IT Governance Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Information Technology Governance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring IT Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing IT Governance 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.48% 0.82% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% - -
75th Percentile £488 £394 -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £531 £388 -
% change year-on-year +37.10% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 221 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 74.33% 90.95% 78.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 161 169
10th Percentile £287 £185 £143
25th Percentile £370 £285 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £405 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -19.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £501 £575
90th Percentile £760 £638 £678
Wales median daily rate £436 £405 £500
% change year-on-year +7.65% -19.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 20 19
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.72 £11.12
25th Percentile £15.46 £16.00 £14.78
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.37 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% -5.03% +24.04%
75th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £69.38
90th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £87.80
Wales median hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.82
% change year-on-year -4.44% +13.52% +9.26%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

IT Governance job vacancy trend in South Wales

IT Governance
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Cardiff -7 2 £475 +22.58% 2
IT Governance
Wales

IT Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) IASME
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Guidewire