Architecture Governance Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Architecture Governance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Architecture Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 157 190
Rank change year-on-year -21 +33 +46
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 10 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.25% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £467 - £449
25th Percentile £516 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% -11.58% +12.03%
75th Percentile £597 £603 £844
90th Percentile £689 £699 £942
England median daily rate £585 £500 £628
% change year-on-year +17.00% -20.32% -1.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Architecture 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,575 3,456 4,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.86% 84.27% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,348 1,924 3,005
10th Percentile £263 £300 £278
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £579 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 179 205
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.68 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +28.68% +29.52%
75th Percentile £36.38 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.75 £70.00 £64.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Architecture Governance job vacancy trend in the North of England

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architecture Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architecture Governance

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Governance in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Governance in the North of England

Architecture Governance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architecture Governance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
North West -10 6 £575 +15.00% 1
Yorkshire -15 4 £537 -25.93% 5
Architecture Governance
England

Architecture Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Kerberos
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) DMZ
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (30.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Design Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Architect
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (30.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) SABSA
2 3 (30.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Debt
2 3 (30.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CISM
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
1 3 (30.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) PhD
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) F5
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) BiZZdesign