Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Governance
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Governance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.93% 1.81% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.99% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £556 -
25th Percentile £525 £583 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £648 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% +17.73% -12.87%
75th Percentile £575 £693 £600
90th Percentile - £709 -
North East median daily rate £550 £648 £550
% change year-on-year -15.06% +17.73% -12.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 151 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.80% 90.96% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 77 110
10th Percentile £200 £325 £348
25th Percentile £400 £383 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £556 £550 £639
90th Percentile £624 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £475 £470 £473
% change year-on-year +1.06% -0.53% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 6
10th Percentile £13.71 £14.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £18.28 £19.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -1.27% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.63 £70.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £37.60 - £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year -62.54% +130.90% +14.29%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Tyne and Wear

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 2 £550 -15.06% 4
Data Governance
North East

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce