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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 75 124
Rank change year-on-year +19 +49 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 859 480 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.27% 3.59% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 3.88% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 335 246
10th Percentile £375 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £537 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.56% -8.00% -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% -18.66%
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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +16 127 £570 +5.46% 76
West London +11 33 £520 +22.35% 26
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 9
South London -10 4 £637 -6.50% 3
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 55 (6.40%) Apache Spark
2 46 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.73%) Apache
4 24 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.93%) Confluence
5 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.93%) SAS
6 6 (0.70%) CMS
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 40 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.16%) SAP MDG
4 7 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.70%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.35%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.35%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.12%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.12%) Maximo
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 315 (36.67%) Azure
2 175 (20.37%) AWS
3 171 (19.91%) Power Platform
4 100 (11.64%) GCP
5 84 (9.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (8.73%) Snowflake
7 70 (8.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 64 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 60 (6.98%) Collibra
10 59 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (6.75%) dbt
12 38 (4.42%) Amazon S3
13 37 (4.31%) GitHub
14 35 (4.07%) Serverless
15 31 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
16 25 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (2.33%) Entra ID
17 20 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.81%) Network Security
2 6 (0.70%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) IPv4
4 2 (0.23%) IPv6
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (24.33%) Metadata
2 151 (17.58%) Power BI
3 122 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (11.41%) Data Lake
5 51 (5.94%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.89%) Tableau
7 30 (3.49%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.26%) Big Data
9 27 (3.14%) BigQuery
10 23 (2.68%) Data Vault
10 23 (2.68%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.68%) Star Schema
11 20 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (1.98%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (1.75%) Parquet
15 15 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (4.07%) JIRA
2 34 (3.96%) Git
3 30 (3.49%) ERwin
4 20 (2.33%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.40%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.16%) GitLab
7 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.47%) MLflow
8 4 (0.47%) RStudio
8 4 (0.47%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.23%) git-flow
9 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) GCC
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 289 (33.64%) Finance
2 276 (32.13%) Social Skills
3 151 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.99%) Banking
5 87 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.77%) Retail
7 40 (4.66%) Legal
8 29 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (3.38%) Marketing
9 22 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.40%) Local Government
15 11 (1.28%) Law
16 9 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 183 (21.30%) Architect
2 166 (19.32%) Analyst
3 133 (15.48%) Data Engineer
4 108 (12.57%) Lead
5 97 (11.29%) Data Analyst
6 95 (11.06%) Data Architect
7 80 (9.31%) Senior
8 66 (7.68%) Business Analyst
9 39 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.19%) Consultant
11 31 (3.61%) Data Modeller
12 30 (3.49%) Project Manager
13 29 (3.38%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.26%) Data Business Analyst
14 28 (3.26%) Data Manager
14 28 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.44%) Product Owner
17 19 (2.21%) Platform Architect
18 18 (2.10%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (8.03%) PySpark
2 63 (7.33%) Terraform
3 48 (5.59%) Kafka
4 27 (3.14%) REST
5 17 (1.98%) JSON
6 15 (1.75%) Middleware
7 14 (1.63%) SOAP
8 13 (1.51%) Web Services
9 9 (1.05%) Great Expectations
9 9 (1.05%) Spring
10 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.70%) OAuth
11 6 (0.70%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.70%) YAML
12 5 (0.58%) MACH
12 5 (0.58%) React
12 5 (0.58%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (0.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 80 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 67 (7.80%) Data Structures
4 58 (6.75%) Onboarding
5 46 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (4.77%) Reference Data
7 32 (3.73%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.91%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.75%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.51%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.40%) FMCG
12 12 (1.40%) Life Science
12 12 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.16%) CMDB
14 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.70%) Linux
1 6 (0.70%) Unix
2 4 (0.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (38.53%) Data Modelling
2 303 (35.27%) Analytics
3 277 (32.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 234 (27.24%) AI
5 189 (22.00%) Data Engineering
6 187 (21.77%) Business Intelligence
7 183 (21.30%) ETL
8 182 (21.19%) Data Architecture
9 181 (21.07%) Data Pipeline
10 179 (20.84%) Agile
11 177 (20.61%) CI/CD
12 165 (19.21%) Migration
13 148 (17.23%) DevOps
14 147 (17.11%) Validation
15 146 (17.00%) Data Management
16 145 (16.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 130 (15.13%) Decision-Making
18 118 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
19 115 (13.39%) Roadmaps
20 114 (13.27%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 325 (37.83%) SQL
2 198 (23.05%) Python
3 23 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (2.44%) Java
5 17 (1.98%) Scala
6 14 (1.63%) C#
6 14 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.51%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.16%) Bicep
9 10 (1.16%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.70%) Bash
11 5 (0.58%) R
12 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.23%) Cypher
13 2 (0.23%) Delphi
13 2 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.24%) Degree
4 39 (4.54%) Azure Certification
5 25 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.63%) PMP
8 13 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.58%) CISSP
12 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.47%) CEH
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) GIAC
13 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (45.87%) Data Quality
2 116 (13.50%) GDPR
3 40 (4.66%) QA
4 16 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.63%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.51%) NIST
7 8 (0.93%) COREP
7 8 (0.93%) FINREP
8 7 (0.81%) GRC
8 7 (0.81%) GxP
8 7 (0.81%) PMO
9 6 (0.70%) IFRS
9 6 (0.70%) MiFID
9 6 (0.70%) NCSC
10 4 (0.47%) COBIT
10 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 22 (2.56%) Docker
2 20 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.81%) Grafana
2 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.58%) Ansible
3 5 (0.58%) Control-M
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Istio
5 2 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 195 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 158 (18.39%) Databricks
3 53 (6.17%) Oracle
4 40 (4.66%) Informatica
5 37 (4.31%) SAP
6 35 (4.07%) Google
7 26 (3.03%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.40%) Adobe
9 12 (1.40%) Foundry
10 10 (1.16%) GoldenSource
10 10 (1.16%) Workday
11 9 (1.05%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.93%) IBM
13 7 (0.81%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.81%) Sparx
13 7 (0.81%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.70%) Confluent
15 4 (0.47%) Talend