Data Governance Contracts in London

Data Governance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 116 213
Rank change year-on-year +41 +97 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 433 389 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.44% 2.21% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 2.51% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 301 203
10th Percentile £404 £400 £465
25th Percentile £481 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £725
90th Percentile £841 £875 £793
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £66.25 £31.62 £78.75
25th Percentile £71.88 £37.30 £80.63
Median hourly rate £82.50 £48.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.10% -42.94% +5.66%
75th Percentile £91.88 £64.50 £88.13
90th Percentile £96.75 £73.05 £89.25
England median hourly rate £32.73 £40.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -18.18% +23.84% -25.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,626 15,521 22,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.34% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,790 11,071 16,509
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.63%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Central London +20 56 £550 -4.35% 125
East London - 3 £675 - 52
South London - 2 £681 - 5
West London -2 1 £425 -26.09% 11
North London -3 1 - -
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (8.55%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.93%) Apache
4 15 (3.46%) SharePoint
5 12 (2.77%) Confluence
6 5 (1.15%) CMS
7 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) Appian
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.39%) Oracle Smart View
3 5 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.77%) SAP MDG
3 5 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.92%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.46%) Magento
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.46%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.46%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (0.46%) Shopify
5 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.23%) Maximo
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 124 (28.64%) Azure
2 100 (23.09%) AWS
3 69 (15.94%) Power Platform
4 60 (13.86%) GCP
5 36 (8.31%) Snowflake
6 29 (6.70%) Collibra
6 29 (6.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 20 (4.62%) dbt
8 19 (4.39%) Amazon S3
8 19 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.77%) Serverless
11 10 (2.31%) GitHub
12 7 (1.62%) Alation
12 7 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.62%) SaaS
13 6 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) FTP
1 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.23%) MPLS
1 1 (0.23%) Network Security
1 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (24.71%) Data Lake
2 87 (20.09%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (15.70%) Metadata
4 62 (14.32%) Power BI
5 35 (8.08%) Tableau
6 34 (7.85%) Big Data
7 23 (5.31%) BigQuery
7 23 (5.31%) SQL Server
8 20 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (4.16%) NoSQL
10 16 (3.70%) Delta Lake
11 14 (3.23%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.77%) Data Vault
13 10 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (2.08%) Power Query
14 9 (2.08%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (1.62%) Looker
16 7 (1.62%) Qlik Sense
17 6 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 20 (4.62%) JIRA
2 15 (3.46%) ERwin
3 7 (1.62%) Git
4 6 (1.39%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.15%) GitLab
6 4 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.69%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.69%) Maven
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
8 2 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.23%) LSMW
General
1 165 (38.11%) Finance
2 139 (32.10%) Social Skills
3 77 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (11.55%) Front Office
5 40 (9.24%) Banking
6 19 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.77%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.77%) Legal
9 12 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.31%) Retail
11 8 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.62%) Marketing
13 6 (1.39%) Back Office
13 6 (1.39%) Police
14 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (23.09%) Architect
2 76 (17.55%) Analyst
3 69 (15.94%) Data Architect
4 65 (15.01%) Lead
5 50 (11.55%) Data Analyst
6 48 (11.09%) Data Engineer
7 33 (7.62%) Senior
8 29 (6.70%) Business Analyst
9 25 (5.77%) Head of Finance
10 19 (4.39%) Data Modeller
11 18 (4.16%) Data Manager
11 18 (4.16%) Governance Analyst
12 17 (3.93%) Data Business Analyst
13 16 (3.70%) Consultant
14 15 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.00%) Data Consultant
16 12 (2.77%) Azure Data Engineer
17 11 (2.54%) Senior Data Engineer
18 10 (2.31%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.47%) Kafka
2 15 (3.46%) PySpark
3 11 (2.54%) REST
4 6 (1.39%) Hugging Face
4 6 (1.39%) Middleware
4 6 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.92%) FHIR
5 4 (0.92%) Great Expectations
5 4 (0.92%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.92%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.92%) Web Services
6 3 (0.69%) Hibernate
6 3 (0.69%) JPA
6 3 (0.69%) Keras
6 3 (0.69%) SOAP
6 3 (0.69%) Spring
6 3 (0.69%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.46%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 45 (10.39%) Fixed Income
2 45 (10.39%) Hedge funds
3 44 (10.16%) Derivative
3 44 (10.16%) Equities
4 31 (7.16%) Data Structures
5 21 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.39%) Reference Data
7 17 (3.93%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.93%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.77%) Taxonomies
10 9 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.62%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.39%) FMCG
12 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.39%) Life Science
12 6 (1.39%) NHS
13 5 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (34.64%) Data Modelling
2 139 (32.10%) Data Management
3 126 (29.10%) Analytics
4 107 (24.71%) Agile
5 106 (24.48%) Migration
6 105 (24.25%) ETL
7 91 (21.02%) Business Intelligence
8 83 (19.17%) Data Architecture
9 81 (18.71%) Roadmaps
10 79 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (16.63%) Regulatory Compliance
12 69 (15.94%) Data Pipeline
13 67 (15.47%) Data Integration
14 64 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (13.63%) Data Engineering
16 55 (12.70%) Data Strategy
17 52 (12.01%) Data Science
18 50 (11.55%) Decision-Making
18 50 (11.55%) Investment Management
19 47 (10.85%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 139 (32.10%) SQL
2 102 (23.56%) Python
3 16 (3.70%) Java
3 16 (3.70%) Scala
4 14 (3.23%) R
5 11 (2.54%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.15%) C#
7 5 (1.15%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.92%) Bicep
8 4 (0.92%) C
8 4 (0.92%) C++
8 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.92%) Perl
9 3 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.69%) VBA
10 2 (0.46%) Bash
10 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 46 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.31%) Degree
4 20 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.92%) PMP
8 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ACCA
10 1 (0.23%) CBAP
10 1 (0.23%) CIMA
10 1 (0.23%) CSPO
10 1 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (34.64%) Data Quality
2 56 (12.93%) GDPR
3 17 (3.93%) QA
4 15 (3.46%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.46%) MiFID
5 7 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.15%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.15%) PMO
7 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.92%) HL7
8 3 (0.69%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.69%) GRC
8 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.69%) NIST
8 3 (0.69%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) GxP
10 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (2.31%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) HDFS
3 1 (0.23%) NFS
3 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 29 (6.70%) Terraform
2 10 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.23%) Ansible
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.09%) Databricks
3 41 (9.47%) Informatica
4 36 (8.31%) SAP
5 33 (7.62%) Google
6 24 (5.54%) Oracle
7 14 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.08%) IBM
9 8 (1.85%) Talend
10 7 (1.62%) Sparx
11 5 (1.15%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.69%) Adobe
13 3 (0.69%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.69%) Duck Creek
13 3 (0.69%) Foundry
13 3 (0.69%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.69%) Palantir
13 3 (0.69%) Workday