Project Governance Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Project Governance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Project Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 91 110
Rank change year-on-year -53 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 15 16 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.45% 1.08% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 2
10th Percentile - £400 £298
25th Percentile £405 £505 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £581 £458
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +27.05% -12.86%
75th Percentile £528 £638 £567
90th Percentile £638 £688 £623
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Project 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 2,869 1,319 1,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.51% 88.76% 81.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,886 832 1,106
10th Percentile £313 £203 £263
25th Percentile £405 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £668 £734
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 87 117
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.24
25th Percentile £21.21 £14.14 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £34.43 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

Project Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Project Governance job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Project Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Project Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Governance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Governance in the West Midlands

Project Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Project 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 Project Governance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Staffordshire - 5 £410 - 1
Warwickshire -18 4 £625 - 2
Birmingham -25 4 £500 -13.04%
Coventry -20 1 £433 +39.52%
Project Governance
England

Project 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 5 (33.33%) SAP Manager
2 5 (33.33%) SAP Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 3 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Services Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Services Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (13.33%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) IT Services Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Sales Manager
4 2 (13.33%) SAP Sales Manager
5 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (6.67%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Head of PMO
5 1 (6.67%) Healthcare Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Healthcare Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Rollout Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Project Management
1 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Cutover Planning
3 5 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 5 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
4 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Change Management
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
6 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
7 1 (6.67%) CRM
7 1 (6.67%) Data Security
7 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce
7 1 (6.67%) ERP
7 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
7 1 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
1 6 (40.00%) PMI Certification
1 6 (40.00%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce