Data Governance Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Data Governance Manager
England > London

The median Data Governance Manager daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 385 445
Rank change year-on-year +32 +60 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Data Governance Manager 6 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.031% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.033% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £478 £465 £490
25th Percentile £500 £478 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £501 £605
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -17.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £647 £512 £645
90th Percentile £664 £518 £656
England median daily rate £575 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% +2.56%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,260 15,098 21,180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.12% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,228 10,327 15,494
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £698
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 187 230
10th Percentile £17.04 £17.73 £18.15
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £33.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -10.48% +14.96%
75th Percentile £50.56 £55.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.54% +5.29% +66.34%

Data Governance Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Governance Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance Manager in London

Data Governance Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Governance Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Governance Manager job vacancies in London

Data Governance Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance Manager in London over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance Manager in London

Data Governance Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 September 2025, Data Governance Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Governance Manager in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Culture Change
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle

Data Governance Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Culture Change
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) B2B
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle