Data Governance Consultant Contracts

Data Governance Consultant
UK

The median Data Governance Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 710 825
Rank change year-on-year +144 +115 -154
Contract jobs requiring a Data Governance Consultant 20 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.020% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.021% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 4
10th Percentile - £443 £423
25th Percentile £425 £478 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £566
90th Percentile £803 £571 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -1.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Data Governance Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Governance Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance Consultant in the UK

Data Governance Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance Consultant in the UK

Data Governance Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance Consultant over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance Consultant in the UK

Data Governance Consultant
Top 6 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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +128 16 £500 - 5
Work from Home +133 12 £450 -10.00% 2
London +109 8 £588 +17.50% 5
UK excluding London +76 8 £500 -4.76%
Midlands - 8 £500 -
West Midlands - 6 £475 -

Data Governance Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Data Governance Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Governance Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 11 (55.00%) Data Quality
3 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (40.00%) Informatica
5 7 (35.00%) Use Case
5 7 (35.00%) Data Lineage
5 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (35.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (25.00%) SAP
7 5 (25.00%) Data Management
7 5 (25.00%) SAP MDG
7 5 (25.00%) Data Governance Strategy
7 5 (25.00%) Metadata
8 4 (20.00%) ABAP
9 3 (15.00%) Oracle
9 3 (15.00%) SOA
9 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
9 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (15.00%) Replication
9 3 (15.00%) Workflow
9 3 (15.00%) Data Privacy
9 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (15.00%) SAP ALE
9 3 (15.00%) Facebook
9 3 (15.00%) Instagram
9 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
9 3 (15.00%) GDPR
9 3 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA

Data Governance Consultant Skill Set
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 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) SAP MDG
2 3 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Collibra
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (5.00%) Alation
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Ataccama
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Automotive
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SAP ALE
2 2 (10.00%) IDoc
2 2 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (10.00%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (5.00%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (35.00%) Data Lineage
3 7 (35.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (35.00%) Use Case
4 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Data Governance Strategy
5 5 (25.00%) Data Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Privacy
6 3 (15.00%) Data Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
6 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.00%) SOA
6 3 (15.00%) Workflow
7 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.00%) Data Security
7 2 (10.00%) Information Management
7 2 (10.00%) OO
7 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
3 2 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Informatica
2 5 (25.00%) SAP
3 3 (15.00%) Facebook
3 3 (15.00%) Instagram
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Okta
5 1 (5.00%) Symantec
5 1 (5.00%) Talend
5 1 (5.00%) Varonis