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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 84 141
Rank change year-on-year +18 +57 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 568 408 316
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.05% 2.93% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 3.25% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 294 236
10th Percentile £400 £388 £400
25th Percentile £463 £507 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% -0.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £771 £738
90th Percentile £746 £938 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 £45.50 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +67.74% -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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
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 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +30 98 £575 -1.08% 41
West London -4 14 £603 - 7
South London -4 3 £475 -20.83% 6
East London -7 2 £566 +41.56% 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 64 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.87%) Apache
3 18 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.46%) Confluence
5 10 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
9 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.70%) Trello
6 1 (0.18%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.18%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.06%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.53%) Actimize
4 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.53%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 233 (41.02%) Azure
2 146 (25.70%) Power Platform
3 133 (23.42%) AWS
4 84 (14.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (12.68%) GCP
6 65 (11.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 65 (11.44%) Snowflake
7 42 (7.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 40 (7.04%) Collibra
9 38 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (6.16%) Amazon S3
11 29 (5.11%) dbt
11 29 (5.11%) Serverless
12 21 (3.70%) GitHub
13 19 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.46%) SaaS
17 13 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.70%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.18%) DKIM
2 1 (0.18%) DMARC
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) PSTN
2 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (22.89%) Power BI
2 122 (21.48%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (19.89%) Metadata
4 73 (12.85%) Data Lake
5 44 (7.75%) NoSQL
6 40 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (6.69%) Tableau
8 30 (5.28%) Big Data
9 28 (4.93%) SQL Server
10 26 (4.58%) Delta Lake
11 25 (4.40%) Relational Database
12 24 (4.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 21 (3.70%) Data Vault
14 19 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (3.17%) BigQuery
15 18 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (2.82%) Star Schema
17 15 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (2.64%) Spark SQL
18 12 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 42 (7.39%) Git
2 36 (6.34%) JIRA
3 22 (3.87%) ERwin
4 17 (2.99%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.11%) ER Studio
6 10 (1.76%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.58%) MLflow
8 5 (0.88%) GitLab
9 3 (0.53%) LSMW
10 2 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.35%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.35%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.18%) Selenium
11 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 212 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 195 (34.33%) Finance
3 114 (20.07%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 47 (8.27%) Banking
6 30 (5.28%) Legal
7 24 (4.23%) Marketing
8 19 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.99%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.46%) Retail
11 11 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.94%) Publishing
12 10 (1.76%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.58%) Electronics
14 7 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.23%) Local Government
14 7 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (19.01%) Analyst
2 98 (17.25%) Architect
3 91 (16.02%) Data Engineer
4 76 (13.38%) Lead
5 60 (10.56%) Data Analyst
6 56 (9.86%) Data Architect
7 51 (8.98%) Business Analyst
8 36 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (6.34%) Senior
9 32 (5.63%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (5.11%) Data Modeller
11 26 (4.58%) Consultant
12 21 (3.70%) Governance Analyst
13 20 (3.52%) Developer
14 19 (3.35%) Project Manager
15 17 (2.99%) Data Business Analyst
15 17 (2.99%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.82%) Azure Architect
17 12 (2.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.32%) PySpark
2 36 (6.34%) Kafka
3 14 (2.46%) REST
4 10 (1.76%) .NET
5 9 (1.58%) OAuth
5 9 (1.58%) Pandas
6 8 (1.41%) Great Expectations
6 8 (1.41%) SOAP
7 7 (1.23%) LangChain
7 7 (1.23%) Middleware
7 7 (1.23%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.06%) NumPy
9 5 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.88%) HTML
9 5 (0.88%) JSON
9 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.88%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.88%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.70%) boto
10 4 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.04%) Data Structures
2 38 (6.69%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.29%) Reference Data
10 12 (2.11%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.11%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.94%) Life Science
12 10 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (1.41%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 6 (1.06%) Data Fabric
16 5 (0.88%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.35%) Android
1 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (45.42%) Data Modelling
2 199 (35.04%) Analytics
3 166 (29.23%) Agile
4 151 (26.58%) Business Intelligence
5 143 (25.18%) Data Engineering
6 138 (24.30%) ETL
7 135 (23.77%) Data Pipeline
8 122 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 120 (21.13%) Data Architecture
10 116 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (18.84%) AI
12 104 (18.31%) CI/CD
13 96 (16.90%) Data Integration
14 93 (16.37%) DevOps
15 88 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 80 (14.08%) Data Management
17 78 (13.73%) Decision-Making
18 73 (12.85%) Migration
19 72 (12.68%) Machine Learning
19 72 (12.68%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 245 (43.13%) SQL
2 181 (31.87%) Python
3 33 (5.81%) Scala
4 20 (3.52%) C#
4 20 (3.52%) R
5 18 (3.17%) Java
6 15 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.46%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.11%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.94%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.41%) Bicep
11 6 (1.06%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.35%) C++
14 2 (0.35%) Korn
14 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.35%) SOQL
15 1 (0.18%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 97 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 81 (14.26%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.39%) Degree
4 31 (5.46%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.46%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.11%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.76%) PMP
11 7 (1.23%) MCP
12 6 (1.06%) CISSP
13 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.53%) CBAP
14 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.35%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (39.96%) Data Quality
2 103 (18.13%) GDPR
3 28 (4.93%) QA
4 25 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.58%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.23%) IFRS
7 7 (1.23%) NIST
8 5 (0.88%) EU AI Act
8 5 (0.88%) MiFID
8 5 (0.88%) PERC
8 5 (0.88%) PMO
9 4 (0.70%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.70%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.53%) GMP
10 3 (0.53%) GRC
10 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 33 (5.81%) Docker
2 6 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (9.51%) Terraform
2 34 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.53%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (25.18%) Databricks
2 110 (19.37%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.81%) SAP
4 31 (5.46%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.93%) Google
6 24 (4.23%) Informatica
7 22 (3.87%) Oracle
8 12 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.11%) Sparx
9 11 (1.94%) Adobe
9 11 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.58%) Tealium
10 9 (1.58%) Workday
11 8 (1.41%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.23%) OneTrust
13 5 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.88%) mParticle
14 4 (0.70%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.70%) Talend
14 4 (0.70%) VMware