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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 29 58
Rank change year-on-year -23 +29 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 32 21 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.06% 4.14% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 4.81% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 4
10th Percentile £384 £366 £279
25th Percentile £404 £450 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £506 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -1.22% -10.87%
75th Percentile £537 £581 £603
90th Percentile £640 £619 £676
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.33
25th Percentile - - £23.24
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year - -11.93% -
75th Percentile - - £30.37
90th Percentile - - £32.10
England median hourly rate £67.50 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +154.72% -33.75% +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 845 437 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.86% 86.19% 78.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 291 411
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £370 £320 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £613 £588 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 23 62
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £21.97 £21.59 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +24.91% -5.88%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.33 £33.35 £49.89
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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
Northamptonshire -15 13 £430 +5.65% 6
Nottinghamshire -18 12 £500 -9.09% 7
Leicestershire -5 3 £480 -46.67% 4
Derbyshire -7 3 £569 - 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 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (18.75%) Data Lake
3 5 (15.63%) Metadata
4 3 (9.38%) Hadoop
4 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Sqoop
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Local Government
4 4 (12.50%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Lead
2 8 (25.00%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Workstream Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Ab Initio Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Report Manager
7 1 (3.13%) SAP Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (9.38%) SOAP
3 2 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (6.25%) Visualforce
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.38%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (40.63%) Analytics
3 11 (34.38%) ETL
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Data Architecture
5 9 (28.13%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (21.88%) Data Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
8 6 (18.75%) Data Transformation
9 5 (15.63%) Data Management
9 5 (15.63%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (15.63%) Validation
10 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 4 (12.50%) Data Security
10 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 4 (12.50%) Migration
10 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
3 3 (9.38%) QA
4 2 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (3.13%) GRC
5 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) SCCM
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Databricks
1 6 (18.75%) SAP
2 4 (12.50%) Informatica
3 3 (9.38%) Ab Initio
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Talend
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Teradata