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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 78 123
Rank change year-on-year +19 +45 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 830 475 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 3.51% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 3.80% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 335 266
10th Percentile £400 £401 £393
25th Percentile £463 £471 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £759
90th Percentile £738 £750 £881
England median daily rate £536 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.32% -8.00% -7.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -58.46% +23.41% -34.16%
75th Percentile £36.35 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.89% +2.86% +8.36%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +18 117 £550 +4.76% 57
West London +14 34 £520 +22.35% 25
East London +3 5 £450 -33.33% 7
South London -7 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 54 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.10%) Apache
4 20 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.84%) Confluence
6 6 (0.72%) CMS
7 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.60%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) 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 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.84%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.36%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 305 (36.75%) Azure
2 171 (20.60%) Power Platform
3 168 (20.24%) AWS
4 105 (12.65%) GCP
5 83 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 72 (8.67%) Snowflake
7 69 (8.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (7.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (6.63%) Collibra
11 54 (6.51%) dbt
12 38 (4.58%) GitHub
13 37 (4.46%) Amazon S3
14 28 (3.37%) Serverless
15 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
16 26 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (2.53%) Entra ID
19 19 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
20 17 (2.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) Network Security
2 4 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.24%) IPv4
4 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) 4G
5 1 (0.12%) 5G
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (22.17%) Metadata
2 152 (18.31%) Power BI
3 118 (14.22%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (11.93%) Data Lake
5 51 (6.14%) Delta Lake
6 42 (5.06%) Tableau
7 31 (3.73%) BigQuery
8 27 (3.25%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.01%) Big Data
10 24 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (2.65%) Data Vault
12 21 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (2.53%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.53%) Star Schema
13 17 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (1.69%) Parquet
15 14 (1.69%) Spark SQL
16 13 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 37 (4.46%) Git
2 33 (3.98%) JIRA
3 30 (3.61%) ERwin
4 19 (2.29%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.20%) GitLab
7 8 (0.96%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) git-flow
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) GCC
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 281 (33.86%) Finance
2 246 (29.64%) Social Skills
3 155 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.81%) Banking
5 80 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.94%) Legal
7 40 (4.82%) Retail
8 32 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (3.25%) Marketing
10 19 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.33%) Local Government
16 9 (1.08%) Front Office
16 9 (1.08%) Law
17 7 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (20.24%) Architect
2 157 (18.92%) Analyst
3 137 (16.51%) Data Engineer
4 95 (11.45%) Lead
5 94 (11.33%) Data Analyst
6 85 (10.24%) Data Architect
7 84 (10.12%) Senior
8 66 (7.95%) Business Analyst
9 44 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.10%) Project Manager
11 31 (3.73%) Consultant
11 31 (3.73%) Data Business Analyst
12 29 (3.49%) Data Modeller
12 29 (3.49%) Governance Analyst
13 28 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (3.25%) Data Manager
15 23 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (2.41%) Developer
16 20 (2.41%) Product Owner
17 19 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.59%) PySpark
2 47 (5.66%) Kafka
3 25 (3.01%) REST
4 17 (2.05%) JSON
5 16 (1.93%) Middleware
6 14 (1.69%) SOAP
7 13 (1.57%) Web Services
8 10 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.08%) Great Expectations
9 9 (1.08%) Spring
10 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.84%) OAuth
11 6 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.72%) YAML
12 5 (0.60%) MACH
12 5 (0.60%) Pandas
12 5 (0.60%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.60%) TensorFlow
13 4 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 65 (7.83%) Data Structures
4 55 (6.63%) Onboarding
5 43 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (4.34%) Reference Data
7 28 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.89%) AI Agents
9 23 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.69%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.57%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.45%) Low-Code
14 11 (1.33%) Clustering
14 11 (1.33%) CMDB
14 11 (1.33%) FMCG
14 11 (1.33%) Life Science
14 11 (1.33%) NHS
15 10 (1.20%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.60%) Linux
1 5 (0.60%) Unix
2 3 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (38.92%) Data Modelling
2 298 (35.90%) Analytics
3 243 (29.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 218 (26.27%) AI
5 185 (22.29%) Business Intelligence
6 184 (22.17%) Data Pipeline
7 183 (22.05%) ETL
8 178 (21.45%) Data Engineering
9 173 (20.84%) Data Architecture
10 167 (20.12%) CI/CD
11 166 (20.00%) Agile
12 153 (18.43%) Migration
13 144 (17.35%) Validation
14 137 (16.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 136 (16.39%) DevOps
16 134 (16.14%) Data Management
17 123 (14.82%) Decision-Making
18 117 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
19 101 (12.17%) Data Lineage
20 98 (11.81%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 322 (38.80%) SQL
2 201 (24.22%) Python
3 21 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (2.53%) Java
4 18 (2.17%) Scala
5 15 (1.81%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.69%) C#
7 11 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.20%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.08%) Bicep
9 9 (1.08%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.60%) Bash
11 3 (0.36%) R
11 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.36%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Cypher
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 131 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.66%) Degree
4 36 (4.34%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.81%) PMP
8 14 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.72%) CISSP
14 5 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.48%) CEH
15 4 (0.48%) CISM
15 4 (0.48%) GIAC
15 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (44.22%) Data Quality
2 109 (13.13%) GDPR
3 39 (4.70%) QA
4 15 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.69%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.57%) NIST
7 9 (1.08%) PMO
8 8 (0.96%) COREP
8 8 (0.96%) FINREP
9 7 (0.84%) GRC
9 7 (0.84%) IFRS
10 6 (0.72%) GxP
11 5 (0.60%) MiFID
11 5 (0.60%) NCSC
11 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.48%) COBIT
12 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.65%) Docker
2 19 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (7.35%) Terraform
2 28 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.96%) Grafana
4 7 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.48%) Ansible
5 4 (0.48%) Control-M
5 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.24%) Istio
7 2 (0.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 176 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 151 (18.19%) Databricks
3 53 (6.39%) Oracle
4 36 (4.34%) Google
5 34 (4.10%) Informatica
5 34 (4.10%) SAP
6 24 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.45%) Foundry
9 10 (1.20%) Adobe
9 10 (1.20%) Bloomberg
10 9 (1.08%) GoldenSource
10 9 (1.08%) Workday
11 8 (0.96%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.84%) IBM
12 7 (0.84%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.72%) Sparx
14 5 (0.60%) Confluent
15 4 (0.48%) Guidewire