Project Governance Contracts in South Wales

Project Governance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Project Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Governance over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 32 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.67% 2.99% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 3.73% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile £459 £481 -
25th Percentile £473 £489 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £508 £375
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +35.33% -26.25%
75th Percentile £530 £520 £388
90th Percentile - £525 -
Wales median daily rate £509 £508 £400
% change year-on-year +0.25% +26.88% -21.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 268 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.00% 80.00% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 189 353
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Project Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Project Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Project Governance in South Wales

Project Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Governance in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Project Governance in South Wales

Project 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 Project Governance within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Cardiff +2 4 £509 +0.25%
Project Governance
Wales

Project Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Software Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Process Management
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft