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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 527 569
Rank change year-on-year +34 +42 +94
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 58 46 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 67
10th Percentile £465 - £525
25th Percentile £556 £469 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £711 £788 £756
90th Percentile £777 £870 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £513 £630
% change year-on-year +17.07% -18.65% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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 29,873 33,197 46,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.51% 85.47% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,595 21,230 31,887
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,718 1,827 1,499
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.35 £18.60
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.92 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

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 15 August 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 14 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 15 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
England +35 50 £600 -7.69% 60
London +19 26 £600 -22.58% 38
UK excluding London -5 24 £600 +17.07% 38
Work from Home +31 19 £587 -19.03% 29
South West +28 7 £702 +43.95% 2
Midlands - 6 £600 - 5
North of England -20 5 £684 +5.27% 9
West Midlands - 5 £600 - 3
North West -4 4 £769 +53.70% 5
South East +27 3 £725 +11.54% 13
Scotland -10 2 - - 5
Yorkshire -19 1 £600 -25.00% 2
East Midlands - 1 £395 - 2
East of England - 1 £553 - 1

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 (5.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Endur
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (6.90%) Collibra
4 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.90%) PaaS
4 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (5.17%) GCP
5 3 (5.17%) SaaS
5 3 (5.17%) Serverless
6 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) CloudFront
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) IaaS
6 2 (3.45%) Route 53
6 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Network Security
2 3 (5.17%) DMZ
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (5.17%) Firewall
3 2 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) BGP
4 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.72%) IPsec
4 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.72%) NAS
4 1 (1.72%) SAN
4 1 (1.72%) SSL
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Data Hub
1 4 (6.90%) Metadata
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) Power BI
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.45%) Big Data
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Git
1 2 (3.45%) GitLab
1 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) MLflow
General
1 22 (37.93%) Finance
2 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
5 10 (17.24%) Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Military
8 1 (1.72%) Aviation
8 1 (1.72%) Back Office
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (77.59%) Architect
2 17 (29.31%) Enterprise Architect
3 10 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Data Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Technical Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Business Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Migration Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Payments Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Project Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.45%) SharePoint Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) SharePoint Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) .NET
2 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (1.72%) HTML
3 1 (1.72%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.72%) MACH
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
1 4 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.72%) PKI
4 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.72%) SCADA
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 19 (32.76%) Roadmaps
3 17 (29.31%) Enterprise Architecture
4 13 (22.41%) Security Architecture
5 11 (18.97%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (18.97%) Decision-Making
5 11 (18.97%) DevOps
6 10 (17.24%) Agile
6 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (17.24%) Information Architecture
6 10 (17.24%) TOGAF
6 10 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (15.52%) Strategic Thinking
7 9 (15.52%) Threat Modelling
8 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.79%) Data Architecture
8 8 (13.79%) Data Modelling
8 8 (13.79%) Risk Management
9 7 (12.07%) Integration Patterns
9 7 (12.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.17%) SQL
2 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.72%) Bicep
3 1 (1.72%) C#
3 1 (1.72%) Java
3 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.72%) CISSP
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) NIST
2 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.45%) GRC
4 2 (3.45%) NCSC
5 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.72%) EMIR
5 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Grafana
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
3 4 (6.90%) F5
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Dell
5 1 (1.72%) Informatica
5 1 (1.72%) Isilon
5 1 (1.72%) NetApp
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Qualys
5 1 (1.72%) Rockwell
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Workday