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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 78 123
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 +77
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 785 452 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.31% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 3.60% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 316 282
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.18% -4.69%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £763
90th Percentile £745 £763 £888
England median daily rate £538 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -0.23% -6.30% -6.12%
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 £57.75 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.37% -17.20% +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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
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 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +27 108 £568 +3.18% 36
West London +9 28 £550 +29.41% 6
East London +4 5 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -11 4 £637 -6.50% 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 54 (6.88%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (4.20%) Apache
4 17 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.89%) Confluence
6 6 (0.76%) CMS
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 37 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.89%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.64%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.38%) Workfront
7 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 294 (37.45%) Azure
2 175 (22.29%) Power Platform
3 151 (19.24%) AWS
4 110 (14.01%) GCP
5 76 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 65 (8.28%) Snowflake
7 62 (7.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 61 (7.77%) Collibra
9 58 (7.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 54 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (6.62%) dbt
12 40 (5.10%) GitHub
13 37 (4.71%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (3.31%) Serverless
17 20 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (2.55%) Entra ID
18 18 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.25%) IPv4
3 2 (0.25%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (21.15%) Metadata
2 155 (19.75%) Power BI
3 104 (13.25%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (12.99%) Data Lake
5 48 (6.11%) Delta Lake
5 48 (6.11%) Tableau
6 33 (4.20%) BigQuery
7 26 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 25 (3.18%) Big Data
8 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 23 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
9 23 (2.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 22 (2.80%) Data Vault
11 18 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (2.04%) Star Schema
14 15 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (1.78%) Hadoop
16 12 (1.53%) Spark SQL
17 11 (1.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (5.10%) Git
2 29 (3.69%) JIRA
3 25 (3.18%) ERwin
4 13 (1.66%) ER Studio
4 13 (1.66%) PowerDesigner
5 9 (1.15%) GitLab
6 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) git-flow
7 3 (0.38%) MLflow
8 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) GCC
9 1 (0.13%) LSMW
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 268 (34.14%) Finance
2 220 (28.03%) Social Skills
3 148 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.08%) Banking
5 75 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.59%) Retail
7 35 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (4.46%) Legal
8 19 (2.42%) Marketing
9 16 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.53%) Local Government
12 12 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.89%) Front Office
15 7 (0.89%) Law
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 150 (19.11%) Analyst
2 141 (17.96%) Architect
3 132 (16.82%) Data Engineer
4 96 (12.23%) Lead
5 91 (11.59%) Data Analyst
6 90 (11.46%) Senior
7 69 (8.79%) Business Analyst
8 67 (8.54%) Data Architect
9 36 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.46%) Project Manager
11 34 (4.33%) Data Business Analyst
12 29 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
13 28 (3.57%) Governance Analyst
14 27 (3.44%) Data Manager
14 27 (3.44%) Developer
15 26 (3.31%) Consultant
16 25 (3.18%) Data Modeller
17 23 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
18 19 (2.42%) Lead Data Engineer
19 18 (2.29%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.88%) PySpark
2 48 (6.11%) Kafka
3 26 (3.31%) REST
4 17 (2.17%) Middleware
5 16 (2.04%) JSON
6 15 (1.91%) SOAP
7 11 (1.40%) Great Expectations
7 11 (1.40%) Web Services
8 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.27%) Spring
9 9 (1.15%) .NET
9 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.89%) OAuth
11 6 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.76%) YAML
12 5 (0.64%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.51%) Node.js
13 4 (0.51%) OpenID
13 4 (0.51%) Pandas
13 4 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 54 (6.88%) Data Structures
4 47 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 41 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.44%) Reference Data
7 23 (2.93%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.78%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.53%) Clustering
13 11 (1.40%) CMDB
13 11 (1.40%) Life Science
14 10 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.15%) FMCG
15 9 (1.15%) NHS
16 8 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.64%) Linux
2 4 (0.51%) Unix
2 4 (0.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (37.45%) Data Modelling
2 284 (36.18%) Analytics
3 211 (26.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 199 (25.35%) AI
5 184 (23.44%) ETL
6 179 (22.80%) Business Intelligence
7 174 (22.17%) Data Pipeline
8 160 (20.38%) Data Engineering
9 155 (19.75%) CI/CD
10 152 (19.36%) Agile
10 152 (19.36%) Data Architecture
11 141 (17.96%) Validation
12 139 (17.71%) Migration
13 131 (16.69%) DevOps
14 130 (16.56%) Data Management
15 121 (15.41%) Decision-Making
15 121 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
16 113 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 88 (11.21%) Data Lineage
18 87 (11.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 304 (38.73%) SQL
2 202 (25.73%) Python
3 25 (3.18%) Scala
4 24 (3.06%) C#
5 21 (2.68%) Java
6 13 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (1.66%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.15%) Bicep
8 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.76%) Bash
10 5 (0.64%) R
11 3 (0.38%) Cypher
11 3 (0.38%) VBA
12 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.25%) Delphi
12 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.25%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 126 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.52%) Degree
4 36 (4.59%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.91%) PMP
7 14 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.78%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.53%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.40%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.76%) CISSP
11 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.51%) CEH
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
12 4 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (42.55%) Data Quality
2 115 (14.65%) GDPR
3 43 (5.48%) QA
4 16 (2.04%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.15%) NIST
7 9 (1.15%) PMO
8 8 (1.02%) COREP
8 8 (1.02%) FINREP
9 7 (0.89%) IFRS
10 5 (0.64%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.64%) NCSC
11 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.51%) COBIT
11 4 (0.51%) GRC
11 4 (0.51%) GxP
11 4 (0.51%) MiFID
11 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 24 (3.06%) Docker
2 20 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (8.03%) Terraform
2 28 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.15%) Grafana
4 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.25%) Ansible
7 2 (0.25%) Control-M
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 161 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 129 (16.43%) Databricks
3 53 (6.75%) Oracle
4 40 (5.10%) SAP
5 37 (4.71%) Google
6 32 (4.08%) Informatica
7 27 (3.44%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.66%) Foundry
11 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.27%) GoldenSource
12 9 (1.15%) Workday
13 7 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.64%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.64%) IBM
15 4 (0.51%) Murex
15 4 (0.51%) Sparx
16 3 (0.38%) Adobe
16 3 (0.38%) Refinitiv