Data Governance Contracts in England

Data Governance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Governance over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 242 267
Rank change year-on-year +107 +25 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 640 553 752
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.74% 1.11% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.23% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 381 541
10th Percentile £400 £420 £454
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% +7.73%
75th Percentile £712 £698 £700
90th Percentile £800 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £27.15 £21.73 £13.48
25th Percentile £30.88 £29.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% +70.04% -
75th Percentile £47.69 £63.07 £61.37
90th Percentile £69.79 £85.50 £82.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.30 £20.49
% change year-on-year +23.84% +57.64% -48.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Governance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 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
London +117 390 £600 - 197
North of England +71 92 £550 +4.76% 35
North West +62 55 £510 +7.37% 18
South East -3 38 £475 -20.83% 40
Yorkshire +29 37 £600 -2.44% 14
Midlands +25 37 £550 +10.00% 20
South West +33 34 £575 - 11
East of England +27 34 £410 -6.29% 7
West Midlands +14 29 £525 +9.09% 14
East Midlands +22 6 £513 -10.87% 6
North East +19 4 £477 -13.27% 3
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 16 (2.50%) Confluence
2 14 (2.19%) Apache
2 14 (2.19%) SAS
3 12 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (4.53%) MS Visio
2 27 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Sketch
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (2.19%) SAP MDG
4 10 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.78%) SAP MDM
6 4 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.63%) FastStats
6 4 (0.63%) Unica
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.31%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.31%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 123 (19.22%) Azure
2 99 (15.47%) Power Platform
3 76 (11.88%) AWS
4 68 (10.63%) Collibra
5 40 (6.25%) GCP
6 35 (5.47%) Snowflake
7 28 (4.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (2.50%) Azure Stack
9 16 (2.50%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.56%) OCI
11 10 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.41%) SaaS
13 8 (1.25%) dbt
13 8 (1.25%) Serverless
14 7 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (0.78%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.16%) DNS
1 1 (0.16%) Intranet
1 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (23.13%) Metadata
2 122 (19.06%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (15.31%) Power BI
4 57 (8.91%) SQL Server
5 56 (8.75%) Data Lake
6 55 (8.59%) NoSQL
7 43 (6.72%) Big Data
8 34 (5.31%) Metadata Repository
9 26 (4.06%) Data Vault
10 22 (3.44%) Tableau
11 21 (3.28%) Relational Database
12 17 (2.66%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (2.50%) Data Mining
14 15 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (1.88%) MySQL
16 9 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (1.41%) Flink
17 8 (1.25%) Ataccama
17 8 (1.25%) OLAP
17 8 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 37 (5.78%) ERwin
2 29 (4.53%) JIRA
3 14 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 12 (1.88%) ER Studio
5 8 (1.25%) Git
6 7 (1.09%) Eclipse
6 7 (1.09%) PyCharm
7 4 (0.63%) kappa
8 2 (0.31%) GitLab
8 2 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
General
1 166 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 165 (25.78%) Finance
3 110 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (13.75%) Public Sector
5 66 (10.31%) Manufacturing
6 51 (7.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 41 (6.41%) Marketing
8 40 (6.25%) Banking
9 30 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (4.69%) Telecoms
10 28 (4.38%) Electronics
11 25 (3.91%) Retail
12 20 (3.13%) Legal
13 16 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.41%) Front Office
15 7 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.78%) Automotive
16 5 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (28.59%) Architect
2 152 (23.75%) Data Architect
3 109 (17.03%) Analyst
4 78 (12.19%) Data Analyst
5 70 (10.94%) Data Engineer
6 64 (10.00%) Lead
7 54 (8.44%) Data Manager
8 42 (6.56%) Business Analyst
9 37 (5.78%) Consultant
10 34 (5.31%) Senior
11 31 (4.84%) Developer
12 28 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (3.91%) Governance Analyst
14 24 (3.75%) Data Business Analyst
14 24 (3.75%) Integration Engineer
15 22 (3.44%) Project Manager
16 21 (3.28%) Chief Architect
16 21 (3.28%) Chief Data Architect
16 21 (3.28%) Data Governance Manager
16 21 (3.28%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.66%) REST
2 12 (1.88%) JSON
3 11 (1.72%) Kafka
3 11 (1.72%) PySpark
3 11 (1.72%) XML
4 9 (1.41%) Flask
5 8 (1.25%) CSS
6 7 (1.09%) FastAPI
6 7 (1.09%) React
7 6 (0.94%) .NET
7 6 (0.94%) Middleware
8 5 (0.78%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.63%) Pandas
10 3 (0.47%) ADO
10 3 (0.47%) EDI
10 3 (0.47%) HTML
10 3 (0.47%) SAP ALE
10 3 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.47%) Web Dynpro
11 2 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.72%) Reference Data
2 30 (4.69%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.88%) Wiki
7 8 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.25%) Taxonomies
8 6 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.78%) Industry 4.0
10 4 (0.63%) Derivative
10 4 (0.63%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.47%) NHS
11 3 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.03%) Linux
2 2 (0.31%) Unix
3 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (42.03%) Data Modelling
2 162 (25.31%) Data Management
3 146 (22.81%) Data Architecture
4 136 (21.25%) Business Intelligence
5 129 (20.16%) Analytics
6 128 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 116 (18.13%) Data Strategy
8 107 (16.72%) ETL
9 104 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 103 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (15.63%) Agile
12 98 (15.31%) Data Lineage
13 91 (14.22%) Data Analysis
14 89 (13.91%) Migration
15 84 (13.13%) Decision-Making
16 73 (11.41%) Data Migration
17 70 (10.94%) Visualisation
18 68 (10.63%) Metadata Management
19 60 (9.38%) Data Security
20 59 (9.22%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 156 (24.38%) SQL
2 78 (12.19%) Python
3 33 (5.16%) Java
4 22 (3.44%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.81%) T-SQL
6 17 (2.66%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.72%) C#
8 11 (1.72%) Scala
9 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.09%) Groovy
11 6 (0.94%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.63%) R
13 3 (0.47%) ABAP
14 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.16%) C++
15 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 71 (11.09%) Degree
3 70 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.19%) PhD
7 12 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.88%) IIBA
8 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.16%) CEH
11 1 (0.16%) CISA
11 1 (0.16%) CISM
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (38.75%) Data Quality
2 79 (12.34%) GDPR
3 26 (4.06%) QA
4 19 (2.97%) Good Clinical Practice
4 19 (2.97%) GxP
5 12 (1.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.94%) GRC
8 4 (0.63%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.63%) MiFID
9 3 (0.47%) IFRS
9 3 (0.47%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.47%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) COBIT
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (1.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (2.50%) Terraform
2 12 (1.88%) Ansible
2 12 (1.88%) Puppet
3 11 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 83 (12.97%) SAP
2 62 (9.69%) Informatica
2 62 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 48 (7.50%) Oracle
4 42 (6.56%) Databricks
5 38 (5.94%) Sparx
6 16 (2.50%) Google
7 14 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.88%) Facebook
9 10 (1.56%) Alteryx
9 10 (1.56%) Talend
10 9 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.25%) Dataiku
11 8 (1.25%) Instagram
12 7 (1.09%) IBM
12 7 (1.09%) Splunk
12 7 (1.09%) Trillium
13 6 (0.94%) Foundry
13 6 (0.94%) Palantir
13 6 (0.94%) Remedy