Data Governance Contracts in the North of England

Data Governance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 101 97 170
Rank change year-on-year -4 +73 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 66 91 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.00% 1.91% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.23% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 26
10th Percentile £143 £413 £425
25th Percentile £393 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -9.95%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £633
90th Percentile £734 £738 £688
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
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
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the North of England

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the North of England

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the North of England

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the North of England

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +2 39 £450 -13.46% 78
Yorkshire -7 22 £425 -29.17% 37
North East +1 5 £525 +10.06% 6
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.52%) Appian
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Siemens NX
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) Azure
2 13 (19.70%) Power Platform
3 12 (18.18%) GCP
4 7 (10.61%) AWS
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (7.58%) Collibra
6 5 (7.58%) OneDrive
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (6.06%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (3.03%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.52%) dbt
9 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.52%) Serverless
9 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (19.70%) Power BI
2 8 (12.12%) BigQuery
3 5 (7.58%) Looker
3 5 (7.58%) Tableau
4 4 (6.06%) Metadata
5 3 (4.55%) Big Data
5 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.03%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.52%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.52%) MySQL
7 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) ERwin
1 1 (1.52%) Flyway
1 1 (1.52%) JIRA
1 1 (1.52%) Liquibase
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Finance
3 5 (7.58%) Banking
3 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Automotive
4 1 (1.52%) Law
4 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Analyst
1 22 (33.33%) Architect
2 19 (28.79%) Data Analyst
3 10 (15.15%) Applications Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Configuration Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Data Architect
4 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Junior
5 5 (7.58%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) Junior Data Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Data Migration Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) GCP Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Migration Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Senior
6 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) XML
2 5 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.52%) IoT
3 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Linux
1 5 (7.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) ETL
2 15 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (19.70%) Data Analysis
3 13 (19.70%) Data Strategy
4 11 (16.67%) CAD
4 11 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 11 (16.67%) PLM
4 11 (16.67%) User Experience
5 10 (15.15%) Data Management
5 10 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (15.15%) Decision-Making
6 9 (13.64%) Analytics
6 9 (13.64%) Migration
7 8 (12.12%) Data Migration
7 8 (12.12%) Data Modelling
7 8 (12.12%) ETL Development
7 8 (12.12%) Technical Debt
7 8 (12.12%) Visualisation
8 7 (10.61%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.21%) SQL
2 10 (15.15%) Python
3 6 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.06%) Scala
5 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.09%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.52%) PMO
4 1 (1.52%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Grafana
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
2 4 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Google
3 6 (9.09%) Databricks
4 5 (7.58%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) Virgin Media