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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 62 127
Rank change year-on-year +10 +65 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 895 517 342
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.40% 3.84% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 4.15% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 366 243
10th Percentile £373 £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 £870
England median daily rate £544 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.62% -8.70% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £21.10 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £25.38 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -33.55% +49.14%
75th Percentile £28.67 £68.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £87.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% +16.67% -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 18,055 12,462 14,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 8,241 9,589
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 183
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.42 £25.04 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +14 142 £575 +4.55% 129
West London +9 36 £520 +22.35% 24
East London +4 4 £450 -33.33% 12
South London -10 1 - - 6
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 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (5.81%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.25%) Apache
4 28 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.34%) Confluence
6 8 (0.89%) CMS
6 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.89%) SAS
7 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Luigi
8 1 (0.11%) Mendix
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 43 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.46%) 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 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
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%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 339 (37.88%) Azure
2 184 (20.56%) AWS
3 177 (19.78%) Power Platform
4 108 (12.07%) GCP
5 91 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 88 (9.83%) Snowflake
7 81 (9.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 67 (7.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 66 (7.37%) dbt
10 59 (6.59%) Collibra
11 58 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (4.13%) Serverless
15 34 (3.80%) Amazon S3
16 30 (3.35%) GitHub
17 27 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (2.79%) Azure Databricks
19 23 (2.57%) Entra ID
20 22 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.89%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (0.56%) Network Security
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.22%) Broadband
4 2 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (25.36%) Metadata
2 153 (17.09%) Power BI
3 131 (14.64%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (11.28%) Data Lake
5 50 (5.59%) Delta Lake
6 40 (4.47%) Tableau
7 32 (3.58%) BigQuery
8 31 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 25 (2.79%) Big Data
9 25 (2.79%) Data Vault
10 23 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (2.35%) NoSQL
11 21 (2.35%) Star Schema
12 20 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (2.01%) Semantic Layer
13 18 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (1.90%) Parquet
14 17 (1.90%) Power Query
15 16 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (1.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (4.47%) Git
2 35 (3.91%) JIRA
3 28 (3.13%) ERwin
4 19 (2.12%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.23%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.01%) GitLab
7 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.45%) MLflow
8 4 (0.45%) RStudio
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.22%) git-flow
9 2 (0.22%) JMeter
9 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 297 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 295 (32.96%) Finance
3 155 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (11.73%) Banking
5 94 (10.50%) Public Sector
6 47 (5.25%) Legal
7 44 (4.92%) Retail
8 33 (3.69%) Marketing
9 27 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.79%) Investment Banking
11 24 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.68%) Local Government
14 15 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.23%) Front Office
15 11 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 192 (21.45%) Architect
2 169 (18.88%) Analyst
3 135 (15.08%) Data Engineer
4 111 (12.40%) Lead
5 109 (12.18%) Data Architect
6 95 (10.61%) Data Analyst
7 91 (10.17%) Senior
8 69 (7.71%) Business Analyst
9 41 (4.58%) Consultant
10 38 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (3.80%) Data Business Analyst
11 34 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (3.46%) Data Manager
12 31 (3.46%) Data Modeller
13 29 (3.24%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.13%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (2.57%) Databricks Engineer
15 23 (2.57%) Developer
16 22 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.49%) PySpark
2 60 (6.70%) Terraform
3 47 (5.25%) Kafka
4 20 (2.23%) REST
5 18 (2.01%) JSON
6 9 (1.01%) .NET
7 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (0.89%) Middleware
8 7 (0.78%) Great Expectations
8 7 (0.78%) OAuth
9 6 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (0.67%) GraphQL
9 6 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.67%) React
9 6 (0.67%) YAML
10 5 (0.56%) Apache Avro
10 5 (0.56%) MACH
10 5 (0.56%) pytest
10 5 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.16%) Data Structures
3 72 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 64 (7.15%) Onboarding
5 45 (5.03%) Reference Data
6 44 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (4.13%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.69%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (2.35%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.90%) Life Science
12 17 (1.90%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.34%) FMCG
16 11 (1.23%) Clustering
16 11 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.23%) Reinsurance
17 10 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.78%) 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
1 351 (39.22%) Data Modelling
2 321 (35.87%) Analytics
3 308 (34.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 256 (28.60%) AI
5 208 (23.24%) Data Architecture
6 192 (21.45%) Agile
6 192 (21.45%) Business Intelligence
6 192 (21.45%) Data Pipeline
7 187 (20.89%) Data Engineering
8 184 (20.56%) Migration
9 183 (20.45%) ETL
10 177 (19.78%) CI/CD
11 167 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 152 (16.98%) Validation
13 147 (16.42%) Data Management
14 144 (16.09%) Decision-Making
15 139 (15.53%) Roadmaps
16 138 (15.42%) DevOps
17 127 (14.19%) Metadata Management
18 124 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 336 (37.54%) SQL
2 205 (22.91%) Python
3 29 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (2.12%) Java
5 16 (1.79%) C#
6 15 (1.68%) Scala
7 14 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.12%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.01%) Bicep
11 6 (0.67%) Bash
12 5 (0.56%) R
13 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.45%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.22%) Delphi
15 2 (0.22%) Go
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 128 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 100 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.92%) Degree
4 36 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.90%) PMP
8 16 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.34%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.67%) CISSP
13 5 (0.56%) CISM
13 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.45%) CEH
14 4 (0.45%) GIAC
14 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.34%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (46.48%) Data Quality
2 118 (13.18%) GDPR
3 36 (4.02%) QA
4 12 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.23%) GRC
5 11 (1.23%) Solvency II
6 10 (1.12%) NIST
7 9 (1.01%) PMO
8 8 (0.89%) GxP
9 7 (0.78%) NCSC
10 6 (0.67%) COREP
10 6 (0.67%) FINREP
10 6 (0.67%) IFRS
10 6 (0.67%) MiFID
11 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.45%) COBIT
12 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (2.57%) Docker
2 21 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.34%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.78%) Ansible
3 6 (0.67%) Control-M
3 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.45%) Grafana
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.34%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 226 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 176 (19.66%) Databricks
3 50 (5.59%) Oracle
4 47 (5.25%) Informatica
5 39 (4.36%) SAP
6 35 (3.91%) Google
7 23 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.68%) Adobe
9 14 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.23%) Bloomberg
10 11 (1.23%) Foundry
10 11 (1.23%) IBM
11 10 (1.12%) Workday
12 9 (1.01%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.01%) GoldenSource
13 8 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.89%) Sparx
14 7 (0.78%) Talend
14 7 (0.78%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.67%) Alteryx