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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 89 107
Rank change year-on-year -43 +18 +30
Contract jobs citing Project Governance 18 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.66% 0.74% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.82% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 3
10th Percentile £316 £396 £340
25th Percentile £405 £452 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £514 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -14.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £514 £594 £649
90th Percentile £639 £607 £678
England median daily rate £513 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -0.36% -6.48% -

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 2,331 1,219 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.98% 89.96% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 791 1,069
10th Percentile £300 £209 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 52 113
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.20
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.52 £18.63 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.54% -19.02% +29.80%
75th Percentile £27.21 £29.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £35.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% -5.56%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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
Warwickshire -13 6 £588 +5.62% 2
Staffordshire +1 5 £410 +13.10%
Birmingham -20 3 £322 -41.72% 4
Shropshire -45 1 - -
Coventry - 1 £433 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) Confluence
2 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DWDM
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
1 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) JIRA
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) SAP Manager
2 5 (27.78%) SAP Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Integration Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Sales Manager
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Sales Manager
5 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Health and Safety Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Rollout Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Programme Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 2 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Project Management
2 11 (61.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) PRINCE2
5 7 (38.89%) Waterfall
6 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Cutover Planning
7 5 (27.78%) Dependency Management
7 5 (27.78%) SAP Implementation
8 4 (22.22%) Business Case
8 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (16.67%) Change Control
9 3 (16.67%) Change Management
9 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
9 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
9 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (11.11%) ERP
10 2 (11.11%) Quality Management
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 6 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) PMO
2 4 (22.22%) QA
3 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Planview
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce