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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 240 266
Rank change year-on-year +98 +26 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 693 624 902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 1.10% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.22% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 432 635
10th Percentile £400 £425 £452
25th Percentile £463 £500 £505
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 £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile £27.75 £23.91 £12.93
25th Percentile £33.92 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.30 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -53.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £59.50 £63.75 £90.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £84.00 £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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +105 632 £575 -4.17% 300
London +122 387 £600 - 176
Work from Home +99 253 £525 -16.00% 152
UK excluding London +59 239 £525 -4.55% 151
North of England +80 97 £550 +6.28% 35
North West +56 54 £500 - 18
Yorkshire +30 44 £575 +2.22% 15
South West +22 38 £575 +2.22% 22
South East +8 37 £475 -24.00% 50
Midlands +13 31 £550 +10.00% 26
East of England +11 31 £410 -6.29% 3
West Midlands +8 23 £560 +16.36% 17
Scotland +33 12 £575 +15.00% 9
East Midlands +17 6 £513 -10.87% 9
North East +11 3 - - 2
Wales +9 1 - - 7

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 19 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.45%) Confluence
3 16 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.02%) SAS
5 13 (1.88%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 31 (4.47%) MS Visio
2 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.89%) SAP MDG
3 16 (2.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.58%) FastStats
5 4 (0.58%) Unica
6 3 (0.43%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.29%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.29%) 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
1 141 (20.35%) Azure
2 113 (16.31%) Power Platform
3 89 (12.84%) AWS
4 74 (10.68%) Collibra
5 48 (6.93%) GCP
6 35 (5.05%) Snowflake
7 30 (4.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (2.89%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.45%) Azure Stack
10 17 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (2.31%) Serverless
12 13 (1.88%) Amazon S3
12 13 (1.88%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.44%) dbt
15 8 (1.15%) OCI
15 8 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.14%) DNS
1 1 (0.14%) Intranet
1 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (22.51%) Metadata
2 126 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (15.73%) Power BI
4 69 (9.96%) Data Lake
5 58 (8.37%) SQL Server
6 54 (7.79%) NoSQL
7 50 (7.22%) Big Data
8 34 (4.91%) Metadata Repository
9 26 (3.75%) Data Vault
9 26 (3.75%) Tableau
10 20 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 20 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (2.31%) Data Mining
12 14 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (2.02%) Hadoop
12 14 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.88%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.73%) MySQL
15 10 (1.44%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 36 (5.19%) JIRA
2 34 (4.91%) ERwin
3 16 (2.31%) Git
4 14 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 10 (1.44%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.15%) Eclipse
6 8 (1.15%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.01%) PyCharm
8 4 (0.58%) kappa
9 3 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.29%) GitLab
11 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 186 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 163 (23.52%) Finance
3 130 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.38%) Manufacturing
6 57 (8.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 46 (6.64%) Banking
8 37 (5.34%) Marketing
9 35 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (3.90%) Telecoms
11 25 (3.61%) Electronics
12 22 (3.17%) Legal
12 22 (3.17%) Retail
13 17 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.30%) Front Office
15 7 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.72%) Publishing
18 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (28.72%) Architect
2 152 (21.93%) Data Architect
3 124 (17.89%) Analyst
4 86 (12.41%) Data Analyst
5 67 (9.67%) Data Engineer
6 62 (8.95%) Lead
7 57 (8.23%) Data Manager
8 49 (7.07%) Business Analyst
9 39 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (5.48%) Consultant
11 36 (5.19%) Developer
12 33 (4.76%) Senior
13 26 (3.75%) Data Business Analyst
13 26 (3.75%) Governance Analyst
14 24 (3.46%) Integration Engineer
15 22 (3.17%) Data Consultant
15 22 (3.17%) Data Governance Analyst
15 22 (3.17%) Data Governance Manager
15 22 (3.17%) Governance Manager
15 22 (3.17%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.89%) REST
2 19 (2.74%) Kafka
3 15 (2.16%) JSON
4 14 (2.02%) XML
5 13 (1.88%) PySpark
6 9 (1.30%) CSS
6 9 (1.30%) Flask
6 9 (1.30%) React
7 7 (1.01%) .NET
7 7 (1.01%) FastAPI
8 6 (0.87%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.87%) Middleware
9 4 (0.58%) SAP ALE
10 3 (0.43%) ADO
10 3 (0.43%) EDI
10 3 (0.43%) Node.js
10 3 (0.43%) Pandas
10 3 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.43%) Web Dynpro
11 2 (0.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.35%) Reference Data
2 35 (5.05%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.44%) Wiki
8 9 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.01%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.72%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (0.72%) NHS
11 4 (0.58%) Derivative
11 4 (0.58%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.73%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (43.87%) Data Modelling
2 188 (27.13%) Data Management
3 156 (22.51%) Analytics
4 155 (22.37%) Data Architecture
5 143 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
6 137 (19.77%) Data Integration
7 125 (18.04%) Data Strategy
7 125 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
8 123 (17.75%) ETL
9 121 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 117 (16.88%) Agile
11 105 (15.15%) Data Lineage
12 102 (14.72%) Migration
13 94 (13.56%) Data Analysis
14 82 (11.83%) Visualisation
15 80 (11.54%) Data Migration
15 80 (11.54%) Decision-Making
16 76 (10.97%) Metadata Management
17 67 (9.67%) Data Security
18 62 (8.95%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 170 (24.53%) SQL
2 91 (13.13%) Python
3 43 (6.20%) Java
4 24 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.74%) T-SQL
6 16 (2.31%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.73%) C#
9 10 (1.44%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.44%) Scala
10 7 (1.01%) Groovy
10 7 (1.01%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.72%) R
12 4 (0.58%) ABAP
13 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.14%) C++
14 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 81 (11.69%) Degree
3 74 (10.68%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.88%) PhD
8 12 (1.73%) IIBA
9 9 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.43%) PMP
11 2 (0.29%) CISA
11 2 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.14%) CEH
12 1 (0.14%) CISM
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (37.95%) Data Quality
2 80 (11.54%) GDPR
3 29 (4.18%) QA
4 21 (3.03%) GxP
5 19 (2.74%) Good Clinical Practice
6 15 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 13 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.87%) GRC
9 4 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.58%) MiFID
10 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.43%) SLA
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) IFRS
11 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
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 10 (1.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 23 (3.32%) Terraform
2 11 (1.59%) Ansible
2 11 (1.59%) Puppet
3 10 (1.44%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 88 (12.70%) SAP
2 76 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 58 (8.37%) Informatica
4 46 (6.64%) Oracle
5 45 (6.49%) Databricks
6 31 (4.47%) Sparx
7 23 (3.32%) Google
8 15 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.73%) Facebook
9 12 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.44%) Talend
11 9 (1.30%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.15%) Instagram
13 7 (1.01%) Dataiku
13 7 (1.01%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Nexthink
13 7 (1.01%) Remedy
13 7 (1.01%) Splunk
13 7 (1.01%) Trillium
14 6 (0.87%) Adobe