Data Governance Contracts in the South West

Data Governance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 115 140
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 25 38 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.47% 1.21% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.45% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 22
10th Percentile £456 £510 £325
25th Percentile £498 £525 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £688 £675
90th Percentile £675 - £950
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £31.05 - -
25th Percentile £38.99 - -
Median hourly rate £52.60 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.50% - -
75th Percentile £65.84 - -
90th Percentile £73.56 - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -33.75% +23.84% -25.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,539 2,618 3,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.64% 83.06% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 1,668 2,281
10th Percentile £230 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 343 320
10th Percentile £18.39 £13.88 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.43
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +22.13%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the South West

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the South West

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the South West

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the South West

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in the South West

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bristol +9 11 £525 -4.55% 20
Somerset +4 5 £620 +5.53% 12
Devon +14 4 £575 +15.00% 4
Gloucestershire +13 2 £500 -24.53% 11
Wiltshire +26 1 £725 +7.41% 5
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.00%) dbt
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Metadata
2 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) Looker
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Marketing
4 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.00%) Automotive
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Military
6 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) Data Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) Head of Information
2 4 (16.00%) Head of Information Management
2 4 (16.00%) Head of Knowledge Management
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Data Quality Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) FMCG
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Data Management
2 9 (36.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (24.00%) Analytics
4 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (24.00%) ETL
4 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (20.00%) Budget Management
5 5 (20.00%) Business Case
5 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (20.00%) Data Governance Strategy
5 5 (20.00%) Information Management
5 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 5 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (16.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (48.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kibana
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) logstash
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) Foundry
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Palantir