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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 110 119
Rank change year-on-year +46 +9 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 77 28 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.22% 0.97% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 1.21% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 25 27
10th Percentile £353 £331 £425
25th Percentile £447 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £613
90th Percentile £718 £750 £663
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £24.60 - -
25th Percentile £26.99 - -
Median hourly rate £30.98 £21.73 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.57% - -
75th Percentile £34.97 - -
90th Percentile £37.36 - -
England median hourly rate £33.12 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -17.20% +23.84% -25.32%

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 2,102 2,307 2,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.80% 80.10% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,550 1,968
10th Percentile £211 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 151 92
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.36 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.12 £13.72 £19.38
Median hourly rate £20.50 £18.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -34.55% +40.43%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 17 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 July 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 +23 46 £575 +27.78% 32
East Midlands +25 28 £461 -16.23% 25
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 5 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.19%) Apache
2 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) SAP PM
2 4 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.60%) Maximo
3 2 (2.60%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.30%) Primavera
4 1 (1.30%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.06%) Azure
2 15 (19.48%) Power Platform
3 14 (18.18%) AWS
4 12 (15.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (10.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (9.09%) Collibra
8 7 (9.09%) Serverless
9 6 (7.79%) GCP
9 6 (7.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (7.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (5.19%) GitHub
11 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) Network Security
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) Power BI
2 13 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (12.99%) Delta Lake
4 9 (11.69%) NoSQL
5 8 (10.39%) GIS
6 6 (7.79%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.79%) Metadata
6 6 (7.79%) Oracle Database
7 5 (6.49%) Big Data
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.19%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.90%) Tableau
10 2 (2.60%) DataStage
10 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (2.60%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) ERwin
2 1 (1.30%) MLflow
2 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Finance
3 6 (7.79%) Marketing
4 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Games
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Police
7 1 (1.30%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Architect
2 14 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 9 (11.69%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Analyst
4 7 (9.09%) Lead
4 7 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 7 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Data Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Consultant
6 5 (6.49%) Salesforce Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Senior
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (3.90%) Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Migration Specialist
9 2 (2.60%) Data Consultant
9 2 (2.60%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) Kafka
2 6 (7.79%) Middleware
3 5 (6.49%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (6.49%) REST
3 5 (6.49%) SOAP
3 5 (6.49%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Avro
4 2 (2.60%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.60%) JSON
5 1 (1.30%) FHIR
5 1 (1.30%) OLE
5 1 (1.30%) Prophet
5 1 (1.30%) PySpark
5 1 (1.30%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.30%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.30%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) IoT
1 7 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.79%) SCADA
3 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.60%) Replication
7 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.30%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) Data Modelling
2 28 (36.36%) Analytics
3 27 (35.06%) Migration
4 26 (33.77%) ETL
5 22 (28.57%) Data Migration
6 21 (27.27%) Data Architecture
7 18 (23.38%) Data Management
8 17 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (22.08%) Machine Learning
8 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (20.78%) Data Integration
10 15 (19.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (18.18%) Validation
12 13 (16.88%) Data Engineering
13 12 (15.58%) Agile
13 12 (15.58%) Data Mapping
13 12 (15.58%) DevOps
14 11 (14.29%) Data Security
14 11 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) SQL
2 16 (20.78%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Java
4 6 (7.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (6.49%) Apex Code
6 4 (5.19%) Bicep
6 4 (5.19%) Scala
7 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Degree
2 8 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.30%) CITP
7 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 15 (19.48%) GDPR
3 7 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.90%) QA
5 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.79%) Terraform
2 2 (2.60%) Kibana
2 2 (2.60%) logstash
3 1 (1.30%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.08%) SAP
3 14 (18.18%) Databricks
4 9 (11.69%) Oracle
5 8 (10.39%) Informatica
5 8 (10.39%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.19%) Google
7 2 (2.60%) Cisco
7 2 (2.60%) ESRI
7 2 (2.60%) IBM
7 2 (2.60%) OpenText
7 2 (2.60%) Workday
8 1 (1.30%) Autodesk