IT Governance Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Information Technology Governance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring IT Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 95 111
Rank change year-on-year -58 +16 +30
Contract jobs citing IT Governance 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.24% 0.075% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.084% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £477 £463 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% +95.31%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £663
90th Percentile £616 - -
England median daily rate £489 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -18.58% -2.04% +30.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,473 1,193 1,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.06% 89.10% 83.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 804 1,071
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £606
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 53 117
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.32 £11.10
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.18 £38.75
90th Percentile £71.02 £34.75 £56.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

IT Governance job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IT Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

IT Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Governance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Governance in the West Midlands

IT Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IT Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IT Governance

IT 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 IT Governance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Birmingham -18 4 £490 +3.16% 2
Warwickshire - 1 £688 -
IT Governance
England

IT 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 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Build Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Key Management
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) API Integration
4 2 (28.57%) BPR
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft