Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Data Governance
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 60 67
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 10 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.37% 1.12% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.36% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £364 £441 £578
25th Percentile £440 £469 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -25.86% +48.72%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £750
90th Percentile £583 £613 -
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £683
% change year-on-year -8.70% -15.75% +36.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £27.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +194.93% - -
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 670 738 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.91% 83.01% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 387 598
10th Percentile £250 £266 £308
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £650
90th Percentile £747 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 136 123
10th Percentile £12.82 £45.88 £27.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £63.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Bristol

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Bristol over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Bristol

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) iPaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Looker
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Director
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
1 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 3 (30.00%) Quality Management
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Logistics
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kibana
1 2 (20.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Guidewire
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle