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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 97 109
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 27 30 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.63% 1.29% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.52% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 25
10th Percentile £336 £363 £463
25th Percentile £406 £425 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £615
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -22.76% +12.84%
75th Percentile £542 £555 £669
90th Percentile £623 £688 £716
South East median daily rate £463 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -2.63% -20.83% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £27.95
25th Percentile - - £30.75
Median hourly rate - - £32.30
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.36 - £30.23

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 1,527 1,973 2,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.04% 84.68% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 1,119 1,726
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.66% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 112 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.45
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.45
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.39% +10.08% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £74.96
South East median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +105.25%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +15 16 £506 +6.58% 28
Buckinghamshire +4 9 £425 +3.03% 17
Oxfordshire - 1 £400 - 11
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 4 (14.81%) ArcGIS
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Spatial
2 3 (11.11%) Smallworld
3 2 (7.41%) CMS
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (3.70%) SAP GRC
3 1 (3.70%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) Collibra
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
1 4 (14.81%) GIS
1 4 (14.81%) Metadata
1 4 (14.81%) Spatial Data
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) Power BI
3 2 (7.41%) Tableau
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.70%) EDMS
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) ERwin
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
4 4 (14.81%) Finance
5 2 (7.41%) Local Government
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.70%) Agriculture
6 1 (3.70%) Automotive
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Information Manager
4 4 (14.81%) Knowledge Manager
5 3 (11.11%) GIS Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Migration Architect
6 2 (7.41%) OSS Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Release Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Middleware
1 3 (11.11%) PostGIS
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.11%) Taxonomies
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) FMCG
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Migration
1 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Data Modelling
3 6 (22.22%) Analytics
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Data Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (18.52%) Information Management
4 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.81%) Architectural Design
5 4 (14.81%) Change Management
5 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
5 4 (14.81%) Information Architecture
5 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Records Management
5 4 (14.81%) Validation
6 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Magik
3 1 (3.70%) ABAP
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.41%) PMP
2 2 (7.41%) SAP Certification
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) ESRI
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Cramer
4 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 2 (7.41%) Infoblox
4 2 (7.41%) Remedy
4 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) Google
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media