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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 340 402
Rank change year-on-year +10 +62 +69
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 12 51 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 33
10th Percentile £600 £458 £525
25th Percentile £600 £518 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +3.17% -6.67%
75th Percentile £716 £688 £713
90th Percentile £765 £738 £795
UK median daily rate £656 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -

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 11,541 17,047 20,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 84.14% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,211 10,194 14,065
10th Percentile £231 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 2,072 1,252
10th Percentile £14.09 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 +21 5 £600 +4.80% 54
West Midlands +16 5 £600 +4.80% 25
South West +14 4 £716 +10.15% 40
South East +51 2 £725 +11.54% 81
Scotland -1 1 - - 28
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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 6 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
2 5 (41.67%) Information Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 4 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Domain Models
5 2 (16.67%) Organisational Awareness
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Sequence Diagram
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) GIAC
3 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) GRC
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Qualys