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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 75 131
Rank change year-on-year +19 +56 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 866 478 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 3.57% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 3.86% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 332 241
10th Percentile £375 £405 £400
25th Percentile £450 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +23.41% -18.66%
75th Percentile £28.67 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.40% +24.93% -10.85%

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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +13 127 £572 +7.46% 80
West London +13 32 £520 +22.35% 24
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 8
South London -13 4 £637 -6.50% 3
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 53 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 50 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.81%) Apache
4 24 (2.77%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.04%) Confluence
6 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.92%) SAS
7 6 (0.69%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 40 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.39%) SAP MDG
3 11 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.69%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.35%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.35%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.12%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.12%) Maximo
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 320 (36.95%) Azure
2 180 (20.79%) AWS
3 172 (19.86%) Power Platform
4 101 (11.66%) GCP
5 81 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 77 (8.89%) Snowflake
7 71 (8.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 62 (7.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 62 (7.16%) dbt
9 59 (6.81%) Collibra
10 58 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (4.62%) Amazon S3
12 38 (4.39%) Serverless
13 35 (4.04%) GitHub
14 33 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (3.00%) Azure Databricks
18 22 (2.54%) Entra ID
19 20 (2.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
1 6 (0.69%) Network Security
2 3 (0.35%) Firewall
3 2 (0.23%) IPv4
3 2 (0.23%) IPv6
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (24.71%) Metadata
2 152 (17.55%) Power BI
3 123 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (11.20%) Data Lake
5 51 (5.89%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.85%) Tableau
7 30 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.23%) Big Data
9 27 (3.12%) BigQuery
10 23 (2.66%) Data Vault
10 23 (2.66%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.66%) Star Schema
11 21 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (2.08%) Spark SQL
15 16 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (1.73%) Parquet
16 15 (1.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (4.16%) Git
2 34 (3.93%) JIRA
3 30 (3.46%) ERwin
4 20 (2.31%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.39%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.15%) GitLab
7 8 (0.92%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.58%) Selenium
9 4 (0.46%) MLflow
9 4 (0.46%) RStudio
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) git-flow
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) GCC
11 1 (0.12%) LSMW
11 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 297 (34.30%) Finance
2 280 (32.33%) Social Skills
3 159 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (12.01%) Banking
5 89 (10.28%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.85%) Retail
7 41 (4.73%) Legal
8 30 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (3.35%) Marketing
10 24 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.54%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.39%) Local Government
16 11 (1.27%) Law
17 9 (1.04%) Front Office
17 9 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (21.59%) Architect
2 167 (19.28%) Analyst
3 134 (15.47%) Data Engineer
4 109 (12.59%) Lead
5 98 (11.32%) Data Architect
6 97 (11.20%) Data Analyst
7 82 (9.47%) Senior
8 66 (7.62%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (4.39%) Consultant
11 31 (3.58%) Data Modeller
11 31 (3.58%) Governance Analyst
12 29 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
13 28 (3.23%) Data Business Analyst
13 28 (3.23%) Data Manager
14 27 (3.12%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.66%) Databricks Engineer
16 22 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (2.42%) Product Owner
18 20 (2.31%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.31%) PySpark
2 61 (7.04%) Terraform
3 47 (5.43%) Kafka
4 24 (2.77%) REST
5 16 (1.85%) JSON
6 15 (1.73%) Middleware
7 12 (1.39%) SOAP
7 12 (1.39%) Web Services
8 9 (1.04%) Great Expectations
8 9 (1.04%) Spring
9 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.69%) OAuth
10 6 (0.69%) React
10 6 (0.69%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (0.69%) YAML
11 5 (0.58%) .NET
11 5 (0.58%) MACH
11 5 (0.58%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.46%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 80 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.31%) Product Ownership
3 67 (7.74%) Data Structures
4 59 (6.81%) Onboarding
5 44 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (4.85%) Reference Data
7 33 (3.81%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.00%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.85%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.73%) Taxonomies
12 14 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.39%) FMCG
13 12 (1.39%) Life Science
14 11 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 10 (1.15%) Clustering
15 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.69%) Linux
1 6 (0.69%) Unix
2 4 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (38.80%) Data Modelling
2 310 (35.80%) Analytics
3 279 (32.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 242 (27.94%) AI
5 191 (22.06%) Data Engineering
6 189 (21.82%) Business Intelligence
7 185 (21.36%) Agile
7 185 (21.36%) Data Architecture
8 182 (21.02%) ETL
9 181 (20.90%) Data Pipeline
10 177 (20.44%) CI/CD
11 167 (19.28%) Migration
12 148 (17.09%) Data Management
12 148 (17.09%) Validation
13 147 (16.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 146 (16.86%) DevOps
15 134 (15.47%) Decision-Making
16 122 (14.09%) Roadmaps
17 121 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
18 118 (13.63%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 329 (37.99%) SQL
2 201 (23.21%) Python
3 24 (2.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (2.42%) Java
5 16 (1.85%) Scala
6 14 (1.62%) C#
7 13 (1.50%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.50%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.27%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.92%) Bicep
10 5 (0.58%) Bash
10 5 (0.58%) R
11 3 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.23%) Delphi
12 2 (0.23%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.31%) Degree
4 37 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.50%) PMP
9 12 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.69%) CISSP
13 5 (0.58%) CISM
13 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.58%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.46%) CEH
14 4 (0.46%) GIAC
14 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (46.30%) Data Quality
2 116 (13.39%) GDPR
3 39 (4.50%) QA
4 16 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.73%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.50%) NIST
7 9 (1.04%) GRC
8 8 (0.92%) COREP
8 8 (0.92%) FINREP
9 7 (0.81%) GxP
9 7 (0.81%) PMO
10 6 (0.69%) IFRS
10 6 (0.69%) MiFID
10 6 (0.69%) NCSC
11 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.46%) COBIT
12 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 22 (2.54%) Docker
2 20 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.81%) Grafana
2 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.69%) Ansible
4 5 (0.58%) Control-M
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) Istio
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 197 (22.75%) Microsoft
2 161 (18.59%) Databricks
3 53 (6.12%) Oracle
4 42 (4.85%) Informatica
5 38 (4.39%) SAP
6 35 (4.04%) Google
7 26 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.39%) Adobe
9 12 (1.39%) Foundry
10 11 (1.27%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.15%) Workday
12 9 (1.04%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.92%) IBM
14 7 (0.81%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.81%) Sparx
14 7 (0.81%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.69%) Confluent
15 6 (0.69%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.58%) Talend