Data Governance Contracts in Reading

Data Governance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 52 89 79
Rank change year-on-year +37 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 8 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 0.17% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.19% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £331 £533 £508
25th Percentile £456 £544 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £741
90th Percentile £670 £598 £773
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £475 £613
% change year-on-year +15.79% -22.45% +6.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Reading

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in Reading

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Reading

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in Reading

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Collibra
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) GIS
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) HBase
3 1 (12.50%) HDInsight
3 1 (12.50%) Impala
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (12.50%) Spatial Data
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) GIS Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) OSS Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) MapReduce
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Project Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Flume
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Cramer
3 1 (12.50%) ESRI
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) StreamSets
3 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media