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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 112 104
Rank change year-on-year -39 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 20 15 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.56% 0.82% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.92% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 8
10th Percentile £329 £372 £328
25th Percentile £429 £435 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £634 £619 £610
90th Percentile £638 £698 £664
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 3,038 1,628 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.81% 89.25% 82.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 1,041 976
10th Percentile £315 £250 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 109 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £16.38
Median hourly rate £28.09 £23.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -4.88% -12.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -7 11 £540 -6.09% 6
Warwickshire -9 3 £625 - 1
Staffordshire - 3 - - 5
Solihull -16 1 £350 -40.43% 2
Coventry -19 1 - - 1
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) OCI
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (75.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Agile Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce Manager
3 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Finance Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Finance Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Services Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Project Management
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (35.00%) PRINCE2
5 5 (25.00%) Change Control
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (20.00%) Supplier Management
7 3 (15.00%) Budgeting
7 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.00%) Dependency Management
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Project Planning
7 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
8 2 (10.00%) Programme Governance
8 2 (10.00%) SDLC
8 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) C#
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (20.00%) PMP
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) PMO
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) Ariba
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) SAP