Data Governance Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Data Governance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 40 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.16% 0.89% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.03% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £545 £246
25th Percentile £405 £575 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £650 £478
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +35.98% -26.46%
75th Percentile £595 £725 £636
90th Percentile £703 £755 £719
Wales median daily rate £410 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -36.92% -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 273 291 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.90% 86.35% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 168 244
10th Percentile £205 £168 £163
25th Percentile £285 £213 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £503 £556 £588
90th Percentile £613 £689 £650
Wales median daily rate £411 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -3.24% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 38 23
10th Percentile £13.03 £18.64 £17.20
25th Percentile £15.22 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £19.19 £25.27 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -24.06% -6.98% +36.13%
75th Percentile £28.22 £37.19 £53.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £43.50 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £25.27 £27.17
% change year-on-year -28.06% -6.98% +36.44%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in South Wales

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in South Wales

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
Cardiff +1 4 £410 -36.92% 18
Data Governance
Wales

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
1 1 (25.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Sparx