IT Governance Jobs in the West Midlands

Information Technology Governance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring IT Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IT Governance over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 225 267
Rank change year-on-year +65 +42 -13
Permanent jobs citing IT Governance 40 23 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.92% 0.31% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.38% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 6
10th Percentile - - £64,125
25th Percentile £52,500 - £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -53.62% +56.82%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,500 £161,875
90th Percentile £64,375 £71,200 £185,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,961 6,114 6,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.27% 82.87% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,664 4,560 3,220
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +5.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IT Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IT Governance in the West Midlands

IT Governance
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Governance in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for IT Governance in the West Midlands

IT Governance
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Governance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Governance in the West Midlands

IT Governance
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Governance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Birmingham +61 23 - - 7
Solihull - 10 £55,000 -
Staffordshire - 4 £53,688 - 5
Wolverhampton +12 1 £67,500 - 1
IT Governance
England

IT Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (5.00%) IaaS
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) PaaS
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 10 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (5.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 35 (87.50%) Finance
2 23 (57.50%) Retail
2 23 (57.50%) Telecoms
3 21 (52.50%) Marketing
4 2 (5.00%) Police
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Risk Manager
2 23 (57.50%) Technology Risk Manager
3 11 (27.50%) Lead
4 2 (5.00%) Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Senior
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Risk Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Governance Manager
5 1 (2.50%) IT Manager
5 1 (2.50%) IT Risk Manager
5 1 (2.50%) PMO Lead
5 1 (2.50%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 23 (57.50%) Blockchain
1 23 (57.50%) Robotics
2 10 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Agile
1 25 (62.50%) Risk Management
2 24 (60.00%) Analytics
2 24 (60.00%) Data Analytics
3 23 (57.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 23 (57.50%) Coaching
3 23 (57.50%) Creative Thinking
3 23 (57.50%) Mentoring
3 23 (57.50%) Robotic Process Automation
4 21 (52.50%) People Management
4 21 (52.50%) Project Delivery
5 12 (30.00%) Information Security
5 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.00%) Security Operations
6 11 (27.50%) ITIL
7 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 10 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
7 10 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
7 10 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Bash
1 10 (25.00%) C#
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (5.00%) APMG
1 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (5.00%) Cyber Scheme
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
1 2 (5.00%) GIAC
1 2 (5.00%) ISACA
1 2 (5.00%) SANS
2 1 (2.50%) CISA
2 1 (2.50%) CISM
2 1 (2.50%) CRISC
2 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (57.50%) ITGC
2 10 (25.00%) COBIT
2 10 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) GRC
3 1 (2.50%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft