IT Governance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Technology Governance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IT Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Governance over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 351 406
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 +61
Contract jobs citing IT Governance 22 20 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.11% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 13
10th Percentile £363 £413 £363
25th Percentile £419 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £647 £813 £600
90th Percentile £743 £955 £674
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.16 - -
Median hourly rate £22.32 - -
75th Percentile £22.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.32 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,658 15,365 19,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,214 9,255 13,222
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 1,608 1,218
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.10 £75.00 £76.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Governance in the UK excluding London

IT Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Governance in the UK excluding London

IT Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Governance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Governance in the UK excluding London

IT Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Governance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Governance in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Governance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
North of England -4 8 £750 -16.38% 5
North West - 8 £750 - 3
Midlands -9 6 £450 -37.93% 3
South West +29 4 £625 +4.17% 4
East Midlands -3 4 £450 -45.45% 1
South East +22 3 £525 +23.53% 14
West Midlands -6 2 £348 -44.32% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 3
IT Governance
UK

IT 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 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) BGP
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) MPLS
1 1 (4.55%) OSPF
1 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Banking
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) IT Manager
3 5 (22.73%) SAP Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) SAP Support
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Architect
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Governance Manager
4 3 (13.64%) IT Governance Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Head of IT
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.55%) IT Security Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Procurement Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Security Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Risk Management
2 8 (36.36%) Change Management
3 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (22.73%) SDLC
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) BPR
5 4 (18.18%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) PRINCE2
7 2 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) C#
1 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.55%) JNCIE
3 1 (4.55%) JNCIP
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) COBIT
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) BMC
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Juniper
4 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.55%) Remedy
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow