Data Governance Contracts

Data Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 152 240
Rank change year-on-year +61 +88 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 812 704 664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.78% 1.61% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 1.87% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 503 458
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £925 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.67% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 6
10th Percentile £18.03 £27.15 £29.19
25th Percentile £22.28 £30.88 £32.30
Median hourly rate £26.81 £40.00 £37.97
Median % change year-on-year -32.97% +5.36% +85.29%
75th Percentile £59.72 £47.69 £72.78
90th Percentile £80.83 £69.79 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.75 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -38.13% +23.84% +90.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Top 17 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 30 April 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 +55 726 £575 - 599
London +50 472 £630 +5.00% 328
Work from Home +66 358 £650 +18.18% 375
UK excluding London +53 254 £501 -4.67% 301
North of England +2 65 £450 -18.18% 79
Midlands +39 54 £475 -13.64% 46
South East +50 47 £550 +15.79% 89
North West -5 38 £450 -13.46% 54
West Midlands +20 33 £475 -9.52% 33
East of England +31 32 £600 +46.34% 11
South West +38 26 £575 -2.13% 39
Scotland +16 23 £438 -20.45% 20
Yorkshire 0 22 £425 -29.17% 23
East Midlands +25 21 £538 +4.88% 11
Northern Ireland - 7 £363 - 10
North East +1 5 £525 +10.06% 2
Wales +5 1 £236 - 12

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 41 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.33%) Apache
3 24 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.97%) Confluence
6 4 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.37%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Appian
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 48 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.97%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.35%) Siemens NX
4 9 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.74%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.25%) Notepad++
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 54 (6.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.34%) SAP MDG
3 11 (1.35%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.86%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.74%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.62%) SAP MDG-S
7 4 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.37%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.25%) Magento
9 2 (0.25%) Maximo
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.25%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.25%) Shopify
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (24.75%) Azure
2 144 (17.73%) AWS
3 139 (17.12%) Power Platform
4 89 (10.96%) GCP
5 44 (5.42%) Microsoft Purview
5 44 (5.42%) Snowflake
6 33 (4.06%) Collibra
7 30 (3.69%) Amazon S3
8 28 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (2.83%) Serverless
10 22 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.09%) GitHub
13 16 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.85%) dbt
14 15 (1.85%) Power Automate
15 14 (1.72%) PowerApps
16 13 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.60%) SaaS
17 11 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.12%) FTP
1 1 (0.12%) GPRS
1 1 (0.12%) Internet
1 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (21.18%) Data Lake
2 162 (19.95%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (15.27%) Power BI
4 74 (9.11%) Metadata
5 69 (8.50%) Tableau
6 44 (5.42%) Big Data
7 37 (4.56%) SQL Server
8 33 (4.06%) BigQuery
9 29 (3.57%) NoSQL
10 27 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (2.59%) Relational Database
12 19 (2.34%) Hadoop
13 14 (1.72%) Looker
13 14 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.60%) Data Mining
14 13 (1.60%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.60%) SAP Data Services
14 13 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
15 12 (1.48%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 27 (3.33%) JIRA
2 18 (2.22%) ERwin
3 10 (1.23%) GitLab
4 9 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.86%) Git
6 6 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.62%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.49%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.49%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.37%) Maven
10 2 (0.25%) Flyway
10 2 (0.25%) MagicDraw
10 2 (0.25%) MLflow
10 2 (0.25%) XMLSpy
11 1 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.12%) LSMW
11 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.12%) Toad
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 253 (31.16%) Finance
3 151 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (12.07%) Front Office
5 64 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 63 (7.76%) Banking
7 28 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.08%) Retail
