Data Governance Contracts

Data Governance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Governance over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 254 265
Rank change year-on-year +111 +11 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 707 629 915
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 1.09% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.21% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 439 651
10th Percentile £400 £425 £454
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £698 £700
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 5
10th Percentile £27.75 £22.82 £12.93
25th Percentile £33.92 £30.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.97 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% -45.76% +75.00%
75th Percentile £59.50 £68.44 £90.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £84.75 £96.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.30 £13.61
% change year-on-year +23.84% +137.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Governance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +111 643 £575 -4.17% 247
London +115 397 £600 - 146
Work from Home +102 261 £550 -12.00% 143
UK excluding London +50 236 £550 - 104
North of England +73 94 £550 +4.76% 31
North West +60 57 £510 +7.37% 15
Yorkshire +30 38 £600 -1.44% 13
South East -4 38 £475 -20.83% 28
South West +29 34 £575 +2.22% 16
Midlands +18 33 £550 +10.00% 16
East of England +23 32 £410 -6.29% 3
West Midlands +5 25 £550 +14.29% 11
Scotland +35 12 £575 +9.52% 5
East Midlands +25 6 £513 -10.87% 5
North East +16 3 - - 3
Wales +9 1 - - 5

Data Governance
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 17 (2.40%) Confluence
1 17 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.98%) SAS
3 13 (1.84%) Apache
4 12 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 31 (4.38%) MS Visio
2 28 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.83%) SAP MDG
3 19 (2.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.71%) SAP MDM
6 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.57%) FastStats
6 4 (0.57%) Unica
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.28%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.14%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 136 (19.24%) Azure
2 119 (16.83%) Power Platform
3 83 (11.74%) AWS
4 74 (10.47%) Collibra
5 41 (5.80%) GCP
6 36 (5.09%) Snowflake
7 32 (4.53%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (2.83%) Power Automate
10 18 (2.55%) Azure Stack
11 14 (1.98%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.56%) Serverless
14 10 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.41%) dbt
15 9 (1.27%) OCI
15 9 (1.27%) SaaS
16 8 (1.13%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.14%) DNS
1 1 (0.14%) Intranet
1 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (22.35%) Metadata
2 129 (18.25%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (16.27%) Power BI
4 64 (9.05%) Data Lake
5 59 (8.35%) SQL Server
6 54 (7.64%) NoSQL
7 43 (6.08%) Big Data
8 33 (4.67%) Metadata Repository
9 28 (3.96%) Tableau
10 26 (3.68%) Data Vault
11 20 (2.83%) Relational Database
11 20 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (2.26%) Data Mining
13 15 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (1.70%) MySQL
16 10 (1.41%) Ataccama
17 9 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.27%) Flink
18 8 (1.13%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 37 (5.23%) ERwin
2 36 (5.09%) JIRA
3 14 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 11 (1.56%) ER Studio
5 9 (1.27%) Git
6 8 (1.13%) Eclipse
7 7 (0.99%) PyCharm
8 4 (0.57%) kappa
9 3 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.28%) GitLab
11 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 187 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 171 (24.19%) Finance
3 134 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (13.01%) Public Sector
5 68 (9.62%) Manufacturing
6 57 (8.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 44 (6.22%) Banking
8 41 (5.80%) Marketing
9 35 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (4.24%) Telecoms
11 28 (3.96%) Electronics
12 24 (3.39%) Retail
13 23 (3.25%) Legal
14 18 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.27%) Front Office
16 7 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.71%) Law
18 5 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 198 (28.01%) Architect
2 157 (22.21%) Data Architect
3 126 (17.82%) Analyst
4 87 (12.31%) Data Analyst
5 71 (10.04%) Data Engineer
6 66 (9.34%) Lead
7 57 (8.06%) Data Manager
8 50 (7.07%) Business Analyst
9 40 (5.66%) Consultant
10 36 (5.09%) Developer
10 36 (5.09%) Senior
11 33 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (3.82%) Governance Analyst
13 26 (3.68%) Data Business Analyst
14 24 (3.39%) Integration Engineer
15 23 (3.25%) Project Manager
16 22 (3.11%) Data Consultant
16 22 (3.11%) Data Governance Manager
16 22 (3.11%) Enterprise Architect
16 22 (3.11%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.83%) REST
2 15 (2.12%) JSON
3 14 (1.98%) PySpark
3 14 (1.98%) XML
4 13 (1.84%) Kafka
5 10 (1.41%) CSS
6 9 (1.27%) Flask
6 9 (1.27%) React
7 7 (0.99%) .NET
7 7 (0.99%) FastAPI
8 6 (0.85%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.85%) Middleware
9 4 (0.57%) SAP ALE
10 3 (0.42%) ADO
10 3 (0.42%) EDI
10 3 (0.42%) HTML
10 3 (0.42%) Node.js
10 3 (0.42%) Pandas
10 3 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.42%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.22%) Reference Data
2 35 (4.95%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.25%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (1.70%) Wiki
7 11 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.99%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.71%) Industry 4.0
11 4 (0.57%) Derivative
11 4 (0.57%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.57%) NHS
11 4 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.70%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (43.00%) Data Modelling
2 195 (27.58%) Data Management
3 161 (22.77%) Data Architecture
4 154 (21.78%) Analytics
5 151 (21.36%) Business Intelligence
6 135 (19.09%) Data Integration
7 130 (18.39%) Data Strategy
8 129 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (16.97%) ETL
10 119 (16.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 114 (16.12%) Agile
12 107 (15.13%) Data Lineage
13 102 (14.43%) Migration
14 96 (13.58%) Data Analysis
15 85 (12.02%) Visualisation
16 84 (11.88%) Decision-Making
17 80 (11.32%) Data Migration
18 76 (10.75%) Metadata Management
19 69 (9.76%) Data Security
20 67 (9.48%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 168 (23.76%) SQL
2 86 (12.16%) Python
3 36 (5.09%) Java
4 25 (3.54%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.69%) T-SQL
6 16 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.70%) C#
9 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.41%) Scala
10 7 (0.99%) Groovy
10 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.71%) R
12 4 (0.57%) ABAP
13 2 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.28%) Perl
14 1 (0.14%) C++
14 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.88%) Degree
3 76 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.98%) PhD
7 13 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.70%) IIBA
9 9 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.42%) PMP
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) CISA
11 2 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.14%) CISM
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (38.61%) Data Quality
2 82 (11.60%) GDPR
3 31 (4.38%) QA
4 21 (2.97%) GxP
5 19 (2.69%) Good Clinical Practice
6 15 (2.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 13 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.99%) GRC
9 4 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.57%) MiFID
10 3 (0.42%) IFRS
10 3 (0.42%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) COBIT
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (1.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (2.26%) Terraform
2 11 (1.56%) Ansible
2 11 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.56%) Puppet
3 7 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (13.44%) SAP
2 74 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 61 (8.63%) Informatica
4 47 (6.65%) Databricks
4 47 (6.65%) Oracle
5 37 (5.23%) Sparx
6 17 (2.40%) Google
7 15 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.70%) Facebook
9 10 (1.41%) Talend
10 9 (1.27%) Alteryx
10 9 (1.27%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.13%) Instagram
12 7 (0.99%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.99%) IBM
12 7 (0.99%) Nexthink
12 7 (0.99%) Splunk
12 7 (0.99%) Trillium
13 6 (0.85%) Adobe
13 6 (0.85%) Remedy