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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 79 120
Rank change year-on-year +18 +41 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 823 464 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 3.41% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 3.69% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 327 264
10th Percentile £400 £402 £372
25th Percentile £463 £469 £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 £875
England median daily rate £538 £538 £575
% change year-on-year - -6.52% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +56.64% -34.16%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.97% -17.20% +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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +32 120 £550 +7.32% 71
West London +10 32 £520 +22.35% 19
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -12 4 £637 -6.50% 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 56 (6.80%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.25%) Apache
4 19 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.85%) Confluence
6 6 (0.73%) CMS
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 39 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.61%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.36%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) Maximo
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 306 (37.18%) Azure
2 180 (21.87%) Power Platform
3 160 (19.44%) AWS
4 110 (13.37%) GCP
5 84 (10.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (8.38%) Snowflake
7 65 (7.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (7.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 55 (6.68%) Collibra
11 54 (6.56%) dbt
12 40 (4.86%) GitHub
13 36 (4.37%) Amazon S3
14 28 (3.40%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (3.04%) Serverless
17 21 (2.55%) Entra ID
18 20 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
19 19 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
20 17 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.73%) Network Security
2 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) IPv4
3 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 1 (0.12%) 4G
4 1 (0.12%) 5G
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (21.39%) Metadata
2 162 (19.68%) Power BI
3 117 (14.22%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (12.27%) Data Lake
5 52 (6.32%) Delta Lake
6 46 (5.59%) Tableau
7 32 (3.89%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.04%) Big Data
9 25 (3.04%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
11 21 (2.55%) Data Vault
12 20 (2.43%) Star Schema
13 17 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (1.58%) Parquet
15 13 (1.58%) Power Query
16 12 (1.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (4.37%) Git
2 31 (3.77%) ERwin
2 31 (3.77%) JIRA
3 19 (2.31%) ER Studio
4 14 (1.70%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (1.22%) GitLab
6 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.36%) git-flow
7 3 (0.36%) MLflow
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) LSMW
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.12%) RStudio
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 279 (33.90%) Finance
2 237 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 158 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (12.27%) Banking
5 80 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.86%) Legal
6 40 (4.86%) Retail
7 34 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.16%) Marketing
9 17 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.94%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.46%) Local Government
12 12 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.09%) Front Office
14 9 (1.09%) Law
15 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (19.81%) Architect
2 155 (18.83%) Analyst
3 135 (16.40%) Data Engineer
4 93 (11.30%) Lead
5 92 (11.18%) Data Analyst
6 91 (11.06%) Senior
7 80 (9.72%) Data Architect
8 70 (8.51%) Business Analyst
9 43 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.25%) Data Business Analyst
11 34 (4.13%) Project Manager
12 31 (3.77%) Data Modeller
13 30 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
14 29 (3.52%) Consultant
15 28 (3.40%) Governance Analyst
16 27 (3.28%) Data Manager
17 23 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
18 22 (2.67%) Developer
19 20 (2.43%) Product Owner
20 18 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.29%) PySpark
2 44 (5.35%) Kafka
3 26 (3.16%) REST
4 17 (2.07%) JSON
4 17 (2.07%) Middleware
5 14 (1.70%) SOAP
6 13 (1.58%) Web Services
7 10 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.22%) Spring
8 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.97%) Great Expectations
10 7 (0.85%) .NET
10 7 (0.85%) OAuth
11 6 (0.73%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.73%) YAML
12 5 (0.61%) MACH
12 5 (0.61%) Pandas
12 5 (0.61%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 66 (8.02%) Data Structures
4 50 (6.08%) Onboarding
5 42 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.89%) Reference Data
7 24 (2.92%) AI Agents
8 23 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.58%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.46%) Clustering
13 12 (1.46%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.34%) CMDB
14 11 (1.34%) FMCG
14 11 (1.34%) Life Science
15 10 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.22%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.61%) Linux
1 5 (0.61%) Unix
2 3 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (39.00%) Data Modelling
2 296 (35.97%) Analytics
3 231 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 211 (25.64%) AI
5 195 (23.69%) Business Intelligence
6 184 (22.36%) ETL
7 182 (22.11%) Data Pipeline
8 178 (21.63%) Data Engineering
9 168 (20.41%) Data Architecture
10 167 (20.29%) Agile
11 162 (19.68%) CI/CD
12 147 (17.86%) Validation
13 141 (17.13%) Migration
14 137 (16.65%) DevOps
14 137 (16.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 132 (16.04%) Data Management
16 123 (14.95%) Decision-Making
17 119 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
18 95 (11.54%) Data Lineage
19 89 (10.81%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 321 (39.00%) SQL
2 201 (24.42%) Python
3 23 (2.79%) Java
4 20 (2.43%) Scala
5 18 (2.19%) C#
5 18 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.22%) Bicep
8 10 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.85%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.73%) Bash
11 3 (0.36%) Cypher
11 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.36%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Delphi
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.24%) R
12 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.32%) Degree
4 36 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.70%) PMP
8 13 (1.58%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.46%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.73%) CISSP
11 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.49%) CEH
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
13 4 (0.49%) GIAC
13 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (43.50%) Data Quality
2 113 (13.73%) GDPR
3 37 (4.50%) QA
4 15 (1.82%) Solvency II
5 14 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.58%) NIST
7 9 (1.09%) COREP
7 9 (1.09%) FINREP
7 9 (1.09%) PMO
8 6 (0.73%) GRC
8 6 (0.73%) GxP
8 6 (0.73%) IFRS
9 5 (0.61%) MiFID
9 5 (0.61%) NCSC
9 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.49%) COBIT
10 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 23 (2.79%) Docker
2 19 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (7.41%) Terraform
2 30 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.97%) Grafana
4 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.36%) Control-M
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.24%) Ansible
6 2 (0.24%) Istio
6 2 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 170 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 142 (17.25%) Databricks
3 49 (5.95%) Oracle
4 38 (4.62%) Google
5 37 (4.50%) SAP
6 31 (3.77%) Informatica
7 25 (3.04%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.46%) Foundry
10 11 (1.34%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.22%) Adobe
11 10 (1.22%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.22%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.22%) Workday
12 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.85%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.61%) IBM
13 5 (0.61%) Sparx
14 4 (0.49%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.49%) Murex