Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Data Governance
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Data Governance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 31 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.02% 0.89% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.18% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £406 £545 £246
25th Percentile £407 £575 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £650 £478
Median % change year-on-year -35.77% +35.98% -26.46%
75th Percentile £432 £725 £636
90th Percentile £435 £755 £719
South Wales median daily rate £425 £650 £478
% change year-on-year -34.62% +35.98% -26.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 170 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.85% 75.56% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 116 154
10th Percentile £228 £140 £204
25th Percentile £303 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -5.56% -6.15%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £561
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
South Wales median daily rate £403 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +0.63% -15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.13
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -17.20% +34.72%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.38
90th Percentile £22.04 £25.79 £34.50
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.00
% change year-on-year -42.39% -2.46% +30.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Cardiff

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft