Data Governance Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Governance
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 48 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 13 15 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.27% 3.11% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.57% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 1
10th Percentile £135 £485 -
25th Percentile £320 £507 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £780 £557 -
90th Percentile - £580 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £554 £625
% change year-on-year -9.75% -11.36% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 542 420 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.76% 86.96% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 232 281
10th Percentile £295 £356 £350
25th Percentile £380 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £506 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% -12.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £545 £580 £675
90th Percentile £625 £638 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 4
10th Percentile £15.00 - £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -34.21% +19.08%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.13 £20.69
90th Percentile - £21.85 £21.93
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.28%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in South Yorkshire

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in South Yorkshire

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in South Yorkshire

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Sheffield -4 11 £528 +1.44% 7
Barnsley - 2 £295 - 2
Data Governance
Yorkshire

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Maple
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (30.77%) Collibra
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (15.38%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
2 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (30.77%) Looker
3 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
4 2 (15.38%) Power Query
4 2 (15.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Data Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modeller
4 2 (15.38%) Engineering Specialist
4 2 (15.38%) Report Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Finance Modeller
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Decision-Making
2 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Monte Carlo Method
4 4 (30.77%) Observability
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) ETL Development
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) VBA
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Veritas