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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 85 135
Rank change year-on-year +18 +50 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 60 49 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.08% 2.03% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.24% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 31 26
10th Percentile £443 £450 £475
25th Percentile £468 £488 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £644
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -10.71% +9.06%
75th Percentile £644 £680 £747
90th Percentile £725 £800 £806
London median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -
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 £48.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +70.10% -42.94% +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 1,816 2,188 3,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.27% 90.53% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,559 2,348
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £679 £685 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.05
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.98 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £27.92 £37.34
% change year-on-year +18.19% -25.23% +2.55%

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 21 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 21 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 +17 58 £530 -7.83% 30
Southwark - 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 6 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.67%) Apache
4 1 (1.67%) CMS
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP MDG
2 2 (3.33%) SAP MDG-S
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 14 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 8 (13.33%) Collibra
4 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (6.67%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) SaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Boomi
7 2 (3.33%) dbt
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub
7 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.67%) Alation
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.67%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) Metadata
2 13 (21.67%) Power BI
3 11 (18.33%) Data Lake
3 11 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.67%) Data Mining
6 4 (6.67%) Tableau
7 3 (5.00%) Big Data
7 3 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.00%) Looker
8 2 (3.33%) SAP HANA
8 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.67%) Parquet
9 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) Maven
3 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (30.00%) Finance
3 11 (18.33%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Police
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Retail
7 2 (3.33%) Back Office
7 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.33%) Law
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 9 (15.00%) Architect
4 9 (15.00%) Data Manager
5 6 (10.00%) Lead
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Governance Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Senior
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Data Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Data Governance Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Governance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) Kafka
1 4 (6.67%) PySpark
2 2 (3.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (3.33%) JPA
2 2 (3.33%) Spring
2 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.67%) .NET
3 1 (1.67%) FHIR
3 1 (1.67%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Reference Data
2 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.33%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Data Management
1 22 (36.67%) Data Modelling
2 20 (33.33%) Analytics
3 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (23.33%) Data Engineering
6 13 (21.67%) Data Architecture
6 13 (21.67%) Decision-Making
7 12 (20.00%) ETL
8 11 (18.33%) Data Integration
9 10 (16.67%) Agile
9 10 (16.67%) Risk Management
9 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 9 (15.00%) Migration
11 8 (13.33%) Data Strategy
12 7 (11.67%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (11.67%) Data Analysis
12 7 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (11.67%) Data Science
12 7 (11.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) SQL
2 15 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (8.33%) Scala
4 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 4 (6.67%) PMP
2 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) CAPM
5 1 (1.67%) MBA
5 1 (1.67%) PgMP
5 1 (1.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.33%) GDPR
3 2 (3.33%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) GRC
4 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Informatica
2 6 (10.00%) Databricks
3 4 (6.67%) Google
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle
5 2 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (3.33%) IBM
5 2 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) Adobe
6 1 (1.67%) Dell
6 1 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.67%) Progress
6 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow