Data Governance Contracts in Manchester

Data Governance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 70 107
Rank change year-on-year +11 +37 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 12 25 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.34% 1.75% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 2.02% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 5
10th Percentile £288 £413 £433
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £575 £575 -
90th Percentile £580 £606 £523
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 795 1,238 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.51% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 845 1,196
10th Percentile £313 £313 £315
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 52
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.80% +52.36%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £42.81
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +52.17%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Manchester

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in Manchester

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Manchester

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Salford - 1 £400 - 2
Stockport - 1 £400 - 23
Data Governance
North West

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
3 1 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Flyway
1 1 (8.33%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Data Management
2 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Epics
4 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Use Case
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Data Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) PMO
3 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Veeam
2 1 (8.33%) VMware