Data Governance Contracts in the North West

Data Governance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 81 83 136
Rank change year-on-year +2 +53 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 39 54 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.98% 1.96% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.27% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 15
10th Percentile £369 £405 £415
25th Percentile £433 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £584
90th Percentile £578 £675 £638
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the North West

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the North West

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the North West

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the North West

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +2 12 £450 -18.18% 72
Cheshire -13 12 £460 -3.16% 31
Lancashire +11 10 £450 -25.00% 32
Cumbria - 8 £449 - 1
Merseyside - 2 £500 - 13
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Siemens NX
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (12.82%) OneDrive
5 3 (7.69%) AWS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (2.56%) dbt
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) Power BI
2 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.69%) Tableau
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Flyway
1 1 (2.56%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Automotive
3 1 (2.56%) Law
3 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
2 10 (25.64%) Applications Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Configuration Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Analyst
4 7 (17.95%) Data Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Governance Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Data Migration Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Migration Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Automation Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) HR Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Power BI Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) XML
2 2 (5.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.56%) IoT
2 1 (2.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) CAD
1 11 (28.21%) PLM
1 11 (28.21%) User Experience
2 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (20.51%) Data Management
4 7 (17.95%) Migration
4 7 (17.95%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 6 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (15.38%) Data Migration
5 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.82%) Data Protection
6 5 (12.82%) ETL
6 5 (12.82%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (12.82%) Zero Trust
7 4 (10.26%) Analytics
7 4 (10.26%) Data Strategy
7 4 (10.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 6 (15.38%) SQL
2 3 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (51.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) PMO
3 1 (2.56%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) SAP
2 1 (2.56%) Virgin Media