Data Governance Strategy Contracts

Data Governance Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 496 553 689
Rank change year-on-year +57 +136 +158
Contract jobs citing Data Governance Strategy 24 29 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.067% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.077% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 17
10th Percentile £525 £420 £449
25th Percentile £550 £556 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £680 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +23.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £788 £613
90th Percentile £704 £800 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +6.82% +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £43.63

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Data Governance Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Governance Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance Strategy in the UK

Data Governance Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance Strategy.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance Strategy in the UK

Data Governance Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance Strategy in the UK

Data Governance Strategy
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +47 16 £600 -11.76% 33
UK excluding London +71 12 £588 +6.82% 17
Work from Home +48 12 £563 -2.17% 17
London +23 7 £700 +2.94% 18
South West - 5 £610 - 6
Scotland - 3 - -
North of England +18 2 £550 - 4
North West +17 2 £550 - 3
South East - 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 - -

Data Governance Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Retail
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Alation
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (16.67%) Azure
4 3 (12.50%) Collibra
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Metadata
2 3 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Electronics
5 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Data Governance Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Data Governance Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Data Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Governance Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Project Governance Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Data Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Data Governance Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Data Governance Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Governance Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Management Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Master Data Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Migration Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Life Science
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 16 (66.67%) Data Management
3 8 (33.33%) Project Management
4 7 (29.17%) Data Privacy
4 7 (29.17%) Regulatory Compliance
4 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) Budget Management
5 5 (20.83%) Business Case
5 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.83%) Data Security
5 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) SDLC
5 5 (20.83%) Supplier Management
6 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (20.83%) GDPR
3 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Informatica
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) SAP
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
5 2 (8.33%) OneTrust
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle