Information Governance Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Information Governance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Information Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 70 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Information Governance 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.45% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.34% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.50%
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -26.92% +44.44% -22.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Information 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 596 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.82% 91.83% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 390 389
10th Percentile £300 £250 £199
25th Percentile £402 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £574 £638
90th Percentile £688 £649 £740
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.68% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 10
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.62 £19.65
25th Percentile £19.51 £13.25 £21.44
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £38.06
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -50.42% +26.88%
75th Percentile £55.00 £23.14 £54.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £23.05 £23.05
% change year-on-year -2.39% - -16.18%

Information Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Information Governance job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Information Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Information Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Information Governance

Information Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Information Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Information Governance

Information Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) ISMS
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Data Sharing
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft