 501 620
Rank change year-on-year +37 +119 +34
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 56 81 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 54 77
10th Percentile £405 £400 £382
25th Percentile £509 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £738
90th Percentile £823 £736 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +22.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £44.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £44.74 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Programme Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Programme Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Governance in the UK

Programme Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Governance in the UK

Programme Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Governance over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Governance in the UK

Programme Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Governance.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Governance in the UK

Programme Governance
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +45 49 £600 +7.87% 42
Work from Home +46 35 £650 +30.00% 30
UK excluding London +39 31 £613 +22.50% 25
London +33 18 £550 - 18
South East +46 13 £650 +39.78% 4
Midlands +20 7 £525 +22.09% 4
West Midlands +13 7 £525 +31.25% 2
South West +50 5 £506 -32.50% 4
North of England +10 4 £635 -3.04% 13
Yorkshire +8 2 £635 +0.59% 1
East of England +29 1 £775 - 1
North West +7 1 - - 11
Scotland -2 1 £600 +23.08% 1
North East - 1 - - 1

Programme Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (3.57%) OneDrive
2 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.79%) AWS
3 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.79%) Azure API Management
3 1 (1.79%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.79%) SaaS
3 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.79%) GIS
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) GCC
General
1 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Finance
3 14 (25.00%) Legal
4 8 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Local Government
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Back Office
7 1 (1.79%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Billing
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Programme Manager
2 13 (23.21%) Lead
3 9 (16.07%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.71%) Analyst
4 6 (10.71%) Commercial Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Senior
6 4 (7.14%) Change Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) PMO Lead
6 4 (7.14%) SAP Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Business Change Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Commercial Project Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Migration Manager
7 3 (5.36%) SAP Programme Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Security Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Programme Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) ADO
1 1 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.71%) Operational Technology
3 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.93%) PMI
4 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.79%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (28.57%) Agile
3 15 (26.79%) Project Delivery
3 15 (26.79%) Project Management
4 12 (21.43%) PRINCE2
5 10 (17.86%) Change Management
5 10 (17.86%) Programme Management
6 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 7 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
7 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.71%) Budget Management
8 6 (10.71%) Change Control
8 6 (10.71%) ERP
8 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.93%) Contract Negotiation
9 5 (8.93%) Resource Management
9 5 (8.93%) Waterfall
10 4 (7.14%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) PMI Certification
2 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) Degree
3 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.50%) PMP
5 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.79%) APMP
6 1 (1.79%) CFA
6 1 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) MAPM
6 1 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) NIST
2 1 (1.79%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.79%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
1 9 (16.07%) SAP
2 1 (1.79%) AlgoSec
2 1 (1.79%) Databricks
2 1 (1.79%) eFront
2 1 (1.79%) ESRI
2 1 (1.79%) HP
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle
2 1 (1.79%) Spotify
2 1 (1.79%) Wrike