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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 68 124
Rank change year-on-year +3 +56 +93
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 698 452 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.57% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.90% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 344 266
10th Percentile £398 £397 £400
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £66.25 £27.81
25th Percentile £18.25 £71.88 £33.51
Median hourly rate £18.50 £82.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -77.58% +79.13% -45.82%
75th Percentile £27.00 £91.88 £49.67
90th Percentile £49.05 £96.75 £50.02
England median hourly rate £67.50 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +148.85% -32.19% +23.84%

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 15,441 11,594 15,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.26% 91.57% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 7,865 11,315
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 169 332
10th Percentile £18.20 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.00% -1.71% -11.83%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +27 98 £550 - 53
West London - 32 £603 - 8
East London 0 9 £495 -1.00% 9
South London -10 6 £500 -16.71% 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 90 (12.89%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.30%) Apache
3 29 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.72%) Confluence
4 12 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.57%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 34 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.57%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Actimize
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 281 (40.26%) Azure
2 179 (25.64%) Power Platform
3 152 (21.78%) AWS
4 103 (14.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 99 (14.18%) GCP
6 83 (11.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.74%) Collibra
8 57 (8.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 51 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (7.16%) Amazon S3
11 45 (6.45%) Snowflake
12 37 (5.30%) GitHub
13 34 (4.87%) dbt
14 31 (4.44%) Serverless
15 28 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
20 15 (2.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.43%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) IPv4
3 2 (0.29%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (24.07%) Power BI
2 140 (20.06%) Metadata
3 135 (19.34%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (14.61%) Data Lake
5 54 (7.74%) Tableau
6 49 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (6.73%) NoSQL
8 46 (6.59%) Delta Lake
9 34 (4.87%) BigQuery
10 28 (4.01%) Big Data
11 26 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (3.58%) SQL Server
13 24 (3.44%) Snowflake Schema
14 22 (3.15%) Mixpanel
14 22 (3.15%) OLAP
15 20 (2.87%) OLTP
16 16 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (2.29%) Relational Database
16 16 (2.29%) Spark SQL
17 15 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 66 (9.46%) Git
2 32 (4.58%) JIRA
3 17 (2.44%) ERwin
4 13 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.43%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (1.15%) MLflow
7 6 (0.86%) GitLab
8 3 (0.43%) LSMW
9 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 235 (33.67%) Finance
2 222 (31.81%) Social Skills
3 154 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.60%) Banking
6 31 (4.44%) Legal
7 30 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.72%) Marketing
9 18 (2.58%) Financial Institution
10 17 (2.44%) Retail
11 15 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.29%) Electronics
13 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Local Government
14 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (21.78%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.19%) Analyst
3 105 (15.04%) Architect
4 100 (14.33%) Lead
5 76 (10.89%) Data Analyst
6 73 (10.46%) Senior
7 68 (9.74%) Business Analyst
8 53 (7.59%) Data Architect
9 37 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
10 33 (4.73%) Azure Data Engineer
11 31 (4.44%) Developer
12 30 (4.30%) Data Business Analyst
13 25 (3.58%) Project Manager
14 24 (3.44%) Consultant
15 23 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (2.87%) Data Modeller
16 20 (2.87%) Principal Data Engineer
16 20 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
18 17 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.32%) PySpark
2 59 (8.45%) Kafka
3 28 (4.01%) REST
4 21 (3.01%) Great Expectations
5 17 (2.44%) SOAP
6 16 (2.29%) Middleware
7 14 (2.01%) .NET
8 11 (1.58%) JSON
8 11 (1.58%) Web Services
9 10 (1.43%) Pandas
10 8 (1.15%) OAuth
10 8 (1.15%) Spring
10 8 (1.15%) YAML
11 6 (0.86%) boto
11 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.86%) NumPy
11 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.86%) XML
12 5 (0.72%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.02%) Data Structures
3 37 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.87%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.87%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.44%) Reference Data
9 15 (2.15%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
11 12 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.43%) CMDB
12 10 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.29%) Clustering
13 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.29%) Taxonomies
14 7 (1.00%) Data Fabric
14 7 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (42.12%) Data Modelling
2 267 (38.25%) Analytics
3 193 (27.65%) ETL
4 189 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
5 185 (26.50%) Data Engineering
6 179 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
7 175 (25.07%) Agile
8 166 (23.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 159 (22.78%) AI
10 154 (22.06%) CI/CD
11 147 (21.06%) Data Architecture
12 124 (17.77%) DevOps
12 124 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (16.19%) Validation
14 106 (15.19%) Data Management
15 105 (15.04%) Decision-Making
16 95 (13.61%) Migration
17 90 (12.89%) Data Integration
18 88 (12.61%) Machine Learning
19 83 (11.89%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 323 (46.28%) SQL
2 233 (33.38%) Python
3 48 (6.88%) Scala
4 38 (5.44%) C#
5 19 (2.72%) R
6 18 (2.58%) Java
7 16 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.01%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.58%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.43%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.86%) Bicep
13 4 (0.57%) VBA
14 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.43%) SOQL
14 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.29%) Bash
15 2 (0.29%) C
15 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 134 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 118 (16.91%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.74%) Degree
4 33 (4.73%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.29%) PMP
11 5 (0.72%) CISSP
11 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.43%) CBAP
14 2 (0.29%) CEH
14 2 (0.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (43.41%) Data Quality
2 111 (15.90%) GDPR
3 43 (6.16%) QA
4 16 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.86%) Solvency II
6 12 (1.72%) IFRS
7 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.29%) IFRS 17
7 9 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.72%) COREP
8 5 (0.72%) FINREP
8 5 (0.72%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.72%) PERC
8 5 (0.72%) PMO
9 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.57%) GRC
9 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.43%) HL7
10 3 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (3.87%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (10.74%) Terraform
2 35 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.86%) Grafana
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.57%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.29%) Istio
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 169 (24.21%) Databricks
2 137 (19.63%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.45%) Oracle
4 44 (6.30%) Google
5 35 (5.01%) Salesforce
6 33 (4.73%) SAP
7 29 (4.15%) Informatica
8 20 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.43%) Adobe
11 9 (1.29%) Tealium
12 8 (1.15%) GoldenSource
13 7 (1.00%) Sparx
13 7 (1.00%) Workday
14 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.86%) OneTrust
15 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.72%) Foundry
15 5 (0.72%) mParticle
16 4 (0.57%) Refinitiv