Data Governance Contracts

Data Governance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Governance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 242 273
Rank change year-on-year +93 +31 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 688 610 875
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.09% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.21% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 424 609
10th Percentile £400 £425 £450
25th Percentile £452 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £699 £700 £700
90th Percentile £804 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £27.23 £23.91 £13.48
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -26.17% -12.50%
75th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £86.93
90th Percentile £78.79 £84.00 £95.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.30 £16.50
% change year-on-year +23.84% +95.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Governance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +97 630 £575 -4.17% 292
London +109 381 £600 -4.00% 153
Work from Home +105 249 £525 -16.00% 130
UK excluding London +42 241 £520 -5.45% 138
North of England +76 105 £550 +6.28% 38
North West +65 62 £481 +1.32% 20
Yorkshire +35 44 £575 -4.17% 13
South East -14 40 £475 -25.49% 31
South West +18 35 £581 +3.33% 19
East of England +11 29 £410 -6.29% 8
Midlands +12 28 £550 +10.00% 27
West Midlands -1 21 £525 +7.69% 19
Scotland +25 11 £575 +9.52% 12
East Midlands +14 5 £513 -10.87% 8
North East +11 3 - - 5
Wales +10 1 - - 3

Data Governance
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 26 (3.78%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.47%) Confluence
4 14 (2.03%) SAS
5 13 (1.89%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (3.92%) MS Visio
2 22 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.05%) SAP MDG
3 14 (2.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.58%) FastStats
5 4 (0.58%) SAP MDM
5 4 (0.58%) Unica
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (20.64%) Azure
2 112 (16.28%) Power Platform
3 86 (12.50%) AWS
4 63 (9.16%) Collibra
5 47 (6.83%) GCP
6 40 (5.81%) Snowflake
7 31 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (2.91%) Power Automate
10 19 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (2.47%) Azure Stack
12 16 (2.33%) Serverless
13 14 (2.03%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.89%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.89%) SaaS
15 10 (1.45%) dbt
15 10 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.15%) DNS
1 1 (0.15%) Intranet
1 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (20.20%) Metadata
2 124 (18.02%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (15.70%) Power BI
4 67 (9.74%) Data Lake
5 55 (7.99%) Big Data
6 53 (7.70%) NoSQL
6 53 (7.70%) SQL Server
7 32 (4.65%) Metadata Repository
8 26 (3.78%) Data Vault
8 26 (3.78%) Tableau
9 20 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
10 18 (2.62%) Data Mining
10 18 (2.62%) Hadoop
10 18 (2.62%) Relational Database
11 14 (2.03%) MySQL
11 14 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.89%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 38 (5.52%) JIRA
2 28 (4.07%) ERwin
3 17 (2.47%) Git
4 14 (2.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 11 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.16%) Eclipse
6 8 (1.16%) ER Studio
7 7 (1.02%) PyCharm
8 4 (0.58%) kappa
9 3 (0.44%) GitLab
9 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.15%) RStudio
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 190 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.82%) Finance
3 131 (19.04%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (12.65%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.87%) Manufacturing
6 57 (8.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 48 (6.98%) Banking
8 35 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (4.80%) Marketing
10 23 (3.34%) Legal
10 23 (3.34%) Telecoms
11 21 (3.05%) Electronics
12 17 (2.47%) Retail
13 15 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.31%) Front Office
15 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.87%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.73%) Police
17 5 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 188 (27.33%) Architect
2 140 (20.35%) Data Architect
3 129 (18.75%) Analyst
4 91 (13.23%) Data Analyst
5 69 (10.03%) Data Engineer
6 58 (8.43%) Lead
7 52 (7.56%) Data Manager
8 49 (7.12%) Business Analyst
9 42 (6.10%) Consultant
10 39 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (5.52%) Developer
12 31 (4.51%) Senior
13 27 (3.92%) Governance Analyst
14 26 (3.78%) Data Business Analyst
15 23 (3.34%) Data Consultant
16 22 (3.20%) Data Governance Analyst
16 22 (3.20%) Data Governance Manager
16 22 (3.20%) Governance Manager
17 21 (3.05%) Chief Architect
17 21 (3.05%) Chief Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.91%) Kafka
1 20 (2.91%) REST
2 15 (2.18%) JSON
3 14 (2.03%) XML
4 13 (1.89%) PySpark
5 11 (1.60%) CSS
5 11 (1.60%) React
6 9 (1.31%) Flask
7 8 (1.16%) .NET
8 7 (1.02%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.02%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.73%) Middleware
10 4 (0.58%) SAP ALE
11 3 (0.44%) ADO
11 3 (0.44%) EDI
11 3 (0.44%) HTML
11 3 (0.44%) Node.js
11 3 (0.44%) Pandas
11 3 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
11 3 (0.44%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.25%) Reference Data
2 37 (5.38%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.02%) Taxonomies
9 6 (0.87%) NHS
9 6 (0.87%) Wiki
10 5 (0.73%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.73%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.58%) Biopharmaceutical
11 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.74%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
3 1 (0.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (43.75%) Data Modelling
2 170 (24.71%) Data Management
3 164 (23.84%) Analytics
4 144 (20.93%) Data Architecture
5 139 (20.20%) Business Intelligence
6 124 (18.02%) Data Integration
7 123 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 118 (17.15%) ETL
10 115 (16.72%) Agile
11 114 (16.57%) Data Strategy
12 97 (14.10%) Migration
13 95 (13.81%) Data Analysis
14 91 (13.23%) Data Lineage
15 80 (11.63%) Decision-Making
16 79 (11.48%) Visualisation
17 72 (10.47%) Data Migration
18 70 (10.17%) Data Security
19 68 (9.88%) Metadata Management
20 60 (8.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 177 (25.73%) SQL
2 100 (14.53%) Python
3 43 (6.25%) Java
4 27 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.47%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.33%) T-SQL
7 14 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.74%) C#
10 11 (1.60%) Scala
11 7 (1.02%) Groovy
11 7 (1.02%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.87%) R
13 4 (0.58%) ABAP
14 2 (0.29%) C++
14 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.29%) Go
14 2 (0.29%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) PHP
15 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.21%) Degree
3 70 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.74%) IIBA
7 12 (1.74%) PhD
8 11 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.44%) PMP
11 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.29%) CISA
11 2 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.15%) CEH
12 1 (0.15%) CISM
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.15%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (36.77%) Data Quality
2 76 (11.05%) GDPR
3 29 (4.22%) QA
4 21 (3.05%) GxP
5 19 (2.76%) Good Clinical Practice
6 14 (2.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 13 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.73%) GRC
9 4 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.58%) MiFID
10 3 (0.44%) SLA
11 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) IFRS
11 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.15%) COBIT
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (1.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 23 (3.34%) Terraform
2 12 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.45%) Ansible
3 10 (1.45%) Puppet
4 7 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 83 (12.06%) SAP
2 76 (11.05%) Microsoft
3 54 (7.85%) Informatica
4 44 (6.40%) Databricks
5 40 (5.81%) Oracle
6 25 (3.63%) Sparx
7 24 (3.49%) Google
8 18 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 16 (2.33%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.74%) Facebook
11 9 (1.31%) Talend
12 8 (1.16%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.16%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.16%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.16%) Instagram
13 7 (1.02%) IBM
13 7 (1.02%) Nexthink
13 7 (1.02%) Remedy
13 7 (1.02%) Splunk
13 7 (1.02%) Trillium