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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 133 244
Rank change year-on-year +51 +111 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 732 637 532
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.99% 1.75% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.03% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 468 369
10th Percentile £388 £400 £424
25th Percentile £463 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £703 £698
90th Percentile £925 £804 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 9
10th Percentile £17.84 £27.75 £23.91
25th Percentile £22.04 £33.92 -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% +23.84% -25.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.96 £78.75 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -33.75% +23.84% -53.86%

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 22,321 31,446 43,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.20% 86.42% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,602 20,588 30,513
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 945 2,245 1,538
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.92 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +40 456 £623 +3.75% 388
Midlands +52 70 £488 -11.36% 86
North of England -4 70 £450 -18.18% 139
South East +58 50 £525 +10.53% 218
West Midlands +29 45 £475 -15.18% 55
North West +7 44 £450 -10.00% 74
East of England +30 34 £600 +46.34% 30
South West +30 25 £563 -2.17% 55
East Midlands +28 23 £544 +6.10% 26
Yorkshire -8 22 £521 -9.35% 47
North East -2 4 £525 - 20
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 35 (4.78%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.01%) Apache
4 18 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.50%) Confluence
6 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.27%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 39 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.91%) Siemens NX
3 11 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.82%) Oracle Smart View
5 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.27%) Notepad++
8 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 51 (6.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (2.46%) SAP MDG
3 14 (1.91%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.96%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.68%) SAP HR
5 5 (0.68%) SAP MDG-S
6 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.41%) Maximo
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%) 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%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 181 (24.73%) Azure
2 125 (17.08%) Power Platform
3 122 (16.67%) AWS
4 73 (9.97%) GCP
5 43 (5.87%) Microsoft Purview
6 42 (5.74%) Snowflake
7 41 (5.60%) Collibra
8 33 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.87%) GitHub
10 21 (2.87%) Serverless
11 20 (2.73%) Amazon S3
12 16 (2.19%) dbt
13 13 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (1.64%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) FTP
4 1 (0.14%) GPRS
4 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.14%) MPLS
4 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (22.40%) Data Lake
2 139 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (15.44%) Power BI
4 74 (10.11%) Metadata
5 58 (7.92%) Tableau
6 40 (5.46%) Big Data
7 36 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.83%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.83%) NoSQL
9 25 (3.42%) Delta Lake
10 22 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (2.46%) Hadoop
13 15 (2.05%) Relational Database
14 14 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.78%) GIS
15 13 (1.78%) Oracle Database
16 11 (1.50%) Data Mining
16 11 (1.50%) Looker
16 11 (1.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 19 (2.60%) JIRA
2 14 (1.91%) ERwin
3 7 (0.96%) Git
4 6 (0.82%) GitLab
4 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.55%) Liquibase
5 4 (0.55%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.41%) Maven
7 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.27%) MagicDraw
7 2 (0.27%) XMLSpy
8 1 (0.14%) Flyway
8 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.14%) LSMW
8 1 (0.14%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 242 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 240 (32.79%) Finance
3 128 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (12.84%) Front Office
5 53 (7.24%) Banking
6 52 (7.10%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 25 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (3.01%) Retail
10 19 (2.60%) Legal
11 16 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.05%) Marketing
13 14 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.78%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.09%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 159 (21.72%) Architect
2 125 (17.08%) Analyst
3 120 (16.39%) Lead
4 103 (14.07%) Data Architect
5 89 (12.16%) Data Analyst
6 73 (9.97%) Data Engineer
7 43 (5.87%) Consultant
8 39 (5.33%) Senior
9 37 (5.05%) Business Analyst
9 37 (5.05%) Head of Finance
10 32 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (4.10%) Data Governance Analyst
11 30 (4.10%) Data Governance Manager
11 30 (4.10%) Data Manager
11 30 (4.10%) Governance Manager
12 28 (3.83%) Governance Analyst
13 27 (3.69%) Data Business Analyst
13 27 (3.69%) Project Manager
14 26 (3.55%) Data Consultant
15 21 (2.87%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.74%) Kafka
2 25 (3.42%) PySpark
3 16 (2.19%) XML
4 15 (2.05%) REST
5 14 (1.91%) Middleware
6 8 (1.09%) SOAP
7 7 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.82%) JSON
8 6 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (0.68%) FHIR
9 5 (0.68%) Hugging Face
9 5 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.55%) .NET
10 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.55%) React
11 3 (0.41%) Hibernate
11 3 (0.41%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 88 (12.02%) Derivative
3 87 (11.89%) Fixed Income
3 87 (11.89%) Hedge funds
4 86 (11.75%) Equities
5 41 (5.60%) Product Ownership
6 39 (5.33%) Data Structures
7 32 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (3.28%) Reference Data
9 22 (3.01%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.73%) Life Science
11 17 (2.32%) Cloud Native
12 16 (2.19%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.78%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.50%) Taxonomies
15 10 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (1.23%) FMCG
17 8 (1.09%) Data Fabric
17 8 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.64%) Linux
2 6 (0.82%) Windows
3 5 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (32.24%) Data Management
2 234 (31.97%) Migration
3 217 (29.64%) Analytics
4 210 (28.69%) Data Modelling
5 185 (25.27%) Agile
6 163 (22.27%) ETL
7 152 (20.77%) Business Intelligence
8 140 (19.13%) Roadmaps
9 137 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (16.53%) Data Architecture
10 121 (16.53%) Regulatory Compliance
11 107 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 102 (13.93%) Data Integration
13 93 (12.70%) Investment Management
14 91 (12.43%) Data Engineering
15 89 (12.16%) Data Strategy
16 87 (11.89%) Decision-Making
16 87 (11.89%) Visualisation
17 83 (11.34%) Data Migration
18 79 (10.79%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 195 (26.64%) SQL
2 138 (18.85%) Python
3 20 (2.73%) R
4 19 (2.60%) Scala
5 16 (2.19%) Java
6 11 (1.50%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.09%) Bicep
7 8 (1.09%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.82%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.68%) C#
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%) Magik
12 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.02%) Degree
3 64 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 11 (1.50%) PMP
8 9 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.55%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.14%) CBAP
11 1 (0.14%) CSPO
11 1 (0.14%) ISEB
11 1 (0.14%) PgMP
11 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (37.70%) Data Quality
2 96 (13.11%) GDPR
3 28 (3.83%) QA
4 24 (3.28%) MiFID
5 21 (2.87%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.82%) GRC
8 6 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.68%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.41%) NIST
12 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.14%) COPPA
13 1 (0.14%) GxP
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 18 (2.46%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) NFS
3 1 (0.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (5.33%) Terraform
2 22 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.82%) Grafana
4 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.55%) Kibana
5 4 (0.55%) logstash
6 2 (0.27%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.27%) Ansible
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
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%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 100 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 92 (12.57%) SAP
3 69 (9.43%) Databricks
4 51 (6.97%) Informatica
5 44 (6.01%) Google
6 37 (5.05%) Oracle
7 17 (2.32%) IBM
8 13 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.23%) Ariba
9 9 (1.23%) Talend
10 6 (0.82%) Sparx
10 6 (0.82%) Splunk
11 5 (0.68%) ESRI
11 5 (0.68%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.55%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.55%) Adobe
12 4 (0.55%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.41%) Dell
13 3 (0.41%) Palantir