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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 12 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 3.79% 7.30% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% 8.06% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 1
10th Percentile £406 £539 -
25th Percentile £461 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% +60.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 -
90th Percentile £650 - -
East of England median daily rate £565 £563 £410
% change year-on-year +0.44% +37.20% -13.68%

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 236 211 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 74.45% 90.56% 83.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 103 106
10th Percentile £220 £188 £300
25th Percentile £407 £488 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £553 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +10.50% +1.68%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £580
90th Percentile £650 £680 £663
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 32 16
10th Percentile £52.29 £28.90 £22.65
25th Percentile £62.85 £57.38 £38.61
Median hourly rate £71.50 £80.00 £56.58
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +41.41% -17.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £88.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £91.50 £70.63
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -1 10 £600 -5.88% 2
Dunstable - 2 £438 -
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 2 (16.67%) CMS
1 2 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) ETL Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Project Leader
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Financial Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) jQuery
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Life Science
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) AI
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Data Design
3 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Data Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Dependency Management
4 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Sitecore
3 1 (8.33%) Braze
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) mParticle
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Talend
3 1 (8.33%) Tealium