Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Data Governance
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 2.91% - 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £565 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £500
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £663 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £509 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.21% -13.64% +15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 50 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 75.00% 90.91% 81.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 29 55
10th Percentile £300 £141 £200
25th Percentile £463 £200 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% -8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £610
90th Percentile £750 £820 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 12
10th Percentile £16.26 £14.46 £10.59
25th Percentile £17.14 £15.22 £14.76
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.16 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% -1.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £39.13 £18.13 £35.94
90th Percentile £65.50 £23.14 £72.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £18.32 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.14% -20.35% +29.80%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 9 March 2026. 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
Redditch - 3 £638 -
Malvern - 1 £650 -
Data Governance
West Midlands

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (20.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks