Data Governance Manager Contracts in England

Data Governance Manager
UK > England

The median Data Governance Manager daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 526 611
Rank change year-on-year +28 +85 +168
Contract jobs requiring a Data Governance Manager 13 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.057% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.061% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 9
10th Percentile £463 £500 £456
25th Percentile £488 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £706 £650 £610
90th Percentile £818 £775 £656
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,034 32,902 44,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 92.99% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,263 21,667 31,250
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,248 2,188 1,386
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.13 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.39 £42.50 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% -3.53% +75.62%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

Data Governance Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance Manager in England

Data Governance Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance Manager in England

Data Governance Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance Manager in England over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance Manager in England

Data Governance Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
London +35 8 £638 -15.00% 13
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 3
Midlands - 2 £475 - 3
South West - 1 - - 6
Data Governance Manager
UK

Data Governance Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 July 2025, Data Governance Manager 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 across the England region featuring Data Governance Manager in the job title.

1 12 (92.31%) Data Governance
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 4 (30.77%) Data Management
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Data Lineage
3 3 (23.08%) Culture Change
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Metadata
3 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Retail
3 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Metadata Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
4 2 (15.38%) GDPR
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (15.38%) DAMA
5 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making

Data Governance Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Derivative
1 1 (7.69%) Equities
1 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
1 1 (7.69%) FMCG
1 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Data Governance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Management
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Culture Change
3 3 (23.08%) Data Lineage
3 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
3 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) DAMA
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Metadata Management
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.69%) Data Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft