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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 79 123
Rank change year-on-year +18 +44 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 783 451 375
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.34% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 3.62% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 321 288
10th Percentile £398 £405 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £750
90th Percentile £745 £788 £888
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £60.50 £27.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year +121.77% -31.80% +23.84%

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 17,586 12,456 15,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.16% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,692 8,329 11,079
10th Percentile £360 £331 £338
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 234 288
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +6.45% -27.57%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +20 102 £568 +3.18% 62
West London +12 30 £603 +41.76% 7
East London +6 9 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -7 4 £637 -6.50% 6
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 55 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.96%) Apache
4 18 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.02%) Confluence
6 6 (0.77%) CMS
7 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 37 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.77%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.38%) Workfront
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.26%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 291 (37.16%) Azure
2 177 (22.61%) Power Platform
3 152 (19.41%) AWS
4 113 (14.43%) GCP
5 77 (9.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (8.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 62 (7.92%) Collibra
8 61 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 60 (7.66%) Snowflake
10 55 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (6.51%) dbt
12 42 (5.36%) GitHub
13 37 (4.73%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (3.58%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (3.07%) Serverless
17 19 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (2.30%) Power Automate
19 17 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) IPv4
3 2 (0.26%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (21.71%) Metadata
2 156 (19.92%) Power BI
3 105 (13.41%) Data Lake
4 104 (13.28%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (6.51%) Delta Lake
6 47 (6.00%) Tableau
7 34 (4.34%) BigQuery
8 27 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
9 26 (3.32%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.94%) Big Data
10 23 (2.94%) Data Vault
10 23 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.92%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.79%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.79%) OLAP
15 13 (1.66%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 42 (5.36%) Git
2 31 (3.96%) JIRA
3 26 (3.32%) ERwin
4 13 (1.66%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.53%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.02%) GitLab
7 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.51%) MLflow
9 3 (0.38%) git-flow
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.13%) LSMW
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.13%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) Snyk
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 269 (34.36%) Finance
2 226 (28.86%) Social Skills
3 141 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.86%) Banking
5 75 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 36 (4.60%) Legal
7 32 (4.09%) Retail
8 18 (2.30%) Marketing
9 16 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.53%) Local Government
13 11 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.02%) Law
16 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 143 (18.26%) Analyst
2 139 (17.75%) Data Engineer
3 135 (17.24%) Architect
4 96 (12.26%) Lead
5 90 (11.49%) Senior
6 88 (11.24%) Data Analyst
7 66 (8.43%) Business Analyst
8 62 (7.92%) Data Architect
9 35 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (4.21%) Data Business Analyst
11 32 (4.09%) Project Manager
12 28 (3.58%) Consultant
12 28 (3.58%) Developer
12 28 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
13 27 (3.45%) Data Modeller
14 26 (3.32%) Data Manager
14 26 (3.32%) Governance Analyst
15 24 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
16 18 (2.30%) Product Owner
16 18 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.28%) PySpark
2 48 (6.13%) Kafka
3 26 (3.32%) REST
4 17 (2.17%) Middleware
5 16 (2.04%) SOAP
6 14 (1.79%) JSON
7 13 (1.66%) Great Expectations
8 11 (1.40%) Web Services
9 10 (1.28%) .NET
9 10 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (1.15%) Spring
11 7 (0.89%) OAuth
11 7 (0.89%) YAML
12 5 (0.64%) Spark Streaming
13 4 (0.51%) Node.js
13 4 (0.51%) OpenID
13 4 (0.51%) Pandas
13 4 (0.51%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.26%) Data Structures
2 49 (6.26%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.87%) Onboarding
4 37 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 23 (2.94%) Reference Data
6 20 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.92%) Taxonomies
11 12 (1.53%) Clustering
12 11 (1.40%) CMDB
12 11 (1.40%) Life Science
13 10 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.02%) Fixed Income
15 8 (1.02%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.02%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.51%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (37.29%) Data Modelling
2 282 (36.02%) Analytics
3 204 (26.05%) AI
4 200 (25.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 184 (23.50%) ETL
6 179 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
7 171 (21.84%) Data Pipeline
8 164 (20.95%) Data Engineering
9 160 (20.43%) CI/CD
10 151 (19.28%) Agile
11 150 (19.16%) Data Architecture
12 140 (17.88%) Migration
13 138 (17.62%) Validation
14 134 (17.11%) Data Management
15 133 (16.99%) DevOps
16 121 (15.45%) Decision-Making
17 118 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
18 108 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 91 (11.62%) Machine Learning
20 87 (11.11%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 305 (38.95%) SQL
2 203 (25.93%) Python
3 27 (3.45%) C#
4 26 (3.32%) Scala
5 19 (2.43%) Java
6 14 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.53%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.15%) Bicep
9 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.77%) R
11 5 (0.64%) Bash
12 3 (0.38%) Cypher
12 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.38%) VBA
13 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.26%) Go
13 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.26%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 133 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 109 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.79%) Degree
4 36 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.79%) PMP
10 12 (1.53%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.40%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.77%) CISSP
13 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.51%) CEH
14 4 (0.51%) CISM
14 4 (0.51%) GIAC
14 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (42.53%) Data Quality
2 119 (15.20%) GDPR
3 46 (5.87%) QA
4 17 (2.17%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.28%) IFRS
8 9 (1.15%) NIST
8 9 (1.15%) PMO
9 8 (1.02%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.89%) COREP
10 7 (0.89%) FINREP
11 5 (0.64%) GRC
11 5 (0.64%) MiFID
12 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.51%) COBIT
12 4 (0.51%) GxP
12 4 (0.51%) NCSC
12 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (3.19%) Docker
2 14 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) HDFS
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (8.68%) Terraform
2 28 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.02%) Grafana
4 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.26%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.26%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Ansible
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 168 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 133 (16.99%) Databricks
3 53 (6.77%) Oracle
4 40 (5.11%) Google
5 39 (4.98%) SAP
6 29 (3.70%) Informatica
6 29 (3.70%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.40%) Foundry
10 9 (1.15%) GoldenSource
11 8 (1.02%) Workday
12 7 (0.89%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.64%) IBM
14 4 (0.51%) Murex
14 4 (0.51%) Sparx
15 3 (0.38%) Adobe
15 3 (0.38%) Ariba
15 3 (0.38%) VMware
15 3 (0.38%) Zscaler