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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 69 122
Rank change year-on-year +17 +53 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 897 495 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 3.68% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 3.97% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 350 237
10th Percentile £375 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £875
England median daily rate £543 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% -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% +49.14%
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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £675
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 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 18 September 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 September 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 September 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 +17 143 £575 +4.55% 139
West London +12 35 £520 +22.35% 21
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 16
South London -8 2 £500 -26.61% 5
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 56 (6.24%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (5.69%) Apache Spark
3 37 (4.12%) Apache
4 28 (3.12%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.23%) Confluence
6 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.89%) SAS
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
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%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 43 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.34%) SAP MDG
3 8 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.45%) Workfront
6 3 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.33%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.11%) Maximo
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 338 (37.68%) Azure
2 182 (20.29%) AWS
3 174 (19.40%) Power Platform
4 107 (11.93%) GCP
5 90 (10.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 85 (9.48%) Snowflake
7 78 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 67 (7.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 67 (7.47%) dbt
9 59 (6.58%) Collibra
10 57 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
12 40 (4.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 37 (4.12%) Serverless
14 35 (3.90%) Amazon S3
15 31 (3.46%) GitHub
16 27 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (2.90%) Azure Databricks
18 23 (2.56%) Entra ID
19 22 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.89%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (0.56%) Network Security
3 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 2 (0.22%) Firewall
3 2 (0.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (24.86%) Metadata
2 151 (16.83%) Power BI
3 128 (14.27%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (11.04%) Data Lake
5 51 (5.69%) Delta Lake
6 41 (4.57%) Tableau
7 32 (3.57%) BigQuery
8 31 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 24 (2.68%) Big Data
9 24 (2.68%) Data Vault
10 23 (2.56%) Star Schema
11 22 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (2.34%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
14 18 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (1.90%) Parquet
16 16 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.78%) Power Query
16 16 (1.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (4.35%) Git
2 35 (3.90%) JIRA
3 28 (3.12%) ERwin
4 19 (2.12%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.23%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.00%) GitLab
7 7 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.56%) Selenium
9 4 (0.45%) RStudio
10 3 (0.33%) MLflow
11 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.22%) git-flow
11 2 (0.22%) JMeter
11 2 (0.22%) Postman
11 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 304 (33.89%) Finance
2 294 (32.78%) Social Skills
3 159 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (11.82%) Banking
5 95 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.13%) Legal
7 44 (4.91%) Retail
8 33 (3.68%) Marketing
9 29 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.79%) Investment Banking
11 18 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.56%) Local Government
15 11 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.23%) Front Office
15 11 (1.23%) Law
15 11 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (21.29%) Architect
2 163 (18.17%) Analyst
3 137 (15.27%) Data Engineer
4 111 (12.37%) Lead
5 105 (11.71%) Data Architect
6 94 (10.48%) Data Analyst
7 90 (10.03%) Senior
8 66 (7.36%) Business Analyst
9 42 (4.68%) Consultant
10 39 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (3.46%) Data Business Analyst
12 31 (3.46%) Data Manager
12 31 (3.46%) Data Modeller
13 29 (3.23%) Governance Analyst
13 29 (3.23%) Project Manager
14 23 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (2.56%) Data Consultant
14 23 (2.56%) Databricks Engineer
14 23 (2.56%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (8.58%) PySpark
2 59 (6.58%) Terraform
3 47 (5.24%) Kafka
4 24 (2.68%) REST
5 17 (1.90%) JSON
6 11 (1.23%) Middleware
7 9 (1.00%) .NET
8 8 (0.89%) SOAP
9 7 (0.78%) Great Expectations
9 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.78%) OAuth
9 7 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.78%) Web Services
10 6 (0.67%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.67%) React
10 6 (0.67%) YAML
11 5 (0.56%) pytest
11 5 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
11 5 (0.56%) Spring
11 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.14%) Data Structures
2 73 (8.14%) Product Ownership
3 64 (7.13%) Onboarding
4 42 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.57%) Reference Data
6 37 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 32 (3.57%) AI Agents
8 23 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.23%) Taxonomies
10 17 (1.90%) Life Science
10 17 (1.90%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.34%) FMCG
14 11 (1.23%) Clustering
14 11 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.11%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.67%) Linux
2 5 (0.56%) Unix
2 5 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) VMS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (38.80%) Data Modelling
2 320 (35.67%) Analytics
3 308 (34.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 256 (28.54%) AI
5 203 (22.63%) Data Architecture
6 197 (21.96%) Agile
7 192 (21.40%) Data Engineering
7 192 (21.40%) Data Pipeline
8 191 (21.29%) Business Intelligence
9 186 (20.74%) ETL
10 178 (19.84%) CI/CD
10 178 (19.84%) Migration
11 161 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 155 (17.28%) Validation
13 145 (16.16%) Data Management
14 142 (15.83%) Decision-Making
14 142 (15.83%) DevOps
15 136 (15.16%) Roadmaps
16 129 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
17 126 (14.05%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 338 (37.68%) SQL
2 208 (23.19%) Python
3 27 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (2.12%) Java
5 17 (1.90%) C#
6 15 (1.67%) Scala
7 14 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.34%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.00%) Bicep
10 5 (0.56%) Bash
10 5 (0.56%) R
11 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.22%) Delphi
13 2 (0.22%) Go
13 2 (0.22%) Korn
13 2 (0.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 133 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 105 (11.71%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.68%) Degree
4 36 (4.01%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.90%) PMP
8 16 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.45%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.34%) DBS Check
12 11 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.67%) CISSP
15 5 (0.56%) CISM
15 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.45%) CEH
16 4 (0.45%) GIAC
16 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (46.82%) Data Quality
2 115 (12.82%) GDPR
3 38 (4.24%) QA
4 13 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.23%) GRC
6 11 (1.23%) NIST
7 10 (1.11%) PMO
8 8 (0.89%) GxP
9 7 (0.78%) COREP
9 7 (0.78%) FINREP
9 7 (0.78%) NCSC
10 6 (0.67%) IFRS
10 6 (0.67%) MiFID
11 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.45%) COBIT
12 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.45%) Docker
2 21 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.22%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.67%) Ansible
2 6 (0.67%) Control-M
2 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.22%) Istio
6 2 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 221 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 176 (19.62%) Databricks
3 53 (5.91%) Oracle
4 49 (5.46%) Informatica
5 40 (4.46%) SAP
6 35 (3.90%) Google
7 25 (2.79%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.45%) Adobe
10 11 (1.23%) Bloomberg
10 11 (1.23%) Foundry
10 11 (1.23%) IBM
11 10 (1.11%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.11%) Workday
12 8 (0.89%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.89%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.89%) Sparx
13 7 (0.78%) Talend
13 7 (0.78%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.67%) Alteryx