Data Governance Contracts in the Midlands

Data Governance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 60 96 127
Rank change year-on-year +36 +31 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 53 37 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.77% 1.34% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 1.63% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 31 26
10th Percentile £393 £363 £372
25th Percentile £447 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +11.39% -14.13%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £613
90th Percentile £628 £725 £669
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 £26.12 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £37.97
% change year-on-year -33.75% +5.36% +99.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the Midlands

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the Midlands

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the Midlands

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the Midlands

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +17 32 £475 -9.52% 42
East Midlands +25 21 £538 +4.88% 20
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (7.55%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.77%) Maximo
2 2 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) Power Platform
3 13 (24.53%) AWS
4 9 (16.98%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) Asana
5 4 (7.55%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.55%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.66%) Serverless
6 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (18.87%) Power BI
2 8 (15.09%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.77%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (3.77%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (3.77%) Big Data
5 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.77%) Flink
5 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.77%) Metadata
5 2 (3.77%) Parquet
6 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) ERwin
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (50.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Legal
5 4 (7.55%) Retail
6 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.77%) Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.89%) Games
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Local Government
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Architect
1 12 (22.64%) Project Manager
2 7 (13.21%) Data Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Lead
3 6 (11.32%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Data Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Data Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Consultant
5 4 (7.55%) GDPR Project Manager
5 4 (7.55%) IT Manager
5 4 (7.55%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Junior
5 4 (7.55%) Junior Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Data Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Middleware
2 4 (7.55%) Kafka
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Avro
3 2 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.77%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) FHIR
4 1 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.89%) PySpark
4 1 (1.89%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) SOAP
4 1 (1.89%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.66%) Data Structures
1 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.77%) Replication
3 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.89%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) Migration
2 20 (37.74%) Analytics
3 18 (33.96%) Data Integration
4 17 (32.08%) ETL
5 16 (30.19%) Data Migration
5 16 (30.19%) Data Modelling
5 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (20.75%) Data Analytics
7 11 (20.75%) Data Architecture
8 10 (18.87%) Project Management
9 9 (16.98%) Agile
9 9 (16.98%) Data Management
9 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
9 9 (16.98%) ERP
10 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
10 8 (15.09%) Data Mapping
10 8 (15.09%) DevOps
11 7 (13.21%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 4 (7.55%) Java
3 4 (7.55%) Scala
4 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.55%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) CITP
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (13.21%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Kibana
2 2 (3.77%) logstash
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) SAP
3 4 (7.55%) Databricks
4 2 (3.77%) Epicor
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) Workday