Data Governance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 130 174 248
Rank change year-on-year +44 +74 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 255 248 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.00% 1.19% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.41% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 169 150
10th Percentile £318 £405 £409
25th Percentile £429 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £669
90th Percentile £709 £705 £743
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £17.65 £25.94 £27.95
25th Percentile £21.08 £36.94 £30.75
Median hourly rate £24.75 £40.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -38.13% +23.84% +90.00%
75th Percentile £30.84 £47.19 £35.13
90th Percentile £49.07 £71.88 £40.23
UK median hourly rate £26.81 £40.00 £37.97
% change year-on-year -32.97% +5.36% +85.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +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% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
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 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -4 66 £450 -18.18% 121
Midlands +36 53 £475 -13.64% 73
South East +53 47 £550 +15.79% 209
North West +2 39 £450 -13.46% 80
East of England +28 32 £600 +46.34% 32
West Midlands +17 32 £475 -9.52% 43
South West +39 27 £575 -1.08% 61
Scotland +19 23 £438 -20.45% 27
Yorkshire -7 22 £425 -29.17% 37
East Midlands +25 21 £538 +4.88% 20
Northern Ireland - 7 £363 - 11
North East +1 5 £525 +10.06% 6
Wales +1 1 £236 - 13
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
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 12 (4.71%) Apache
2 9 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.14%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Appian
5 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.31%) Siemens NX
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (9.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.31%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.18%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.18%) SAP GRC
3 3 (1.18%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.78%) Maximo
4 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.14%) Azure
2 46 (18.04%) Power Platform
3 44 (17.25%) AWS
4 37 (14.51%) GCP
5 15 (5.88%) Snowflake
6 13 (5.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.35%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.35%) Collibra
9 6 (2.35%) dbt
9 6 (2.35%) Serverless
10 5 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (1.96%) Asana
10 5 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.96%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.57%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 4 (1.57%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (21.18%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (16.08%) Power BI
3 22 (8.63%) Metadata
4 19 (7.45%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.67%) Tableau
6 14 (5.49%) BigQuery
7 10 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.53%) Big Data
8 9 (3.53%) Looker
9 8 (3.14%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.35%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.18%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.18%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (3.92%) JIRA
2 4 (1.57%) ERwin
2 4 (1.57%) GitLab
3 3 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Git
5 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.39%) Flyway
5 1 (0.39%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (17.65%) Finance
4 28 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.24%) Banking
6 15 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.53%) Retail
9 7 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.96%) Marketing
12 4 (1.57%) Legal
13 3 (1.18%) Electronics
13 3 (1.18%) Local Government
13 3 (1.18%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.78%) Automotive
14 2 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (22.75%) Architect
2 50 (19.61%) Analyst
3 40 (15.69%) Data Analyst
4 33 (12.94%) Lead
5 30 (11.76%) Data Architect
6 27 (10.59%) Data Engineer
7 25 (9.80%) Project Manager
8 17 (6.67%) Senior
9 16 (6.27%) Consultant
9 16 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (5.49%) Data Manager
11 12 (4.71%) Business Analyst
12 10 (3.92%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Configuration Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Data Consultant
13 9 (3.53%) Junior
14 8 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
15 7 (2.75%) Data Business Analyst
15 7 (2.75%) Data Governance Analyst
15 7 (2.75%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.88%) Kafka
2 11 (4.31%) XML
3 7 (2.75%) Middleware
3 7 (2.75%) PySpark
4 5 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.57%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.57%) React
6 3 (1.18%) NumPy
6 3 (1.18%) Pandas
6 3 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.78%) JSON
7 2 (0.78%) REST
7 2 (0.78%) RESTful
8 1 (0.39%) ADO
8 1 (0.39%) SOAP
8 1 (0.39%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.49%) Data Structures
1 14 (5.49%) Life Science
2 10 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.57%) EPoS
6 4 (1.57%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.57%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.57%) Replication
7 3 (1.18%) Derivative
7 3 (1.18%) FMCG
7 3 (1.18%) IoT
8 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.31%) Linux
2 6 (2.35%) Windows
3 4 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.55%) Analytics
2 72 (28.24%) ETL
3 67 (26.27%) Migration
4 63 (24.71%) Data Management
5 61 (23.92%) Data Modelling
6 58 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (18.43%) Business Intelligence
8 41 (16.08%) Agile
8 41 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (15.69%) Data Migration
10 37 (14.51%) Data Integration
11 36 (14.12%) Data Architecture
11 36 (14.12%) Project Management
12 35 (13.73%) Data Analysis
12 35 (13.73%) Decision-Making
13 33 (12.94%) Data Engineering
13 33 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.76%) Visualisation
15 25 (9.80%) Data Strategy
16 23 (9.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (25.10%) SQL
2 36 (14.12%) Python
3 9 (3.53%) Java
4 8 (3.14%) Scala
5 6 (2.35%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.96%) R
7 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.78%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.39%) C#
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.59%) Degree
3 21 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.96%) PMP
7 5 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.39%) CITP
10 1 (0.39%) CRISC
10 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (42.35%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.59%) GDPR
3 15 (5.88%) QA
4 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.18%) GRC
4 3 (1.18%) PMO
5 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (3.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (4.71%) Kubernetes
1 12 (4.71%) Terraform
2 6 (2.35%) Grafana
3 5 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.57%) Kibana
4 4 (1.57%) logstash
5 2 (0.78%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 41 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.55%) SAP
3 22 (8.63%) Google
4 18 (7.06%) Databricks
5 7 (2.75%) Informatica
6 6 (2.35%) IBM
6 6 (2.35%) Splunk
7 5 (1.96%) Ariba
8 4 (1.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.78%) Cramer
9 2 (0.78%) Epicor
9 2 (0.78%) Infoblox
9 2 (0.78%) Remedy
9 2 (0.78%) Talend
9 2 (0.78%) Teradata
9 2 (0.78%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.39%) Palantir
10 1 (0.39%) Tagetik
10 1 (0.39%) Workday