Data Governance Contracts in the South East

Data Governance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 93 156 155
Rank change year-on-year +63 -1 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 49 37 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.64% 0.68% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 0.81% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 27 45
10th Percentile £400 £304 £475
25th Percentile £450 £388 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £553 £698
90th Percentile £709 £640 £741
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £16.89 - £18.47
25th Percentile £17.75 - £23.36
Median hourly rate £19.36 - £30.23
75th Percentile £20.82 - £32.30
90th Percentile £21.59 - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £37.97
% change year-on-year -33.75% +5.36% -12.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,732 4,582 4,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.40% 84.35% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,665 3,453
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 218
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -4.04% +130.23%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the South East

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the South East

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the South East

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the South East

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +47 34 £519 +9.21% 40
Berkshire +41 25 £550 +15.79% 31
Buckinghamshire +14 5 £500 - 5
Hampshire +26 4 £663 -10.17% 19
Surrey +15 4 £500 +62.60% 11
Oxfordshire +4 4 £563 +25.00% 10
West Sussex +16 3 £625 +47.06% 3
East Sussex - 2 - - 4
Kent - 1 £500 - 6
Home Counties - 1 - -
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.12%) ArcGIS
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (4.08%) Smallworld
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) SAP ERP
1 3 (6.12%) SAP GRC
1 3 (6.12%) SAP MDG
1 3 (6.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.16%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.04%) Asana
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.61%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 7 (14.29%) Power BI
3 6 (12.24%) Metadata
4 4 (8.16%) Tableau
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.12%) GIS
5 3 (6.12%) Spatial Data
6 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.08%) Big Data
7 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.04%) DataStage
7 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.04%) HBase
7 1 (2.04%) HDInsight
7 1 (2.04%) Impala
7 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) ERwin
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Telecoms
4 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Finance
6 2 (4.08%) Local Government
7 1 (2.04%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Architect
2 10 (20.41%) Analyst
2 10 (20.41%) Data Analyst
2 10 (20.41%) Data Architect
3 6 (12.24%) Consultant
3 6 (12.24%) Lead
4 5 (10.20%) Senior
5 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Data Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Change Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Data Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) SAP Security Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Security Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Kafka
1 3 (6.12%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (4.08%) Middleware
2 2 (4.08%) PostGIS
2 2 (4.08%) PySpark
3 1 (2.04%) ADO
3 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.04%) MACH
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
1 4 (8.16%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.73%) Analytics
2 17 (34.69%) Data Management
2 17 (34.69%) Data Modelling
3 16 (32.65%) ETL
4 15 (30.61%) Agile
5 11 (22.45%) Data Engineering
5 11 (22.45%) Migration
6 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.33%) Data Architecture
8 8 (16.33%) Machine Learning
8 8 (16.33%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.29%) Change Management
9 7 (14.29%) Data Integration
9 7 (14.29%) Data Migration
9 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (14.29%) Data Security
9 7 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) SQL
2 8 (16.33%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) Magik
3 2 (4.08%) R
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) PMI Certification
2 5 (10.20%) PMP
3 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.12%) Degree
3 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.24%) GDPR
3 4 (8.16%) QA
4 3 (6.12%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Databricks
3 4 (8.16%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) ESRI
4 3 (6.12%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) Cramer
5 2 (4.08%) Infoblox
5 2 (4.08%) Informatica
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) Remedy
5 2 (4.08%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.04%) Virgin Media