Data Governance Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Governance Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Governance Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 390 447
Rank change year-on-year +68 +57 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Governance Strategy 12 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.019% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.023% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £525 £530 £514
25th Percentile £534 £538 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £566
90th Percentile £620 £595 £571
UK median daily rate £575 £680 £550
% change year-on-year -15.44% +23.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.63
UK median hourly rate - - £43.63

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Data Governance Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Governance Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West - 5 £610 - 4
Scotland - 3 - -
North West +10 2 £550 - 2
North of England +10 2 £550 - 2
South East - 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 - -
Data Governance Strategy
UK

Data Governance Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Confluence
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Alation
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Metadata
2 3 (25.00%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Electronics
4 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Data Governance Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Data Governance Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Governance Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Project Governance Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Governance Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Management Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Master Data Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 8 (66.67%) Data Management
2 8 (66.67%) Project Management
3 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) Budget Management
4 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
4 5 (41.67%) Supplier Management
5 4 (33.33%) Business Case
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Master Data Management
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) SDLC
6 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Informatica
3 3 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (25.00%) SAP