Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Governance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Governance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 90 83
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 4 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.54% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.63% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile £413 £667 £558
25th Percentile £432 £673 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £691 £625
Median % change year-on-year -31.65% +10.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £569 £705 £688
90th Percentile £648 £709 -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -9.52% -19.23% +13.04%

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 546 955 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.61% 86.43% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 513 652
10th Percentile £344 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +9.56%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 18
10th Percentile - £14.50 £38.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £50.81 £57.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £61.33 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% -7.08% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £73.57 £74.59
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +2.49% +18.81%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Reading over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Reading

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Governance

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 1 (25.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) Spatial Data
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) GIS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Magik
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) OCP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) ESRI