Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Wales

Data Governance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Governance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.84% 0.50% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.64% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £407 £545 £251
25th Percentile £409 £575 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £438 £725 £709
90th Percentile - £755 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 306 314 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 85.24% 77.72% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 163 318
10th Percentile £190 £140 £183
25th Percentile £283 £210 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £412 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -8.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £499 £544 £579
90th Percentile £668 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 23
10th Percentile £13.19 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.73 £20.12 £19.13
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.36 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% -2.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.75 £45.63
90th Percentile - £53.75 £54.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Wales

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
South Wales +8 3 £425 -34.62% 4
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft