Architecture Governance Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Architecture Governance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Architecture Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - +61
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.32% - 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £536 - -
25th Percentile £572 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.80%
75th Percentile £600 - £588
90th Percentile £688 - -
England median daily rate £585 £500 £628
% change year-on-year +17.00% -20.32% -1.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,651 1,557 1,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.34% 82.60% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 980 1,178
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £725 £725
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 39 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Architecture Governance job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Architecture Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Architecture Governance

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Governance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Governance in the West Midlands

Architecture Governance
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Solihull - 2 £600 -
Warwickshire - 2 £675 -
Coventry - 1 £520 -
Architecture Governance
England

Architecture Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Alation
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 1 (16.67%) Collibra
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Domain Models
3 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Sequence Diagram
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Kubeflow
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys