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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 156 222
Rank change year-on-year +60 +66 +73
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 870 671 658
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.65% 1.60% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 1.87% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 483 473
10th Percentile £395 £377 £431
25th Percentile £447 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -6.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.25% -9.09% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 9
10th Percentile £18.03 £27.84 £23.91
25th Percentile £22.28 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £33.12 £40.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +23.84% -26.17%
75th Percentile £75.90 £45.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.00 £68.75 £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.14 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -37.15% +23.84% +95.76%

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 29,656 35,918 49,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.33% 85.38% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,620 23,009 34,128
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,566 2,286 1,643
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.71 £18.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%
75th Percentile £51.10 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.38 £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.58
% change year-on-year -37.04% -6.05% +88.72%

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 19 July 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 19 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Top 18 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 19 July 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 +52 763 £539 -6.30% 895
London +40 450 £575 -8.00% 550
UK excluding London +66 325 £484 -3.25% 436
Work from Home +41 294 £525 - 409
North of England -9 83 £450 -13.46% 130
Midlands +43 77 £500 - 56
North West -1 57 £450 -2.70% 69
South East +33 55 £456 -3.95% 143
West Midlands +32 46 £575 +27.78% 30
South West +45 38 £575 - 43
Scotland +16 32 £475 -17.39% 23
East of England +19 29 £600 +46.34% 19
East Midlands +24 28 £461 -16.23% 25
Yorkshire -8 24 £525 -5.75% 50
Northern Ireland - 9 £400 - 14
Wales +7 3 £425 - 11
North East +1 2 £463 - 13
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -

