IT Governance Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Information Technology Governance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IT Governance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 131 144
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +59
Contract jobs citing IT Governance 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.19% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.23% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £322 £664 -
25th Percentile £336 £684 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £738 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.69% - -
75th Percentile £428 £809 -
90th Percentile £455 £841 -
England median daily rate £583 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.92% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,325 2,212 2,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.00% 82.69% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,406 1,734
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £659 £700 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 70 100
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.44 £13.14
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £22.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -19.84% +53.98%
75th Percentile £26.51 £44.69 £51.50
90th Percentile £43.93 £55.03 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.85%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing IT Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IT Governance in the Midlands

IT Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Governance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Governance in the Midlands

IT Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
West Midlands -13 3 £348 -46.46% 4
East Midlands -3 1 £465 -43.64% 1
IT Governance
England

IT Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (25.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) BPR
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Demand Management
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle