IT Governance Contract Job Trends in England

Information Technology Governance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring IT Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 488 547
Rank change year-on-year -9 +59 +117
Contract jobs citing IT Governance 47 25 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.081% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.093% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 25
10th Percentile £371 £349 £363
25th Percentile £459 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £713 £665
90th Percentile £664 £1,065 £690
UK median daily rate £521 £563 £588
% change year-on-year -7.38% -4.26% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.16 - -
Median hourly rate £22.32 - -
75th Percentile £22.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.32 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

IT 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,593 26,760 35,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.56% 86.55% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,884 16,311 24,240
10th Percentile £299 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,719 969 1,479
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.09% +26.43%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IT Governance job vacancy trend in England

IT Governance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IT Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Governance in England over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Governance in England

IT Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IT Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Governance within the England region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
London +7 23 £550 -2.22% 24
North of England -32 11 £470 -37.33% 11
North West -16 8 £475 -36.67% 7
South West +8 4 £625 +212.50% 1
South East +8 3 £517 +28.45% 25
West Midlands -23 3 £348 -38.13% 7
Midlands -28 3 £348 -46.46% 9
Yorkshire - 2 £55 - 3
North East - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £500 - 12
IT Governance
UK

IT Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (8.51%) Workday HCM
2 2 (4.26%) SAP CO
2 2 (4.26%) SAP FI
2 2 (4.26%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) AWS
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.64%) PaaS
4 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) Boomi
6 1 (2.13%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.13%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Smartsheet
6 1 (2.13%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) SD-WAN
1 3 (6.38%) WAN
2 1 (2.13%) BGP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) LAN
2 1 (2.13%) MPLS
2 1 (2.13%) OSPF
2 1 (2.13%) VLAN
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
General
1 23 (48.94%) Finance
2 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (12.77%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Legal
6 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Police
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) IT Manager
2 6 (12.77%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Technical Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Administrator
3 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Programme Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Project Manager
3 5 (10.64%) SAP Administrator
3 5 (10.64%) SAP Support
3 5 (10.64%) Technical Programme Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Consultant
4 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) Governance Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (6.38%) IT Governance Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Senior
6 2 (4.26%) Delivery Director
6 2 (4.26%) IT Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) .NET
1 4 (8.51%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (8.51%) RESTful
1 4 (8.51%) Web Services
2 1 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.26%) PMI
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) CMDB
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Risk Management
2 15 (31.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (23.40%) ITIL
3 11 (23.40%) Roadmaps
4 10 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (19.15%) Agile
5 9 (19.15%) Change Management
6 8 (17.02%) Project Delivery
6 8 (17.02%) Project Management
6 8 (17.02%) SDLC
7 7 (14.89%) Budgeting
7 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (14.89%) Migration
7 7 (14.89%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (14.89%) TOGAF
8 6 (12.77%) ITSM
8 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.77%) Resource Allocation
9 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) CISA
4 4 (8.51%) CISM
5 3 (6.38%) CISSP
5 3 (6.38%) CRISC
5 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.26%) ACCA
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) CIMA
6 2 (4.26%) PMP
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CCIE
7 1 (2.13%) CCNP
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIE
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) GDPR
2 6 (12.77%) COBIT
3 5 (10.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (6.38%) NIST
5 2 (4.26%) GxP
5 2 (4.26%) IFRS
5 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.26%) PMO
6 1 (2.13%) COSO
6 1 (2.13%) GRC
6 1 (2.13%) ISO 22301
6 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.28%) SAP
3 7 (14.89%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.64%) Citrix
4 5 (10.64%) Workday
5 4 (8.51%) Salesforce
6 3 (6.38%) Databricks
7 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.26%) Google
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle
8 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.13%) Cisco
8 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
8 1 (2.13%) Juniper
8 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.13%) Okta
8 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.13%) VMware