Governance Analyst Contracts

Governance Analyst
UK

The median Governance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 540 681
Rank change year-on-year +71 +141 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Governance Analyst 51 42 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.096% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.10% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 30
10th Percentile £338 £313 £419
25th Percentile £481 £393 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +11.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £713 £600 £575
90th Percentile £850 £680 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £555 £450
% change year-on-year +3.60% +23.33% -2.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Governance Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Governance Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Governance Analyst in the UK

Governance Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Governance Analyst in the UK

Governance Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Governance Analyst in the UK

Governance Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Governance Analyst in the UK

Governance Analyst
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Governance Analyst 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 +59 42 £575 +4.55% 30
Work from Home +65 34 £575 +68.87% 18
London +39 29 £675 +35.00% 16
UK excluding London +67 16 £575 +3.60% 22
North of England +20 9 £575 -4.17% 7
North West +22 6 £444 - 6
Yorkshire +9 3 £575 -
South West - 3 £525 - 1
Scotland +13 1 £575 +76.92% 3
Midlands - 1 £575 - 2
Wales - 1 £575 -
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £575 -

Governance Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Governance Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Governance Analyst in the job title.

1 28 (54.90%) Data Governance
2 20 (39.22%) Finance
3 12 (23.53%) Agile
4 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
5 10 (19.61%) Azure
6 9 (17.65%) Investment Management
6 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
6 9 (17.65%) Migration
7 8 (15.69%) Front Office
7 8 (15.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
7 8 (15.69%) Derivative
7 8 (15.69%) Fixed Income
7 8 (15.69%) Equities
7 8 (15.69%) Hedge funds
7 8 (15.69%) Product Ownership
7 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
7 8 (15.69%) Metadata
7 8 (15.69%) Data Lake
7 8 (15.69%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (13.73%) GDPR
8 7 (13.73%) Banking
8 7 (13.73%) Data Management
8 7 (13.73%) Risk Management
9 6 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.76%) Power BI
9 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
9 6 (11.76%) Collibra
10 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving

Governance Analyst Skill Set
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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) Collibra
2 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.88%) AWS
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.88%) IaaS
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (5.88%) PaaS
3 3 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (1.96%) CloudFront
4 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
4 1 (1.96%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Data Lake
1 8 (15.69%) Metadata
2 6 (11.76%) Power BI
3 4 (7.84%) Tableau
4 2 (3.92%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.92%) QlikView
5 1 (1.96%) Looker
5 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
General
1 20 (39.22%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Front Office
2 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Banking
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Retail
6 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Derivative
1 8 (15.69%) Equities
1 8 (15.69%) Fixed Income
1 8 (15.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (15.69%) Hedge funds
1 8 (15.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.88%) Reference Data
2 3 (5.88%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.88%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) PMI
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) CMDB
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) Data Governance
2 12 (23.53%) Agile
3 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
4 9 (17.65%) Investment Management
4 9 (17.65%) Migration
5 8 (15.69%) Regulatory Compliance
6 7 (13.73%) Data Management
6 7 (13.73%) Risk Management
7 6 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (9.80%) Analytics
8 5 (9.80%) Data Analysis
8 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.80%) Project Management
9 4 (7.84%) Business Analysis
9 4 (7.84%) Data Protection
9 4 (7.84%) Metadata Management
9 4 (7.84%) Programme Management
10 3 (5.88%) Change Management
10 3 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (5.88%) Degree
1 3 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.96%) CAPM
3 1 (1.96%) CRISC
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) MBA
3 1 (1.96%) PgMP
3 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (13.73%) GDPR
3 5 (9.80%) GRC
4 4 (7.84%) PMO
5 3 (5.88%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
5 3 (5.88%) QA
5 3 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (3.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (3.92%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (3.92%) SLA
7 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Ab Initio
2 3 (5.88%) ForgeRock
2 3 (5.88%) Informatica
2 3 (5.88%) Okta
3 2 (3.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) OneTrust