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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 75 117
Rank change year-on-year +17 +42 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 840 475 345
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.18% 3.53% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 3.82% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 337 255
10th Percentile £398 £400 £400
25th Percentile £457 £469 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £535 £527 £575
% change year-on-year +1.52% -8.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -58.46% +23.41% -34.16%
75th Percentile £36.35 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -7.12%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +22 122 £550 +4.76% 44
West London +12 34 £520 +22.35% 19
East London +2 5 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -7 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 54 (6.43%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.93%) Apache
4 21 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.83%) Confluence
6 6 (0.71%) CMS
6 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.60%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.24%) 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 41 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.07%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 17 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.83%) SAP MDG
3 7 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.36%) Workfront
6 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.12%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) Maximo
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 308 (36.67%) Azure
2 171 (20.36%) Power Platform
3 170 (20.24%) AWS
4 104 (12.38%) GCP
5 83 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 72 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 72 (8.57%) Snowflake
7 61 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 59 (7.02%) Collibra
9 57 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (6.43%) dbt
11 36 (4.29%) Amazon S3
11 36 (4.29%) GitHub
12 28 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (3.21%) Serverless
14 21 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (2.38%) Entra ID
16 19 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (2.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) Network Security
2 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) IPv4
3 2 (0.24%) IPv6
3 2 (0.24%) VPN
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (22.74%) Metadata
2 151 (17.98%) Power BI
3 119 (14.17%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (11.79%) Data Lake
5 50 (5.95%) Delta Lake
6 41 (4.88%) Tableau
7 30 (3.57%) BigQuery
8 29 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 25 (2.98%) Big Data
10 23 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (2.62%) Data Vault
11 22 (2.62%) NoSQL
12 20 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (2.38%) Star Schema
13 16 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (1.79%) Spark SQL
15 14 (1.67%) Parquet
16 13 (1.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 35 (4.17%) Git
2 34 (4.05%) JIRA
3 29 (3.45%) ERwin
4 19 (2.26%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.43%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.19%) GitLab
7 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) MLflow
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) git-flow
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) GCC
10 1 (0.12%) LSMW
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 287 (34.17%) Finance
2 251 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 154 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (11.90%) Banking
5 83 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 44 (5.24%) Legal
7 42 (5.00%) Retail
8 30 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (3.33%) Marketing
10 20 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.14%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.31%) Local Government
16 10 (1.19%) Law
17 8 (0.95%) Front Office
17 8 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (20.36%) Architect
2 161 (19.17%) Analyst
3 134 (15.95%) Data Engineer
4 97 (11.55%) Lead
5 95 (11.31%) Data Analyst
6 88 (10.48%) Data Architect
7 82 (9.76%) Senior
8 66 (7.86%) Business Analyst
9 42 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.05%) Project Manager
11 33 (3.93%) Consultant
12 30 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
12 30 (3.57%) Data Modeller
13 29 (3.45%) Governance Analyst
14 27 (3.21%) Data Manager
14 27 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (2.38%) Product Owner
17 19 (2.26%) Developer
18 18 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.50%) PySpark
2 48 (5.71%) Kafka
3 26 (3.10%) REST
4 17 (2.02%) JSON
5 15 (1.79%) Middleware
6 14 (1.67%) SOAP
7 13 (1.55%) Web Services
8 10 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.07%) Great Expectations
9 9 (1.07%) Spring
10 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.83%) OAuth
11 6 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.71%) YAML
12 5 (0.60%) MACH
12 5 (0.60%) Pandas
12 5 (0.60%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.60%) TensorFlow
13 4 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 66 (7.86%) Data Structures
4 55 (6.55%) Onboarding
5 44 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (4.17%) Reference Data
7 32 (3.81%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 23 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.55%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.31%) Clustering
12 11 (1.31%) CMDB
12 11 (1.31%) FMCG
12 11 (1.31%) Life Science
13 10 (1.19%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.60%) Linux
1 5 (0.60%) Unix
2 3 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (38.69%) Data Modelling
2 299 (35.60%) Analytics
3 251 (29.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 222 (26.43%) AI
5 184 (21.90%) Business Intelligence
6 182 (21.67%) ETL
7 179 (21.31%) Data Engineering
7 179 (21.31%) Data Pipeline
8 176 (20.95%) Data Architecture
9 167 (19.88%) Agile
10 166 (19.76%) CI/CD
11 157 (18.69%) Migration
12 146 (17.38%) Validation
13 140 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 138 (16.43%) Data Management
15 135 (16.07%) DevOps
16 127 (15.12%) Decision-Making
17 117 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
18 108 (12.86%) Data Lineage
19 105 (12.50%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 319 (37.98%) SQL
2 200 (23.81%) Python
3 21 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (2.50%) Java
4 17 (2.02%) Scala
5 15 (1.79%) C#
5 15 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.43%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.31%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.19%) Bicep
9 9 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.60%) Bash
11 4 (0.48%) R
12 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.36%) VBA
13 2 (0.24%) Cypher
13 2 (0.24%) Delphi
13 2 (0.24%) Go
13 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 135 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.71%) Degree
4 37 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.79%) PMP
8 14 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.71%) CISSP
13 5 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.48%) CEH
14 4 (0.48%) CISM
14 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
15 3 (0.36%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (44.52%) Data Quality
2 113 (13.45%) GDPR
3 39 (4.64%) QA
4 16 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.67%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.55%) NIST
7 9 (1.07%) PMO
8 8 (0.95%) COREP
8 8 (0.95%) FINREP
9 7 (0.83%) GRC
9 7 (0.83%) IFRS
10 6 (0.71%) GxP
10 6 (0.71%) NCSC
11 5 (0.60%) MiFID
12 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.48%) COBIT
12 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 22 (2.62%) Docker
2 19 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (7.26%) Terraform
2 28 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.83%) Grafana
3 7 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.48%) Ansible
4 4 (0.48%) Control-M
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.24%) Istio
6 2 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 183 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 151 (17.98%) Databricks
3 54 (6.43%) Oracle
4 36 (4.29%) Google
5 35 (4.17%) Informatica
6 33 (3.93%) SAP
7 25 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.43%) Foundry
10 11 (1.31%) Adobe
11 9 (1.07%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.07%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.07%) Workday
12 8 (0.95%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.95%) IBM
13 7 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.83%) Sparx
13 7 (0.83%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.71%) Confluent
15 4 (0.48%) Guidewire