Data Governance Contracts in Leeds

Data Governance
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Data Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Governance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 44 78
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 13 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.80% 2.38% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.75% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 5
10th Percentile £400 £525 £480
25th Percentile £444 £553 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £610 £615
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -0.81% +2.50%
75th Percentile £780 £636 £725
90th Percentile - £745 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £610 £615
% change year-on-year +14.75% -0.81% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Leeds

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in Leeds

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Leeds

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Collibra
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ETL
1 5 (38.46%) Microservices
1 5 (38.46%) Monte Carlo Method
1 5 (38.46%) Observability
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
2 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (23.08%) Data Science
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft