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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 183 198
Rank change year-on-year +67 +15 +107
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 320 210 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 1.14% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.38% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 130 196
10th Percentile £350 £353 £419
25th Percentile £426 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -7.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £644
90th Percentile £675 £710 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £611
% change year-on-year -8.70% -5.93% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 7
10th Percentile £17.65 £28.35 £21.73
25th Percentile £21.08 £30.00 £29.19
Median hourly rate £25.14 £40.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -37.15% +23.84% +95.76%
75th Percentile £48.90 - £37.97
90th Percentile £79.09 £45.75 £51.68
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £40.00 £33.65
% change year-on-year -17.20% +18.87% -23.09%

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 13,664 15,267 19,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.13% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,216 9,199 13,235
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,319 1,592 1,214
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £76.07
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 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
North of England -10 85 £460 -12.38% 125
Midlands +38 77 £501 +0.10% 75
North West +9 57 £450 -5.26% 75
South East +30 50 £450 -5.26% 167
West Midlands +20 47 £563 +12.50% 46
South West +32 38 £575 - 40
Scotland +13 33 £475 - 31
East of England +19 27 £563 +37.20% 28
East Midlands +17 27 £459 +6.13% 29
Yorkshire -14 26 £500 -10.23% 38
Northern Ireland - 8 £425 - 17
Wales +11 3 £425 - 10
North East -2 2 £463 - 16
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -
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 18 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.13%) Confluence
3 9 (2.81%) Apache
4 7 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.25%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.94%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.94%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.63%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 22 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.31%) Siemens NX
3 6 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.31%) Maple
Business Applications
1 25 (7.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (5.31%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.88%) SAP PM
4 5 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.25%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.63%) Maximo
8 1 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.31%) Primavera
8 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.31%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.31%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 75 (23.44%) Azure
2 56 (17.50%) Power Platform
3 44 (13.75%) AWS
4 27 (8.44%) GCP
5 26 (8.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 20 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (5.63%) Snowflake
8 15 (4.69%) Collibra
8 15 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (4.38%) Serverless
10 11 (3.44%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (2.50%) dbt
13 7 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) Firewall
2 2 (0.63%) Network Security
2 2 (0.63%) VPN
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.31%) GPRS
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.19%) Power BI
2 50 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (10.94%) Metadata
4 20 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 20 (6.25%) Tableau
5 18 (5.63%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (4.38%) GIS
7 12 (3.75%) Big Data
7 12 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.13%) BigQuery
8 10 (3.13%) Delta Lake
9 9 (2.81%) Looker
10 7 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.88%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.88%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.88%) Power Query
12 5 (1.56%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 10 (3.13%) JIRA
2 8 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.25%) ERwin
3 4 (1.25%) Git
4 3 (0.94%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.94%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.94%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) MLflow
General
1 129 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.00%) Finance
3 54 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (14.06%) Public Sector
5 29 (9.06%) Banking
6 18 (5.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 15 (4.69%) Legal
8 12 (3.75%) Marketing
9 11 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.50%) Retail
11 8 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.56%) Local Government
14 4 (1.25%) Law
14 4 (1.25%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 69 (21.56%) Architect
2 58 (18.13%) Analyst
3 39 (12.19%) Data Architect
4 37 (11.56%) Lead
5 35 (10.94%) Data Analyst
6 30 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 21 (6.56%) Senior
8 20 (6.25%) Business Analyst
9 18 (5.63%) Project Manager
10 16 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
10 16 (5.00%) Configuration Engineer
11 14 (4.38%) Consultant
12 13 (4.06%) Data Manager
13 12 (3.75%) Developer
14 10 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (2.81%) Data Business Analyst
15 9 (2.81%) Data Modeller
16 7 (2.19%) Data Migration Lead
16 7 (2.19%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.13%) Kafka
2 18 (5.63%) XML
3 9 (2.81%) Middleware
4 8 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.19%) REST
5 7 (2.19%) SOAP
6 6 (1.88%) RESTful
7 5 (1.56%) .NET
7 5 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (1.56%) Visualforce
8 4 (1.25%) PySpark
8 4 (1.25%) React
9 3 (0.94%) Flask
9 3 (0.94%) Loki
9 3 (0.94%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.94%) PostGIS
9 3 (0.94%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 17 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.06%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.06%) Life Science
4 11 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.50%) Replication
7 7 (2.19%) IoT
7 7 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.88%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.88%) SCADA
9 5 (1.56%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.25%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.94%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.94%) NHS
11 3 (0.94%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.44%) Linux
2 5 (1.56%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (31.88%) Analytics
2 101 (31.56%) Data Modelling
3 76 (23.75%) ETL
4 74 (23.13%) Migration
5 72 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (20.00%) Agile
8 62 (19.38%) Data Management
9 53 (16.56%) Data Integration
10 50 (15.63%) Data Migration
11 48 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 47 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (14.06%) Data Engineering
13 45 (14.06%) Decision-Making
14 43 (13.44%) Artificial Intelligence
15 42 (13.13%) Data Architecture
16 40 (12.50%) Data Analysis
17 38 (11.88%) Data Strategy
17 38 (11.88%) DevOps
17 38 (11.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 95 (29.69%) SQL
2 60 (18.75%) Python
3 13 (4.06%) Java
4 11 (3.44%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.81%) Scala
6 8 (2.50%) R
7 6 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.56%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.56%) Bicep
8 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.25%) C#
9 4 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.25%) VBA
10 3 (0.94%) Magik
11 2 (0.63%) Bash
11 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) ABAP
12 1 (0.31%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.56%) Degree
3 30 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.44%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.13%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.25%) PMP
10 4 (1.25%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.94%) MCSE
11 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.31%) CRISC
12 1 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.31%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (39.38%) Data Quality
2 38 (11.88%) GDPR
3 16 (5.00%) QA
4 7 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.25%) PMO
7 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.63%) HL7
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.31%) GMP
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) GxP
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (3.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.06%) Terraform
3 10 (3.13%) Grafana
4 9 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.56%) Kibana
5 5 (1.56%) logstash
6 3 (0.94%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.63%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.31%) Ansible
8 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.75%) SAP
3 24 (7.50%) Databricks
4 18 (5.63%) Informatica
5 17 (5.31%) Google
5 17 (5.31%) Oracle
6 13 (4.06%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.81%) IBM
8 6 (1.88%) ESRI
9 5 (1.56%) Splunk
10 4 (1.25%) Ariba
10 4 (1.25%) Teradata
11 3 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.63%) Adobe
12 2 (0.63%) Cisco
12 2 (0.63%) Cognos
12 2 (0.63%) OneTrust
12 2 (0.63%) Talend
12 2 (0.63%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.63%) Workday