Programme Governance Job Trends in the South West

Programme Governance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Programme Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 188 216
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 +65
Permanent jobs citing Programme Governance 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.039% 0.024% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.028% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62,750
25th Percentile - - £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +170.83%
75th Percentile - - £66,875
90th Percentile - - £67,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% +3.85% -5.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Programme Governance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Programme Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Programme Governance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Programme Governance job vacancy trend in the South West

Programme Governance
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Programme Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Programme Governance

Programme Governance
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Governance within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +12 2 - -
Programme Governance
England

Programme Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks