Architecture Governance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architecture Governance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Architecture Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architecture Governance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 346 416
Rank change year-on-year +20 +70 +63
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 10 53 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 33 31
10th Percentile £488 £462 £525
25th Percentile £571 £530 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £744 £688 £725
90th Percentile £766 £738 £799
UK median daily rate £615 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -5.38% -3.70% +2.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Architecture Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Architecture Governance in the UK excluding London

Architecture Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architecture Governance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architecture Governance in the UK excluding London

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Governance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Governance in the UK excluding London

Architecture Governance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +24 4 £613 +6.99% 7
West Midlands +16 4 £613 +6.99% 6
South West +20 3 £525 -19.23% 11
South East +46 2 £725 +11.54% 27
Scotland +5 1 - - 13
Architecture Governance
UK

Architecture Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Governance Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) MACH
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Domain Models
3 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Process Management
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Sequence Diagram
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) GIAC
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google