Data Governance Contracts

Data Governance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Governance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 240 270
Rank change year-on-year +86 +30 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 693 667 930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.12% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.24% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 461 674
10th Percentile £400 £425 £456
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £795 £775 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 7
10th Percentile £27.15 £29.19 £14.03
25th Percentile £30.88 £32.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.97 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +85.29% -48.78%
75th Percentile £47.69 £72.78 £82.95
90th Percentile £69.79 £86.25 £94.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.30 £17.00
% change year-on-year +23.84% +90.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Governance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +107 619 £575 -4.17% 256
London +95 369 £600 -3.03% 153
Work from Home +87 259 £525 -15.32% 128
UK excluding London +74 245 £525 -6.67% 109
North of England +70 90 £550 +4.76% 31
North West +49 54 £520 +9.47% 16
South East +4 40 £475 -22.45% 24
Midlands +20 37 £550 +11.39% 25
Yorkshire +29 36 £600 -2.44% 10
East of England +26 34 £410 -8.89% 6
South West +31 33 £588 +2.17% 11
West Midlands +22 29 £525 +10.53% 16
Scotland +33 16 £550 +4.76% 8
East Midlands +21 6 £513 -10.87% 9
North East +22 4 £477 -13.27% 5
Wales +9 1 - - 6
Isle of Man - 1 £475 -

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (2.45%) Confluence
2 16 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.02%) Apache
3 14 (2.02%) SAS
4 12 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.14%) Luigi
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (4.33%) MS Visio
2 28 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 18 (2.60%) SAP MDG
4 10 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.58%) FastStats
5 4 (0.58%) SAP MDM
5 4 (0.58%) Unica
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (20.06%) Azure
2 116 (16.74%) Power Platform
3 84 (12.12%) AWS
4 61 (8.80%) Collibra
5 48 (6.93%) GCP
6 40 (5.77%) Snowflake
7 31 (4.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (2.60%) Azure Stack
10 18 (2.60%) Power Automate
11 12 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (1.73%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.59%) dbt
12 11 (1.59%) OCI
13 10 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (1.44%) Serverless
14 9 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.14%) DNS
1 1 (0.14%) Intranet
1 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (21.36%) Metadata
2 129 (18.61%) Data Warehouse
3 111 (16.02%) Power BI
4 62 (8.95%) Data Lake
5 53 (7.65%) NoSQL
6 49 (7.07%) SQL Server
7 41 (5.92%) Big Data
8 33 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
9 30 (4.33%) Tableau
10 25 (3.61%) Data Vault
11 21 (3.03%) Relational Database
12 20 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (2.31%) Data Mining
14 14 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (1.73%) MySQL
16 9 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.30%) Flink
17 8 (1.15%) Ataccama
17 8 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 38 (5.48%) ERwin
2 34 (4.91%) JIRA
3 14 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 13 (1.88%) ER Studio
5 8 (1.15%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.15%) Git
6 7 (1.01%) PyCharm
7 4 (0.58%) kappa
8 3 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.29%) GitLab
10 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 185 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 162 (23.38%) Finance
3 123 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (13.71%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.38%) Manufacturing
6 53 (7.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 39 (5.63%) Banking
8 37 (5.34%) Marketing
9 33 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (4.04%) Telecoms
11 26 (3.75%) Electronics
11 26 (3.75%) Legal
12 24 (3.46%) Retail
13 19 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Front Office
15 7 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 194 (27.99%) Architect
2 156 (22.51%) Data Architect
3 122 (17.60%) Analyst
4 86 (12.41%) Data Analyst
5 72 (10.39%) Data Engineer
6 61 (8.80%) Lead
7 60 (8.66%) Data Manager
8 48 (6.93%) Business Analyst
9 39 (5.63%) Consultant
10 35 (5.05%) Developer
11 34 (4.91%) Senior
12 33 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (3.61%) Data Business Analyst
14 24 (3.46%) Governance Analyst
14 24 (3.46%) Integration Engineer
15 23 (3.32%) Project Manager
16 22 (3.17%) Data Consultant
16 22 (3.17%) Data Governance Analyst
16 22 (3.17%) Data Governance Manager
16 22 (3.17%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.74%) REST
2 14 (2.02%) JSON
2 14 (2.02%) PySpark
3 13 (1.88%) Kafka
3 13 (1.88%) XML
4 9 (1.30%) Flask
5 7 (1.01%) FastAPI
6 6 (0.87%) CSS
6 6 (0.87%) Middleware
7 5 (0.72%) React
8 4 (0.58%) .NET
8 4 (0.58%) Pandas
9 3 (0.43%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.43%) ADO
9 3 (0.43%) EDI
9 3 (0.43%) HTML
9 3 (0.43%) SAP ALE
10 2 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.29%) IDoc
10 2 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.35%) Reference Data
2 35 (5.05%) Data Structures
3 29 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.59%) Wiki
7 10 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.15%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.72%) Industry 4.0
12 4 (0.58%) Derivative
12 4 (0.58%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.58%) NHS
13 3 (0.43%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.88%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (41.85%) Data Modelling
2 190 (27.42%) Data Management
3 155 (22.37%) Data Architecture
4 143 (20.63%) Analytics
5 139 (20.06%) Business Intelligence
6 137 (19.77%) Data Integration
7 127 (18.33%) Data Strategy
8 120 (17.32%) ETL
8 120 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 112 (16.16%) Agile
11 104 (15.01%) Migration
12 99 (14.29%) Data Lineage
13 96 (13.85%) Data Analysis
14 89 (12.84%) Decision-Making
15 82 (11.83%) Data Migration
16 79 (11.40%) Visualisation
17 73 (10.53%) Data Protection
18 72 (10.39%) Metadata Management
19 71 (10.25%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 163 (23.52%) SQL
2 84 (12.12%) Python
3 33 (4.76%) Java
4 21 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.45%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.31%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.59%) Scala
8 10 (1.44%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.30%) C#
10 7 (1.01%) Groovy
11 5 (0.72%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.58%) ABAP
12 4 (0.58%) R
13 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.14%) C++
14 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.84%) Degree
3 79 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.46%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.02%) PhD
7 12 (1.73%) IIBA
8 10 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.29%) CISA
9 2 (0.29%) CISSP
9 2 (0.29%) PMP
10 1 (0.14%) CEH
10 1 (0.14%) CISM
10 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.14%) MBA
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (39.11%) Data Quality
2 83 (11.98%) GDPR
3 28 (4.04%) QA
4 21 (3.03%) GxP
5 19 (2.74%) Good Clinical Practice
6 18 (2.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 12 (1.73%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.72%) GRC
9 4 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.58%) MiFID
10 3 (0.43%) IFRS
10 3 (0.43%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) COBIT
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (1.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (2.31%) Terraform
2 13 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.73%) Ansible
3 12 (1.73%) Puppet
4 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 86 (12.41%) SAP
2 73 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 63 (9.09%) Informatica
4 49 (7.07%) Oracle
5 43 (6.20%) Databricks
6 37 (5.34%) Sparx
7 22 (3.17%) Google
8 15 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.73%) Facebook
10 10 (1.44%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.44%) Talend
11 9 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.15%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.15%) Instagram
13 7 (1.01%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Splunk
13 7 (1.01%) Trillium
14 6 (0.87%) Adobe
14 6 (0.87%) Foundry
14 6 (0.87%) Remedy