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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 73 130
Rank change year-on-year +18 +57 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 861 480 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.28% 3.56% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 3.85% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 333 241
10th Percentile £375 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +23.41% -18.66%
75th Percentile £28.67 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.40% +24.93% -10.85%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +16 127 £572 +7.46% 55
West London +11 33 £520 +22.35% 23
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 10
South London -11 4 £637 -6.50% 2
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 55 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 48 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.83%) Apache
4 24 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.93%) Confluence
5 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.93%) SAS
6 6 (0.70%) CMS
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 40 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.28%) SAP MDG
3 7 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.70%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.35%) Workfront
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 314 (36.47%) Azure
2 180 (20.91%) AWS
3 173 (20.09%) Power Platform
4 101 (11.73%) GCP
5 81 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (8.71%) Snowflake
7 70 (8.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 61 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 61 (7.08%) Collibra
9 60 (6.97%) dbt
10 58 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (4.65%) Amazon S3
12 37 (4.30%) Serverless
13 36 (4.18%) GitHub
14 32 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
16 27 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (3.02%) Azure Databricks
18 21 (2.44%) Entra ID
19 20 (2.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) Cisco IPT
1 6 (0.70%) Network Security
2 3 (0.35%) Firewall
3 2 (0.23%) IPv4
3 2 (0.23%) IPv6
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (24.51%) Metadata
2 153 (17.77%) Power BI
3 122 (14.17%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (11.50%) Data Lake
5 51 (5.92%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.88%) Tableau
7 29 (3.37%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.25%) Big Data
8 28 (3.25%) BigQuery
9 23 (2.67%) Data Vault
9 23 (2.67%) NoSQL
9 23 (2.67%) Star Schema
10 20 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.09%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.74%) Parquet
13 15 (1.74%) Relational Database
14 14 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 35 (4.07%) Git
2 33 (3.83%) JIRA
3 30 (3.48%) ERwin
4 20 (2.32%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.39%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.16%) GitLab
7 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.58%) Selenium
9 4 (0.46%) MLflow
9 4 (0.46%) RStudio
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) git-flow
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) GCC
11 1 (0.12%) LSMW
11 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 293 (34.03%) Finance
2 274 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 155 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (12.08%) Banking
5 89 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.76%) Legal
6 41 (4.76%) Retail
7 29 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.37%) Marketing
8 22 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.39%) Local Government
14 11 (1.28%) Law
15 9 (1.05%) Front Office
15 9 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (21.25%) Architect
2 166 (19.28%) Analyst
3 134 (15.56%) Data Engineer
4 109 (12.66%) Lead
5 97 (11.27%) Data Analyst
6 94 (10.92%) Data Architect
7 81 (9.41%) Senior
8 65 (7.55%) Business Analyst
9 39 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (4.41%) Consultant
11 31 (3.60%) Data Modeller
11 31 (3.60%) Governance Analyst
12 29 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
13 28 (3.25%) Data Business Analyst
13 28 (3.25%) Data Manager
14 27 (3.14%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.67%) Databricks Engineer
16 22 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (2.44%) Product Owner
18 20 (2.32%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (8.25%) PySpark
2 62 (7.20%) Terraform
3 49 (5.69%) Kafka
4 26 (3.02%) REST
5 16 (1.86%) JSON
6 15 (1.74%) Middleware
7 14 (1.63%) SOAP
7 14 (1.63%) Web Services
8 10 (1.16%) Great Expectations
9 9 (1.05%) Spring
10 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.70%) OAuth
11 6 (0.70%) React
11 6 (0.70%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.70%) YAML
12 5 (0.58%) MACH
12 5 (0.58%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.46%) Playwright
13 4 (0.46%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 67 (7.78%) Data Structures
4 57 (6.62%) Onboarding
5 44 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (4.76%) Reference Data
7 32 (3.72%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.02%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.86%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.51%) Taxonomies
14 12 (1.39%) FMCG
14 12 (1.39%) Life Science
14 12 (1.39%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (1.16%) CMDB
16 10 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.70%) Linux
1 6 (0.70%) Unix
2 4 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (38.44%) Data Modelling
2 307 (35.66%) Analytics
3 274 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 239 (27.76%) AI
5 191 (22.18%) Data Engineering
6 190 (22.07%) Business Intelligence
7 183 (21.25%) Data Architecture
8 181 (21.02%) Data Pipeline
8 181 (21.02%) ETL
9 179 (20.79%) Agile
10 176 (20.44%) CI/CD
11 164 (19.05%) Migration
12 148 (17.19%) Validation
13 147 (17.07%) Data Management
13 147 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 145 (16.84%) DevOps
15 131 (15.21%) Decision-Making
16 119 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
17 116 (13.47%) Roadmaps
18 115 (13.36%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 325 (37.75%) SQL
2 199 (23.11%) Python
3 24 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (2.44%) Java
5 16 (1.86%) Scala
6 14 (1.63%) C#
6 14 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.51%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.28%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.05%) Bicep
10 6 (0.70%) Bash
11 5 (0.58%) R
12 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.23%) Cypher
13 2 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 140 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 115 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.34%) Degree
4 38 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.51%) PMP
9 12 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.70%) CISSP
13 5 (0.58%) CISM
13 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.46%) CEH
14 4 (0.46%) GIAC
14 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (46.23%) Data Quality
2 118 (13.70%) GDPR
3 39 (4.53%) QA
4 16 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.74%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.51%) NIST
7 9 (1.05%) GRC
8 8 (0.93%) COREP
8 8 (0.93%) FINREP
9 7 (0.81%) GxP
9 7 (0.81%) PMO
10 6 (0.70%) IFRS
10 6 (0.70%) MiFID
10 6 (0.70%) NCSC
11 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.46%) COBIT
12 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.56%) Docker
2 20 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.81%) Grafana
2 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.70%) Ansible
4 5 (0.58%) Control-M
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) Istio
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 196 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 157 (18.23%) Databricks
3 52 (6.04%) Oracle
4 41 (4.76%) Informatica
5 37 (4.30%) SAP
6 35 (4.07%) Google
7 25 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.39%) Adobe
9 12 (1.39%) Foundry
10 10 (1.16%) GoldenSource
10 10 (1.16%) Workday
11 9 (1.05%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.93%) IBM
13 7 (0.81%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.81%) Sparx
13 7 (0.81%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.70%) Confluent
14 6 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.46%) Talend