10 24 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 16 (1.97%) Marketing
12 15 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.72%) Legal
14 13 (1.60%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.11%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.86%) Back Office
18 7 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (21.06%) Architect
2 147 (18.10%) Analyst
3 128 (15.76%) Lead
4 107 (13.18%) Data Architect
5 104 (12.81%) Data Analyst
6 82 (10.10%) Data Engineer
7 50 (6.16%) Consultant
8 47 (5.79%) Senior
9 44 (5.42%) Business Analyst
10 38 (4.68%) Data Governance Analyst
10 38 (4.68%) Data Governance Manager
10 38 (4.68%) Governance Manager
10 38 (4.68%) Project Manager
11 37 (4.56%) Head of Finance
12 36 (4.43%) Data Manager
13 33 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (3.69%) Data Business Analyst
14 30 (3.69%) Data Consultant
15 27 (3.33%) Governance Analyst
16 26 (3.20%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.17%) Kafka
2 24 (2.96%) PySpark
3 18 (2.22%) REST
4 13 (1.60%) Middleware
4 13 (1.60%) XML
5 9 (1.11%) SOAP
6 8 (0.99%) JSON
6 8 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (0.86%) Spring
7 7 (0.86%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.74%) .NET
8 6 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (0.74%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.62%) FHIR
9 5 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.49%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.49%) React
10 4 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (12.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 96 (11.82%) Derivative
3 93 (11.45%) Fixed Income
4 92 (11.33%) Equities
4 92 (11.33%) Hedge funds
5 48 (5.91%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.68%) Data Structures
7 33 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (3.33%) Reference Data
9 21 (2.59%) Life Science
10 19 (2.34%) Cloud Native
11 17 (2.09%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.85%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.35%) FMCG
13 11 (1.35%) Taxonomies
14 10 (1.23%) Data Fabric
15 9 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
17 7 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.35%) Linux
2 7 (0.86%) Windows
3 6 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (30.54%) Data Management
2 242 (29.80%) Analytics
2 242 (29.80%) Migration
3 228 (28.08%) Data Modelling
4 203 (25.00%) Agile
5 177 (21.80%) ETL
6 165 (20.32%) Business Intelligence
7 164 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (18.35%) Roadmaps
9 138 (17.00%) Data Architecture
10 126 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 120 (14.78%) Regulatory Compliance
12 110 (13.55%) Data Integration
13 106 (13.05%) Decision-Making
14 104 (12.81%) Visualisation
15 100 (12.32%) Data Strategy
15 100 (12.32%) Investment Management
16 99 (12.19%) Data Analysis
17 94 (11.58%) Data Engineering
18 86 (10.59%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 211 (25.99%) SQL
2 144 (17.73%) Python
3 25 (3.08%) Scala
4 23 (2.83%) R
5 20 (2.46%) Java
6 13 (1.60%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.74%) C#
11 5 (0.62%) Bicep
12 3 (0.37%) ABAP
12 3 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.37%) Bash
12 3 (0.37%) VBA
13 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 81 (9.98%) Degree
3 80 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.23%) PMP
10 9 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.49%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.12%) CSPO
12 1 (0.12%) ISEB
12 1 (0.12%) MBA
12 1 (0.12%) PgMP
12 1 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (36.70%) Data Quality
2 95 (11.70%) GDPR
3 43 (5.30%) QA
4 26 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.96%) MiFID
6 12 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.99%) PMO
8 7 (0.86%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.74%) GRC
10 5 (0.62%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.25%) NIST
11 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (2.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.12%) HDFS
2 1 (0.12%) NFS
2 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (4.43%) Terraform
2 27 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.74%) Grafana
4 5 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.49%) Kibana
5 4 (0.49%) logstash
6 3 (0.37%) Ansible
7 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 103 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 88 (10.84%) SAP
3 68 (8.37%) Databricks
4 49 (6.03%) Google
4 49 (6.03%) Informatica
5 31 (3.82%) Oracle
6 20 (2.46%) IBM
7 14 (1.72%) Ariba
7 14 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.11%) Talend
9 6 (0.74%) Sparx
9 6 (0.74%) Splunk
10 5 (0.62%) Adobe
10 5 (0.62%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (0.62%) Dataiku
10 5 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.49%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.49%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.49%) Palantir
11 4 (0.49%) ServiceNow