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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 130 229
Rank change year-on-year +47 +99 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 312 247 257
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.10% 1.68% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 1.93% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 171 186
10th Percentile £378 £338 £431
25th Percentile £447 £425 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £713 £635 £700
90th Percentile £828 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £621
% change year-on-year -6.09% -7.44% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £19.13 £32.70 £64.50
25th Percentile £20.49 £40.00 £69.38
Median hourly rate £22.75 £48.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.09% -39.38% +84.97%
75th Percentile £25.02 £68.75 £86.25
90th Percentile £26.37 £74.75 £88.50
UK median hourly rate £27.28 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -31.80% +23.84% -26.17%

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 9,224 12,802 21,352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.21% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,250 8,610 15,077
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 551 508
10th Percentile £13.40 £15.17 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.93 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 3 July 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
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 15 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.53%) Apache
2 11 (3.53%) Confluence
3 8 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.32%) Appian
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.56%) Siemens NX
3 6 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.56%) SAP MDG
2 8 (2.56%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.28%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.96%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.96%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.64%) Maximo
5 2 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.32%) Primavera
6 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 87 (27.88%) Azure
2 53 (16.99%) AWS
3 51 (16.35%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 28 (8.97%) GCP
6 19 (6.09%) Snowflake
7 18 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (5.77%) Collibra
8 14 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (4.17%) dbt
10 11 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.21%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.88%) Alation
12 9 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (2.88%) Serverless
13 7 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.92%) GitHub
14 6 (1.92%) Salsify
15 5 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.32%) Firewall
1 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (23.40%) Data Lake
2 56 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (15.38%) Power BI
4 39 (12.50%) Metadata
5 29 (9.29%) Big Data
6 19 (6.09%) NoSQL
6 19 (6.09%) SQL Server
7 17 (5.45%) Tableau
8 13 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (3.53%) Delta Lake
10 9 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.88%) Hadoop
10 9 (2.88%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.56%) Looker
11 8 (2.56%) Power Query
12 7 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.92%) GIS
13 6 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
13 6 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 15 (4.81%) JIRA
2 11 (3.53%) ERwin
3 6 (1.92%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.96%) MLflow
6 2 (0.64%) Flyway
6 2 (0.64%) Git
6 2 (0.64%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) LSMW
7 1 (0.32%) Toad
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 102 (32.69%) Finance
3 55 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.54%) Front Office
5 23 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.41%) Banking
7 16 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Retail
12 5 (1.60%) Local Government
13 4 (1.28%) Electronics
13 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.28%) Marketing
14 3 (0.96%) Back Office
14 3 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (17.95%) Architect
2 50 (16.03%) Analyst
3 46 (14.74%) Lead
4 40 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 38 (12.18%) Data Architect
6 35 (11.22%) Data Analyst
7 20 (6.41%) Consultant
7 20 (6.41%) Head of Finance
8 17 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 17 (5.45%) Data Manager
8 17 (5.45%) Senior
9 15 (4.81%) Project Manager
10 12 (3.85%) Data Consultant
10 12 (3.85%) Data Modeller
11 11 (3.53%) Data Governance Analyst
11 11 (3.53%) Data Governance Manager
11 11 (3.53%) Governance Manager
12 8 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (2.56%) Configuration Engineer
12 8 (2.56%) Head of Data Management
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.81%) PySpark
2 12 (3.85%) Kafka
3 8 (2.56%) XML
4 5 (1.60%) Middleware
4 5 (1.60%) REST
5 4 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.96%) FHIR
7 2 (0.64%) React
8 1 (0.32%) .NET
8 1 (0.32%) ADO
8 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.32%) BAPI
8 1 (0.32%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.32%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.32%) NumPy
8 1 (0.32%) Pandas
8 1 (0.32%) RESTful
8 1 (0.32%) SOAP
8 1 (0.32%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 38 (12.18%) Derivative
3 36 (11.54%) Equities
3 36 (11.54%) Fixed Income
3 36 (11.54%) Hedge funds
4 20 (6.41%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.21%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.21%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.92%) FMCG
9 6 (1.92%) Life Science
9 6 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.60%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.96%) IoT
12 3 (0.96%) NHS
12 3 (0.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Unix
2 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (34.62%) Data Management
2 97 (31.09%) Data Modelling
3 86 (27.56%) ETL
4 85 (27.24%) Migration
5 79 (25.32%) Analytics
6 72 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
7 70 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (21.47%) Agile
9 62 (19.87%) Data Architecture
10 56 (17.95%) Roadmaps
11 51 (16.35%) Regulatory Compliance
12 48 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
13 45 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (13.78%) Data Integration
15 42 (13.46%) Investment Management
16 40 (12.82%) Data Engineering
17 38 (12.18%) Decision-Making
18 36 (11.54%) Visualisation
19 33 (10.58%) Data Security
20 32 (10.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 96 (30.77%) SQL
2 60 (19.23%) Python
3 13 (4.17%) Scala
4 11 (3.53%) Java
5 6 (1.92%) R
6 5 (1.60%) Bicep
7 3 (0.96%) C#
7 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.64%) Bash
8 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.32%) ABAP
9 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.32%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.29%) Degree
3 26 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.28%) PMP
8 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CITP
9 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (40.38%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.90%) GDPR
3 14 (4.49%) QA
4 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.85%) MiFID
5 8 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.28%) PMO
7 2 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.64%) HL7
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) NIST
8 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (4.17%) Terraform
2 5 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) Ansible
3 1 (0.32%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (11.86%) Databricks
1 37 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.26%) Informatica
3 30 (9.62%) SAP
4 14 (4.49%) Oracle
5 13 (4.17%) Google
6 8 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.60%) IBM
8 4 (1.28%) Talend
9 3 (0.96%) Apple
9 3 (0.96%) ESRI
9 3 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.96%) Teradata
10 2 (0.64%) Ariba
10 2 (0.64%) Cerner
10 2 (0.64%) Foundry
10 2 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.64%) Palantir
10 2 (0.64%) VMware