Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Data Governance
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 1.88% 1.23% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.49% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £475 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -34.62%
75th Percentile £825 £575 £475
90th Percentile £923 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £650 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -34.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.25 -
County Antrim median hourly rate - £35.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Data 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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 134 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.20% 82.21% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 56 74
10th Percentile £294 £144 £202
25th Percentile £325 £161 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -18.37%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £529
90th Percentile £625 £589 £600
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 8
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.59 - £11.96
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +79.68% +31.68%
75th Percentile £17.30 - £14.27
90th Percentile £24.50 £40.80 £16.60
County Antrim median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Belfast

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Belfast over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Belfast

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) ERP Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Procurement Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Management
3 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Fujitsu
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Workday