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

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 65 139
Rank change year-on-year +1 +74 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 56 69 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.80% 2.46% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.93% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 46 13
10th Percentile £377 £406 £435
25th Percentile £433 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £549 £550 -
90th Percentile £575 £580 £620
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 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 1,788 2,353 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.44% 83.77% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 267 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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 24 June 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 24 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
Lancashire +16 17 £450 -25.00% 32
Cheshire -15 16 £460 -3.16% 43
Manchester -10 13 £500 +11.11% 136
Cumbria - 13 £450 - 2
Merseyside - 5 £488 - 19
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 6 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.79%) Appian
Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Siemens NX
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 14 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.93%) OneDrive
6 4 (7.14%) AWS
7 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.57%) dbt
8 2 (3.57%) GCP
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (1.79%) OCI
9 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) Power BI
2 9 (16.07%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.36%) Metadata
3 3 (5.36%) Power Query
3 3 (5.36%) Tableau
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.79%) Big Data
5 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.79%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.79%) Looker
5 1 (1.79%) MySQL
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Flyway
1 1 (1.79%) Liquibase
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Law
4 2 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Automotive
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
5 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
1 16 (28.57%) Configuration Engineer
2 13 (23.21%) Architect
3 11 (19.64%) Analyst
4 8 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Governance Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Data Migration Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (3.57%) Information Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Power BI Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) XML
2 2 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.57%) Data Fabric
2 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.79%) IoT
3 1 (1.79%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) CAD
1 17 (30.36%) PLM
1 17 (30.36%) User Experience
2 15 (26.79%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (19.64%) Data Management
5 9 (16.07%) ETL
5 9 (16.07%) Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Analytics
6 8 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 7 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
7 7 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 6 (10.71%) Agile
8 6 (10.71%) Cloud Security
8 6 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (8.93%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (8.93%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.93%) Python
4 3 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.79%) Korn
5 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) Degree
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) MCSA
5 1 (1.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (46.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (1.79%) Cognos
3 1 (1.79%) Databricks
3 1 (1.79%) EXASOL
3 1 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) Veeam
3 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.79%) VMware