Data Governance Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Governance
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 68 105
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 14 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.24% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £416 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £478 - £681
90th Percentile £506 - £828
Scotland median daily rate £438 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% -11.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Edinburgh

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in Edinburgh

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
3 3 (21.43%) Alation
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (21.43%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) PowerCenter
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Data Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Data Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Governance Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Project Governance Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Analytics
2 6 (42.86%) ETL
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Data Science
4 4 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Business Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (21.43%) Data Governance Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Use Case
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
6 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CRISC
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (28.57%) QA
3 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Informatica
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) IBM
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) Teradata
5 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
5 1 (7.14%) Databricks
5 1 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) Reuters
5 1 (7.14%) TSYS