Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Governance
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 43 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 15 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.30% 2.16% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 2.48% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £308 £373 £453
25th Percentile £325 £388 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -29.17% -2.76%
75th Percentile £438 £456 £1,019
90th Percentile £523 £468 £1,150
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £406 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -14.53% -20.83% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 242 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 84.24% 87.05% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 173 355
10th Percentile £224 £250 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £600
90th Percentile £628 £656 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 15
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.01 £14.30
25th Percentile £23.81 £17.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +9.79% +43.28%
75th Percentile £32.81 £36.50 £28.50
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.40 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £23.88
% change year-on-year -30.14% +50.79% +54.03%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Milton Keynes

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Collibra
2 2 (13.33%) Alation
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Metadata
2 2 (13.33%) Big Data
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (13.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Governance Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Information Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Release Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (26.67%) Change Management
2 4 (26.67%) Data Lineage
2 4 (26.67%) Data Management
2 4 (26.67%) Information Management
2 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) DAMA
3 3 (20.00%) DAMA DMBOK
3 3 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 3 (20.00%) Information Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Records Management
3 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Workflow
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) GDPR
2 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow