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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 75 129
Rank change year-on-year +22 +54 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 900 485 332
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 3.62% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 3.91% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 336 240
10th Percentile £374 £401 £400
25th Percentile £450 £464 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £741
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% +6.40%
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% -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 18,098 12,396 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.01% 92.48% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,824 8,192 9,654
10th Percentile £359 £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 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 255 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.76 £25.01 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.93 £63.75 £72.81
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%

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 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 9 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 9 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 +13 138 £570 +4.50% 84
West London +11 30 £520 +22.35% 14
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 13
South London -6 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 59 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (6.22%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.22%) Apache
4 27 (3.00%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.11%) Confluence
6 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.89%) SAS
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
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%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 43 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.33%) SAP MDG
3 11 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.33%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.33%) Workfront
8 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.11%) Maximo
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 336 (37.33%) Azure
2 185 (20.56%) AWS
3 179 (19.89%) Power Platform
4 108 (12.00%) GCP
5 89 (9.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 84 (9.33%) Snowflake
7 75 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 69 (7.67%) dbt
9 67 (7.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 64 (7.11%) Collibra
11 60 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (4.56%) Amazon S3
13 39 (4.33%) Serverless
14 37 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
15 36 (4.00%) GitHub
16 35 (3.89%) Microsoft Copilot
17 29 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (2.89%) Azure Databricks
19 22 (2.44%) Entra ID
20 21 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.67%) Cisco IPT
1 6 (0.67%) Network Security
2 3 (0.33%) Firewall
3 2 (0.22%) IPv4
3 2 (0.22%) IPv6
3 2 (0.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (25.33%) Metadata
2 158 (17.56%) Power BI
3 132 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (10.78%) Data Lake
5 51 (5.67%) Delta Lake
6 44 (4.89%) Tableau
7 33 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.56%) BigQuery
9 29 (3.22%) Big Data
10 25 (2.78%) Star Schema
11 24 (2.67%) NoSQL
12 23 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (2.56%) Data Vault
12 23 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (1.89%) Parquet
15 17 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (1.89%) Spark SQL
16 15 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 41 (4.56%) Git
2 35 (3.89%) JIRA
3 30 (3.33%) ERwin
4 20 (2.22%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.33%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.22%) GitLab
7 9 (1.00%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.56%) Selenium
9 4 (0.44%) MLflow
9 4 (0.44%) RStudio
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.22%) git-flow
10 2 (0.22%) JMeter
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) LSMW
11 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 306 (34.00%) Finance
2 290 (32.22%) Social Skills
3 162 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (12.11%) Banking
5 92 (10.22%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.11%) Legal
7 44 (4.89%) Retail
8 32 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.56%) Marketing
9 26 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.67%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.44%) Local Government
14 11 (1.22%) Law
14 11 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 194 (21.56%) Architect
2 166 (18.44%) Analyst
3 148 (16.44%) Data Engineer
4 111 (12.33%) Lead
5 103 (11.44%) Data Architect
6 95 (10.56%) Data Analyst
7 90 (10.00%) Senior
8 66 (7.33%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.44%) Consultant
9 40 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
11 31 (3.44%) Data Modeller
12 30 (3.33%) Data Manager
12 30 (3.33%) Governance Analyst
13 28 (3.11%) Data Business Analyst
14 27 (3.00%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (2.44%) Databricks Engineer
17 21 (2.33%) Data Consultant
17 21 (2.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.44%) PySpark
2 61 (6.78%) Terraform
3 48 (5.33%) Kafka
4 28 (3.11%) REST
5 17 (1.89%) JSON
6 15 (1.67%) Middleware
7 13 (1.44%) SOAP
8 12 (1.33%) Web Services
9 10 (1.11%) Great Expectations
10 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (0.89%) Spring
11 7 (0.78%) .NET
12 6 (0.67%) OAuth
12 6 (0.67%) React
12 6 (0.67%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (0.67%) YAML
13 5 (0.56%) Apache Avro
13 5 (0.56%) pytest
13 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 72 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 65 (7.22%) Onboarding
5 44 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (4.67%) Reference Data
7 35 (3.89%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.22%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (2.11%) Taxonomies
11 17 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.78%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.44%) Life Science
14 12 (1.33%) Clustering
14 12 (1.33%) FMCG
15 11 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
15 11 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.67%) Linux
1 6 (0.67%) Unix
2 4 (0.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) VMS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (39.67%) Data Modelling
2 325 (36.11%) Analytics
3 293 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 250 (27.78%) AI
5 204 (22.67%) Data Engineering
6 199 (22.11%) Data Architecture
7 197 (21.89%) Business Intelligence
8 196 (21.78%) ETL
9 195 (21.67%) Data Pipeline
10 194 (21.56%) Agile
11 189 (21.00%) CI/CD
12 176 (19.56%) Migration
13 159 (17.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 152 (16.89%) Validation
15 151 (16.78%) Data Management
15 151 (16.78%) DevOps
16 141 (15.67%) Decision-Making
17 132 (14.67%) Metadata Management
18 130 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
18 130 (14.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 345 (38.33%) SQL
2 212 (23.56%) Python
3 27 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (2.33%) Java
5 16 (1.78%) C#
5 16 (1.78%) Scala
6 14 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.56%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.44%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.89%) Bicep
10 5 (0.56%) Bash
10 5 (0.56%) R
11 3 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.22%) Delphi
12 2 (0.22%) Go
12 2 (0.22%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 142 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.11%) Degree
4 40 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.56%) PMP
9 13 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.67%) CISSP
13 5 (0.56%) CISM
13 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.56%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.44%) CEH
14 4 (0.44%) GIAC
14 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (47.11%) Data Quality
2 118 (13.11%) GDPR
3 40 (4.44%) QA
4 15 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.67%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.44%) NIST
6 10 (1.11%) GRC
7 8 (0.89%) COREP
7 8 (0.89%) FINREP
8 7 (0.78%) GxP
8 7 (0.78%) NCSC
8 7 (0.78%) PMO
9 6 (0.67%) IFRS
9 6 (0.67%) MiFID
10 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.44%) COBIT
11 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (2.67%) Docker
2 20 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.22%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.78%) Grafana
2 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.67%) Ansible
3 6 (0.67%) Control-M
3 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.22%) Istio
5 2 (0.22%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 207 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 172 (19.11%) Databricks
3 53 (5.89%) Oracle
4 49 (5.44%) Informatica
5 38 (4.22%) Google
6 37 (4.11%) SAP
7 26 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.33%) Adobe
9 12 (1.33%) Foundry
10 11 (1.22%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.11%) Workday
12 9 (1.00%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.00%) IBM
13 8 (0.89%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.78%) Sparx
14 7 (0.78%) Talend
14 7 (0.78%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.67%) Confluent