Data Governance Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Governance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 64 130 216
Rank change year-on-year +66 +86 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 358 264 291
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.61% 1.72% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 1.95% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 187 208
10th Percentile £325 £385 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £614
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.39% +2.29%
75th Percentile £763 £651 £700
90th Percentile £938 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £19.81 £31.49 £78.75
25th Percentile £22.20 £36.96 £80.63
Median hourly rate £26.74 £44.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% -47.94% +96.53%
75th Percentile £31.84 £54.88 £88.13
90th Percentile £34.56 £63.20 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £26.81 £40.00 £37.97
% change year-on-year -32.97% +5.36% +85.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,023 13,505 23,232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.03% 87.83% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,195 9,015 16,421
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 573 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Data Governance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Governance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Governance.

Data Governance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Data Governance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Governance.

Data Governance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Data Governance hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.68%) Confluence
2 6 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Appian
4 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.28%) CMS
Applications
1 22 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.51%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.40%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.28%) Notepad++
6 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.68%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.40%) SAP MDG
3 5 (1.40%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.84%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.28%) Maximo
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.46%) Azure
2 53 (14.80%) Power Platform
3 48 (13.41%) AWS
4 27 (7.54%) GCP
5 24 (6.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 15 (4.19%) Snowflake
7 10 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (2.79%) Collibra
8 9 (2.51%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.51%) Serverless
9 8 (2.23%) Alation
9 8 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.23%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.96%) GitHub
11 6 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.68%) SaaS
12 5 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Internet
1 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (35.75%) Data Lake
2 59 (16.48%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (12.57%) Power BI
4 22 (6.15%) Metadata
5 21 (5.87%) Big Data
5 21 (5.87%) Tableau
6 19 (5.31%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.19%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.51%) Looker
9 8 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.96%) Power Query
10 7 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
10 7 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.68%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (1.40%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.07%) ERwin
2 9 (2.51%) JIRA
3 5 (1.40%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.84%) GitLab
4 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) Flyway
5 2 (0.56%) Git
5 2 (0.56%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.56%) MLflow
5 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) LSMW
6 1 (0.28%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.28%) Toad
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.28%) XMLSpy
General
1 147 (41.06%) Finance
2 103 (28.77%) Social Skills
3 91 (25.42%) Front Office
4 66 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.19%) Banking
7 12 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.23%) Retail
10 7 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.68%) Marketing
12 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.12%) Back Office
14 3 (0.84%) Local Government
15 2 (0.56%) Law
15 2 (0.56%) Military
16 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 65 (18.16%) Analyst
2 60 (16.76%) Lead
3 58 (16.20%) Architect
4 44 (12.29%) Data Analyst
5 37 (10.34%) Head of Finance
6 35 (9.78%) Data Engineer
7 33 (9.22%) Data Architect
8 31 (8.66%) Data Governance Analyst
8 31 (8.66%) Data Governance Manager
8 31 (8.66%) Governance Manager
9 24 (6.70%) Business Analyst
10 23 (6.42%) Consultant
11 20 (5.59%) Data Manager
12 19 (5.31%) Data Business Analyst
13 16 (4.47%) Head of Data Management
13 16 (4.47%) Project Manager
14 15 (4.19%) Data Consultant
14 15 (4.19%) Programme Manager
15 14 (3.91%) Finance Manager
15 14 (3.91%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.79%) REST
2 8 (2.23%) Middleware
2 8 (2.23%) PySpark
3 6 (1.68%) Kafka
3 6 (1.68%) XML
4 5 (1.40%) SOAP
5 2 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (0.56%) JSON
5 2 (0.56%) OAuth
5 2 (0.56%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.56%) RESTful
5 2 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.56%) Shiny
6 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.28%) FHIR
6 1 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.28%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.28%) React
6 1 (0.28%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 94 (26.26%) Derivative
3 91 (25.42%) Equities
3 91 (25.42%) Fixed Income
3 91 (25.42%) Hedge funds
4 37 (10.34%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.96%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.68%) FMCG
9 5 (1.40%) Data Fabric
9 5 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.12%) Life Science
11 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.56%) IoT
12 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (41.06%) Migration
2 140 (39.11%) Data Management
3 120 (33.52%) Agile
4 108 (30.17%) Roadmaps
5 98 (27.37%) Investment Management
5 98 (27.37%) Regulatory Compliance
6 75 (20.95%) Data Modelling
7 73 (20.39%) ETL
8 72 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (19.83%) Analytics
10 68 (18.99%) Business Intelligence
11 51 (14.25%) Data Architecture
12 50 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (12.29%) Data Integration
14 42 (11.73%) Decision-Making
15 37 (10.34%) Data Analysis
15 37 (10.34%) Visualisation
16 36 (10.06%) Data Security
16 36 (10.06%) Data Strategy
17 33 (9.22%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.63%) SQL
2 47 (13.13%) Python
3 9 (2.51%) R
4 8 (2.23%) Scala
5 7 (1.96%) Java
6 5 (1.40%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.84%) Bicep
8 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.28%) ABAP
9 1 (0.28%) Bash
9 1 (0.28%) C#
9 1 (0.28%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (10.06%) Degree
2 34 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.40%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.40%) PMP
7 5 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) CAPM
10 1 (0.28%) CITP
10 1 (0.28%) MBA
10 1 (0.28%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (32.40%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.26%) GDPR
3 24 (6.70%) MiFID
4 15 (4.19%) QA
5 12 (3.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.12%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.07%) Terraform
2 4 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.70%) SAP
3 21 (5.87%) Informatica
4 20 (5.59%) Databricks
5 16 (4.47%) Google
6 6 (1.68%) IBM
6 6 (1.68%) Oracle
7 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.84%) Sparx
9 2 (0.56%) Ariba
9 2 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.56%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.56%) Sage
9 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.56%) VMware
10 1 (0.28%) Foundry
10 1 (0.28%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.28%) Palantir
10 1 (0.28%) Pega
10 1 (0.28%) RedGate