Project Governance Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Project Governance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Project Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.45% 0.32% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.37% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £590
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - £760
South West median daily rate £428 £450 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.16% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile £45.00 - £35.01
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £35.02
75th Percentile £55.00 - £35.02
90th Percentile - - £35.03
South West median hourly rate £50.50 - £35.02
% change year-on-year - - -33.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 326 272 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 74.09% 87.46% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 181 196
10th Percentile £325 £220 £363
25th Percentile £425 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £671
90th Percentile £800 £718 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 20 33
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.26 £22.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.43 £28.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.17 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +0.40% -52.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.50 £73.75
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +7.14%

Project Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Project Governance job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Project Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Project Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Project Governance

Project Governance
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Governance within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham - 1 - - 5
Gloucester - 1 £325 - 1
Project Governance
South West

Project Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PMO Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware