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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 41 66
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 24 23 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.14% 3.39% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 3.82% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 3
10th Percentile £394 £422 £268
25th Percentile £427 £453 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £588 £644
90th Percentile £668 £710 £693
England median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
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 £60.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.85% -18.18% +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 867 602 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.34% 88.66% 77.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 399 441
10th Percentile £213 £222 £205
25th Percentile £400 £329 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £573 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £588 £625
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 62
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.23 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.94 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +11.00% -35.80%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £33.75 £30.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -15 13 £537 -2.45% 9
Northamptonshire -2 4 £449 +0.34% 8
Lincolnshire -9 3 £638 - 5
Leicestershire -8 2 £360 -60.00% 2
Derbyshire -8 1 £463 -24.43% 5
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 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
1 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Data Lake
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Local Government
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
1 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Workstream Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Report Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Technology Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) SOAP
1 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Data Structures
2 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Data Modelling
2 12 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 6 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.67%) Data Management
6 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Validation
7 3 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.50%) Defect Management
7 3 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (12.50%) ERP
7 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Databricks
1 7 (29.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft