Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Data Governance
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 6 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 3.19% 6.80% 8.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 7.87% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £427 £413 £465
25th Percentile £458 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £597
90th Percentile £548 £551 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +22.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 165 89 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 87.77% 86.41% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 60 126
10th Percentile £263 £315 £369
25th Percentile £313 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £600
90th Percentile £692 £625 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 - £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £52.59
75th Percentile - - £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Coventry

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Management Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior PMO
4 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) SCADA
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (16.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus