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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 86 168
Rank change year-on-year -4 +82 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 82 110 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.34% 2.26% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.70% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 76 25
10th Percentile £315 £413 £455
25th Percentile £431 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £572 £589 £638
90th Percentile £688 £669 £658
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.73 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -18.18% +23.84% -25.32%

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 3,158 4,069 4,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.00% 83.69% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,047 2,422 3,347
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £649 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 387 209
10th Percentile £12.80 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -6.79% +18.02%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.88 £63.75 £55.88
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -5 56 £450 -5.26% 71
Yorkshire -12 22 £521 -11.62% 56
North East +1 4 £525 - 8
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 6 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.44%) Confluence
4 1 (1.22%) Appian
Applications
1 17 (20.73%) Siemens NX
2 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.22%) Maple
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (20.73%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.22%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) Power Platform
2 19 (23.17%) Azure
3 11 (13.41%) GCP
4 7 (8.54%) AWS
4 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.10%) Collibra
6 5 (6.10%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (4.88%) dbt
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.66%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.22%) OCI
10 1 (1.22%) Serverless
10 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) Power BI
2 15 (18.29%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.54%) BigQuery
3 7 (8.54%) Tableau
4 5 (6.10%) Looker
5 4 (4.88%) Metadata
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.66%) Power Query
6 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.44%) Big Data
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.22%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.22%) MySQL
8 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) ERwin
2 1 (1.22%) Flyway
2 1 (1.22%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) Liquibase
General
1 31 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.07%) Finance
3 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.32%) Banking
4 6 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.66%) Law
6 3 (3.66%) Legal
6 3 (3.66%) Retail
7 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Automotive
8 1 (1.22%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) Analyst
1 22 (26.83%) Architect
2 17 (20.73%) Data Analyst
3 16 (19.51%) Applications Engineer
3 16 (19.51%) Configuration Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) Data Architect
5 7 (8.54%) Lead
6 5 (6.10%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Data Migration Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Governance Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Migration Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Data Migration Lead
8 3 (3.66%) Power BI Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.44%) Consultant
9 2 (2.44%) Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.73%) XML
2 5 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (1.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.44%) Data Fabric
2 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.22%) IoT
3 1 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Linux
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.05%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (23.17%) ETL
4 17 (20.73%) CAD
4 17 (20.73%) PLM
4 17 (20.73%) User Experience
5 15 (18.29%) Analytics
5 15 (18.29%) Data Modelling
6 14 (17.07%) Data Management
7 12 (14.63%) Data Engineering
7 12 (14.63%) Migration
8 11 (13.41%) Agile
8 11 (13.41%) Visualisation
9 10 (12.20%) Data Migration
9 10 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (10.98%) Data Analysis
10 9 (10.98%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (9.76%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (9.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.05%) SQL
2 13 (15.85%) Python
3 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.66%) Scala
5 1 (1.22%) Korn
5 1 (1.22%) R
5 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.54%) Degree
4 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.22%) MCSA
5 1 (1.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (42.68%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.32%) GDPR
3 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) NCSC
4 1 (1.22%) PMO
4 1 (1.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) Grafana
1 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Google
3 5 (6.10%) Splunk
4 4 (4.88%) Databricks
4 4 (4.88%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Cognos
6 1 (1.22%) EXASOL
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.22%) Veeam
6 1 (1.22%) Veritas
6 1 (1.22%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.22%) VMware