Data Governance Contracts in England

Data Governance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 86 135 235
Rank change year-on-year +49 +100 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 729 637 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.99% 1.71% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 1.98% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 467 394
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £712 £700
90th Percentile £938 £793 £775
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £17.84 £27.15 £29.19
25th Percentile £22.04 £30.88 £32.30
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £37.97
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% +5.36% +99.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.69 £72.78
90th Percentile £82.96 £69.79 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £26.81 £40.00 £37.97
% change year-on-year -32.97% +5.36% +85.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in England

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in England

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in England

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in England

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in England

Data Governance
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +39 473 £625 +4.17% 439
North of England -4 66 £450 -18.18% 119
Midlands +36 53 £475 -13.64% 72
South East +53 47 £550 +15.79% 209
North West +2 39 £450 -13.46% 78
East of England +28 32 £600 +46.34% 32
West Midlands +17 32 £475 -9.52% 42
South West +39 27 £575 -1.08% 61
Yorkshire -7 22 £425 -29.17% 37
East Midlands +25 21 £538 +4.88% 20
North East +1 5 £525 +10.06% 6
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
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 37 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.43%) Apache
3 20 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.47%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.78%) Confluence
6 4 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.51%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.51%) Siemens NX
3 6 (0.82%) Oracle Smart View
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.27%) Notepad++
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (7.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.33%) SAP MDG
3 11 (1.51%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.69%) SAP HR
5 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG-S
6 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.41%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.41%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.27%) Magento
8 2 (0.27%) Maximo
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.27%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.27%) Shopify
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (23.05%) Azure
2 127 (17.42%) Power Platform
3 120 (16.46%) AWS
4 74 (10.15%) GCP
5 40 (5.49%) Snowflake
6 33 (4.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (4.25%) Collibra
8 25 (3.43%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (2.88%) Serverless
11 19 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.33%) GitHub
13 15 (2.06%) dbt
13 15 (2.06%) Power Automate
14 14 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.92%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.51%) SaaS
16 9 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.14%) FTP
1 1 (0.14%) GPRS
1 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (22.50%) Data Lake
2 141 (19.34%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (15.36%) Power BI
4 68 (9.33%) Metadata
5 62 (8.50%) Tableau
6 36 (4.94%) Big Data
7 33 (4.53%) SQL Server
8 31 (4.25%) BigQuery
9 25 (3.43%) NoSQL
10 22 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (2.47%) Relational Database
12 17 (2.33%) Hadoop
13 14 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (1.78%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.78%) Looker
15 12 (1.65%) Data Vault
16 11 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (1.51%) Power Query
16 11 (1.51%) SAP Data Services
16 11 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (3.16%) JIRA
2 14 (1.92%) ERwin
3 9 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.96%) GitLab
5 6 (0.82%) Git
5 6 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.55%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.41%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.41%) Maven
8 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.27%) MagicDraw
8 2 (0.27%) XMLSpy
9 1 (0.14%) Flyway
9 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.14%) LSMW
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 240 (32.92%) Social Skills
2 239 (32.78%) Finance
3 127 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (13.44%) Front Office
5 54 (7.41%) Banking
5 54 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (3.43%) Retail
7 22 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (2.33%) Marketing
9 14 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.92%) Legal
10 13 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.96%) Back Office
13 7 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (21.40%) Architect
2 128 (17.56%) Analyst
3 121 (16.60%) Lead
4 99 (13.58%) Data Architect
5 92 (12.62%) Data Analyst
6 73 (10.01%) Data Engineer
7 43 (5.90%) Consultant
7 43 (5.90%) Senior
8 37 (5.08%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.08%) Head of Finance
9 32 (4.39%) Data Governance Analyst
9 32 (4.39%) Data Governance Manager
9 32 (4.39%) Governance Manager
10 30 (4.12%) Project Manager
11 29 (3.98%) Data Manager
11 29 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (3.70%) Data Consultant
12 27 (3.70%) Governance Analyst
13 24 (3.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.76%) Kafka
2 23 (3.16%) PySpark
3 17 (2.33%) REST
4 13 (1.78%) Middleware
4 13 (1.78%) XML
5 9 (1.23%) SOAP
6 8 (1.10%) JSON
7 7 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (0.96%) Spring
7 7 (0.96%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.82%) .NET
8 6 (0.82%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (0.82%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.69%) FHIR
9 5 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.55%) React
10 4 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 97 (13.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 93 (12.76%) Derivative
3 92 (12.62%) Fixed Income
3 92 (12.62%) Hedge funds
4 91 (12.48%) Equities
5 46 (6.31%) Product Ownership
6 35 (4.80%) Data Structures
7 30 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (3.57%) Reference Data
9 20 (2.74%) Life Science
10 16 (2.19%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.19%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.92%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.51%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.23%) FMCG
13 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.96%) Replication
16 6 (0.82%) Data Fabric
16 6 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.51%) Linux
2 6 (0.82%) Windows
3 5 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (31.82%) Migration
2 228 (31.28%) Data Management
3 218 (29.90%) Analytics
4 206 (28.26%) Data Modelling
5 194 (26.61%) Agile
6 158 (21.67%) ETL
7 150 (20.58%) Business Intelligence
8 143 (19.62%) Roadmaps
9 138 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (16.74%) Data Architecture
11 121 (16.60%) Regulatory Compliance
12 105 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 100 (13.72%) Data Integration
13 100 (13.72%) Investment Management
14 93 (12.76%) Decision-Making
15 91 (12.48%) Visualisation
16 88 (12.07%) Data Strategy
17 85 (11.66%) Data Engineering
18 80 (10.97%) Data Analysis
19 76 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 182 (24.97%) SQL
2 132 (18.11%) Python
3 24 (3.29%) Scala
4 18 (2.47%) Java
4 18 (2.47%) R
5 11 (1.51%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.69%) C#
10 4 (0.55%) Bicep
11 3 (0.41%) ABAP
11 3 (0.41%) Bash
11 3 (0.41%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.14%) C
13 1 (0.14%) Go
13 1 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 73 (10.01%) SC Cleared
3 65 (8.92%) Degree
4 36 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.65%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.51%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.51%) PMP
7 10 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.55%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.14%) CAPM
11 1 (0.14%) CSPO
11 1 (0.14%) ISEB
11 1 (0.14%) MBA
11 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (36.90%) Data Quality
2 91 (12.48%) GDPR
3 33 (4.53%) QA
4 24 (3.29%) MiFID
5 23 (3.16%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.82%) GRC
8 6 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.69%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.14%) GxP
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (3.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
2 1 (0.14%) NFS
2 1 (0.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (4.66%) Terraform
2 27 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.82%) Grafana
4 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.55%) Kibana
5 4 (0.55%) logstash
6 2 (0.27%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.27%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.14%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 90 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 80 (10.97%) SAP
3 56 (7.68%) Databricks
4 42 (5.76%) Google
4 42 (5.76%) Informatica
5 28 (3.84%) Oracle
6 17 (2.33%) IBM
7 13 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.37%) Ariba
9 9 (1.23%) Talend
10 6 (0.82%) Adobe
10 6 (0.82%) Sparx
10 6 (0.82%) Splunk
11 5 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
11 5 (0.69%) Dataiku
11 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.55%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.55%) Red Hat