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 55 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.14%) Apache
3 34 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (3.68%) SharePoint
5 24 (2.76%) Confluence
6 9 (1.03%) CMS
7 5 (0.57%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.34%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 54 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.95%) Siemens NX
3 12 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.69%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) Maple
7 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 63 (7.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.87%) SAP MDG
3 17 (1.95%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.80%) SAP HR
4 7 (0.80%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.57%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.46%) Maximo
6 4 (0.46%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.46%) SAP PS
7 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
7 3 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
8 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (29.31%) Azure
2 173 (19.89%) AWS
3 165 (18.97%) Power Platform
4 114 (13.10%) GCP
5 67 (7.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 63 (7.24%) Snowflake
7 54 (6.21%) Collibra
8 50 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 49 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (4.60%) dbt
11 29 (3.33%) Amazon S3
11 29 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (3.22%) Serverless
13 26 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.84%) GitHub
17 15 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 14 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
18 14 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) Firewall
2 3 (0.34%) Network Security
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.11%) DKIM
4 1 (0.11%) DMARC
4 1 (0.11%) FTP
4 1 (0.11%) GPRS
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.11%) MPLS
4 1 (0.11%) PSTN
4 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (18.85%) Data Warehouse
2 155 (17.82%) Power BI
3 131 (15.06%) Metadata
4 98 (11.26%) Data Lake
5 67 (7.70%) Tableau
6 59 (6.78%) Big Data
7 48 (5.52%) NoSQL
8 45 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 39 (4.48%) BigQuery
10 34 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 31 (3.56%) Delta Lake
12 30 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (2.64%) Hadoop
14 22 (2.53%) Power Query
15 20 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (2.07%) Relational Database
17 17 (1.95%) GIS
17 17 (1.95%) Looker
18 14 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
19 12 (1.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (4.02%) JIRA
2 24 (2.76%) ERwin
3 19 (2.18%) Git
4 13 (1.49%) ER Studio
4 13 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.92%) GitLab
6 6 (0.69%) MLflow
6 6 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.57%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.46%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.34%) Maven
10 2 (0.23%) Flyway
11 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.11%) LSMW
11 1 (0.11%) Toad
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 351 (40.34%) Social Skills
2 235 (27.01%) Finance
3 163 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.08%) Banking
5 77 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 34 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (3.56%) Legal
9 27 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.53%) Retail
12 19 (2.18%) Marketing
13 18 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (2.07%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.95%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.72%) Front Office
16 11 (1.26%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.92%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 193 (22.18%) Architect
2 163 (18.74%) Analyst
3 120 (13.79%) Data Architect
4 107 (12.30%) Data Analyst
4 107 (12.30%) Lead
5 90 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.47%) Senior
7 60 (6.90%) Business Analyst
8 48 (5.52%) Consultant
9 41 (4.71%) Data Manager
10 36 (4.14%) Project Manager
11 32 (3.68%) Governance Analyst
12 31 (3.56%) Data Business Analyst
13 29 (3.33%) Data Modeller
13 29 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (2.87%) Developer
15 24 (2.76%) Data Consultant
16 21 (2.41%) Senior Data Engineer
17 16 (1.84%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (1.84%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.55%) Kafka
2 29 (3.33%) PySpark
3 19 (2.18%) Middleware
3 19 (2.18%) XML
4 17 (1.95%) REST
5 10 (1.15%) SOAP
6 9 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
6 9 (1.03%) Hugging Face
6 9 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (0.92%) PyTorch
7 8 (0.92%) TensorFlow
8 7 (0.80%) RESTful
8 7 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (0.69%) Great Expectations
9 6 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (0.69%) Visualforce
10 5 (0.57%) .NET
10 5 (0.57%) FHIR
10 5 (0.57%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.01%) Data Structures
2 41 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.33%) Reference Data
6 26 (2.99%) Life Science
6 26 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.53%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.18%) Virtual Team
9 18 (2.07%) Taxonomies
10 16 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.72%) Data Fabric
11 15 (1.72%) Derivative
12 14 (1.61%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.49%) FMCG
14 12 (1.38%) Equities
14 12 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.26%) Linux
2 7 (0.80%) Windows
3 4 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (34.02%) Data Modelling
2 286 (32.87%) Analytics
3 220 (25.29%) ETL
4 210 (24.14%) Data Management
5 204 (23.45%) Business Intelligence
6 202 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
7 183 (21.03%) Migration
8 160 (18.39%) Agile
9 145 (16.67%) Data Architecture
10 140 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 132 (15.17%) Data Pipeline
12 120 (13.79%) Data Engineering
12 120 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 116 (13.33%) Data Integration
14 110 (12.64%) Decision-Making
15 106 (12.18%) Data Strategy
16 105 (12.07%) Data Migration
17 102 (11.72%) Data Analysis
18 100 (11.49%) Visualisation
19 97 (11.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 280 (32.18%) SQL
2 190 (21.84%) Python
3 39 (4.48%) Java
4 32 (3.68%) Scala
5 27 (3.10%) R
6 16 (1.84%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.49%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.03%) Bicep
8 9 (1.03%) C#
9 7 (0.80%) Apex Code
9 7 (0.80%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (0.80%) VBA
10 4 (0.46%) Bash
10 4 (0.46%) C
10 4 (0.46%) C++
10 4 (0.46%) Perl
11 3 (0.34%) Magik
Qualifications
1 114 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 95 (10.92%) Degree
3 88 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.49%) PMP
10 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.69%) SAP Certification
13 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.46%) CBAP
15 3 (0.34%) MCSE
16 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
17 1 (0.11%) CRISC
17 1 (0.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (37.47%) Data Quality
2 118 (13.56%) GDPR
3 43 (4.94%) QA
4 28 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.15%) PMO
7 8 (0.92%) IFRS
7 8 (0.92%) MiFID
8 7 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.57%) Basel III
9 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.46%) GRC
10 4 (0.46%) HL7
11 3 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 3 (0.34%) GxP
11 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.34%) NIST
11 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (2.76%) Docker
2 10 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
3 1 (0.11%) NFS
3 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (5.75%) Terraform
2 32 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.15%) Grafana
4 9 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.57%) Ansible
5 5 (0.57%) Kibana
5 5 (0.57%) logstash
6 3 (0.34%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.34%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.23%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 140 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 117 (13.45%) SAP
3 94 (10.80%) Databricks
4 68 (7.82%) Informatica
5 60 (6.90%) Google
6 52 (5.98%) Oracle
7 34 (3.91%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.84%) IBM
9 13 (1.49%) Talend
10 11 (1.26%) Ariba
11 9 (1.03%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.80%) Sparx
13 6 (0.69%) Adobe
13 6 (0.69%) ESRI
13 6 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.69%) Teradata
14 5 (0.57%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.57%) Splunk