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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 72 129
Rank change year-on-year +10 +57 +77
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 668 446 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 3.44% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 3.77% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 340 267
10th Percentile £396 £400 £400
25th Percentile £462 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +1.60% +4.17%
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 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.81
25th Percentile £18.25 - £33.51
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £46.06
75th Percentile £22.88 - £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% +14.89%

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 14,664 11,819 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.79% 91.08% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,843 7,917 11,504
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 229 161 342
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - +17.71% -16.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.50 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

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 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 16 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 16 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 +26 88 £550 -4.35% 29
West London - 29 £603 - 10
East London -1 6 £566 +25.83% 9
South London -12 5 £500 -16.75% 5
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 86 (12.87%) Apache Spark
2 35 (5.24%) Apache
3 29 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.80%) Confluence
4 12 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.45%) SAS
6 2 (0.30%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.10%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.45%) Trello
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.75%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
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 IBP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 272 (40.72%) Azure
2 171 (25.60%) Power Platform
3 155 (23.20%) AWS
4 103 (15.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 97 (14.52%) GCP
6 79 (11.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 56 (8.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 56 (8.38%) Snowflake
8 55 (8.23%) Collibra
9 52 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (7.19%) Amazon S3
11 40 (5.99%) GitHub
12 32 (4.79%) Serverless
13 30 (4.49%) dbt
14 28 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
16 24 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.75%) 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
1 160 (23.95%) Power BI
2 133 (19.91%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (19.76%) Metadata
4 97 (14.52%) Data Lake
5 52 (7.78%) Tableau
6 49 (7.34%) NoSQL
7 48 (7.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (6.29%) Delta Lake
9 35 (5.24%) BigQuery
10 34 (5.09%) Big Data
11 32 (4.79%) SQL Server
12 26 (3.89%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (3.74%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (3.44%) Relational Database
15 21 (3.14%) Mixpanel
15 21 (3.14%) OLAP
16 19 (2.84%) OLTP
17 16 (2.40%) Hadoop
17 16 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (9.88%) Git
2 30 (4.49%) JIRA
3 19 (2.84%) ERwin
4 14 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.95%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.50%) MLflow
7 6 (0.90%) GitLab
8 5 (0.75%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.45%) LSMW
10 2 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.30%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.15%) git-flow
11 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.15%) Postman
11 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 226 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 222 (33.23%) Finance
3 147 (22.01%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.23%) Banking
6 34 (5.09%) Legal
7 24 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (3.29%) Marketing
9 15 (2.25%) Retail
10 14 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.35%) Electronics
11 9 (1.35%) Publishing
12 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.05%) Local Government
13 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 133 (19.91%) Data Engineer
2 112 (16.77%) Analyst
3 106 (15.87%) Architect
3 106 (15.87%) Lead
4 65 (9.73%) Data Analyst
5 62 (9.28%) Senior
6 59 (8.83%) Business Analyst
7 55 (8.23%) Data Architect
8 36 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
9 33 (4.94%) Developer
10 32 (4.79%) Azure Data Engineer
11 26 (3.89%) Data Business Analyst
12 25 (3.74%) Consultant
12 25 (3.74%) Project Manager
13 24 (3.59%) Data Modeller
14 21 (3.14%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (2.84%) Azure Architect
16 18 (2.69%) Principal Data Engineer
16 18 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (12.13%) PySpark
2 56 (8.38%) Kafka
3 27 (4.04%) REST
4 19 (2.84%) Great Expectations
5 17 (2.54%) .NET
6 14 (2.10%) SOAP
7 11 (1.65%) OAuth
7 11 (1.65%) Pandas
8 10 (1.50%) Middleware
9 9 (1.35%) JSON
10 8 (1.20%) PyTorch
10 8 (1.20%) YAML
11 7 (1.05%) Spring
11 7 (1.05%) Web Services
12 6 (0.90%) boto
12 6 (0.90%) NumPy
12 6 (0.90%) OpenID
12 6 (0.90%) SAML
12 6 (0.90%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.14%) Data Structures
3 30 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.54%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
12 9 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.20%) CMDB
13 8 (1.20%) Taxonomies
14 7 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.05%) Life Science
14 7 (1.05%) Reinsurance
14 7 (1.05%) Replication
14 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
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
1 281 (42.07%) Data Modelling
2 244 (36.53%) Analytics
3 182 (27.25%) Data Engineering
3 182 (27.25%) ETL
4 181 (27.10%) Business Intelligence
5 169 (25.30%) Agile
6 164 (24.55%) Data Pipeline
7 153 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 147 (22.01%) CI/CD
9 145 (21.71%) AI
10 144 (21.56%) Data Architecture
11 123 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
12 118 (17.66%) DevOps
13 98 (14.67%) Migration
13 98 (14.67%) Validation
14 97 (14.52%) Data Management
15 96 (14.37%) Decision-Making
16 91 (13.62%) Data Integration
17 80 (11.98%) Machine Learning
18 79 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 310 (46.41%) SQL
2 227 (33.98%) Python
3 47 (7.04%) Scala
4 36 (5.39%) C#
5 19 (2.84%) R
6 17 (2.54%) Java
7 15 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.65%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.20%) Bicep
13 6 (0.90%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.45%) VBA
15 2 (0.30%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.30%) Bash
15 2 (0.30%) C
15 2 (0.30%) C++
15 2 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 128 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 111 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 76 (11.38%) Degree
4 35 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 32 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.44%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.40%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.80%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.50%) PMP
11 8 (1.20%) CISSP
11 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.45%) CBAP
16 2 (0.30%) CISM
16 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
17 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (42.37%) Data Quality
2 111 (16.62%) GDPR
3 40 (5.99%) QA
4 21 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.80%) IFRS
5 12 (1.80%) Solvency II
6 10 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.35%) IFRS 17
8 7 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.75%) GRC
10 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.75%) PERC
11 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.60%) MiFID
11 4 (0.60%) 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 40 (5.99%) Docker
2 6 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) HDFS
3 1 (0.15%) RACF
Systems Management
1 76 (11.38%) Terraform
2 46 (6.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.90%) Grafana
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.60%) 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
1 164 (24.55%) Databricks
2 131 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.59%) Oracle
4 40 (5.99%) Google
5 34 (5.09%) SAP
6 32 (4.79%) Salesforce
7 28 (4.19%) Informatica
8 18 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.25%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.50%) Adobe
10 10 (1.50%) Workday
11 9 (1.35%) Tealium
12 8 (1.20%) Sparx
13 6 (0.90%) OneTrust
14 5 (0.75%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.75%) mParticle
14 5 (0.75%) Talend
15 4 (0.60%) Ariba
15 4 (0.60%) GoldenSource
15 4 (0.60%) VMware