Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Data Governance
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 6.35% 4.17% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 4.44% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £295 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +55.56% -
75th Percentile £563 - £475
90th Percentile £675 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £700 £450
% change year-on-year -28.57% +55.56% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 45 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 87.30% 93.75% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 58
10th Percentile £208 £211 £180
25th Percentile £363 £361 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £525
90th Percentile £615 £696 £583
Oxfordshire median daily rate £478 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -4.50% +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 15
10th Percentile - £13.08 £12.70
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.96 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £45.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.02% +73.08% +6.12%
75th Percentile - £46.30 £47.75
90th Percentile £24.03 £46.78 £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -25.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Oxford

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Oxford over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Oxford

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (75.00%) Power BI
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) Tableau
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Information Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft