Data Governance Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Governance
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 42 56
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 29 27 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.53% 3.55% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 4.12% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 6
10th Percentile £377 £409 £253
25th Percentile £430 £447 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £459 £433
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% +6.13% -24.78%
75th Percentile £630 £581 £675
90th Percentile £663 £645 £719
England median daily rate £538 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.61% -8.00% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £30.98 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year - +42.57% -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -17.20% +23.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 861 655 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.07% 86.18% 78.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 456 426
10th Percentile £222 £221 £250
25th Percentile £400 £333 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £573
90th Percentile £650 £611 £622
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 58 42
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.38 £12.45
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.87 £13.68
Median hourly rate £18.31 £19.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +9.72% -64.71%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £28.10
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.56 £50.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the East Midlands

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -9 10 £600 +6.67% 5
Northamptonshire +12 8 £475 +6.26% 8
Lincolnshire -8 5 £619 - 2
Leicestershire -5 3 £360 -60.00% 2
Derbyshire -7 2 £463 -24.43% 2
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) iTrent
2 2 (6.90%) SAP HR
2 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.45%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
1 7 (24.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.90%) Metadata
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.24%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.34%) Retail
6 2 (6.90%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Local Government
7 1 (3.45%) Marketing
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Police
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Data Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Architect
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Data Modeller
7 1 (3.45%) Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Power BI Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Middleware
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.45%) REST
1 1 (3.45%) SOAP
1 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Data Modelling
2 9 (31.03%) Validation
3 8 (27.59%) Analytics
3 8 (27.59%) Decision-Making
3 8 (27.59%) Migration
4 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (24.14%) Data Management
4 7 (24.14%) Data Transformation
4 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
6 5 (17.24%) Data Architecture
6 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Data Mapping
6 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (17.24%) ETL
6 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (44.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (24.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) SAP
2 8 (27.59%) Databricks
3 5 (17.24%) Workday
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft