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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 51 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 34 20 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.57% 2.53% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 2.96% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 4
10th Percentile £388 £429 £307
25th Percentile £412 £449 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £457 £495
Median % change year-on-year +15.99% -7.78% -29.29%
75th Percentile £625 £566 £716
90th Percentile £679 £694 £721
England median daily rate £543 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.96 -
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 994 675 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.13% 85.55% 83.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 470 412
10th Percentile £233 £218 £263
25th Percentile £400 £340 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.80% -8.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £626 £627
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 57 34
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.87 £15.03
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +6.85% -35.78%
75th Percentile £26.20 £25.15 £41.61
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -6 11 £600 +10.34% 18
Northamptonshire +13 9 £402 -10.67% 14
Leicestershire -5 5 £575 -36.11% 15
Lincolnshire -13 5 £619 - 8
Derbyshire -6 3 £506 -17.28% 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 4 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) iTrent
1 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.88%) SAP HR
3 1 (2.94%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Power Platform
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 3 (8.82%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) dbt
6 1 (2.94%) OCI
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Power BI
2 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.82%) Metadata
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) Big Data
5 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (8.82%) Banking
6 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.88%) Retail
7 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Police
8 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Architect
2 8 (23.53%) Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Data Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Data Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Business Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) Data Analyst
7 3 (8.82%) Administrator
7 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Lead
8 2 (5.88%) Migration Architect
8 2 (5.88%) SAP Architect
8 2 (5.88%) SAP Data Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Teradata Architect
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Solution Architect
9 1 (2.94%) ETL Architect
9 1 (2.94%) GDPR Business Analyst
9 1 (2.94%) Oracle Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.94%) SAP Data Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Data Modelling
1 13 (38.24%) Migration
2 12 (35.29%) Analytics
3 11 (32.35%) Data Management
3 11 (32.35%) Decision-Making
3 11 (32.35%) Validation
4 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (26.47%) Data Migration
5 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (23.53%) Process Improvement
7 7 (20.59%) Dashboard Development
7 7 (20.59%) Data Architecture
7 7 (20.59%) Data Engineering
7 7 (20.59%) Data Mapping
7 7 (20.59%) Data Transformation
7 7 (20.59%) User Experience
8 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
8 6 (17.65%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) SQL
2 3 (8.82%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) ABAP
4 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (23.53%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) SAP
2 9 (26.47%) Databricks
3 8 (23.53%) Oracle
4 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
5 6 (17.65%) Workday
6 3 (8.82%) Teradata