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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 69 107
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 +119
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 718 454 390
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 3.66% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 3.97% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 343 297
10th Percentile £386 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £490 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £743 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £21.58 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £25.06 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £30.62 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £43.20 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £55.53 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £62.50 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +135.85% -33.75% +5.36%

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 15,904 11,443 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.27% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,637 7,743 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £806 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 176 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +22 101 £550 +2.80% 56
West London - 32 £603 - 4
East London 0 10 £473 -30.00% 8
South London -10 4 £637 -2.00% 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 78 (10.86%) Apache Spark
2 29 (4.04%) Apache
3 25 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.53%) Confluence
4 11 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.70%) SAS
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 37 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.42%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.56%) SAP HCM
3 4 (0.56%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.28%) Actimize
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 281 (39.14%) Azure
2 175 (24.37%) Power Platform
3 145 (20.19%) AWS
4 107 (14.90%) GCP
5 97 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 80 (11.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 64 (8.91%) Microsoft Purview
8 61 (8.50%) Collibra
9 53 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (6.27%) Amazon S3
11 40 (5.57%) Snowflake
12 38 (5.29%) GitHub
13 36 (5.01%) dbt
14 26 (3.62%) Serverless
15 24 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.51%) SaaS
19 17 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Network Security
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) IPv4
2 2 (0.28%) IPv6
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.87%) Power BI
2 144 (20.06%) Metadata
3 119 (16.57%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (13.79%) Data Lake
5 55 (7.66%) Delta Lake
6 48 (6.69%) Tableau
7 38 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (5.29%) BigQuery
8 37 (5.15%) NoSQL
9 28 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (3.62%) SQL Server
11 24 (3.34%) Big Data
12 22 (3.06%) Snowflake Schema
13 20 (2.79%) Mixpanel
13 20 (2.79%) OLAP
14 19 (2.65%) OLTP
15 16 (2.23%) Spark SQL
15 16 (2.23%) Star Schema
16 15 (2.09%) Data Vault
17 14 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (8.91%) Git
2 33 (4.60%) JIRA
3 20 (2.79%) ERwin
4 13 (1.81%) PowerDesigner
5 11 (1.53%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.97%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.97%) MLflow
7 6 (0.84%) GitLab
8 4 (0.56%) LSMW
9 3 (0.42%) git-flow
10 2 (0.28%) JMeter
10 2 (0.28%) Selenium
11 1 (0.14%) GCC
11 1 (0.14%) NUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 240 (33.43%) Finance
2 206 (28.69%) Social Skills
3 142 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 69 (9.61%) Banking
6 35 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (4.32%) Legal
8 23 (3.20%) Marketing
9 21 (2.92%) Retail
10 16 (2.23%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.67%) Local Government
14 9 (1.25%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.97%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.84%) Electronics
18 5 (0.70%) Law
18 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (20.19%) Data Engineer
2 131 (18.25%) Analyst
3 108 (15.04%) Architect
4 94 (13.09%) Lead
5 84 (11.70%) Senior
6 79 (11.00%) Data Analyst
7 64 (8.91%) Business Analyst
8 49 (6.82%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (4.32%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (4.32%) Developer
11 28 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (3.76%) Project Manager
13 26 (3.62%) Consultant
14 24 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (3.20%) Data Modeller
16 21 (2.92%) Principal Engineer
16 21 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.79%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.45%) PySpark
2 53 (7.38%) Kafka
3 27 (3.76%) REST
4 19 (2.65%) Great Expectations
5 17 (2.37%) SOAP
6 16 (2.23%) .NET
6 16 (2.23%) Middleware
7 12 (1.67%) JSON
8 11 (1.53%) Web Services
9 9 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.25%) YAML
10 7 (0.97%) Pandas
10 7 (0.97%) Spring
11 6 (0.84%) boto
11 6 (0.84%) OAuth
12 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (0.56%) OpenID
13 4 (0.56%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.41%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (3.06%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.51%) Reference Data
9 15 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.67%) Clustering
11 11 (1.53%) CMDB
12 10 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.25%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.11%) Equities
14 8 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (40.95%) Data Modelling
2 268 (37.33%) Analytics
3 181 (25.21%) Business Intelligence
4 177 (24.65%) Data Pipeline
5 176 (24.51%) ETL
6 175 (24.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 171 (23.82%) AI
7 171 (23.82%) Data Engineering
8 165 (22.98%) Agile
9 160 (22.28%) CI/CD
10 141 (19.64%) Data Architecture
11 128 (17.83%) Validation
12 127 (17.69%) DevOps
13 117 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (15.74%) Decision-Making
14 113 (15.74%) Migration
15 106 (14.76%) Data Management
16 86 (11.98%) Machine Learning
17 81 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
18 80 (11.14%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 321 (44.71%) SQL
2 222 (30.92%) Python
3 41 (5.71%) Scala
4 38 (5.29%) C#
5 19 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (2.23%) PL/SQL
7 14 (1.95%) Java
7 14 (1.95%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.81%) R
9 11 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.11%) Bicep
11 5 (0.70%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.56%) VBA
13 3 (0.42%) Bash
14 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.28%) SOQL
15 1 (0.14%) COBOL
15 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 139 (19.36%) Security Cleared
2 117 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.64%) Degree
4 34 (4.74%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.95%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.53%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.11%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.11%) PMP
12 5 (0.70%) CISSP
12 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.56%) CBAP
13 4 (0.56%) CEH
13 4 (0.56%) CISM
13 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (43.04%) Data Quality
2 109 (15.18%) GDPR
3 45 (6.27%) QA
4 13 (1.81%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.67%) IFRS
6 11 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.39%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.25%) IFRS 17
9 7 (0.97%) MiFID
9 7 (0.97%) NIST
10 6 (0.84%) COREP
10 6 (0.84%) FINREP
10 6 (0.84%) PMO
11 5 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.70%) GRC
11 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.56%) COBIT
12 4 (0.56%) NCSC
12 4 (0.56%) PERC
System Software
1 28 (3.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (9.75%) Terraform
2 33 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.84%) Grafana
3 6 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.56%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.56%) Istio
6 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 161 (22.42%) Databricks
2 144 (20.06%) Microsoft
3 47 (6.55%) Oracle
4 42 (5.85%) SAP
5 41 (5.71%) Google
6 33 (4.60%) Salesforce
7 28 (3.90%) Informatica
8 18 (2.51%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.67%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.11%) Foundry
10 8 (1.11%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.11%) Workday
11 5 (0.70%) Adobe
11 5 (0.70%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.70%) Ariba
11 5 (0.70%) VMware
12 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.56%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.56%) Tealium