Data Governance Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 68 118 127
Rank change year-on-year +50 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 34 27 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.25% 1.01% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 1.15% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 16
10th Percentile £400 - £444
25th Percentile £453 £425 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £599
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -20.67% -0.21%
75th Percentile £656 £550 £736
90th Percentile £703 £575 £788
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £613
% change year-on-year +15.79% -22.45% +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.32
25th Percentile - - £29.19
Median hourly rate - - £32.30
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.36 - £32.30

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +40 25 £550 +15.79% 46
Buckinghamshire +14 5 £500 - 23
Oxfordshire +5 4 £563 +25.00% 21
Data Governance
South East

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SAP ERP
1 3 (8.82%) SAP GRC
1 3 (8.82%) SAP MDG
1 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 3 (8.82%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.94%) Collibra
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
3 3 (8.82%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.88%) Metadata
4 2 (5.88%) Tableau
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.94%) GIS
5 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.94%) HBase
5 1 (2.94%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.94%) Impala
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.94%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) ERwin
1 1 (2.94%) GitLab
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Architect
2 9 (26.47%) Data Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Data Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Consultant
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 4 (11.76%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Change Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.82%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) SAP Security Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Security Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Data Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Lead Data Architect
7 2 (5.88%) OSS Project Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Kafka
2 3 (8.82%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.94%) MACH
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.88%) IoT
2 2 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.94%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
1 4 (11.76%) Unix
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Data Management
2 10 (29.41%) Agile
2 10 (29.41%) Analytics
2 10 (29.41%) ETL
3 9 (26.47%) Machine Learning
3 9 (26.47%) Migration
4 8 (23.53%) Data Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Change Management
5 7 (20.59%) Data Architecture
5 7 (20.59%) Project Management
6 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.71%) Data Migration
7 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (14.71%) Data Security
7 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) R
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.76%) PMP
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.71%) GDPR
3 3 (8.82%) GRC
3 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
1 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) Cramer
4 2 (5.88%) Infoblox
4 2 (5.88%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) ESRI
5 1 (2.94%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.94%) Talend
5 1 (2.94%) Virgin Media