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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 102 106
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +56
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 15 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.43% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.51% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 10
10th Percentile £343 £328 £263
25th Percentile £435 £361 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +40.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £619 £610 £534
90th Percentile £760 £664 £552
England median daily rate £500 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% -4.55%

All Process and 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 1,711 1,557 1,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.20% 82.95% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 980 1,162
10th Percentile £263 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 39 55
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.61 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.45 £16.38 £21.82
Median hourly rate £23.70 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -14.18% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +33.65%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 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
Birmingham - 6 £575 -
Solihull - 4 £588 -
Warwickshire -2 2 £713 +28.09% 2
Shropshire - 2 £531 -
Coventry - 1 £220 - 2
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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (13.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DWDM
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Implementation Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Finance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Services Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Financial Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Support Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
4 4 (26.67%) Business Case
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Supplier Management
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.67%) PMP
4 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.67%) NEC
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle