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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 76 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 +40 +104
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 713 425 376
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.81% 3.48% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.77% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 309 296
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £488 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £741
90th Percentile £738 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £60.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.85% -18.18% +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 16,594 11,281 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.27% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,070 7,533 11,092
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +15 92 £550 - 50
West London +12 29 £603 +41.76% 6
East London +1 9 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -7 4 £637 -2.00% 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 63 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (4.07%) Apache
4 9 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.12%) Confluence
6 6 (0.84%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.70%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.56%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 269 (37.73%) Azure
2 174 (24.40%) Power Platform
3 142 (19.92%) AWS
4 105 (14.73%) GCP
5 80 (11.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 66 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 59 (8.27%) Collibra
9 54 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (7.15%) Snowflake
11 42 (5.89%) Amazon S3
12 40 (5.61%) dbt
13 37 (5.19%) GitHub
14 26 (3.65%) Serverless
15 23 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.66%) Microsoft Copilot
18 16 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (2.24%) Azure Key Vault
18 16 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
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
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (21.60%) Power BI
2 148 (20.76%) Metadata
3 99 (13.88%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (13.04%) Data Lake
5 53 (7.43%) Delta Lake
6 43 (6.03%) Tableau
7 36 (5.05%) BigQuery
8 30 (4.21%) NoSQL
9 29 (4.07%) SQL Server
10 28 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
11 27 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
13 20 (2.81%) Data Vault
14 19 (2.66%) Big Data
15 17 (2.38%) Mixpanel
15 17 (2.38%) OLAP
15 17 (2.38%) Spark SQL
16 16 (2.24%) OLTP
17 15 (2.10%) Star Schema
18 13 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (7.85%) Git
2 31 (4.35%) JIRA
3 24 (3.37%) ERwin
4 13 (1.82%) PowerDesigner
5 11 (1.54%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.84%) GitLab
6 6 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.84%) MLflow
7 3 (0.42%) git-flow
7 3 (0.42%) LSMW
8 2 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.14%) GCC
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.14%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) Snyk
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 227 (31.84%) Finance
2 198 (27.77%) Social Skills
3 136 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (10.24%) Banking
5 71 (9.96%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (4.07%) Legal
8 23 (3.23%) Retail
9 19 (2.66%) Marketing
10 14 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.96%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.54%) Local Government
13 10 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.84%) Law
15 6 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 133 (18.65%) Data Engineer
2 125 (17.53%) Analyst
3 107 (15.01%) Architect
4 98 (13.74%) Lead
5 77 (10.80%) Data Analyst
5 77 (10.80%) Senior
6 56 (7.85%) Business Analyst
7 51 (7.15%) Data Architect
8 29 (4.07%) Developer
9 28 (3.93%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (3.79%) Data Modeller
11 25 (3.51%) Consultant
12 24 (3.37%) Data Business Analyst
13 23 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (2.95%) Data Manager
14 21 (2.95%) Governance Analyst
14 21 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.81%) Azure Data Engineer
16 19 (2.66%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (8.70%) PySpark
2 44 (6.17%) Kafka
3 25 (3.51%) REST
4 16 (2.24%) Great Expectations
4 16 (2.24%) Middleware
5 15 (2.10%) .NET
5 15 (2.10%) SOAP
6 11 (1.54%) JSON
6 11 (1.54%) Web Services
7 10 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.12%) YAML
9 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.98%) Spring
10 6 (0.84%) OAuth
11 5 (0.70%) boto
11 5 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (0.70%) Pandas
12 4 (0.56%) Node.js
12 4 (0.56%) OpenID
12 4 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.96%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 42 (5.89%) Data Structures
4 35 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.95%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.95%) Reference Data
8 17 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.54%) Clustering
12 10 (1.40%) CMDB
13 9 (1.26%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.12%) Equities
14 8 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (38.15%) Data Modelling
2 263 (36.89%) Analytics
3 178 (24.96%) AI
4 175 (24.54%) Business Intelligence
5 167 (23.42%) ETL
6 166 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 159 (22.30%) Data Engineering
8 157 (22.02%) Data Pipeline
9 154 (21.60%) CI/CD
10 144 (20.20%) Agile
11 139 (19.50%) Data Architecture
12 126 (17.67%) DevOps
13 123 (17.25%) Validation
14 119 (16.69%) Migration
15 113 (15.85%) Data Management
16 111 (15.57%) Decision-Making
17 109 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
18 90 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 86 (12.06%) Machine Learning
20 81 (11.36%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 304 (42.64%) SQL
2 202 (28.33%) Python
3 33 (4.63%) C#
4 30 (4.21%) Scala
5 16 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (2.10%) Java
6 15 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.26%) Bicep
9 9 (1.26%) R
10 4 (0.56%) Bash
11 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.42%) VBA
12 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.14%) Ruby
13 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
13 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 139 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 117 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.99%) Degree
4 35 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.40%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.26%) PMP
12 8 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.84%) CISSP
14 5 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.56%) CEH
15 4 (0.56%) CISM
15 4 (0.56%) GIAC
16 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (42.08%) Data Quality
2 110 (15.43%) GDPR
3 45 (6.31%) QA
4 13 (1.82%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.12%) IFRS
7 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.98%) COREP
7 7 (0.98%) FINREP
7 7 (0.98%) NIST
8 6 (0.84%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 5 (0.70%) GRC
9 5 (0.70%) MiFID
10 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.56%) COBIT
10 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (3.37%) Docker
2 8 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (9.82%) Terraform
2 29 (4.07%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.84%) Grafana
3 6 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.56%) AirWatch
4 4 (0.56%) Istio
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 149 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 141 (19.78%) Databricks
3 52 (7.29%) Oracle
4 40 (5.61%) Google
4 40 (5.61%) SAP
5 30 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.23%) Informatica
7 15 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.26%) Foundry
9 9 (1.26%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.12%) Workday
11 5 (0.70%) IBM
11 5 (0.70%) VMware
12 4 (0.56%) Ariba
12 4 (0.56%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.56%) Sparx
13 3 (0.42%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.42%) Zscaler