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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 87 138
Rank change year-on-year +24 +51 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 586 421 319
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 3.01% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 3.32% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 307 239
10th Percentile £384 £388 £400
25th Percentile £456 £507 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £768 £738
90th Percentile £744 £938 £775
England median daily rate £520 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.57% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.32
75th Percentile £18.75 - £45.72
90th Percentile £28.13 - £49.92
England median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +102.76% -33.59% +83.31%

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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +37 98 £550 -6.38% 44
West London -1 16 £603 - 10
East London -3 6 £566 +25.83% 7
South London 0 3 £475 -20.83% 9
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 68 (11.60%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.92%) Apache
3 19 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.56%) Confluence
5 12 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.68%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.02%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.68%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.51%) Actimize
5 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.51%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (40.78%) Azure
2 148 (25.26%) Power Platform
3 137 (23.38%) AWS
4 91 (15.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 74 (12.63%) GCP
6 70 (11.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 65 (11.09%) Snowflake
8 49 (8.36%) Microsoft Purview
9 43 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (6.48%) Collibra
11 35 (5.97%) Amazon S3
12 30 (5.12%) dbt
13 28 (4.78%) Serverless
14 24 (4.10%) GitHub
15 20 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
17 18 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.56%) SaaS
19 14 (2.39%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (22.70%) Power BI
2 126 (21.50%) Data Warehouse
3 119 (20.31%) Metadata
4 77 (13.14%) Data Lake
5 45 (7.68%) NoSQL
6 40 (6.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 37 (6.31%) Tableau
8 31 (5.29%) Big Data
8 31 (5.29%) SQL Server
9 29 (4.95%) Delta Lake
10 25 (4.27%) Relational Database
10 25 (4.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 23 (3.92%) Data Vault
12 19 (3.24%) BigQuery
13 18 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (2.90%) Star Schema
15 16 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (2.56%) Spark SQL
17 14 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 44 (7.51%) Git
2 39 (6.66%) JIRA
3 23 (3.92%) ERwin
4 16 (2.73%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.05%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.88%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.71%) MLflow
8 5 (0.85%) GitLab
9 3 (0.51%) LSMW
10 2 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.34%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.17%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 222 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 201 (34.30%) Finance
3 113 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.68%) Banking
6 32 (5.46%) Legal
7 24 (4.10%) Marketing
8 17 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.90%) Retail
9 15 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (1.88%) Publishing
11 10 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.54%) Electronics
13 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.19%) Local Government
15 6 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (18.60%) Analyst
2 103 (17.58%) Data Engineer
3 93 (15.87%) Architect
4 80 (13.65%) Lead
5 64 (10.92%) Data Analyst
6 54 (9.22%) Data Architect
7 51 (8.70%) Business Analyst
8 41 (7.00%) Senior
9 38 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (5.80%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (5.12%) Data Modeller
12 27 (4.61%) Consultant
13 20 (3.41%) Developer
14 19 (3.24%) Data Business Analyst
14 19 (3.24%) Project Manager
15 17 (2.90%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.90%) Governance Analyst
16 13 (2.22%) Azure Architect
17 12 (2.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (12.80%) PySpark
2 39 (6.66%) Kafka
3 14 (2.39%) REST
4 11 (1.88%) .NET
5 9 (1.54%) Great Expectations
5 9 (1.54%) OAuth
5 9 (1.54%) Pandas
6 8 (1.37%) SOAP
7 7 (1.19%) LangChain
7 7 (1.19%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.19%) YAML
8 6 (1.02%) JSON
8 6 (1.02%) Middleware
8 6 (1.02%) NumPy
9 5 (0.85%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.85%) HTML
9 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.85%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.85%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.48%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.05%) Reference Data
8 12 (2.05%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.88%) Life Science
9 11 (1.88%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.19%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.02%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.34%) Android
1 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (44.88%) Data Modelling
2 200 (34.13%) Analytics
3 173 (29.52%) Agile
4 154 (26.28%) Business Intelligence
4 154 (26.28%) Data Engineering
5 149 (25.43%) ETL
6 139 (23.72%) Data Pipeline
7 125 (21.33%) Data Architecture
7 125 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 115 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (19.45%) AI
10 113 (19.28%) CI/CD
11 101 (17.24%) DevOps
12 97 (16.55%) Data Integration
13 90 (15.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 83 (14.16%) Data Management
15 82 (13.99%) Decision-Making
16 78 (13.31%) Validation
17 76 (12.97%) Metadata Management
18 75 (12.80%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 256 (43.69%) SQL
2 190 (32.42%) Python
3 36 (6.14%) Scala
4 22 (3.75%) C#
5 20 (3.41%) R
6 18 (3.07%) Java
7 16 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.71%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.37%) Bicep
11 6 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.34%) C++
13 2 (0.34%) Korn
13 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.34%) SOQL
14 1 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 102 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 87 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.90%) Degree
4 33 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.41%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.22%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.88%) PMP
11 7 (1.19%) MCP
12 6 (1.02%) CISSP
13 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.68%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.51%) CBAP
15 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.34%) SnowPro
17 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (40.78%) Data Quality
2 110 (18.77%) GDPR
3 31 (5.29%) QA
4 26 (4.44%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.71%) IFRS
7 9 (1.54%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.19%) IFRS 17
8 7 (1.19%) NIST
9 5 (0.85%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.85%) GRC
9 5 (0.85%) MiFID
9 5 (0.85%) PERC
9 5 (0.85%) PMO
9 5 (0.85%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.51%) GMP
10 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 35 (5.97%) Docker
2 6 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (10.07%) Terraform
2 36 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.68%) AirWatch
4 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.34%) Grafana
5 2 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 150 (25.60%) Databricks
2 114 (19.45%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.46%) Salesforce
4 31 (5.29%) SAP
5 28 (4.78%) Google
6 26 (4.44%) Oracle
7 25 (4.27%) Informatica
8 12 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.05%) Sparx
9 11 (1.88%) Adobe
9 11 (1.88%) Workday
10 10 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.54%) Tealium
12 7 (1.19%) OneTrust
13 5 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.85%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.85%) mParticle
13 5 (0.85%) Talend
14 4 (0.68%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.68%) VMware