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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 519 604
Rank change year-on-year +59 +85 +53
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 74 66 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 61
10th Percentile £396 £411 £400
25th Percentile £475 £465 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +5.45% +0.82%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £650
90th Percentile £753 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
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 27,864 36,803 49,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 85.25% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,568 23,445 34,342
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,367 2,552 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.40 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.91 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 30 June 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 15 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 30 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
England +66 67 £599 -4.16% 81
UK excluding London +42 43 £550 +10.00% 34
Work from Home +55 40 £550 +4.76% 24
London +51 24 £644 -0.96% 45
North of England +11 13 £570 -15.86% 9
South East +51 10 £650 +39.78% 10
South West +46 8 £550 -26.67% 3
Midlands +12 8 £525 +14.13% 10
West Midlands +8 7 £525 - 6
North West +10 6 £413 -37.02% 1
Yorkshire +7 6 £600 -14.29% 6
East of England +27 2 £775 -
Scotland 0 2 £500 - 3
East Midlands +3 1 £450 -2.17% 4
North East - 1 - - 2

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 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) Smallworld
Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (2.70%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (2.70%) SAP ERP
3 2 (2.70%) Teamcenter
4 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.16%) Azure
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.76%) SaaS
4 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.35%) AWS
6 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.35%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.35%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) OCI
6 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Firewall
1 1 (1.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Power BI
2 2 (2.70%) GIS
2 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
General
1 43 (58.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (39.19%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (14.86%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (10.81%) Legal
6 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.76%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.41%) Publishing
9 3 (4.05%) Banking
9 3 (4.05%) Front Office
9 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.70%) Electronics
10 2 (2.70%) Marketing
11 1 (1.35%) Back Office
11 1 (1.35%) Billing
11 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.35%) Local Government
11 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Programme Manager
2 14 (18.92%) Lead
3 13 (17.57%) Project Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Senior
5 7 (9.46%) Senior Manager
6 6 (8.11%) Programme Director
7 5 (6.76%) Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) PMO Lead
8 4 (5.41%) Change Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Commercial Manager
8 4 (5.41%) Project Planner
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Business Change Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Risk Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Security Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Service Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.70%) Node.js
2 1 (1.35%) ADO
2 1 (1.35%) Middleware
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.11%) Operational Technology
3 5 (6.76%) PMI
4 4 (5.41%) Market Risk
5 3 (4.05%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.35%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.35%) Derivative
7 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) Project Delivery
2 25 (33.78%) Agile
2 25 (33.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (27.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 18 (24.32%) Project Management
5 17 (22.97%) Risk Management
6 16 (21.62%) Change Management
6 16 (21.62%) PRINCE2
7 14 (18.92%) Programme Management
7 14 (18.92%) Waterfall
8 11 (14.86%) Budget Management
8 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (13.51%) DevOps
9 10 (13.51%) ERP
9 10 (13.51%) Programme Delivery
9 10 (13.51%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.46%) Cyber Resilience
11 6 (8.11%) Change Control
11 6 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.70%) Java
2 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Degree
1 16 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.92%) PMI Certification
4 11 (14.86%) PMP
5 5 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.70%) HNC
7 2 (2.70%) HND
8 1 (1.35%) APMG
8 1 (1.35%) APMP
8 1 (1.35%) CFA
8 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.35%) MAPM
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.32%) PMO
2 4 (5.41%) GDPR
3 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.05%) NIST
4 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.35%) Basel III
5 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.35%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
2 1 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) SAP
3 5 (6.76%) Oracle
4 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.05%) Ariba
6 1 (1.35%) AlgoSec
6 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.35%) Databricks
6 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.35%) eFront
6 1 (1.35%) ESRI
6 1 (1.35%) HP
6 1 (1.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.35%) Spotify
6 1 (1.35%) Workday