IT Governance Job Trends in the North West

Information Technology Governance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring IT Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 192 199
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +100
Permanent jobs citing IT Governance 2 13 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.031% 0.26% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.28% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £45,400 £44,450
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,637 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,842 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.73% +2.82% +18.75%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - £75,750 £60,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +45.45% -6.38% +6.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

IT Governance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

IT Governance job vacancy trend in the North West

IT Governance
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IT Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Governance within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +21 1 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Cheshire -19 1 - - 1
IT Governance
England

IT Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Management
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft