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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 58 65
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 22 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.60% 0.66% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 0.78% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 3
10th Percentile £363 £307 £480
25th Percentile £419 £308 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -36.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £467 £588 £838
90th Percentile £586 £663 £920
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.96 - -
England median hourly rate £27.28 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.07% -14.29% -

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 735 639 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.78% 83.97% 84.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 391 526
10th Percentile £218 £267 £209
25th Percentile £350 £356 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -8.15% +2.00%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £600
90th Percentile £631 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 28 50
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.01
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +5.65% +25.76%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.19
90th Percentile - £51.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

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 October 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 20 October 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 0 14 £447 +41.90% 4
Derbyshire - 3 £612 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 2 - - 3
Leicestershire -1 1 - - 1
Lincolnshire -8 1 - - 7
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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Primavera
1 1 (4.55%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 9 (40.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
General
1 9 (40.91%) Marketing
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Police
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analytics Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (36.36%) Middleware
1 8 (36.36%) REST
1 8 (36.36%) SOAP
1 8 (36.36%) Visualforce
2 1 (4.55%) Prophet
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.55%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Modelling
2 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (45.45%) Data Management
3 10 (45.45%) Data Security
3 10 (45.45%) Roadmaps
4 9 (40.91%) Agile
4 9 (40.91%) Architecture Roadmap
4 9 (40.91%) Data Flow Diagram
4 9 (40.91%) Data Migration
4 9 (40.91%) Migration
5 8 (36.36%) Integration Patterns
6 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
6 7 (31.82%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (27.27%) Design Patterns
7 6 (27.27%) Workshop Facilitation
8 5 (22.73%) Analytics
8 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
8 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
8 5 (22.73%) ETL
9 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Apex Code
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
1 5 (22.73%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (40.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (40.91%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Salesforce
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Tenable
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle