Data Governance Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Data Governance
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 19 15 21
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 6.19% 10.07% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 10.87% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 11
10th Percentile £441 £560 £463
25th Percentile £500 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 - £549
90th Percentile - £738 £600
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £410
% change year-on-year - +46.34% -8.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 262 138 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 85.34% 92.62% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 80 154
10th Percentile £406 £498 £313
25th Percentile £413 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.93% +10.48% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £550
90th Percentile £639 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 32
10th Percentile £25.15 £20.26 £15.30
25th Percentile £60.00 £27.94 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £41.50 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +64.36% +95.25% -59.51%
75th Percentile £73.46 £80.00 £32.90
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.00 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £53.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.49% +39.03% +48.70%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Bedfordshire

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. 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
Luton -3 16 £600 -7.69% 2
Bedford - 1 - -
Dunstable - 1 £425 -
Data Governance
East of England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) CMS
1 6 (31.58%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (31.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (26.32%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
General
1 16 (84.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Aviation
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Data Steward
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) CRM Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) ETL Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) .NET
1 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
1 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
1 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET Core
1 6 (31.58%) CSS
1 6 (31.58%) HTML
1 6 (31.58%) jQuery
1 6 (31.58%) Node.js
1 6 (31.58%) React
1 6 (31.58%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Life Science
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Microservices
3 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Data Management
4 6 (31.58%) Front End Development
4 6 (31.58%) Personalization
4 6 (31.58%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (31.58%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (31.58%) Validation
5 4 (21.05%) Data Design
5 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Metadata Management
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Anomaly Detection
6 3 (15.79%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Sitecore
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Ariba
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Talend