IT Governance Job Trends in the South East

Information Technology Governance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring IT Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 294 261
Rank change year-on-year +50 -33 +129
Permanent jobs citing IT Governance 32 13 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.31% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £55,288 £54,350 £49,250
25th Percentile £76,250 £57,125 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,930 £63,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% -16.72% +33.77%
75th Percentile £97,500 £81,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,125 £91,050 £84,150
England median annual salary £75,000 £56,000 £60,526
% change year-on-year +33.93% -7.48% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,394 8,137 6,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.63% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 4,002 4,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,106 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,300
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 South East

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

IT Governance job vacancy trend in the South East

IT Governance
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IT Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Governance in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Governance in the South East

IT Governance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Governance within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kent - 9 £90,000 - 2
Middlesex - 8 - -
Surrey - 6 - - 1
Thames Valley +9 5 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Hampshire +45 4 £84,930 -10.60% 4
Oxfordshire +16 2 - - 2
Berkshire +6 2 £80,000 +45.45%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £80,000 -
IT Governance
England

IT Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (6.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (6.25%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (6.25%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 14 (43.75%) Power Platform
4 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DHCP
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 2 (6.25%) SAN
1 2 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Power Query
General
1 22 (68.75%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Legal
6 2 (6.25%) Local Government
6 2 (6.25%) Retail
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Head of IT
2 10 (31.25%) IT Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) Governance Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) IT Governance Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) Product Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) Project Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) Project Governance Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) ERP Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) ERP Support
4 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (6.25%) Head of Infrastructure
5 2 (6.25%) Head of IT Infrastructure
5 2 (6.25%) Head of IT Security
5 2 (6.25%) Head of Security
5 2 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
1 6 (18.75%) NHS
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (46.88%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (43.75%) Project Management
4 12 (37.50%) ERP
4 12 (37.50%) IT Strategy
5 11 (34.38%) ITIL
5 11 (34.38%) Logistics
6 10 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (25.00%) Agile
7 8 (25.00%) AI
7 8 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 8 (25.00%) Coaching
7 8 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
7 8 (25.00%) Data Management
7 8 (25.00%) DevOps
7 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (25.00%) Product Governance
7 8 (25.00%) Waterfall
8 7 (21.88%) Change Management
8 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.25%) ACCA
3 2 (6.25%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) PMO
2 8 (25.00%) QA
3 6 (18.75%) SLA
4 3 (9.38%) GDPR
4 3 (9.38%) GRC
5 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
1 2 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.25%) Citrix
3 2 (6.25%) Dell
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) IFS
3 2 (6.25%) NetApp
3 2 (6.25%) OpenText
3 2 (6.25%) Sage
3 2 (6.25%) Veeam
3 2 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) Canon