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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 34 26 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.84% 3.40% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 3.96% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 5
10th Percentile £386 £409 £307
25th Percentile £453 £447 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £451 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% -18.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £581 £713
90th Percentile £678 £645 £720
England median daily rate £535 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.13% -8.00% -8.00%
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 £50.00 £35.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +40.85% +18.33% -7.12%

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 896 657 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.85% 85.99% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 451 412
10th Percentile £235 £223 £263
25th Percentile £400 £334 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £656 £625 £623
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 58 36
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.11 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £14.82
Median hourly rate £17.97 £18.94 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -8.75% -37.86%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.80
90th Percentile £36.99 £25.56 £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -6 11 £600 +6.67% 10
Northamptonshire +11 8 £475 +6.26% 5
Leicestershire -2 6 £468 -48.06% 5
Lincolnshire -12 5 £619 - 3
Derbyshire -8 3 £506 -17.28% 4
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 3 (8.82%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (8.82%) iTrent
3 2 (5.88%) SAP HR
4 1 (2.94%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Power Platform
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 3 (8.82%) AWS
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (8.82%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.94%) OCI
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.88%) Metadata
2 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Retail
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Local Government
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Police
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) SAP Architect
6 2 (5.88%) SAP Data Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Backend Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Data Migration Specialist
7 1 (2.94%) Data Modeller
7 1 (2.94%) Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Power BI Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.88%) Middleware
2 2 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) SOAP
3 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Data Modelling
2 11 (32.35%) Migration
2 11 (32.35%) Validation
3 10 (29.41%) Analytics
3 10 (29.41%) Decision-Making
4 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (26.47%) Data Management
4 9 (26.47%) Data Migration
5 8 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (20.59%) Data Mapping
6 7 (20.59%) Data Transformation
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.59%) Process Improvement
6 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (17.65%) ERP
7 6 (17.65%) User Experience
8 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
8 5 (14.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) SQL
2 3 (8.82%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) ABAP
4 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (23.53%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) SAP
2 8 (23.53%) Databricks
3 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.59%) Oracle
4 6 (17.65%) Workday