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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 47 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 28 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.26% 1.82% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 2.12% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 3
10th Percentile £363 £307 £480
25th Percentile £403 £320 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -42.93% +25.00%
75th Percentile £450 £551 £838
90th Percentile £546 £650 £920
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 £18.50 £28.56 £35.63
% change year-on-year -35.23% -19.84% +59.92%

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 722 565 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.05% 85.48% 83.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 338 441
10th Percentile £185 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £626 £632 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 51
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £35.23 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 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 13 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 +8 22 £431 +28.54% 4
Derbyshire +4 2 £713 - 8
Nottinghamshire -4 2 £300 - 10
Leicestershire -10 2 £600 -11.11% 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 4 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 11 (39.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.29%) Metadata
3 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.14%) Apache Hive
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Sqoop
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
General
1 12 (42.86%) Marketing
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Architect
2 10 (35.71%) Salesforce Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Ab Initio Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Analytics Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) REST
2 10 (35.71%) Lightning Web Components
2 10 (35.71%) Middleware
2 10 (35.71%) SOAP
2 10 (35.71%) Visualforce
3 3 (10.71%) Kafka
3 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) Prophet
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Product Ownership
2 7 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) NHS
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Agile
2 17 (60.71%) Data Modelling
2 17 (60.71%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (42.86%) Data Security
4 11 (39.29%) Architecture Roadmap
4 11 (39.29%) Data Flow Diagram
4 11 (39.29%) Data Migration
4 11 (39.29%) Integration Patterns
4 11 (39.29%) Mentoring
4 11 (39.29%) Migration
4 11 (39.29%) Roadmaps
5 10 (35.71%) Data Management
6 9 (32.14%) Design Patterns
6 9 (32.14%) ETL
6 9 (32.14%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 6 (21.43%) Analytics
9 6 (21.43%) Data Architecture
10 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Apex Code
3 8 (28.57%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) R
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (60.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (39.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (39.29%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) SCCM
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Salesforce
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Informatica
4 3 (10.71%) Ab Initio
4 3 (10.71%) Talend
5 2 (7.14%) Databricks
5 2 (7.14%) Tenable
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) Teradata