Project Governance Contracts

Project Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 406 367
Rank change year-on-year +71 -39 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 219 170 352
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.46% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 123 240
10th Percentile £306 £362 £362
25th Percentile £400 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £605
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -0.26% -6.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £66.75 - £31.89
25th Percentile £70.00 - £33.91
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £40.02
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -12.53% +136.36%
75th Percentile - - £49.06
90th Percentile £75.50 - £51.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £40.02
% change year-on-year +114.29% -12.53% +136.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
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% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Project Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Governance over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Governance in the UK

Project Governance
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +92 187 £500 -4.76% 245
UK excluding London +75 121 £488 -0.26% 102
London +63 83 £525 -9.87% 166
Work from Home +30 61 £475 -9.38% 93
South East +46 34 £481 -23.00% 26
North of England +23 31 £431 -14.81% 11
Midlands +24 19 £575 +25.68% 13
West Midlands +20 16 £581 +27.05% 10
Yorkshire +15 16 £500 -2.44% 4
South West +18 14 £450 -3.23% 13
Scotland +8 14 £525 +16.67% 15
North West +6 10 £400 -17.95% 6
East of England +31 6 £350 -36.36% 15
Wales +5 5 £488 -2.99% 7
North East - 5 £250 - 1
East Midlands +6 3 £400 - 3

Project 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 10 (4.57%) Confluence
1 10 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.46%) CICS
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 29 (13.24%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (11.42%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (5.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.83%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.91%) Actimize
4 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.91%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.91%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.46%) Endur
5 1 (0.46%) Epicor iScala
5 1 (0.46%) HFM
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.46%) Shopify
5 1 (0.46%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.02%) Azure
2 8 (3.65%) AWS
2 8 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (3.20%) SaaS
4 6 (2.74%) Smartsheet
5 4 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.91%) Asana
8 1 (0.46%) BigCommerce
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.46%) GCP
8 1 (0.46%) IaaS
8 1 (0.46%) OCI
8 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.37%) Firewall
1 3 (1.37%) WAN
1 3 (1.37%) Wireless
2 2 (0.91%) 5G
2 2 (0.91%) DHCP
2 2 (0.91%) DNS
2 2 (0.91%) MPLS
3 1 (0.46%) LAN
3 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.83%) Big Data
1 4 (1.83%) Power BI
1 4 (1.83%) Star Schema
2 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
2 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.46%) Easytrieve
3 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.46%) IDMS
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.46%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 21 (9.59%) JIRA
General
1 116 (52.97%) Finance
2 114 (52.05%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.33%) Banking
4 22 (10.05%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.76%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.85%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.57%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.57%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.11%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.65%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.20%) Legal
11 7 (3.20%) Retail
12 6 (2.74%) Back Office
12 6 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.74%) Local Government
13 4 (1.83%) Billing
13 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 101 (46.12%) Project Manager
2 26 (11.87%) Analyst
3 23 (10.50%) IT Manager
4 21 (9.59%) Lead
5 20 (9.13%) IT Project Manager
6 18 (8.22%) Delivery Manager
7 14 (6.39%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.39%) Senior
8 13 (5.94%) ERP Manager
9 11 (5.02%) Implementation Manager
9 11 (5.02%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.57%) Architect
11 8 (3.65%) SAP Manager
11 8 (3.65%) Senior Project Manager
12 7 (3.20%) Business Manager
12 7 (3.20%) Business Project Manager
12 7 (3.20%) PMO Analyst
13 6 (2.74%) ERP Implementation Manager
13 6 (2.74%) Support Officer
13 6 (2.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.46%) ADO
1 1 (0.46%) FIDO
1 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.46%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.39%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.57%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.65%) PMI
4 7 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.28%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.28%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.83%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.37%) Life Science
7 3 (1.37%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.37%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.37%) Robotics
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.91%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.74%) Windows
2 2 (0.91%) Linux
3 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (43.38%) Agile
2 94 (42.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 92 (42.01%) Project Delivery
4 90 (41.10%) Project Management
5 56 (25.57%) Change Management
6 53 (24.20%) PRINCE2
7 51 (23.29%) Risk Management
8 43 (19.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (14.61%) Migration
9 32 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.70%) Decision-Making
11 29 (13.24%) Waterfall
12 26 (11.87%) Business Case
13 25 (11.42%) Budget Management
14 24 (10.96%) Resource Management
15 23 (10.50%) ERP
15 23 (10.50%) Project Planning
16 21 (9.59%) Scrum
17 19 (8.68%) Data Migration
18 18 (8.22%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.37%) SQL
2 1 (0.46%) COBOL
2 1 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (16.89%) Degree
2 32 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 31 (14.16%) PMI Certification
4 27 (12.33%) PMP
5 22 (10.05%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (3.20%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.91%) MBA
11 2 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.46%) APMG
12 1 (0.46%) APMP
12 1 (0.46%) ISEB
12 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (21.00%) PMO
2 7 (3.20%) QA
3 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.37%) MiFID
3 3 (1.37%) P3O
3 3 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.91%) Basel III
4 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.91%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
5 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.46%) XenApp
2 1 (0.46%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.91%) Amdocs OSS
1 2 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 29 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.50%) SAP
3 8 (3.65%) Oracle
4 7 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.28%) NEC
6 3 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.37%) Citrix
6 3 (1.37%) Infoblox
6 3 (1.37%) Planview
6 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.37%) Veeam
6 3 (1.37%) VMware
7 2 (0.91%) Capita
7 2 (0.91%) Civica
7 2 (0.91%) Cramer
7 2 (0.91%) IFS
7 2 (0.91%) Northgate
7 2 (0.91%) Remedy
7 2 (0.91%) Splunk
7 2 (0.91%) Zerto