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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 38 61
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 31 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.07% 2.65% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.02% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 3
10th Percentile £363 £362 £253
25th Percentile £400 £386 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% -5.05% -20.17%
75th Percentile £464 £480 £525
90th Percentile £600 £538 £548
England median daily rate £525 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.33
25th Percentile - - £23.24
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year - -11.93% -
75th Percentile - - £30.37
90th Percentile - - £32.10
England median hourly rate £58.00 £26.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +116.32% -32.97% +53.85%

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 849 496 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.14% 87.48% 80.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 309 440
10th Percentile £192 £201 £188
25th Percentile £359 £325 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £538
90th Percentile £625 £590 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 63
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +28.57% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.86 £24.66 £27.63
90th Percentile £25.77 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% -5.56%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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
Northamptonshire -11 18 £428 +5.56% 5
Nottinghamshire -6 10 £484 +1.89% 11
Derbyshire -5 2 £675 - 6
Leicestershire -5 1 £600 - 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 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
2 5 (16.13%) Metadata
3 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
3 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.45%) Apache Hive
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.23%) Sqoop
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Marketing
5 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Local Government
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Architect
1 8 (25.81%) Lead
1 8 (25.81%) Senior
2 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Salesforce Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Workstream Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) REST
2 5 (16.13%) Middleware
2 5 (16.13%) SOAP
3 4 (12.90%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (12.90%) Visualforce
4 3 (9.68%) Kafka
4 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (9.68%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.23%) NHS
6 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Data Modelling
2 12 (38.71%) Agile
3 11 (35.48%) Analytics
3 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (32.26%) ETL
5 9 (29.03%) Data Architecture
6 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (22.58%) Data Engineering
7 7 (22.58%) Data Management
7 7 (22.58%) Data Security
7 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (19.35%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
9 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (16.13%) Data Integration
9 5 (16.13%) Data Transformation
10 4 (12.90%) Data Migration
10 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
10 4 (12.90%) ETL Development
10 4 (12.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) Apex Code
3 4 (12.90%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 6 (19.35%) GDPR
3 4 (12.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (6.45%) QA
5 1 (3.23%) GRC
5 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) SCCM
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 4 (12.90%) Informatica
2 4 (12.90%) Salesforce
2 4 (12.90%) SAP
3 3 (9.68%) Ab Initio
3 3 (9.68%) Talend
4 2 (6.45%) Tenable
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Teradata