Architecture Governance Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Architecture Governance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Architecture Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £700 - £688
% change year-on-year - - +14.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,796 1,644 2,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.89% 89.98% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 961 1,383
10th Percentile £268 £263 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.92% +0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 45 98
10th Percentile £15.62 £21.98 £19.18
25th Percentile £17.84 £38.00 £25.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £52.72
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +7.63% +110.88%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £94.13 £67.30 £73.21
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £43.94 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.35% -20.11% +29.67%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Architecture Governance job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architecture Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architecture Governance

Architecture Governance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Berkshire - 3 £513 - 6
Architecture Governance
South East

Architecture Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DWDM
1 2 (66.67%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms Architect
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) ArchiMate
2 2 (66.67%) Boundary Protection
2 2 (66.67%) BPMN
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CAD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Nokia
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow