IT Governance Contract Job Trends in Wales

Information Technology Governance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring IT Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing IT Governance 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.74% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £492 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% - -
75th Percentile £567 £394 -
90th Percentile £583 - -
UK median daily rate £487 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -18.83% -2.04% +14.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 406 261 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 74.91% 89.08% 77.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 185 189
10th Percentile £282 £185 £160
25th Percentile £375 £285 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £405 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -19.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £563
90th Percentile £675 £625 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 26 28
10th Percentile £12.21 £15.50 £11.57
25th Percentile £14.32 £20.12 £13.71
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.82
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +13.52% +9.26%
75th Percentile £37.00 £38.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £86.54
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IT Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

IT Governance job vacancy trend in Wales

IT Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing IT Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. 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
South Wales -9 2 £475 +22.58% 4
Dyfed - 1 - -
IT Governance
UK

IT Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Application Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) IASME
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Guidewire
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft