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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 45 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 27 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.04% 2.02% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 2.33% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 4
10th Percentile £363 £307 £436
25th Percentile £402 £320 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -32.00% +4.91%
75th Percentile £450 £551 £769
90th Percentile £479 £650 £893
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +29.03% -33.59% +83.31%

All Process and 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 744 516 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.88% 86.72% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 319 426
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £354 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £430 £452
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.76% -2.90%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £573
90th Percentile £625 £640 £680
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 44
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.00 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £62.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 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
Northamptonshire +7 22 £431 +28.54% 4
Derbyshire +1 2 £675 - 7
Leicestershire -9 2 £600 -11.11% 6
Nottinghamshire -13 1 £300 - 13
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 (14.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 11 (40.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.81%) Metadata
3 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.41%) Apache Hive
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.41%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Sqoop
5 1 (3.70%) Tableau
General
1 12 (44.44%) Marketing
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Finance
4 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Architect
2 10 (37.04%) Salesforce Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Ab Initio Developer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analytics Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) REST
2 10 (37.04%) Lightning Web Components
2 10 (37.04%) Middleware
2 10 (37.04%) SOAP
2 10 (37.04%) Visualforce
3 3 (11.11%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (29.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.70%) NHS
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
1 17 (62.96%) Data Modelling
1 17 (62.96%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (48.15%) Data Security
3 11 (40.74%) Architecture Roadmap
3 11 (40.74%) Data Flow Diagram
3 11 (40.74%) Data Migration
3 11 (40.74%) Integration Patterns
3 11 (40.74%) Mentoring
3 11 (40.74%) Migration
3 11 (40.74%) Roadmaps
4 10 (37.04%) Data Management
5 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 9 (33.33%) ETL
5 9 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (29.63%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (22.22%) Data Architecture
7 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) Analytics
8 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 10 (37.04%) Apex Code
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) R
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (18.52%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (62.96%) Data Quality
2 12 (44.44%) GDPR
3 11 (40.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (7.41%) QA
5 1 (3.70%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) SCCM
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Salesforce
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) Informatica
4 3 (11.11%) Ab Initio
4 3 (11.11%) Talend
5 2 (7.41%) Tenable
6 1 (3.70%) Databricks
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) Teradata