Programme Governance Contracts in the North of England

Programme Governance
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 170 196
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +34
Contract jobs citing Programme Governance 13 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile £348 £450 £450
25th Percentile £456 £528 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £677 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.86% +35.49% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £736 £566
90th Percentile £628 £745 £663
England median daily rate £599 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -6.04% +10.87% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £44.74 -
England median hourly rate - £44.74 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,236 4,049 4,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.47% 83.83% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 2,411 3,349
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £553 £582 £600
90th Percentile £649 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 379 214
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.11 £21.00 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -9.29% +15.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £43.68
90th Percentile £77.63 £64.32 £56.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Programme Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Programme Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Governance in the North of England

Programme Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Governance in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Programme Governance in the North of England

Programme Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Governance in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Governance in the North of England

Programme Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Governance in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Governance in the North of England

Programme Governance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +7 6 £413 -37.02% 1
Yorkshire +3 6 £600 -14.29% 8
North East - 1 - - 1
Programme Governance
England

Programme Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) GIS
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Publishing
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Programme Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Programme Director
2 3 (23.08%) Service Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Service Transition Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Transition Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) CRM Architect
4 1 (7.69%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Services Director
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) PMI
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (53.85%) Project Delivery
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Change Management
4 5 (38.46%) Programme Delivery
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (38.46%) Waterfall
5 4 (30.77%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) ITSM
5 4 (30.77%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (30.77%) Release Management
5 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Service Design
5 4 (30.77%) Service Management
5 4 (30.77%) Test Management
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) AlgoSec
4 1 (7.69%) Ariba
4 1 (7.69%) ESRI
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Workday
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