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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 94 93
Rank change year-on-year +37 -1 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 48 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.27% 0.83% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 1.02% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 22
10th Percentile £318 £336 £403
25th Percentile £455 £363 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £594
90th Percentile £635 £782 £638
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 1,303 1,662 1,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.88% 80.92% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 1,101 1,338
10th Percentile £201 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.48% +2.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £616
90th Percentile £651 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 118 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -10.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £34.43 £39.69 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
Warwickshire +9 14 £620 +37.78% 8
Coventry +13 11 £475 -36.71% 6
Birmingham +13 10 £408 +31.45% 17
Solihull - 6 £524 - 3
Worcestershire +2 2 £575 +9.52% 3
Shropshire - 2 £350 - 2
Walsall - 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 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) SAP PM
2 4 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (4.17%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (14.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (14.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (14.58%) Collibra
5 5 (10.42%) AWS
5 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.33%) GCP
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.17%) SaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Serverless
8 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (2.08%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 2 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (2.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) Power BI
2 9 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (16.67%) GIS
4 7 (14.58%) Delta Lake
5 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.42%) Metadata
6 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
6 5 (10.42%) Oracle Database
7 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.17%) SAP BW
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (2.08%) Big Data
9 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) ERwin
1 1 (2.08%) MLflow
1 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
3 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Legal
4 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Architect
2 12 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 10 (20.83%) Project Manager
4 6 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Data Manager
6 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (8.33%) Senior
7 3 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (6.25%) GDPR Project Manager
7 3 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Project Manager
8 2 (4.17%) GIS Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Migration Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Migration Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) Kafka
2 2 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) FHIR
3 1 (2.08%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) IoT
2 6 (12.50%) SCADA
3 5 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.17%) Replication
6 1 (2.08%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.08%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Data Modelling
2 19 (39.58%) Data Architecture
3 18 (37.50%) Analytics
4 17 (35.42%) Migration
5 15 (31.25%) ETL
6 14 (29.17%) Data Migration
7 11 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (20.83%) Data Mapping
8 10 (20.83%) Machine Learning
9 9 (18.75%) Data Integration
9 9 (18.75%) Validation
10 8 (16.67%) DevOps
10 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (14.58%) Data Management
11 7 (14.58%) Decision-Making
11 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.50%) Change Management
12 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
12 6 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) SQL
2 9 (18.75%) Python
3 6 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (8.33%) Bicep
5 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) CITP
5 1 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
5 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (39.58%) Data Quality
2 12 (25.00%) GDPR
3 3 (6.25%) QA
4 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (4.17%) Kibana
2 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) logstash
3 1 (2.08%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) SAP
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.67%) Databricks
4 7 (14.58%) Informatica
4 7 (14.58%) Oracle
5 3 (6.25%) Google
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco
6 2 (4.17%) ESRI
6 2 (4.17%) OpenText
6 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.17%) Workday
7 1 (2.08%) IBM