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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 74 110
Rank change year-on-year +11 +36 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 712 435 385
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.92% 3.56% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 3.87% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 329 297
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £750 £738
90th Percentile £744 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £21.58 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £25.06 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £30.62 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £43.20 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £55.53 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £61.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.90% -18.18% +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 16,044 11,254 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,716 7,590 11,078
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £432 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +14 100 £550 - 57
West London +3 32 £603 +41.76% 5
East London +1 10 £473 -30.00% 4
South London -14 4 £637 -2.00% 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 74 (10.39%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.35%) Apache
3 30 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.12%) Confluence
6 5 (0.70%) CMS
6 5 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 38 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.83%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.42%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.56%) SAP HCM
3 4 (0.56%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 277 (38.90%) Azure
2 175 (24.58%) Power Platform
3 144 (20.22%) AWS
4 106 (14.89%) GCP
5 90 (12.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 76 (10.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (8.43%) Collibra
9 55 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (6.32%) Amazon S3
11 42 (5.90%) Snowflake
12 38 (5.34%) GitHub
13 36 (5.06%) dbt
14 26 (3.65%) Serverless
15 24 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
18 18 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Network Security
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) IPv4
2 2 (0.28%) IPv6
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (21.91%) Power BI
2 149 (20.93%) Metadata
3 113 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (13.90%) Data Lake
5 58 (8.15%) Delta Lake
6 47 (6.60%) Tableau
7 38 (5.34%) BigQuery
8 34 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (4.63%) NoSQL
10 29 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
11 28 (3.93%) SQL Server
12 22 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
13 21 (2.95%) Big Data
14 20 (2.81%) Mixpanel
15 19 (2.67%) OLAP
16 18 (2.53%) Data Vault
16 18 (2.53%) OLTP
17 17 (2.39%) Spark SQL
18 16 (2.25%) Star Schema
19 14 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (8.85%) Git
2 32 (4.49%) JIRA
3 22 (3.09%) ERwin
4 13 (1.83%) PowerDesigner
5 9 (1.26%) ER Studio
5 9 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.98%) MLflow
7 6 (0.84%) GitLab
8 4 (0.56%) LSMW
9 3 (0.42%) git-flow
10 2 (0.28%) JMeter
11 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.14%) GCC
11 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.14%) Selenium
11 1 (0.14%) Snyk
11 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 237 (33.29%) Finance
2 200 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 138 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (9.83%) Banking
4 70 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.93%) Legal
7 21 (2.95%) Marketing
7 21 (2.95%) Retail
8 15 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.69%) Local Government
10 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.70%) Billing
12 5 (0.70%) Law
12 5 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 143 (20.08%) Data Engineer
2 127 (17.84%) Analyst
3 106 (14.89%) Architect
4 95 (13.34%) Lead
5 80 (11.24%) Data Analyst
6 79 (11.10%) Senior
7 59 (8.29%) Business Analyst
8 50 (7.02%) Data Architect
9 34 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (4.35%) Developer
11 29 (4.07%) Project Manager
12 27 (3.79%) Data Business Analyst
13 26 (3.65%) Azure Data Engineer
14 25 (3.51%) Data Modeller
15 23 (3.23%) Consultant
15 23 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
16 22 (3.09%) Governance Analyst
17 21 (2.95%) Principal Engineer
17 21 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (2.81%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (10.25%) PySpark
2 51 (7.16%) Kafka
3 26 (3.65%) REST
4 19 (2.67%) Great Expectations
5 16 (2.25%) .NET
5 16 (2.25%) Middleware
5 16 (2.25%) SOAP
6 12 (1.69%) JSON
7 11 (1.54%) Web Services
8 9 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.12%) YAML
10 7 (0.98%) Pandas
10 7 (0.98%) Spring
11 6 (0.84%) boto
11 6 (0.84%) OAuth
12 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (0.56%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.56%) scikit-learn
13 4 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.18%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.53%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.54%) Clustering
10 11 (1.54%) CMDB
11 9 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.12%) Equities
13 7 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (40.17%) Data Modelling
2 270 (37.92%) Analytics
3 180 (25.28%) Business Intelligence
4 176 (24.72%) AI
5 174 (24.44%) ETL
6 172 (24.16%) Data Pipeline
7 171 (24.02%) Data Engineering
8 169 (23.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 158 (22.19%) CI/CD
10 154 (21.63%) Agile
11 139 (19.52%) Data Architecture
12 130 (18.26%) DevOps
13 122 (17.13%) Validation
14 118 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (16.01%) Migration
16 110 (15.45%) Data Management
16 110 (15.45%) Decision-Making
17 86 (12.08%) Machine Learning
18 80 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 80 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 317 (44.52%) SQL
2 220 (30.90%) Python
3 37 (5.20%) C#
3 37 (5.20%) Scala
4 18 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (2.11%) Java
5 15 (2.11%) PL/SQL
6 13 (1.83%) T-SQL
7 12 (1.69%) R
8 9 (1.26%) Bicep
8 9 (1.26%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.56%) Bash
9 4 (0.56%) VBA
10 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.28%) C
11 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.14%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 137 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.15%) Degree
4 34 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.54%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.12%) PMP
10 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.70%) CISSP
11 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.56%) CEH
12 4 (0.56%) CISM
12 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.56%) GIAC
13 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (43.40%) Data Quality
2 104 (14.61%) GDPR
3 43 (6.04%) QA
4 12 (1.69%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.26%) IFRS
7 7 (0.98%) NIST
8 6 (0.84%) COREP
8 6 (0.84%) FINREP
8 6 (0.84%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.84%) MiFID
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.56%) COBIT
9 4 (0.56%) GRC
9 4 (0.56%) NCSC
9 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (3.79%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (9.97%) Terraform
2 32 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.84%) Grafana
3 6 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.56%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.56%) Istio
6 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 158 (22.19%) Databricks
2 142 (19.94%) Microsoft
3 49 (6.88%) Oracle
4 41 (5.76%) Google
5 40 (5.62%) SAP
6 32 (4.49%) Salesforce
7 29 (4.07%) Informatica
8 17 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.69%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.12%) Foundry
10 8 (1.12%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.12%) Workday
11 5 (0.70%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.70%) VMware
12 4 (0.56%) Adobe
12 4 (0.56%) Ariba
12 4 (0.56%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.42%) IBM
13 3 (0.42%) Murex