Data Governance Contract Job Trends in London

Data Governance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 71 118
Rank change year-on-year +17 +47 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 898 513 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.38% 3.83% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 4.14% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 361 241
10th Percentile £375 £408 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £738 £750 £850
England median daily rate £548 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £19.08 - £32.68
25th Percentile £19.19 £18.25 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.12 £18.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year +46.57% -64.88% +50.49%
75th Percentile £44.76 £23.44 £66.02
90th Percentile £59.90 £31.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £27.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +83.28% -9.07% -14.29%

All Process & 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 18,262 12,381 14,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,971 8,179 9,290
10th Percentile £358 £334 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 241 177
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.69 £25.15 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -16.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in London

Data Governance
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Governance
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Governance in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

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 16 October 2026. 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 +13 140 £570 +3.55% 36
West London +11 36 £520 +1.46% 10
East London - 2 £600 - 11
South London -11 1 - - 4
Data Governance
England

Data 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 58 (6.46%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (5.79%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.23%) Apache
4 28 (3.12%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.56%) Confluence
6 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.89%) SAS
8 7 (0.78%) CMS
9 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) Mendix
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 40 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.22%) SAP MDG
3 8 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.45%) Workfront
7 3 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.33%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.33%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 352 (39.20%) Azure
2 185 (20.60%) Power Platform
3 183 (20.38%) AWS
4 102 (11.36%) GCP
5 95 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 92 (10.24%) Snowflake
7 82 (9.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 67 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 65 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (6.90%) dbt
11 56 (6.24%) Collibra
12 45 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (4.57%) Microsoft Copilot
14 38 (4.23%) Serverless
15 37 (4.12%) Amazon S3
16 31 (3.45%) GitHub
17 28 (3.12%) Entra ID
18 26 (2.90%) Azure Databricks
19 25 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
19 25 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.00%) Cisco IPT
2 6 (0.67%) Network Security
3 5 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) Broadband
5 2 (0.22%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) HTTP
6 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.11%) SMS
6 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (25.84%) Metadata
2 160 (17.82%) Power BI
3 133 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (11.36%) Data Lake
5 48 (5.35%) Delta Lake
6 40 (4.45%) Tableau
7 34 (3.79%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.12%) BigQuery
9 27 (3.01%) Big Data
10 23 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (2.34%) NoSQL
12 20 (2.23%) Relational Database
12 20 (2.23%) Star Schema
13 19 (2.12%) Data Vault
14 18 (2.00%) Power Query
15 16 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (1.78%) Semantic Layer
15 16 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (4.90%) Git
2 36 (4.01%) JIRA
3 22 (2.45%) ERwin
4 17 (1.89%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.22%) GitLab
6 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.45%) MLflow
8 4 (0.45%) RStudio
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.22%) git-flow
9 2 (0.22%) JMeter
9 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 298 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 285 (31.74%) Finance
3 156 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.47%) Banking
5 94 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.46%) Legal
7 39 (4.34%) Marketing
8 38 (4.23%) Retail
9 27 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 25 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.67%) Local Government
15 15 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.34%) Front Office
16 12 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.00%) Law
18 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 194 (21.60%) Architect
2 172 (19.15%) Analyst
3 135 (15.03%) Data Engineer
4 113 (12.58%) Data Architect
4 113 (12.58%) Lead
5 95 (10.58%) Data Analyst
6 90 (10.02%) Senior
7 76 (8.46%) Business Analyst
8 44 (4.90%) Consultant
9 40 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (4.34%) Data Business Analyst
11 32 (3.56%) Data Manager
12 31 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (3.34%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.12%) Developer
15 27 (3.01%) Project Manager
16 26 (2.90%) Data Modeller
16 26 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
17 23 (2.56%) Data Consultant
18 22 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.46%) PySpark
2 61 (6.79%) Terraform
3 45 (5.01%) Kafka
4 26 (2.90%) REST
5 17 (1.89%) JSON
6 11 (1.22%) .NET
7 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.89%) OAuth
9 7 (0.78%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (0.78%) Great Expectations
10 6 (0.67%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.67%) Middleware
10 6 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.67%) YAML
11 5 (0.56%) pytest
11 5 (0.56%) React
11 5 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (0.45%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (8.46%) Data Structures
2 68 (7.57%) Cloud Native
3 65 (7.24%) Product Ownership
4 58 (6.46%) Onboarding
5 49 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (5.46%) Reference Data
6 42 (4.68%) Management Information System
7 29 (3.23%) AI Agents
8 28 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (3.01%) Taxonomies
10 25 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.78%) Life Science
12 15 (1.67%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.45%) Reinsurance
14 12 (1.34%) FMCG
15 10 (1.11%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.22%) Linux
2 7 (0.78%) Windows
3 5 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) Android
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) VMS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (38.98%) Data Modelling
2 331 (36.86%) Analytics
3 310 (34.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 253 (28.17%) AI
5 214 (23.83%) Data Architecture
6 195 (21.71%) Business Intelligence
7 193 (21.49%) Migration
8 190 (21.16%) Data Engineering
8 190 (21.16%) Data Pipeline
9 184 (20.49%) Agile
10 180 (20.04%) ETL
11 177 (19.71%) CI/CD
12 168 (18.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 154 (17.15%) Validation
14 152 (16.93%) Data Management
15 143 (15.92%) DevOps
16 136 (15.14%) Decision-Making
16 136 (15.14%) Roadmaps
17 128 (14.25%) Data Transformation
17 128 (14.25%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 334 (37.19%) SQL
2 208 (23.16%) Python
3 30 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (2.23%) PowerShell
5 19 (2.12%) Java
6 18 (2.00%) C#
7 13 (1.45%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.34%) Bicep
8 12 (1.34%) Scala
9 11 (1.22%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.89%) Bash
10 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.78%) R
12 6 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.45%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.22%) Delphi
14 2 (0.22%) Korn
14 2 (0.22%) SAS Macro
14 2 (0.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 134 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 109 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.35%) Degree
4 35 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.89%) PMP
8 16 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.56%) CISSP
12 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
13 4 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.33%) CEH
14 3 (0.33%) CSPO
14 3 (0.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (47.55%) Data Quality
2 114 (12.69%) GDPR
3 32 (3.56%) QA
4 14 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.34%) GRC
6 11 (1.22%) NIST
7 10 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.11%) Solvency II
8 9 (1.00%) PMO
9 7 (0.78%) GxP
10 6 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.67%) IFRS
10 6 (0.67%) MiFID
10 6 (0.67%) NCSC
11 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.45%) COREP
12 4 (0.45%) FINREP
12 4 (0.45%) PERC
12 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (2.56%) Docker
2 22 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.45%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.22%) Ansible
3 7 (0.78%) Grafana
4 6 (0.67%) Control-M
4 6 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.45%) Puppet
6 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 238 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 181 (20.16%) Databricks
3 54 (6.01%) Oracle
4 48 (5.35%) Informatica
5 37 (4.12%) Google
6 34 (3.79%) SAP
7 23 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.78%) Adobe
9 14 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.34%) IBM
11 11 (1.22%) Workday
12 10 (1.11%) Bloomberg
12 10 (1.11%) Cloudera
12 10 (1.11%) Foundry
12 10 (1.11%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.00%) Talend
14 7 (0.78%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.78%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.78%) Sparx
14 7 (0.78%) Zscaler