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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 75 116
Rank change year-on-year +8 +41 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 721 435 388
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.83% 3.55% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.85% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 317 303
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £744
90th Percentile £738 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £60.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.85% -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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +11 94 £550 - 33
West London +4 28 £603 +41.76% 6
East London +2 9 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -5 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 59 (8.18%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.74%) Apache
4 12 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.11%) Confluence
6 6 (0.83%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 33 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.55%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP R/3
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 268 (37.17%) Azure
2 178 (24.69%) Power Platform
3 137 (19.00%) AWS
4 101 (14.01%) GCP
5 80 (11.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (9.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 65 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 60 (8.32%) Collibra
9 51 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (7.07%) Snowflake
10 40 (5.55%) Amazon S3
11 39 (5.41%) dbt
12 37 (5.13%) GitHub
13 27 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
14 25 (3.47%) Serverless
15 23 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
17 16 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
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
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (21.91%) Power BI
2 149 (20.67%) Metadata
3 99 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (13.04%) Data Lake
5 53 (7.35%) Delta Lake
6 44 (6.10%) Tableau
7 36 (4.99%) BigQuery
8 30 (4.16%) NoSQL
9 29 (4.02%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
11 25 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
13 20 (2.77%) Data Vault
14 18 (2.50%) Big Data
15 16 (2.22%) Mixpanel
15 16 (2.22%) OLAP
15 16 (2.22%) Spark SQL
16 15 (2.08%) OLTP
16 15 (2.08%) Star Schema
17 13 (1.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 55 (7.63%) Git
2 31 (4.30%) JIRA
3 24 (3.33%) ERwin
4 13 (1.80%) PowerDesigner
5 11 (1.53%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.83%) GitLab
6 6 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.69%) MLflow
8 3 (0.42%) git-flow
8 3 (0.42%) LSMW
9 2 (0.28%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) GCC
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Snyk
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 237 (32.87%) Finance
2 200 (27.74%) Social Skills
3 133 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (10.40%) Banking
5 68 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.88%) Legal
8 23 (3.19%) Retail
9 17 (2.36%) Marketing
10 15 (2.08%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.66%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.39%) Local Government
14 10 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.97%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.69%) Billing
17 5 (0.69%) Law
17 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (18.45%) Data Engineer
2 128 (17.75%) Analyst
3 110 (15.26%) Architect
4 101 (14.01%) Lead
5 80 (11.10%) Data Analyst
5 80 (11.10%) Senior
6 57 (7.91%) Business Analyst
7 53 (7.35%) Data Architect
8 29 (4.02%) Developer
8 29 (4.02%) Project Manager
9 27 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (3.74%) Data Modeller
10 26 (3.61%) Data Business Analyst
11 25 (3.47%) Consultant
12 23 (3.19%) Governance Analyst
12 23 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.91%) Data Manager
14 19 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.32%) PySpark
2 44 (6.10%) Kafka
3 25 (3.47%) REST
4 16 (2.22%) Middleware
5 15 (2.08%) Great Expectations
5 15 (2.08%) SOAP
6 14 (1.94%) .NET
7 11 (1.53%) JSON
7 11 (1.53%) Web Services
8 10 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.11%) YAML
10 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.97%) Spring
11 6 (0.83%) OAuth
12 5 (0.69%) boto
12 5 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.69%) Pandas
13 4 (0.55%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.55%) Spark Streaming
13 4 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.85%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 43 (5.96%) Data Structures
4 35 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 34 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.47%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.91%) Reference Data
8 17 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.66%) Clustering
10 12 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.39%) CMDB
12 9 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.25%) Life Science
12 9 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.11%) Equities
13 8 (1.11%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Unix
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (37.59%) Data Modelling
2 265 (36.75%) Analytics
3 183 (25.38%) AI
4 176 (24.41%) Business Intelligence
5 172 (23.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 167 (23.16%) ETL
7 160 (22.19%) Data Engineering
8 157 (21.78%) Data Pipeline
9 152 (21.08%) CI/CD
10 144 (19.97%) Agile
11 141 (19.56%) Data Architecture
12 128 (17.75%) Migration
13 127 (17.61%) Validation
14 125 (17.34%) DevOps
15 117 (16.23%) Data Management
16 110 (15.26%) Decision-Making
17 109 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
18 95 (13.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 86 (11.93%) Machine Learning
20 81 (11.23%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 300 (41.61%) SQL
2 201 (27.88%) Python
3 31 (4.30%) C#
4 29 (4.02%) Scala
5 17 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (1.94%) Java
6 14 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.25%) Bicep
9 9 (1.25%) R
10 4 (0.55%) Bash
11 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.42%) VBA
12 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.14%) Cypher
13 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
13 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.67%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.91%) Degree
4 38 (5.27%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.53%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.53%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.39%) PMP
10 8 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.83%) CISSP
12 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.69%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.55%) CEH
13 4 (0.55%) CISM
13 4 (0.55%) GIAC
14 3 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (42.72%) Data Quality
2 111 (15.40%) GDPR
3 44 (6.10%) QA
4 16 (2.22%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.25%) IFRS
7 7 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.97%) COREP
7 7 (0.97%) FINREP
7 7 (0.97%) IFRS 17
7 7 (0.97%) NIST
8 6 (0.83%) PMO
9 5 (0.69%) GRC
9 5 (0.69%) MiFID
10 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.55%) COBIT
10 4 (0.55%) NCSC
10 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (3.33%) Docker
2 10 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (9.43%) Terraform
2 29 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.83%) Grafana
3 6 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.55%) Istio
6 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 155 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 138 (19.14%) Databricks
3 53 (7.35%) Oracle
4 40 (5.55%) SAP
5 39 (5.41%) Google
6 28 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 22 (3.05%) Informatica
8 14 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.66%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.39%) Foundry
11 9 (1.25%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.11%) Workday
13 5 (0.69%) IBM
13 5 (0.69%) VMware
14 4 (0.55%) Ariba
14 4 (0.55%) CyberArk
14 4 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.55%) Sparx
15 3 (0.42%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.42%) IFS