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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 253 278
Rank change year-on-year +94 +25 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 675 593 862
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 1.07% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.19% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 405 599
10th Percentile £400 £425 £449
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £697 £700 £700
90th Percentile £808 £770 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.82% -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% +38.89%
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% +26.92%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +99 616 £575 -4.17% 252
London +96 376 £600 -4.00% 124
Work from Home +99 245 £525 -16.00% 130
UK excluding London +51 232 £507 -7.82% 127
North of England +81 101 £535 +1.90% 36
North West +55 60 £475 -2.56% 19
Yorkshire +28 42 £590 -3.12% 12
South East -6 41 £475 -24.00% 29
South West +23 35 £575 - 15
East of England +9 26 £410 +2.50% 11
Midlands +9 25 £500 - 23
West Midlands -4 18 £475 -3.80% 14
Scotland +26 11 £575 +4.55% 11
East Midlands +14 5 £513 -10.87% 9
North East +12 3 - - 5
Wales +14 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 25 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.52%) Confluence
4 14 (2.07%) SAS
5 12 (1.78%) Apache
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
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 24 (3.56%) MS Visio
2 19 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.59%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.11%) SAP MDG
3 14 (2.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.59%) FastStats
5 4 (0.59%) SAP MDM
5 4 (0.59%) Unica
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.30%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.30%) 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 MDG-S
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (21.33%) Azure
2 111 (16.44%) Power Platform
3 87 (12.89%) AWS
4 58 (8.59%) Collibra
5 47 (6.96%) GCP
6 41 (6.07%) Snowflake
7 31 (4.59%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (2.96%) Power Automate
10 19 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (2.52%) Azure Stack
12 15 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.22%) Serverless
13 14 (2.07%) SaaS
14 13 (1.93%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.48%) PaaS
16 9 (1.33%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 9 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.30%) VPN
2 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.15%) DNS
2 1 (0.15%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.15%) Intranet
2 1 (0.15%) MPLS
2 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.15%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (19.85%) Metadata
2 123 (18.22%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (15.85%) Power BI
4 67 (9.93%) Data Lake
5 58 (8.59%) Big Data
6 56 (8.30%) NoSQL
7 51 (7.56%) SQL Server
8 33 (4.89%) Metadata Repository
9 27 (4.00%) Data Vault
10 26 (3.85%) Tableau
11 20 (2.96%) Hadoop
11 20 (2.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (2.67%) Data Mining
13 17 (2.52%) Relational Database
14 14 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.07%) BigQuery
14 14 (2.07%) MySQL
15 13 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 38 (5.63%) JIRA
2 24 (3.56%) ERwin
3 16 (2.37%) Git
4 14 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 12 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.19%) Eclipse
7 7 (1.04%) ER Studio
7 7 (1.04%) PyCharm
8 3 (0.44%) GitLab
8 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.30%) kappa
10 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.15%) RStudio
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 179 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 152 (22.52%) Finance
3 127 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.44%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.74%) Manufacturing
6 54 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 47 (6.96%) Banking
8 31 (4.59%) Marketing
8 31 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (3.56%) Legal
10 22 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.81%) Electronics
12 18 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.22%) Retail
14 9 (1.33%) Front Office
15 8 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.89%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 187 (27.70%) Architect
2 134 (19.85%) Data Architect
3 128 (18.96%) Analyst
4 90 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 66 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 63 (9.33%) Lead
7 51 (7.56%) Data Manager
8 49 (7.26%) Business Analyst
9 42 (6.22%) Consultant
10 41 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (5.63%) Developer
12 32 (4.74%) Senior
13 26 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
14 25 (3.70%) Governance Analyst
15 23 (3.41%) Data Consultant
15 23 (3.41%) Governance Manager
16 22 (3.26%) Data Governance Analyst
16 22 (3.26%) Data Governance Manager
17 21 (3.11%) Chief Architect
17 21 (3.11%) Chief Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.26%) REST
2 21 (3.11%) Kafka
3 16 (2.37%) PySpark
4 15 (2.22%) JSON
5 14 (2.07%) XML
6 12 (1.78%) CSS
6 12 (1.78%) React
7 9 (1.33%) .NET
8 8 (1.19%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.04%) Flask
9 7 (1.04%) Middleware
10 6 (0.89%) FastAPI
11 4 (0.59%) HTML
11 4 (0.59%) SAP ALE
12 3 (0.44%) EDI
12 3 (0.44%) Node.js
12 3 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
12 3 (0.44%) Web Dynpro
13 2 (0.30%) Redux
13 2 (0.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.37%) Reference Data
2 37 (5.48%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.56%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
10 5 (0.74%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (0.74%) NHS
11 4 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.59%) Life Science
11 4 (0.59%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.78%) Linux
2 2 (0.30%) Unix
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
3 1 (0.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (44.00%) Data Modelling
2 170 (25.19%) Data Management
3 162 (24.00%) Analytics
4 142 (21.04%) Data Architecture
5 130 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (17.63%) Data Integration
6 119 (17.63%) ETL
7 118 (17.48%) Agile
7 118 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 109 (16.15%) Data Strategy
10 94 (13.93%) Data Analysis
11 91 (13.48%) Data Lineage
12 88 (13.04%) Migration
13 82 (12.15%) Decision-Making
14 78 (11.56%) Visualisation
15 69 (10.22%) Data Migration
16 67 (9.93%) Data Security
16 67 (9.93%) Metadata Management
17 59 (8.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 176 (26.07%) SQL
2 104 (15.41%) Python
3 44 (6.52%) Java
4 28 (4.15%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.52%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.37%) T-SQL
7 14 (2.07%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.78%) C#
9 12 (1.78%) Scala
10 7 (1.04%) Groovy
10 7 (1.04%) MATLAB
11 6 (0.89%) R
12 4 (0.59%) ABAP
13 2 (0.30%) C++
13 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.30%) Go
13 2 (0.30%) Perl
14 1 (0.15%) PHP
14 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (12.74%) Degree
1 86 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 69 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 22 (3.26%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.78%) IIBA
5 12 (1.78%) PhD
6 11 (1.63%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.44%) PMP
9 2 (0.30%) CISA
9 2 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.15%) CISM
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.15%) MOS
10 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (36.89%) Data Quality
2 74 (10.96%) GDPR
3 30 (4.44%) QA
4 21 (3.11%) GxP
5 19 (2.81%) Good Clinical Practice
6 13 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.74%) GRC
7 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.59%) MiFID
9 3 (0.44%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (1.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 26 (3.85%) Terraform
2 11 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.48%) Ansible
3 10 (1.48%) Puppet
4 7 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 78 (11.56%) SAP
2 73 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 55 (8.15%) Informatica
4 45 (6.67%) Databricks
5 38 (5.63%) Oracle
6 25 (3.70%) Google
7 23 (3.41%) Sparx
8 19 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 16 (2.37%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.78%) Facebook
11 9 (1.33%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.33%) Talend
12 8 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.19%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.19%) Instagram
13 7 (1.04%) IBM
13 7 (1.04%) Nexthink
13 7 (1.04%) Remedy
13 7 (1.04%) Splunk
13 7 (1.04%) Trillium