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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 71 133
Rank change year-on-year +5 +62 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 646 454 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.48% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 3.82% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 344 261
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £459 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £27.49
25th Percentile £18.25 - £32.72
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £40.84
75th Percentile £22.88 - £49.37
90th Percentile £41.70 - £49.90
England median hourly rate £58.00 £26.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +116.32% -32.97% +53.85%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +22 90 £571 +1.56% 61
West London +11 28 £603 - 11
East London -1 6 £566 +25.83% 8
South London -12 3 £475 -20.83% 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 82 (12.69%) Apache Spark
2 33 (5.11%) Apache
3 25 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.86%) Confluence
5 11 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.46%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.77%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.46%) Actimize
4 3 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 259 (40.09%) Azure
2 165 (25.54%) Power Platform
3 148 (22.91%) AWS
4 100 (15.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 92 (14.24%) GCP
6 78 (12.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 56 (8.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 55 (8.51%) Snowflake
9 53 (8.20%) Collibra
10 48 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (6.66%) Amazon S3
12 35 (5.42%) GitHub
13 30 (4.64%) Serverless
14 29 (4.49%) dbt
15 27 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
20 16 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) 4G
3 1 (0.15%) 5G
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (23.84%) Power BI
2 129 (19.97%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (19.50%) Metadata
4 96 (14.86%) Data Lake
5 50 (7.74%) Tableau
6 48 (7.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (7.12%) NoSQL
8 40 (6.19%) Delta Lake
9 34 (5.26%) BigQuery
10 33 (5.11%) SQL Server
11 29 (4.49%) Big Data
12 26 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
13 24 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (3.72%) Relational Database
14 20 (3.10%) Mixpanel
14 20 (3.10%) OLAP
15 18 (2.79%) OLTP
16 17 (2.63%) Data Vault
17 16 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (9.60%) Git
2 31 (4.80%) JIRA
3 18 (2.79%) ERwin
4 13 (2.01%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.39%) MLflow
7 6 (0.93%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.77%) GitLab
9 3 (0.46%) LSMW
10 2 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.31%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.31%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.15%) git-flow
11 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.15%) Postman
11 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 219 (33.90%) Finance
2 218 (33.75%) Social Skills
3 136 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.36%) Banking
6 33 (5.11%) Legal
7 21 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.25%) Marketing
8 18 (2.79%) Retail
9 14 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.70%) Publishing
12 9 (1.39%) Electronics
13 8 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.08%) Local Government
15 6 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (19.81%) Data Engineer
2 111 (17.18%) Analyst
3 105 (16.25%) Lead
4 96 (14.86%) Architect
5 65 (10.06%) Data Analyst
6 61 (9.44%) Senior
7 59 (9.13%) Business Analyst
8 53 (8.20%) Data Architect
9 37 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (5.26%) Developer
11 33 (5.11%) Azure Data Engineer
12 26 (4.02%) Data Business Analyst
13 25 (3.87%) Project Manager
14 24 (3.72%) Consultant
15 22 (3.41%) Data Modeller
16 20 (3.10%) Principal Engineer
17 18 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
18 17 (2.63%) Azure Architect
18 17 (2.63%) Principal Data Engineer
18 17 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.23%) PySpark
2 50 (7.74%) Kafka
3 21 (3.25%) REST
4 17 (2.63%) .NET
4 17 (2.63%) Great Expectations
5 11 (1.70%) OAuth
5 11 (1.70%) Pandas
6 9 (1.39%) JSON
6 9 (1.39%) SOAP
7 8 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.24%) YAML
8 6 (0.93%) boto
8 6 (0.93%) Middleware
8 6 (0.93%) NumPy
8 6 (0.93%) OpenID
8 6 (0.93%) SAML
8 6 (0.93%) scikit-learn
8 6 (0.93%) TensorFlow
8 6 (0.93%) XML
9 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.67%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.04%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.32%) Reference Data
8 11 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.24%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.24%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.08%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.08%) Life Science
12 7 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.31%) Android
1 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.15%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (42.41%) Data Modelling
2 235 (36.38%) Analytics
3 177 (27.40%) Business Intelligence
4 176 (27.24%) ETL
5 173 (26.78%) Data Engineering
6 168 (26.01%) Agile
7 159 (24.61%) Data Pipeline
8 149 (23.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 138 (21.36%) AI
10 137 (21.21%) Data Architecture
11 135 (20.90%) CI/CD
12 116 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
13 108 (16.72%) DevOps
14 95 (14.71%) Decision-Making
14 95 (14.71%) Validation
15 94 (14.55%) Data Management
16 90 (13.93%) Migration
17 89 (13.78%) Data Integration
18 78 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 77 (11.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 297 (45.98%) SQL
2 219 (33.90%) Python
3 46 (7.12%) Scala
4 35 (5.42%) C#
5 19 (2.94%) R
6 15 (2.32%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.17%) Java
8 12 (1.86%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.24%) Bicep
12 6 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.31%) Bash
13 2 (0.31%) C
13 2 (0.31%) C++
13 2 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.31%) SOQL
13 2 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 101 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.68%) Degree
4 31 (4.80%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.86%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.55%) PMP
11 7 (1.08%) CISSP
12 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.46%) CBAP
15 1 (0.15%) HP APS
15 1 (0.15%) IIBA
15 1 (0.15%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (41.80%) Data Quality
2 107 (16.56%) GDPR
3 39 (6.04%) QA
4 22 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.86%) IFRS
6 10 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.55%) Solvency II
7 9 (1.39%) IFRS 17
8 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.77%) GRC
9 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.77%) PERC
10 4 (0.62%) MiFID
10 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.62%) PMO
11 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.46%) HL7
11 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.31%) GAAP
13 1 (0.15%) GMP
System Software
1 37 (5.73%) Docker
2 6 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) HDFS
3 1 (0.15%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (11.30%) Terraform
2 39 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.77%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.46%) Grafana
5 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (25.08%) Databricks
2 125 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 42 (6.50%) Oracle
4 35 (5.42%) SAP
5 34 (5.26%) Google
6 33 (5.11%) Salesforce
7 27 (4.18%) Informatica
8 15 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.17%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.70%) Workday
11 10 (1.55%) Adobe
12 9 (1.39%) Tealium
13 8 (1.24%) Sparx
14 6 (0.93%) OneTrust
15 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.77%) CyberArk
15 5 (0.77%) mParticle
15 5 (0.77%) Talend
15 5 (0.77%) VMware
16 4 (0.62%) Ariba