Architecture Governance Contracts

Architecture Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 490 504 620
Rank change year-on-year +14 +116 +57
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 30 78 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 65
10th Percentile £488 £455 £525
25th Percentile £587 £503 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -3.70% +2.90%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £775
90th Percentile £785 £753 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -5.77% -3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Architecture Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Architecture Governance in the UK

Architecture Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architecture Governance.

Daily rate trend for Architecture Governance in the UK

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Governance in the UK

Architecture Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architecture Governance.

Hourly rate trend for Architecture Governance in the UK

Architecture Governance
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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
England +19 27 £615 -5.38% 64
London +34 15 £620 +20.39% 35
UK excluding London +20 10 £613 -5.77% 45
Work from Home +27 9 £620 -8.15% 38
Midlands +24 4 £613 +6.99% 6
West Midlands +16 4 £613 +6.99% 6
South West +20 3 £525 -19.23% 8
South East +46 2 £725 +11.54% 20
Scotland +5 1 - - 6

Architecture Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (10.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP GRC
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Metadata
1 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Ingres
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) Parquet
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Military
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Architect
2 8 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Security Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Data Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Governance Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Programme Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Programme Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Risk Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
1 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.33%) MACH
2 1 (3.33%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.33%) XML
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 9 (30.00%) TOGAF
3 7 (23.33%) DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (13.33%) Agile
6 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (13.33%) Data Architecture
6 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.33%) Resource Management
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) RHCSA
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) CISSP
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) GIAC
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SANS
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) NIST
2 3 (10.00%) QA
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) GRC
4 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Actian
4 1 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Siemens