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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 42 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 33 26 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.68% 3.41% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.99% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 4
10th Percentile £383 £440 £307
25th Percentile £442 £449 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £463 £495
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -6.57% -13.91%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £716
90th Percentile £679 £645 £721
England median daily rate £538 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.61% -8.00% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £30.98 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -14.29%

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 919 652 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.59% 85.56% 80.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 447 408
10th Percentile £235 £242 £268
25th Percentile £400 £337 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £653 £625 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 58 38
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.94 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.27% -41.19%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 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 20 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 -15 9 £600 +6.67% 7
Northamptonshire +9 8 £475 +5.91% 2
Leicestershire -4 7 £468 -48.06% 4
Lincolnshire -11 5 £619 - 3
Derbyshire -9 3 £506 -17.28% 2
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 (12.12%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) iTrent
1 3 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.06%) SAP HR
3 1 (3.03%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Power Platform
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (9.09%) AWS
5 3 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) OCI
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.06%) Metadata
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 3 (9.09%) Retail
7 2 (6.06%) Banking
8 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Marketing
8 1 (3.03%) Police
8 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Analyst
1 8 (24.24%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Administrator
4 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) SAP Architect
5 2 (6.06%) SAP Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.03%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (6.06%) Middleware
2 2 (6.06%) XML
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) SOAP
3 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Data Modelling
2 11 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 11 (33.33%) Migration
2 11 (33.33%) Validation
3 10 (30.30%) Analytics
3 10 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (30.30%) Data Management
4 9 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (24.24%) Process Improvement
6 7 (21.21%) Dashboard Development
6 7 (21.21%) Data Mapping
6 7 (21.21%) ERP
6 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (21.21%) User Experience
7 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
7 6 (18.18%) Data Transformation
7 6 (18.18%) Master Data Management
7 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) ABAP
4 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 8 (24.24%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) SAP
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Oracle
3 7 (21.21%) Databricks
4 6 (18.18%) Workday