Data Governance Contracts in the City of London

Data Governance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 77 130
Rank change year-on-year +17 +53 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 58 46 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.44% 2.12% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 2.35% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 28 25
10th Percentile £440 £459 £475
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -9.87% +8.04%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £738
90th Percentile £725 £823 £773
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £638
% change year-on-year -4.35% -9.87% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 £48.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.19% - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 £48.50 -
% change year-on-year +106.19% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,580 1,960 3,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.60% 90.53% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 1,378 2,164
10th Percentile £350 £350 £352
25th Percentile £456 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £726
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £558 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.36% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 26
10th Percentile £22.18 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% -26.79% -12.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the City of London

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in the City of London

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in the City of London

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in the City of London

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 22 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Data Governance
Central London

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.72%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) CMS
4 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.72%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.72%) SAP MDG-S
2 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) AWS
2 14 (24.14%) Power Platform
3 10 (17.24%) Collibra
4 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (6.90%) GCP
6 3 (5.17%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Alation
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Boomi
7 2 (3.45%) dbt
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Metadata
2 13 (22.41%) Power BI
3 11 (18.97%) Data Lake
3 11 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.62%) Delta Lake
5 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.90%) Data Mining
6 4 (6.90%) Tableau
7 3 (5.17%) Big Data
7 3 (5.17%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.17%) Looker
8 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.72%) Parquet
9 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) Maven
3 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (31.03%) Finance
3 11 (18.97%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Police
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.17%) Retail
7 2 (3.45%) Back Office
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Data Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Analyst
3 10 (17.24%) Data Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Data Manager
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Governance Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Senior
7 4 (6.90%) Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Data Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Data Governance Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Governance Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) Kafka
1 4 (6.90%) PySpark
2 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
2 2 (3.45%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (3.45%) JPA
2 2 (3.45%) Spring
2 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.72%) .NET
3 1 (1.72%) FHIR
3 1 (1.72%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.17%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.45%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Data Modelling
2 21 (36.21%) Analytics
3 20 (34.48%) Data Management
4 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (24.14%) Data Engineering
6 14 (24.14%) Decision-Making
7 12 (20.69%) Data Architecture
7 12 (20.69%) ETL
8 11 (18.97%) Data Integration
9 10 (17.24%) Agile
9 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
10 9 (15.52%) Data Strategy
10 9 (15.52%) Migration
11 8 (13.79%) Data Lineage
11 8 (13.79%) Risk Management
12 7 (12.07%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (12.07%) Data Analysis
12 7 (12.07%) Metadata Management
12 7 (12.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) SQL
2 15 (25.86%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) Scala
4 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Degree
1 4 (6.90%) PMI Certification
1 4 (6.90%) PMP
1 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) CAPM
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) MBA
4 1 (1.72%) PgMP
4 1 (1.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (46.55%) Data Quality
2 9 (15.52%) GDPR
3 2 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Informatica
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
3 4 (6.90%) Google
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
4 3 (5.17%) SAP
5 2 (3.45%) IBM
5 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.72%) Adobe
6 1 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.72%) Progress
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow