Data Governance Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Governance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 82 102
Rank change year-on-year +17 +20 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 32 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.38% 1.49% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.77% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 23
10th Percentile £396 £363 £366
25th Percentile £419 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £626 £675 £638
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the West Midlands

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the West Midlands

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the West Midlands

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the West Midlands

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +26 13 £438 +27.74% 17
Warwickshire +2 7 £675 +42.11% 6
Coventry +2 6 £475 -17.03% 6
Worcestershire 0 2 £575 +9.52% 2
Solihull - 1 £447 - 2
Walsall - 1 - - 1
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (6.25%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Data Lake
1 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.50%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.13%) DataStage
4 1 (3.13%) DB2
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.13%) QualityStage
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) SAP BW
4 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) ERwin
1 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.25%) Retail
7 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Military
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Data Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Lead
4 5 (15.63%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.50%) GDPR Project Manager
5 4 (12.50%) Junior
5 4 (12.50%) Junior Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Data Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Migration Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Data Migration Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Migration Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Migration Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) FHIR
3 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.13%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Migration
2 12 (37.50%) Data Integration
2 12 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 11 (34.38%) ETL
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (31.25%) Data Architecture
4 10 (31.25%) Data Migration
5 9 (28.13%) Analytics
6 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
7 5 (15.63%) Data Extraction
7 5 (15.63%) Data Mapping
7 5 (15.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) ERP
7 5 (15.63%) Project Management
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (15.63%) TOGAF
8 4 (12.50%) B2B
8 4 (12.50%) Change Management
8 4 (12.50%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) CITP
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 6 (18.75%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) QA
4 1 (3.13%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kibana
1 2 (6.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) SAP
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Epicor
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Workday