Project Governance Contracts in Cardiff

Project Governance
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.66% 2.21% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.96% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £476 -
25th Percentile £304 £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £503 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.89% -16.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £450 £517 -
90th Percentile £473 £518 -
South Wales median daily rate £393 £503 £600
% change year-on-year -21.89% -16.25% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 168 169 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.36% 74.78% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 121 147
10th Percentile £226 £140 £190
25th Percentile £303 £188 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -2.78% -7.22%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £572
90th Percentile £663 £619 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.55
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -25.72% +31.58%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.25
90th Percentile £24.64 - £32.90
South Wales median hourly rate £15.50 £25.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -38.00% +4.54% +20.12%

Project Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Governance in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Project Governance in Cardiff

Project Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Governance in Cardiff over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Governance in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) PMO Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Management
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft