Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Data Governance
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Governance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 55 62
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 8 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 2.29% 0.56% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 0.66% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile £458 - £404
25th Percentile £525 £304 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £308 £525
Median % change year-on-year +91.06% -41.43% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £321 -
90th Percentile £670 £326 £531
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £574
% change year-on-year - -17.21% +1.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 330 455 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.29% 85.53% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 328 552
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £250 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 29
10th Percentile £16.49 £12.33 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +75.90%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Surrey

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Surrey over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Surrey

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Guildford - 1 £600 - 2
Staines - 1 £425 -
Data Governance
South East

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Head of Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Head of Data Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Analytics
1 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 3 (37.50%) ERP
1 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (37.50%) Master Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Inventory Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (12.50%) Logistics
3 1 (12.50%) System Testing
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) R
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP