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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 78 125
Rank change year-on-year +21 +47 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 849 480 341
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 3.56% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 3.85% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 339 248
10th Percentile £392 £400 £400
25th Percentile £456 £469 £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 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +2.08% -8.00% -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 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -14.29%

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 17,870 12,469 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 92.49% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,292 9,981
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 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 258 190
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -14.89% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +14 123 £572 +7.46% 47
West London +15 33 £520 +22.35% 20
East London +7 5 £450 -33.33% 6
South London -4 4 £637 -6.50% 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 53 (6.24%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.65%) Apache
4 22 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.94%) Confluence
6 7 (0.82%) SAS
7 6 (0.71%) CMS
7 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.35%) 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 40 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 19 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.06%) SAP MDG
4 7 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.35%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Moxy
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 308 (36.28%) Azure
2 173 (20.38%) AWS
3 167 (19.67%) Power Platform
4 101 (11.90%) GCP
5 83 (9.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (8.83%) Snowflake
7 71 (8.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 61 (7.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 61 (7.18%) Collibra
9 59 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (6.60%) dbt
11 37 (4.36%) Amazon S3
12 36 (4.24%) GitHub
13 33 (3.89%) Serverless
14 29 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
14 29 (3.42%) Microsoft Copilot
15 24 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.24%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) Network Security
2 6 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) IPv4
4 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (24.26%) Metadata
2 148 (17.43%) Power BI
3 121 (14.25%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (11.54%) Data Lake
5 49 (5.77%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.95%) Tableau
7 31 (3.65%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.30%) Big Data
8 28 (3.30%) BigQuery
9 22 (2.59%) Data Vault
9 22 (2.59%) NoSQL
9 22 (2.59%) Star Schema
10 20 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
11 19 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (2.00%) Spark SQL
13 16 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.77%) Parquet
14 15 (1.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (4.00%) Git
1 34 (4.00%) JIRA
2 29 (3.42%) ERwin
3 19 (2.24%) ER Studio
4 12 (1.41%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (1.18%) GitLab
6 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.47%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) Selenium
8 3 (0.35%) RStudio
9 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
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%) LSMW
10 1 (0.12%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 284 (33.45%) Finance
2 266 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 152 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (11.90%) Banking
5 86 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.06%) Legal
7 42 (4.95%) Retail
8 29 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (3.42%) Marketing
9 22 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.41%) Local Government
16 11 (1.30%) Law
17 9 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 183 (21.55%) Architect
2 161 (18.96%) Analyst
3 132 (15.55%) Data Engineer
4 104 (12.25%) Lead
5 96 (11.31%) Data Architect
6 95 (11.19%) Data Analyst
7 79 (9.31%) Senior
8 65 (7.66%) Business Analyst
9 41 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.00%) Consultant
11 32 (3.77%) Project Manager
12 31 (3.65%) Data Modeller
13 30 (3.53%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.30%) Data Business Analyst
14 28 (3.30%) Data Manager
15 27 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (2.47%) Product Owner
18 17 (2.00%) Data Consultant
18 17 (2.00%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.77%) PySpark
2 62 (7.30%) Terraform
3 47 (5.54%) Kafka
4 27 (3.18%) REST
5 17 (2.00%) JSON
6 15 (1.77%) Middleware
7 14 (1.65%) SOAP
8 13 (1.53%) Web Services
9 9 (1.06%) Great Expectations
9 9 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.06%) Spring
10 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.71%) OAuth
11 6 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.71%) YAML
12 5 (0.59%) MACH
12 5 (0.59%) React
12 5 (0.59%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (0.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 65 (7.66%) Data Structures
4 58 (6.83%) Onboarding
5 43 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (4.48%) Reference Data
7 31 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.83%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.65%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.53%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.41%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.30%) FMCG
14 11 (1.30%) Life Science
15 10 (1.18%) CMDB
15 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.71%) Linux
1 6 (0.71%) Unix
2 4 (0.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (38.75%) Data Modelling
2 301 (35.45%) Analytics
3 268 (31.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 229 (26.97%) AI
5 185 (21.79%) Data Engineering
6 184 (21.67%) Business Intelligence
7 180 (21.20%) Data Architecture
7 180 (21.20%) ETL
8 178 (20.97%) Data Pipeline
9 175 (20.61%) Agile
10 173 (20.38%) CI/CD
11 157 (18.49%) Migration
12 144 (16.96%) Data Management
12 144 (16.96%) DevOps
13 143 (16.84%) Validation
14 141 (16.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 127 (14.96%) Decision-Making
16 116 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (13.07%) Metadata Management
18 109 (12.84%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 320 (37.69%) SQL
2 196 (23.09%) Python
3 22 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (2.47%) Java
5 16 (1.88%) Scala
6 14 (1.65%) C#
6 14 (1.65%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.53%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.18%) Bicep
9 10 (1.18%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.59%) Bash
10 5 (0.59%) R
11 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.24%) Cypher
12 2 (0.24%) Delphi
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.30%) Degree
4 37 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 25 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.77%) PMP
8 14 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.65%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.41%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.30%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
12 5 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.47%) CEH
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) GIAC
13 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.35%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (44.99%) Data Quality
2 115 (13.55%) GDPR
3 40 (4.71%) QA
4 16 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.65%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.53%) NIST
7 8 (0.94%) COREP
7 8 (0.94%) FINREP
8 7 (0.82%) GRC
8 7 (0.82%) GxP
8 7 (0.82%) IFRS
9 6 (0.71%) MiFID
9 6 (0.71%) NCSC
9 6 (0.71%) PMO
10 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.47%) COBIT
10 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 22 (2.59%) Docker
2 19 (2.24%) 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 28 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.82%) Grafana
2 7 (0.82%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.59%) Ansible
3 5 (0.59%) Control-M
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.24%) Istio
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 189 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 152 (17.90%) Databricks
3 53 (6.24%) Oracle
4 40 (4.71%) Informatica
5 35 (4.12%) Google
6 34 (4.00%) SAP
7 26 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.41%) Adobe
9 12 (1.41%) Foundry
10 10 (1.18%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.06%) Workday
12 8 (0.94%) IBM
13 7 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.82%) Sparx
13 7 (0.82%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.71%) Confluent
15 4 (0.47%) Guidewire