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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 80 120
Rank change year-on-year +19 +40 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 830 469 347
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 3.45% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 3.74% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 331 262
10th Percentile £400 £400 £371
25th Percentile £463 £467 £502
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 £875
England median daily rate £540 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +1.89% -7.83% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +56.64% -34.16%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.97% -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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
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 £660 £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 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +26 120 £550 +10.00% 84
West London +14 34 £520 +22.35% 24
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -13 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 57 (6.87%) Apache Spark
2 46 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (4.22%) Apache
4 19 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.84%) Confluence
6 6 (0.72%) CMS
7 5 (0.60%) SAS
8 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 39 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 17 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.84%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.60%) 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%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 309 (37.23%) Azure
2 177 (21.33%) Power Platform
3 165 (19.88%) AWS
4 111 (13.37%) GCP
5 82 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (8.43%) Snowflake
7 65 (7.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 56 (6.75%) Collibra
11 55 (6.63%) dbt
12 40 (4.82%) GitHub
13 36 (4.34%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.49%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (3.01%) Serverless
17 21 (2.53%) Entra ID
18 20 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
19 19 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
20 17 (2.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.72%) Network Security
2 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) IPv4
3 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 1 (0.12%) 4G
4 1 (0.12%) 5G
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (21.45%) Metadata
2 159 (19.16%) Power BI
3 118 (14.22%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (12.29%) Data Lake
5 53 (6.39%) Delta Lake
6 43 (5.18%) Tableau
7 32 (3.86%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.37%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.13%) Big Data
10 24 (2.89%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (2.53%) Data Vault
13 20 (2.41%) Star Schema
14 17 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (1.57%) Hadoop
16 13 (1.57%) Parquet
16 13 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 37 (4.46%) Git
2 31 (3.73%) ERwin
2 31 (3.73%) JIRA
3 19 (2.29%) ER Studio
4 14 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (1.20%) GitLab
6 9 (1.08%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.36%) git-flow
7 3 (0.36%) MLflow
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.12%) GCC
9 1 (0.12%) LSMW
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.12%) RStudio
9 1 (0.12%) Snyk
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 281 (33.86%) Finance
2 243 (29.28%) Social Skills
3 157 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (11.93%) Banking
5 81 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.82%) Legal
6 40 (4.82%) Retail
7 34 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.13%) Marketing
9 18 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.57%) Local Government
12 13 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.08%) Front Office
14 9 (1.08%) Law
15 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (20.00%) Architect
2 157 (18.92%) Analyst
3 134 (16.14%) Data Engineer
4 94 (11.33%) Data Analyst
4 94 (11.33%) Lead
5 91 (10.96%) Senior
6 84 (10.12%) Data Architect
7 69 (8.31%) Business Analyst
8 44 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (4.10%) Data Business Analyst
9 34 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 31 (3.73%) Data Modeller
11 29 (3.49%) Consultant
11 29 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
12 28 (3.37%) Governance Analyst
13 27 (3.25%) Data Manager
14 23 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (2.65%) Developer
16 20 (2.41%) Product Owner
17 19 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.11%) PySpark
2 45 (5.42%) Kafka
3 26 (3.13%) REST
4 17 (2.05%) JSON
4 17 (2.05%) Middleware
5 14 (1.69%) SOAP
6 13 (1.57%) Web Services
7 10 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.20%) Spring
8 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.96%) Great Expectations
10 7 (0.84%) .NET
10 7 (0.84%) OAuth
11 6 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.72%) YAML
12 5 (0.60%) MACH
12 5 (0.60%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.60%) RESTful
12 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 80 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 67 (8.07%) Data Structures
4 51 (6.14%) Onboarding
5 42 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (3.98%) Reference Data
7 24 (2.89%) AI Agents
8 23 (2.77%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.57%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.45%) Clustering
13 12 (1.45%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.33%) CMDB
14 11 (1.33%) FMCG
14 11 (1.33%) Life Science
15 10 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.20%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.60%) Linux
1 5 (0.60%) Unix
2 3 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (39.52%) Data Modelling
2 296 (35.66%) Analytics
3 237 (28.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 215 (25.90%) AI
5 192 (23.13%) Business Intelligence
6 184 (22.17%) ETL
7 183 (22.05%) Data Pipeline
8 179 (21.57%) Data Engineering
9 170 (20.48%) Data Architecture
10 164 (19.76%) Agile
11 163 (19.64%) CI/CD
12 145 (17.47%) Validation
13 144 (17.35%) Migration
14 139 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 137 (16.51%) DevOps
16 133 (16.02%) Data Management
17 124 (14.94%) Decision-Making
18 119 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
19 95 (11.45%) Data Lineage
20 92 (11.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 324 (39.04%) SQL
2 200 (24.10%) Python
3 23 (2.77%) Java
4 20 (2.41%) Scala
5 18 (2.17%) C#
5 18 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.81%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.20%) Bicep
8 10 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.84%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.72%) Bash
11 3 (0.36%) Cypher
11 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.36%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Delphi
12 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.24%) R
12 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 134 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.66%) Degree
4 37 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.69%) PMP
8 13 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.72%) CISSP
12 6 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.48%) CEH
14 4 (0.48%) CISM
14 4 (0.48%) GIAC
14 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (43.61%) Data Quality
2 112 (13.49%) GDPR
3 37 (4.46%) QA
4 17 (2.05%) Solvency II
5 14 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.57%) NIST
7 12 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.08%) COREP
8 9 (1.08%) FINREP
8 9 (1.08%) PMO
9 6 (0.72%) GRC
9 6 (0.72%) GxP
9 6 (0.72%) IFRS
10 5 (0.60%) MiFID
10 5 (0.60%) NCSC
10 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.48%) COBIT
11 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.36%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (2.77%) Docker
2 19 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (7.35%) Terraform
2 30 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.96%) Grafana
4 7 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.36%) Control-M
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.24%) Ansible
6 2 (0.24%) Istio
6 2 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 173 (20.84%) Microsoft
2 149 (17.95%) Databricks
3 50 (6.02%) Oracle
4 39 (4.70%) Google
5 36 (4.34%) SAP
6 30 (3.61%) Informatica
7 25 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.45%) Foundry
10 11 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.20%) Adobe
11 10 (1.20%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.20%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.20%) Workday
12 7 (0.84%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.84%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.60%) IBM
13 5 (0.60%) Sparx
14 4 (0.48%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.48%) Murex