Data Governance Contracts in Scotland

Data Governance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 110 154
Rank change year-on-year +18 +44 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 21 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.63% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 10
10th Percentile £406 £513 £461
25th Percentile £413 £563 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +9.52% -11.02%
75th Percentile £525 £597 £628
90th Percentile £708 £638 £930
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,520 1,904 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.71% 88.31% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,167 1,792
10th Percentile £263 £225 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £556
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 90 54
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +20.00% -56.59%
75th Percentile £24.66 £46.24 £52.25
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.93 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Scotland

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in Scotland

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Scotland

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in Scotland

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Edinburgh +17 14 £431 -36.15% 12
Glasgow -7 5 £450 -21.74% 7
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Alation
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (14.29%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (9.52%) PowerCenter
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Data Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Business Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Data Governance Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Data Governance Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Data Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Governance Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Project Governance Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Report Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Derivative
2 2 (9.52%) Equities
2 2 (9.52%) Fixed Income
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Analytics
1 8 (38.10%) Data Modelling
2 7 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 7 (33.33%) ETL
2 7 (33.33%) SDLC
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
3 5 (23.81%) Data Science
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Business Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
4 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (14.29%) Business Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) CRISC
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (28.57%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Informatica
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (9.52%) Bloomberg
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Reuters
3 2 (9.52%) Teradata
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) TSYS