Data Governance Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Governance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Data Governance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.73% 1.61% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.83% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £556 -
25th Percentile £525 £583 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £648 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% +17.73% -12.87%
75th Percentile £575 £693 £600
90th Percentile - £709 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
England median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £33.65
% change year-on-year +24.93% -10.85% -51.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 218 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 82.78% 87.90% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 99 160
10th Percentile £220 £303 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £470 £474
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% -0.79% -9.76%
75th Percentile £569 £586 £600
90th Percentile £625 £684 £720
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 28 9
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.41 £16.85
25th Percentile £13.37 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.54% +130.90% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £47.14 £33.75
90th Percentile £42.40 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the North East

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Tyne and Wear -7 2 £550 -15.06% 6
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce