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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 67 125
Rank change year-on-year +3 +58 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 693 464 355
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 3.65% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 3.97% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 355 275
10th Percentile £391 £397 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £746
90th Percentile £738 £938 £833
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £20.00 £66.25 £43.40
25th Percentile £22.63 £71.88 £43.96
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +74.50% -44.38%
75th Percentile £45.38 £91.88 £49.96
90th Percentile £56.40 £96.75 £50.13
England median hourly rate £67.50 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +154.72% -33.75% +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 15,459 11,674 15,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 91.93% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,346 7,928 11,348
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 166 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.98
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.99 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.65 £63.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +18 97 £550 - 67
West London - 32 £603 - 13
East London -2 9 £495 -15.38% 11
South London -12 5 £500 -16.67% 8
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 89 (12.84%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.91%) Apache
3 28 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.44%) Confluence
6 5 (0.72%) SAS
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.58%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
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 HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 277 (39.97%) Azure
2 172 (24.82%) Power Platform
3 148 (21.36%) AWS
4 104 (15.01%) GCP
5 102 (14.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 86 (12.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 60 (8.66%) Collibra
8 56 (8.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 52 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (7.36%) Amazon S3
11 46 (6.64%) Snowflake
12 37 (5.34%) GitHub
13 34 (4.91%) dbt
14 29 (4.18%) Serverless
15 28 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
20 16 (2.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.43%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) IPv4
3 2 (0.29%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (23.38%) Power BI
2 142 (20.49%) Metadata
3 129 (18.61%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (14.43%) Data Lake
5 52 (7.50%) Tableau
6 48 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (6.78%) Delta Lake
7 47 (6.78%) NoSQL
8 39 (5.63%) BigQuery
9 28 (4.04%) Big Data
10 27 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
11 25 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 25 (3.61%) SQL Server
12 22 (3.17%) Mixpanel
12 22 (3.17%) OLAP
13 21 (3.03%) OLTP
14 16 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (2.31%) Data Vault
14 16 (2.31%) Spark SQL
15 15 (2.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (9.81%) Git
2 30 (4.33%) JIRA
3 21 (3.03%) ERwin
4 14 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.02%) PowerDesigner
5 8 (1.15%) MLflow
6 7 (1.01%) GitLab
7 4 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.58%) LSMW
8 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) GCC
9 1 (0.14%) NUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Snyk
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 235 (33.91%) Finance
2 220 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 151 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.80%) Banking
6 34 (4.91%) Legal
7 32 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.75%) Marketing
9 19 (2.74%) Retail
10 18 (2.60%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.30%) Electronics
12 9 (1.30%) Local Government
12 9 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 151 (21.79%) Data Engineer
2 125 (18.04%) Analyst
3 101 (14.57%) Architect
3 101 (14.57%) Lead
4 74 (10.68%) Data Analyst
5 72 (10.39%) Senior
6 65 (9.38%) Business Analyst
7 50 (7.22%) Data Architect
8 39 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
9 34 (4.91%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (4.33%) Developer
11 27 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
12 25 (3.61%) Project Manager
13 23 (3.32%) Consultant
13 23 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (3.03%) Data Modeller
15 20 (2.89%) Principal Data Engineer
15 20 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.45%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.40%) PySpark
2 56 (8.08%) Kafka
3 28 (4.04%) REST
4 21 (3.03%) Great Expectations
5 18 (2.60%) Middleware
6 17 (2.45%) SOAP
7 14 (2.02%) .NET
8 13 (1.88%) JSON
9 11 (1.59%) Web Services
10 10 (1.44%) YAML
11 9 (1.30%) Pandas
12 8 (1.15%) Spring
13 7 (1.01%) OAuth
14 6 (0.87%) boto
14 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
14 6 (0.87%) scikit-learn
15 5 (0.72%) NumPy
15 5 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
15 5 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
15 5 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 40 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.31%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
11 12 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.59%) Clustering
13 10 (1.44%) CMDB
13 10 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.15%) Taxonomies
16 7 (1.01%) Fixed Income
16 7 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (42.42%) Data Modelling
2 264 (38.10%) Analytics
3 187 (26.98%) Data Pipeline
4 185 (26.70%) Business Intelligence
4 185 (26.70%) ETL
5 180 (25.97%) Data Engineering
6 172 (24.82%) Agile
7 165 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 162 (23.38%) AI
9 156 (22.51%) CI/CD
10 141 (20.35%) Data Architecture
11 122 (17.60%) DevOps
12 119 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (16.74%) Validation
14 105 (15.15%) Decision-Making
15 103 (14.86%) Data Management
16 98 (14.14%) Migration
17 90 (12.99%) Machine Learning
18 88 (12.70%) Data Integration
19 86 (12.41%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 322 (46.46%) SQL
2 233 (33.62%) Python
3 49 (7.07%) Scala
4 38 (5.48%) C#
5 18 (2.60%) Java
5 18 (2.60%) R
6 16 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.44%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.87%) Bicep
12 4 (0.58%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.43%) SOQL
13 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) Bash
14 2 (0.29%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 136 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 116 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.37%) Degree
4 34 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.15%) PMP
11 7 (1.01%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.72%) CISSP
12 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.58%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.43%) CBAP
14 3 (0.43%) IIBA
15 2 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (42.71%) Data Quality
2 114 (16.45%) GDPR
3 41 (5.92%) QA
4 14 (2.02%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.73%) IFRS
7 9 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.30%) IFRS 17
7 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.72%) COREP
8 5 (0.72%) FINREP
8 5 (0.72%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.72%) PERC
8 5 (0.72%) PMO
9 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.58%) GRC
10 3 (0.43%) HL7
10 3 (0.43%) MiFID
10 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (4.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (10.82%) Terraform
2 36 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.01%) Grafana
3 7 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.58%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.58%) Istio
6 2 (0.29%) 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
1 169 (24.39%) Databricks
2 136 (19.62%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.64%) Google
4 44 (6.35%) Oracle
5 37 (5.34%) SAP
6 35 (5.05%) Salesforce
7 28 (4.04%) Informatica
8 18 (2.60%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.44%) Adobe
11 9 (1.30%) Tealium
12 8 (1.15%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.15%) Workday
13 7 (1.01%) Sparx
14 6 (0.87%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.87%) OneTrust
15 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.72%) Ariba
15 5 (0.72%) Foundry
15 5 (0.72%) mParticle