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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 71 128
Rank change year-on-year +5 +57 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 674 456 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 3.55% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 3.89% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 347 258
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £509 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - £27.81
25th Percentile £18.25 £62.50 £33.51
Median hourly rate £18.50 £65.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -71.54% +41.14% -45.82%
75th Percentile £22.88 £67.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £41.70 - £50.02
England median hourly rate £67.50 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +148.85% -32.19% +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 14,871 11,726 15,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.30% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,969 7,878 11,440
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 165 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.52 £15.98
25th Percentile £21.73 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.89 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +17.67% -21.54%
75th Percentile £56.98 £52.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.15 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 92 £550 -2.22% 49
West London - 30 £603 - 9
East London -4 7 £638 +41.67% 9
South London -10 5 £500 -16.75% 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 87 (12.91%) Apache Spark
2 34 (5.04%) Apache
3 26 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.93%) Confluence
5 12 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 31 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.45%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.74%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.45%) Actimize
4 3 (0.45%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
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 General Ledger
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 272 (40.36%) Azure
2 176 (26.11%) Power Platform
3 152 (22.55%) AWS
4 100 (14.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (14.09%) GCP
6 81 (12.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 59 (8.75%) Collibra
8 56 (8.31%) Microsoft Purview
9 52 (7.72%) Snowflake
10 50 (7.42%) Amazon S3
10 50 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (5.04%) GitHub
12 31 (4.60%) Serverless
13 30 (4.45%) dbt
14 28 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
19 15 (2.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.74%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.45%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.30%) IPv4
3 2 (0.30%) IPv6
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (24.63%) Power BI
2 136 (20.18%) Metadata
3 135 (20.03%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (14.69%) Data Lake
5 53 (7.86%) Tableau
6 49 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (6.97%) NoSQL
8 41 (6.08%) Delta Lake
9 33 (4.90%) Big Data
10 32 (4.75%) SQL Server
11 31 (4.60%) BigQuery
12 26 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (3.71%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (3.41%) Relational Database
15 22 (3.26%) Mixpanel
15 22 (3.26%) OLAP
16 20 (2.97%) OLTP
17 16 (2.37%) Hadoop
18 15 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
18 15 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (9.79%) Git
2 31 (4.60%) JIRA
3 17 (2.52%) ERwin
4 14 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.63%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (1.19%) MLflow
7 5 (0.74%) GitLab
8 3 (0.45%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.45%) LSMW
9 2 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.30%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.15%) git-flow
10 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 228 (33.83%) Finance
2 221 (32.79%) Social Skills
3 145 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.16%) Banking
6 31 (4.60%) Legal
7 24 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.56%) Marketing
8 15 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.23%) Retail
9 9 (1.34%) Electronics
9 9 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.19%) Local Government
10 8 (1.19%) Publishing
11 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 141 (20.92%) Data Engineer
2 121 (17.95%) Analyst
3 107 (15.88%) Lead
4 100 (14.84%) Architect
5 71 (10.53%) Data Analyst
6 65 (9.64%) Senior
7 64 (9.50%) Business Analyst
8 52 (7.72%) Data Architect
9 36 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (4.75%) Azure Data Engineer
11 31 (4.60%) Developer
12 29 (4.30%) Data Business Analyst
13 26 (3.86%) Consultant
13 26 (3.86%) Project Manager
14 22 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (3.12%) Data Modeller
16 19 (2.82%) Principal Data Engineer
17 18 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
17 18 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
18 17 (2.52%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (11.42%) PySpark
2 58 (8.61%) Kafka
3 25 (3.71%) REST
4 20 (2.97%) Great Expectations
5 14 (2.08%) .NET
5 14 (2.08%) SOAP
6 13 (1.93%) Middleware
7 11 (1.63%) JSON
8 9 (1.34%) Pandas
9 8 (1.19%) OAuth
9 8 (1.19%) Web Services
9 8 (1.19%) YAML
10 7 (1.04%) Spring
11 6 (0.89%) boto
11 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.89%) NumPy
11 6 (0.89%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.89%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.89%) TensorFlow
11 6 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 32 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 28 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (3.12%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.52%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.48%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.19%) Clustering
13 8 (1.19%) CMDB
13 8 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.04%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.30%) Android
1 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.15%) Unix
2 1 (0.15%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (42.58%) Data Modelling
2 252 (37.39%) Analytics
3 186 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
3 186 (27.60%) Data Engineering
4 185 (27.45%) ETL
5 165 (24.48%) Data Pipeline
6 164 (24.33%) Agile
7 158 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (21.96%) AI
9 144 (21.36%) CI/CD
9 144 (21.36%) Data Architecture
10 119 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (17.36%) DevOps
12 106 (15.73%) Validation
13 100 (14.84%) Data Management
13 100 (14.84%) Decision-Making
13 100 (14.84%) Migration
14 91 (13.50%) Data Integration
15 82 (12.17%) Machine Learning
16 78 (11.57%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 311 (46.14%) SQL
2 228 (33.83%) Python
3 47 (6.97%) Scala
4 38 (5.64%) C#
5 18 (2.67%) R
6 17 (2.52%) Java
7 15 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.34%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.74%) Bicep
13 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.45%) SOQL
13 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.45%) VBA
14 2 (0.30%) Bash
14 2 (0.30%) C
14 2 (0.30%) C++
14 2 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 130 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 114 (16.91%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.09%) Degree
4 32 (4.75%) Azure Certification
5 31 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.23%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.63%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.34%) PMP
10 7 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.89%) CISSP
11 6 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.59%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.45%) CBAP
14 2 (0.30%) CISM
15 1 (0.15%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (43.47%) Data Quality
2 113 (16.77%) GDPR
3 40 (5.93%) QA
4 21 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.08%) Solvency II
6 12 (1.78%) IFRS
7 10 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (1.34%) IFRS 17
9 8 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.74%) GRC
10 5 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.74%) PERC
11 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.59%) MiFID
11 4 (0.59%) PMO
12 3 (0.45%) HL7
12 3 (0.45%) NIST
13 2 (0.30%) GAAP
13 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (5.04%) Docker
2 5 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) HDFS
3 1 (0.15%) RACF
Systems Management
1 71 (10.53%) Terraform
2 41 (6.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.89%) Grafana
3 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.59%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.30%) Istio
6 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 159 (23.59%) Databricks
2 131 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.68%) Oracle
4 42 (6.23%) Google
5 34 (5.04%) Salesforce
5 34 (5.04%) SAP
6 30 (4.45%) Informatica
7 18 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.93%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.48%) Adobe
9 10 (1.48%) Workday
10 9 (1.34%) Tealium
11 7 (1.04%) Sparx
12 6 (0.89%) OneTrust
13 5 (0.74%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.74%) GoldenSource
13 5 (0.74%) mParticle
13 5 (0.74%) Talend
14 4 (0.59%) Ariba
14 4 (0.59%) VMware