Information Governance Contract Job Trends in London

Information Governance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Information Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 357 388
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 +85
Contract jobs citing Information Governance 37 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.088% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.098% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 8
10th Percentile £174 £344 £268
25th Percentile £386 £394 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -4.88% -10.87%
75th Percentile £632 £534 £738
90th Percentile £700 £600 £861
England median daily rate £500 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £24.94 - -
25th Percentile £32.34 - -
Median hourly rate £44.68 £44.08 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% - -
75th Percentile £57.02 - -
90th Percentile £64.42 - -
England median hourly rate £20.40 £32.50 £13.23
% change year-on-year -37.23% +145.65% -46.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Information 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 13,174 13,286 16,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.14% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,522 11,607
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 164 241
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.15 £17.75
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.58 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.06 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Information Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Information Governance job vacancy trend in London

Information Governance
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Governance

Information Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Governance in London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Governance in London

Information Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Governance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Governance

Information Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Governance in London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Governance in London

Information 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 Information Governance within the London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 +2 6 £617 +17.48%
Information Governance
England

Information Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (24.32%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) Navisworks
2 1 (2.70%) ProjectWise
2 1 (2.70%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.70%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.11%) OneDrive
5 3 (8.11%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.41%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) PaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.70%) Google Docs
7 1 (2.70%) Google Drive
7 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Metadata
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Legal
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Publishing
6 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.41%) Local Government
7 1 (2.70%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Analyst
1 6 (16.22%) Architect
1 6 (16.22%) Business Analyst
1 6 (16.22%) Senior
2 5 (13.51%) Governance Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Information Governance Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (8.11%) Information Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Information Officer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Digital Developer
5 2 (5.41%) GDPR Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Integration Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Records Management Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) SharePoint Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) SharePoint Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) FHIR
1 3 (8.11%) RESTful
2 2 (5.41%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
2 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.41%) Spring
2 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Swagger
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) NHS
2 5 (13.51%) Freedom of Information
2 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.81%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Data Protection
2 14 (37.84%) Records Management
2 14 (37.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 12 (32.43%) Agile
4 11 (29.73%) Data Governance
5 8 (21.62%) Migration
6 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
6 7 (18.92%) Information Management
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Microservices
8 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.51%) Data Management
8 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
8 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (13.51%) Information Security
8 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
8 5 (13.51%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (10.81%) Design Patterns
9 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Java
1 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 3 (8.11%) C#
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
3 2 (5.41%) Scala
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) PHP
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) ISEB
2 2 (5.41%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) HL7
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.41%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) FINRA
4 1 (2.70%) GRC
4 1 (2.70%) ISO 19650
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (2.70%) MiFID
4 1 (2.70%) NCSC
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Databricks
2 2 (5.41%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) accuRx
3 1 (2.70%) Autodesk
3 1 (2.70%) Cerner
3 1 (2.70%) SAP