Data Governance Contracts in the East of England

Data Governance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 79 90
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 33 31 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.39% 1.64% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 1.93% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 12
10th Percentile £347 - £281
25th Percentile £500 £405 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £410 £438
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -6.29% -20.45%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £491
90th Percentile £670 £609 £605
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £45.39
25th Percentile - - £48.04
Median hourly rate £18.22 £79.17 £53.07
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +49.19% -
75th Percentile - - £58.72
90th Percentile - - £61.74
England median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -33.75% +23.84% -25.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 880 1,608 1,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.35% 85.03% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 669 1,007
10th Percentile £228 £205 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £677 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 610 327
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.03 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the East of England

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the East of England

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the East of England

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the East of England

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Bedfordshire +2 18 £600 +20.00% 3
Hertfordshire - 8 £588 - 9
Essex - 4 £315 - 3
Norfolk - 2 £450 - 5
Cambridgeshire -4 1 - - 5
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (12.12%) Apache
1 4 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (51.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 3 (9.09%) dbt
3 3 (9.09%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) Vertex AI
4 1 (3.03%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.15%) Power BI
3 4 (12.12%) BigQuery
3 4 (12.12%) Metadata
3 4 (12.12%) Tableau
4 3 (9.09%) Looker
5 1 (3.03%) Big Data
5 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) ER Studio
1 1 (3.03%) ERwin
1 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Local Government
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Lead
2 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) Technical Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Data Governance Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) Data Modeller
4 2 (6.06%) DBA
4 2 (6.06%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) SQL DBA
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
5 1 (3.03%) SAP Data Architect
5 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
1 4 (12.12%) PySpark
1 4 (12.12%) React
2 3 (9.09%) Kafka
2 3 (9.09%) NumPy
2 3 (9.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) Life Science
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) EPoS
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) FMCG
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Analytics
2 19 (57.58%) Migration
3 17 (51.52%) Data Design
4 10 (30.30%) Data Management
5 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (18.18%) ETL
6 6 (18.18%) Record to Report
6 6 (18.18%) Workflow
7 5 (15.15%) Data Migration
7 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.15%) Data Security
7 5 (15.15%) Data Strategy
7 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Accounts Payable
8 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
8 4 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (12.12%) Logical Data Model
8 4 (12.12%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (12.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) Java
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (60.61%) Data Quality
2 7 (21.21%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) SAP
2 5 (15.15%) Ariba
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Anaplan
4 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) Tagetik
4 1 (3.03%) Teradata