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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 39 65
Rank change year-on-year -27 +26 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 21 21 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.88% 3.21% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.62% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 4
10th Percentile £393 £418 £279
25th Percentile £418 £452 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £506 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -1.22% -10.87%
75th Percentile £611 £584 £603
90th Percentile £649 £605 £676
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 876 580 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.21% 88.55% 78.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 389 450
10th Percentile £200 £225 £200
25th Percentile £393 £326 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -1.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £561 £500 £550
90th Percentile £644 £589 £623
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 46 60
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.67
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.47 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +11.00% -34.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.00 £26.15
90th Percentile £32.45 £33.51 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%

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 11 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 11 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 -13 12 £537 -2.45% 4
Northamptonshire -5 4 £449 +0.34% 2
Leicestershire -6 2 £360 -60.00% 1
Derbyshire -8 1 £463 -13.91% 2
Lincolnshire -11 1 £638 -
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 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Local Government
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
1 5 (23.81%) Lead
1 5 (23.81%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Workstream Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) SAP Architect
4 2 (9.52%) SAP Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Report Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Technology Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) SOAP
1 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 10 (47.62%) Analytics
3 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) Data Architecture
4 5 (23.81%) Data Transformation
5 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
5 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 3 (14.29%) Data Management
6 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 3 (14.29%) Defect Management
6 3 (14.29%) ERP
6 3 (14.29%) ETL
6 3 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) SAP
2 6 (28.57%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft