Information Governance Contract Job Trends in the North West

Information Governance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Information Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +39
Contract jobs citing Information Governance 3 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.089% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.10% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £343 - £290
25th Percentile £369 - £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.56% +35.61%
75th Percentile £456 - £565
90th Percentile £483 - £644
England median daily rate £500 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +11.11% +16.13% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.23 -
England median hourly rate £20.40 £32.50 £21.16
% change year-on-year -37.23% +53.63% +5.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Information 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 2,170 1,913 2,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.28% 84.72% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,044 1,624
10th Percentile £213 £294 £271
25th Percentile £358 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £667 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 115 156
10th Percentile £15.52 £16.14 £15.88
25th Percentile £19.60 £22.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £48.94 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.19 £69.12 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

Information Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Information Governance job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Information Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Information Governance

Information Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Governance in the North West over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Governance in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Information Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Information Governance

Information 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 Information Governance within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Cheshire -23 2 £325 -
Manchester -9 1 £500 +11.11% 3
Information Governance
England

Information Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
1 1 (33.33%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) gulp
1 1 (33.33%) Yeoman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Information Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) FHIR
2 1 (33.33%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Records Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GMP
1 1 (33.33%) HL7