Governance Consultant Contracts

Governance Consultant
UK

The median Governance Consultant daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 681 846
Rank change year-on-year +115 +165 -167
Contract jobs requiring a Governance Consultant 24 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.037% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.039% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 7
10th Percentile - £428 £445
25th Percentile £425 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -14.58% +29.73%
75th Percentile £769 £588 £656
90th Percentile £816 £650 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.40
25th Percentile - - £67.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Governance Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Governance Consultant in the UK

Governance Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Governance Consultant in the UK

Governance Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Governance Consultant over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Governance Consultant in the UK

Governance Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Governance Consultant in the UK

Governance Consultant
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Governance Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +129 19 £600 +14.29% 12
Work from Home +129 13 £450 -10.00% 6
London +92 10 £725 +31.82% 7
UK excluding London +61 9 £550 +4.76% 7
Midlands - 8 £500 -
West Midlands - 6 £475 -
South East - 1 £750 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Governance Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 22 (91.67%) Data Governance
2 11 (45.83%) Data Quality
3 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (33.33%) Informatica
5 8 (33.33%) Data Lineage
6 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
6 7 (29.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 7 (29.17%) Use Case
7 6 (25.00%) Data Management
7 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 5 (20.83%) SAP
8 5 (20.83%) SAP MDG
8 5 (20.83%) Metadata
8 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (20.83%) Data Governance Strategy
9 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.67%) GDPR
9 4 (16.67%) ABAP
10 3 (12.50%) Oracle
10 3 (12.50%) SOA
10 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
10 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 3 (12.50%) Workflow
10 3 (12.50%) Finance
10 3 (12.50%) Data Security
10 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
10 3 (12.50%) Replication
10 3 (12.50%) Retail
10 3 (12.50%) SAP ALE

Governance Consultant 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 2 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) SAP MDG
2 3 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Alation
1 2 (8.33%) Collibra
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Ataccama
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) SAP ALE
2 2 (8.33%) IDoc
2 2 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (8.33%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (4.17%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.17%) Smart Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Data Governance
2 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (33.33%) Data Lineage
4 7 (29.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
4 7 (29.17%) Use Case
5 6 (25.00%) Data Management
5 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (20.83%) Data Governance Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Data Privacy
8 3 (12.50%) Data Security
8 3 (12.50%) Data Strategy
8 3 (12.50%) Metadata Management
8 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 3 (12.50%) SOA
8 3 (12.50%) Workflow
9 2 (8.33%) Remediation Plan
9 2 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
9 2 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CISA
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (8.33%) GRC
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Informatica
2 5 (20.83%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) Facebook
3 3 (12.50%) Instagram
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.33%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) Okta
5 1 (4.17%) Symantec
5 1 (4.17%) Talend
5 1 (4.17%) Varonis