Data Governance Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Data Governance
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.34% 1.29% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.50% 1.69%
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% -
75th Percentile £825 £575 £475
90th Percentile £923 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £650 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.25 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £35.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 133 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 85.27% 85.81% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 59 75
10th Percentile £310 £145 £210
25th Percentile £363 £159 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £533 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £597 £633
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +38.46% -27.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% -10.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £52.31 £16.00
90th Percentile £27.63 £78.47 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% -10.27%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in County Antrim over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in County Antrim

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast -1 3 £650 +18.18% 4
Data Governance
Northern Ireland

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) ERP Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Procurement Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Workday