Data Governance Contracts in Central London

Data Governance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 78 132
Rank change year-on-year +11 +54 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 59 59 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.95% 2.42% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 2.67% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 28
10th Percentile £453 £450 £475
25th Percentile £469 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £644
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -10.71% +3.04%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £750
90th Percentile £725 £793 £875
London median daily rate £625 £600 £619
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 £48.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.19% - -
London median hourly rate £82.50 £38.17 £85.00
% change year-on-year +116.14% -55.09% +5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Central London

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in Central London

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in Central London

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in Central London

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London +6 57 £550 -8.33% 29
Southwark - 1 - - 1
Data Governance
London

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (11.86%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) SAP MDG
2 3 (5.08%) SAP MDG-S
2 3 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.69%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) Azure
2 15 (25.42%) Power Platform
3 12 (20.34%) AWS
4 4 (6.78%) GCP
5 3 (5.08%) Collibra
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.08%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) Boomi
6 2 (3.39%) dbt
6 2 (3.39%) Fivetran
6 2 (3.39%) GitHub
6 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.39%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.39%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Power BI
2 11 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (16.95%) Metadata
4 8 (13.56%) Data Lake
5 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.78%) Tableau
7 3 (5.08%) Big Data
7 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.08%) Data Mining
7 3 (5.08%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.08%) Looker
7 3 (5.08%) SAP HANA
8 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.69%) Parquet
9 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.69%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.39%) Maven
3 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.51%) Finance
3 17 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Police
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.08%) Retail
7 2 (3.39%) Back Office
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.39%) Law
7 2 (3.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Data Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
3 10 (16.95%) Data Analyst
4 9 (15.25%) Architect
4 9 (15.25%) Data Manager
5 7 (11.86%) Lead
6 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.78%) Senior
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Data Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Data Governance Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Governance Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Governance Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Kafka
2 3 (5.08%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (5.08%) Spring
2 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.39%) .NET
3 2 (3.39%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.39%) JPA
4 1 (1.69%) FHIR
4 1 (1.69%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.39%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.69%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Data Management
2 20 (33.90%) Data Modelling
3 19 (32.20%) Analytics
4 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (20.34%) Data Architecture
6 12 (20.34%) Data Engineering
6 12 (20.34%) Data Integration
6 12 (20.34%) Decision-Making
6 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
7 10 (16.95%) Agile
7 10 (16.95%) ETL
7 10 (16.95%) Risk Management
8 9 (15.25%) Migration
9 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (11.86%) Data Analysis
10 7 (11.86%) Data Cleansing
10 7 (11.86%) Data Strategy
11 6 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (10.17%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) SQL
2 13 (22.03%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.08%) Scala
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Degree
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.47%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (6.78%) PMI Certification
3 4 (6.78%) PMP
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.39%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.69%) CAPM
5 1 (1.69%) MBA
5 1 (1.69%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (35.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) GRC
4 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) SAP
2 4 (6.78%) Google
2 4 (6.78%) Informatica
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.08%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (5.08%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) IBM
4 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) Dell
5 1 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.69%) Progress
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow