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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 73 132
Rank change year-on-year +7 +59 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 645 451 331
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 3.36% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 3.70% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 338 254
10th Percentile £389 £393 £400
25th Percentile £450 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £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 5
10th Percentile - - £28.40
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.63
75th Percentile £22.88 - £49.08
90th Percentile £41.70 - £49.78
England median hourly rate £58.00 £26.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +116.32% -32.97% +79.53%

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 14,350 12,188 16,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.29% 90.83% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,627 7,901 11,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 218 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.69 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.25 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £72.20
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +35 94 £568 +0.89% 22
West London +4 25 £603 - 12
East London 0 6 £566 +25.83% 10
South London -16 3 £475 -20.83% 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 78 (12.09%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.81%) Apache
3 26 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.48%) Confluence
5 10 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.47%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) Luigi
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.47%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.78%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.47%) Actimize
4 3 (0.47%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.16%) Maximo
6 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 264 (40.93%) Azure
2 166 (25.74%) Power Platform
3 149 (23.10%) AWS
4 102 (15.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 94 (14.57%) GCP
6 78 (12.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 59 (9.15%) Snowflake
8 55 (8.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 51 (7.91%) Collibra
10 48 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (6.36%) Amazon S3
12 34 (5.27%) dbt
13 32 (4.96%) GitHub
14 31 (4.81%) Serverless
15 26 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.78%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.16%) 4G
2 1 (0.16%) 5G
2 1 (0.16%) Firewall
2 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.16%) Network Security
2 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (24.03%) Power BI
2 134 (20.78%) Metadata
3 132 (20.47%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (13.80%) Data Lake
5 49 (7.60%) Tableau
6 48 (7.44%) NoSQL
7 44 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (5.58%) Delta Lake
9 34 (5.27%) BigQuery
10 32 (4.96%) SQL Server
11 31 (4.81%) Snowflake Schema
12 30 (4.65%) Big Data
13 23 (3.57%) Relational Database
14 22 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (3.10%) Data Vault
16 19 (2.95%) OLAP
17 18 (2.79%) Mixpanel
18 17 (2.64%) OLTP
18 17 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
19 16 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (8.99%) Git
2 36 (5.58%) JIRA
3 22 (3.41%) ERwin
4 15 (2.33%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.40%) MLflow
7 8 (1.24%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.78%) GitLab
9 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) git-flow
11 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.16%) Postman
11 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 227 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 218 (33.80%) Finance
3 135 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.91%) Banking
6 33 (5.12%) Legal
7 22 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.41%) Marketing
8 19 (2.95%) Retail
9 15 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.86%) Publishing
11 9 (1.40%) Electronics
11 9 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.93%) Local Government
13 6 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (19.38%) Data Engineer
2 108 (16.74%) Analyst
3 102 (15.81%) Lead
4 95 (14.73%) Architect
5 64 (9.92%) Data Analyst
6 60 (9.30%) Senior
7 58 (8.99%) Business Analyst
8 54 (8.37%) Data Architect
9 38 (5.89%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (5.58%) Developer
11 33 (5.12%) Azure Data Engineer
12 27 (4.19%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (4.19%) Data Modeller
13 25 (3.88%) Project Manager
14 23 (3.57%) Consultant
15 17 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
16 16 (2.48%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.48%) Principal Engineer
16 16 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.09%) PySpark
2 46 (7.13%) Kafka
3 20 (3.10%) REST
4 17 (2.64%) .NET
5 16 (2.48%) Great Expectations
6 11 (1.71%) OAuth
6 11 (1.71%) Pandas
7 9 (1.40%) JSON
7 9 (1.40%) SOAP
8 8 (1.24%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.24%) YAML
9 7 (1.09%) Middleware
10 6 (0.93%) boto
10 6 (0.93%) NumPy
10 6 (0.93%) OpenID
10 6 (0.93%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.93%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.93%) XML
11 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.51%) Data Structures
3 25 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.48%) Reference Data
7 11 (1.71%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.40%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.24%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.09%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.09%) Replication
11 7 (1.09%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.31%) Android
1 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.16%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (44.34%) Data Modelling
2 233 (36.12%) Analytics
3 180 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
4 179 (27.75%) ETL
5 175 (27.13%) Agile
6 171 (26.51%) Data Engineering
7 155 (24.03%) Data Pipeline
8 149 (23.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 138 (21.40%) Data Architecture
10 131 (20.31%) AI
11 129 (20.00%) CI/CD
12 119 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
13 108 (16.74%) DevOps
14 97 (15.04%) Decision-Making
15 93 (14.42%) Validation
16 92 (14.26%) Data Integration
17 91 (14.11%) Data Management
18 88 (13.64%) Migration
19 81 (12.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 79 (12.25%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 295 (45.74%) SQL
2 214 (33.18%) Python
3 44 (6.82%) Scala
4 33 (5.12%) C#
5 19 (2.95%) R
6 15 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.17%) Java
7 14 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.02%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.71%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.24%) Bicep
12 6 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.31%) C++
14 2 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.31%) SOQL
14 2 (0.31%) VBA
15 1 (0.16%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 116 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.54%) Degree
4 32 (4.96%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 21 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.02%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.71%) PMP
10 10 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.09%) CISSP
12 6 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.62%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.47%) CBAP
15 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 1 (0.16%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (42.17%) Data Quality
2 109 (16.90%) GDPR
3 38 (5.89%) QA
4 23 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.86%) IFRS
6 11 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (1.55%) Solvency II
8 9 (1.40%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.09%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.78%) GRC
10 5 (0.78%) PERC
10 5 (0.78%) PMO
11 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.62%) MiFID
12 3 (0.47%) HL7
12 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.31%) GAAP
13 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 36 (5.58%) Docker
2 6 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 72 (11.16%) Terraform
2 37 (5.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.78%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.47%) Grafana
5 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Istio
6 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.16%) Kibana
7 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 162 (25.12%) Databricks
2 123 (19.07%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.36%) Oracle
4 35 (5.43%) Salesforce
5 34 (5.27%) SAP
6 33 (5.12%) Google
7 27 (4.19%) Informatica
8 13 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.86%) Workday
10 10 (1.55%) Adobe
11 9 (1.40%) Sparx
11 9 (1.40%) Tealium
12 6 (0.93%) OneTrust
13 5 (0.78%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.78%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.78%) mParticle
13 5 (0.78%) Talend
13 5 (0.78%) VMware
14 4 (0.62%) Ariba