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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 77 123
Rank change year-on-year +13 +46 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 825 471 349
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 3.47% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 3.76% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 333 265
10th Percentile £400 £401 £379
25th Percentile £463 £469 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £750 £883
England median daily rate £538 £538 £575
% change year-on-year - -6.52% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -58.46% +23.41% -34.16%
75th Percentile £36.35 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.85% +1.43% +8.36%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +22 118 £550 +7.32% 86
West London +13 32 £520 +22.35% 25
East London +7 5 £450 -33.33% 6
South London -8 4 £637 -6.50% 4
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 53 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (4.00%) Apache
4 20 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.85%) Confluence
6 6 (0.73%) CMS
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 39 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 17 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.61%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.36%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) Maximo
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 302 (36.61%) Azure
2 172 (20.85%) Power Platform
3 163 (19.76%) AWS
4 105 (12.73%) GCP
5 81 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (8.48%) Snowflake
7 67 (8.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 59 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (6.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (6.91%) Collibra
10 54 (6.55%) dbt
11 39 (4.73%) GitHub
12 35 (4.24%) Amazon S3
13 28 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
14 27 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (3.03%) Serverless
16 22 (2.67%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.85%) Network Security
2 4 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.24%) IPv4
4 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) 4G
5 1 (0.12%) 5G
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (22.06%) Metadata
2 153 (18.55%) Power BI
3 116 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (12.24%) Data Lake
5 52 (6.30%) Delta Lake
6 41 (4.97%) Tableau
7 30 (3.64%) BigQuery
8 27 (3.27%) SQL Server
9 24 (2.91%) Big Data
10 23 (2.79%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (2.55%) Data Vault
11 21 (2.55%) Star Schema
12 20 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (1.58%) Parquet
16 13 (1.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (4.36%) Git
2 33 (4.00%) JIRA
3 29 (3.52%) ERwin
4 19 (2.30%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.21%) GitLab
7 8 (0.97%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) git-flow
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
9 2 (0.24%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) LSMW
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 279 (33.82%) Finance
2 243 (29.45%) Social Skills
3 154 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.76%) Banking
5 79 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.85%) Legal
6 40 (4.85%) Retail
7 33 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.15%) Marketing
9 18 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.06%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.33%) Local Government
15 9 (1.09%) Front Office
15 9 (1.09%) Law
16 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (20.24%) Architect
2 155 (18.79%) Analyst
3 134 (16.24%) Data Engineer
4 94 (11.39%) Lead
5 93 (11.27%) Data Analyst
6 86 (10.42%) Senior
7 84 (10.18%) Data Architect
8 67 (8.12%) Business Analyst
9 44 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.12%) Project Manager
11 32 (3.88%) Data Business Analyst
12 30 (3.64%) Consultant
13 29 (3.52%) Data Modeller
14 28 (3.39%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
15 27 (3.27%) Data Manager
16 23 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (2.42%) Developer
17 20 (2.42%) Product Owner
18 19 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.27%) PySpark
2 44 (5.33%) Kafka
3 25 (3.03%) REST
4 17 (2.06%) JSON
4 17 (2.06%) Middleware
5 14 (1.70%) SOAP
6 13 (1.58%) Web Services
7 10 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.21%) Spring
8 8 (0.97%) Great Expectations
8 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.97%) OAuth
9 6 (0.73%) .NET
9 6 (0.73%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (0.73%) YAML
10 5 (0.61%) MACH
10 5 (0.61%) Pandas
10 5 (0.61%) RESTful
10 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 64 (7.76%) Data Structures
4 54 (6.55%) Onboarding
5 42 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (4.24%) Reference Data
7 25 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.79%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.70%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.33%) Clustering
13 11 (1.33%) CMDB
13 11 (1.33%) FMCG
13 11 (1.33%) Life Science
13 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.33%) NHS
14 10 (1.21%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.61%) Linux
1 5 (0.61%) Unix
2 3 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (39.15%) Data Modelling
2 295 (35.76%) Analytics
3 237 (28.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 214 (25.94%) AI
5 186 (22.55%) Business Intelligence
6 183 (22.18%) Data Pipeline
7 182 (22.06%) ETL
8 176 (21.33%) Data Engineering
9 168 (20.36%) Data Architecture
10 164 (19.88%) CI/CD
11 163 (19.76%) Agile
12 149 (18.06%) Migration
13 143 (17.33%) Validation
14 137 (16.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 136 (16.48%) DevOps
16 134 (16.24%) Data Management
17 124 (15.03%) Decision-Making
18 117 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
19 100 (12.12%) Data Lineage
20 96 (11.64%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 318 (38.55%) SQL
2 199 (24.12%) Python
3 22 (2.67%) Java
4 20 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (2.18%) Scala
6 16 (1.94%) C#
7 15 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.21%) Bicep
8 10 (1.21%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.97%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.73%) Bash
11 3 (0.36%) R
11 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.36%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Cypher
12 2 (0.24%) Delphi
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 132 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.58%) Degree
4 36 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.70%) PMP
8 13 (1.58%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.73%) CISSP
14 5 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.48%) CEH
15 4 (0.48%) CISM
15 4 (0.48%) GIAC
15 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (44.00%) Data Quality
2 109 (13.21%) GDPR
3 39 (4.73%) QA
4 15 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.82%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.58%) NIST
6 12 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.09%) COREP
7 9 (1.09%) FINREP
7 9 (1.09%) PMO
8 7 (0.85%) GRC
9 6 (0.73%) GxP
9 6 (0.73%) IFRS
10 5 (0.61%) MiFID
10 5 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.48%) COBIT
11 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 22 (2.67%) Docker
2 19 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (7.39%) Terraform
2 27 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.97%) Grafana
4 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.36%) Ansible
6 3 (0.36%) Control-M
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.24%) Istio
7 2 (0.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 175 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 147 (17.82%) Databricks
3 51 (6.18%) Oracle
4 38 (4.61%) Google
5 35 (4.24%) SAP
6 31 (3.76%) Informatica
7 24 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.45%) Foundry
10 10 (1.21%) Adobe
10 10 (1.21%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.21%) GoldenSource
10 10 (1.21%) Workday
11 8 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.85%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.73%) IBM
14 5 (0.61%) Sparx
15 4 (0.48%) Guidewire
15 4 (0.48%) Murex