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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 68 123
Rank change year-on-year +13 +55 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 883 523 345
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.34% 3.88% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.19% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 371 240
10th Percentile £375 £406 £399
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -7.56% -8.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £728
90th Percentile £738 £750 £839
England median daily rate £550 £525 £557
% change year-on-year +4.76% -5.75% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £19.08 - £32.68
25th Percentile £19.19 £18.25 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.12 £26.75 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -49.21% +49.14%
75th Percentile £44.76 £53.13 £66.02
90th Percentile £59.90 £81.25 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.14 £30.00
% change year-on-year +60.57% +3.80% -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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +14 139 £570 +3.55% 116
West London +7 34 £520 +1.46% 31
East London +5 3 £450 -33.33% 12
South London -9 1 - - 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 54 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (5.55%) Apache Spark
3 36 (4.08%) Apache
4 28 (3.17%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.47%) Confluence
6 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.91%) SAS
7 7 (0.79%) CMS
8 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 41 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.36%) SAP MDG
3 10 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.68%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.45%) Workfront
7 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.11%) Maximo
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 339 (38.39%) Azure
2 178 (20.16%) Power Platform
3 177 (20.05%) AWS
4 105 (11.89%) GCP
5 90 (10.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 89 (10.08%) Snowflake
7 83 (9.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 67 (7.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 63 (7.13%) dbt
10 61 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (6.34%) Collibra
12 44 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
13 42 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (4.19%) Serverless
15 36 (4.08%) Amazon S3
16 29 (3.28%) GitHub
17 26 (2.94%) Entra ID
18 25 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
19 24 (2.72%) Azure Databricks
20 23 (2.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.91%) Cisco IPT
2 6 (0.68%) Network Security
3 4 (0.45%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) Broadband
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) DNS
5 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (26.05%) Metadata
2 155 (17.55%) Power BI
3 128 (14.50%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (11.44%) Data Lake
5 47 (5.32%) Delta Lake
6 40 (4.53%) Tableau
7 34 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.62%) BigQuery
9 24 (2.72%) Big Data
9 24 (2.72%) Data Vault
10 22 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (2.38%) NoSQL
11 21 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (2.38%) Star Schema
12 18 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (1.93%) Power Query
13 17 (1.93%) Semantic Layer
13 17 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (1.70%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 42 (4.76%) Git
2 34 (3.85%) JIRA
3 27 (3.06%) ERwin
4 19 (2.15%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.02%) GitLab
7 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.45%) RStudio
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) MLflow
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
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 295 (33.41%) Finance
2 294 (33.30%) Social Skills
3 152 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.78%) Banking
5 90 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.66%) Legal
7 41 (4.64%) Retail
8 33 (3.74%) Marketing
9 25 (2.83%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.59%) Local Government
13 14 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.25%) Front Office
15 10 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.02%) Law
17 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 188 (21.29%) Architect
2 169 (19.14%) Analyst
3 129 (14.61%) Data Engineer
4 109 (12.34%) Lead
5 108 (12.23%) Data Architect
6 94 (10.65%) Senior
7 92 (10.42%) Data Analyst
8 72 (8.15%) Business Analyst
9 41 (4.64%) Consultant
10 38 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.96%) Data Business Analyst
12 34 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
13 31 (3.51%) Data Manager
14 30 (3.40%) Data Modeller
15 29 (3.28%) Project Manager
16 28 (3.17%) Governance Analyst
17 25 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
18 24 (2.72%) Developer
19 22 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
20 21 (2.38%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (8.04%) PySpark
2 58 (6.57%) Terraform
3 45 (5.10%) Kafka
4 23 (2.60%) REST
5 20 (2.27%) JSON
6 10 (1.13%) .NET
7 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.91%) OAuth
8 8 (0.91%) YAML
9 6 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (0.68%) GraphQL
9 6 (0.68%) Great Expectations
10 5 (0.57%) Apache Avro
10 5 (0.57%) Middleware
10 5 (0.57%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.57%) pytest
10 5 (0.57%) React
10 5 (0.57%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 68 (7.70%) Product Ownership
4 61 (6.91%) Onboarding
5 45 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (4.98%) Reference Data
7 37 (4.19%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.74%) AI Agents
9 26 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (2.83%) Taxonomies
11 23 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.81%) Life Science
12 16 (1.81%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.36%) FMCG
15 11 (1.25%) Reinsurance
16 10 (1.13%) Clustering
16 10 (1.13%) Fixed Income
16 10 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.02%) Linux
2 6 (0.68%) Windows
3 5 (0.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) VMS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (38.96%) Data Modelling
2 319 (36.13%) Analytics
3 312 (35.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 259 (29.33%) AI
5 208 (23.56%) Data Architecture
6 190 (21.52%) Agile
6 190 (21.52%) Business Intelligence
7 187 (21.18%) Data Engineering
8 185 (20.95%) Migration
9 184 (20.84%) Data Pipeline
10 175 (19.82%) ETL
11 172 (19.48%) CI/CD
12 165 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 154 (17.44%) Validation
14 147 (16.65%) Data Management
15 139 (15.74%) Decision-Making
16 138 (15.63%) DevOps
17 136 (15.40%) Roadmaps
18 129 (14.61%) Metadata Management
19 127 (14.38%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 324 (36.69%) SQL
2 200 (22.65%) Python
3 28 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (2.27%) Java
5 18 (2.04%) C#
6 17 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.59%) Scala
8 13 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.13%) Bicep
9 10 (1.13%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.79%) Bash
12 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.68%) R
13 4 (0.45%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) Delphi
15 2 (0.23%) Go
15 2 (0.23%) Korn
15 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 127 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.10%) Degree
4 35 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.93%) PMP
8 16 (1.81%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.36%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.57%) CISSP
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
13 4 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.34%) CEH
14 3 (0.34%) CSPO
14 3 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 414 (46.89%) Data Quality
2 116 (13.14%) GDPR
3 34 (3.85%) QA
4 13 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.36%) GRC
6 11 (1.25%) NIST
6 11 (1.25%) Solvency II
7 10 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.02%) PMO
9 8 (0.91%) GxP
10 6 (0.68%) IFRS
10 6 (0.68%) MiFID
10 6 (0.68%) NCSC
11 5 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.57%) COREP
11 5 (0.57%) FINREP
11 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 5 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 23 (2.60%) Docker
2 22 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.34%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (2.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.02%) Ansible
3 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.68%) Control-M
4 6 (0.68%) Grafana
4 6 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.34%) Puppet
6 2 (0.23%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 232 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 173 (19.59%) Databricks
3 50 (5.66%) Oracle
4 48 (5.44%) Informatica
5 39 (4.42%) SAP
6 37 (4.19%) Google
7 22 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.70%) Adobe
9 14 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.36%) IBM
11 11 (1.25%) Foundry
11 11 (1.25%) Workday
12 10 (1.13%) Bloomberg
12 10 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.02%) Cloudera
14 8 (0.91%) GoldenSource
14 8 (0.91%) Sparx
15 7 (0.79%) Talend
15 7 (0.79%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.68%) Confluent