Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Data Governance
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.63% - 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% - 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £547 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £325
75th Percentile £610 - £338
90th Percentile £616 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £683
% change year-on-year -8.70% -15.75% +36.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 141 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 87.50% 75.00% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 87 108
10th Percentile £160 £200 £189
25th Percentile £239 £372 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.06% +7.06%
75th Percentile £554 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £693 £723
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 28
10th Percentile £18.10 £12.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £47.36
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +70.30% -51.82% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £63.44
90th Percentile £63.83 £63.75 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Somerset

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Taunton - 2 £610 - 1
Data Governance
South West

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Budget Management
1 2 (66.67%) Business Case
1 2 (66.67%) Culture Change
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
1 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality