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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 72 125
Rank change year-on-year +17 +53 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 887 491 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.36% 3.64% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 3.93% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 342 246
10th Percentile £375 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £747
90th Percentile £738 £750 £881
England median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +23.41% +6.40%
75th Percentile £28.67 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.40% +24.93% -14.29%

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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +15 139 £575 +4.55% 106
West London +5 29 £520 +22.35% 17
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 13
South London -8 2 £500 -26.61% 2
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 60 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (5.86%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.28%) Apache
4 26 (2.93%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.13%) Confluence
6 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.90%) SAS
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 44 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.35%) SAP MDG
3 7 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.34%) Workfront
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.11%) Maximo
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 331 (37.32%) Azure
2 179 (20.18%) AWS
3 177 (19.95%) Power Platform
4 106 (11.95%) GCP
5 87 (9.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 83 (9.36%) Snowflake
7 73 (8.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 69 (7.78%) dbt
9 64 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 62 (6.99%) Collibra
11 56 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (4.17%) Amazon S3
13 37 (4.17%) Serverless
14 36 (4.06%) Microsoft Copilot
15 30 (3.38%) GitHub
16 27 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (2.82%) Azure Databricks
18 22 (2.48%) Entra ID
19 21 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (0.56%) Network Security
3 2 (0.23%) Firewall
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (25.25%) Metadata
2 155 (17.47%) Power BI
3 132 (14.88%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (10.94%) Data Lake
5 51 (5.75%) Delta Lake
6 41 (4.62%) Tableau
7 33 (3.72%) BigQuery
7 33 (3.72%) SQL Server
8 25 (2.82%) Big Data
9 24 (2.71%) Star Schema
10 23 (2.59%) Data Vault
10 23 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (2.25%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (1.92%) Parquet
16 16 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (1.80%) Spark SQL
17 15 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (4.51%) Git
2 34 (3.83%) JIRA
3 29 (3.27%) ERwin
4 20 (2.25%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.24%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.01%) GitLab
7 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.56%) Selenium
9 4 (0.45%) RStudio
10 3 (0.34%) MLflow
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.23%) git-flow
11 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 306 (34.50%) Finance
2 289 (32.58%) Social Skills
3 157 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (12.18%) Banking
5 93 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 45 (5.07%) Legal
7 44 (4.96%) Retail
8 32 (3.61%) Marketing
9 29 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.71%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.47%) Local Government
14 11 (1.24%) Law
14 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 188 (21.20%) Architect
2 164 (18.49%) Analyst
3 145 (16.35%) Data Engineer
4 111 (12.51%) Lead
5 102 (11.50%) Data Architect
6 95 (10.71%) Data Analyst
7 90 (10.15%) Senior
8 64 (7.22%) Business Analyst
9 39 (4.40%) Consultant
9 39 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 30 (3.38%) Data Manager
11 30 (3.38%) Governance Analyst
12 29 (3.27%) Data Modeller
13 28 (3.16%) Data Business Analyst
14 27 (3.04%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (2.48%) Databricks Engineer
17 21 (2.37%) Data Consultant
17 21 (2.37%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.57%) PySpark
2 59 (6.65%) Terraform
3 44 (4.96%) Kafka
4 22 (2.48%) REST
5 17 (1.92%) JSON
6 11 (1.24%) Middleware
7 8 (0.90%) .NET
7 8 (0.90%) Great Expectations
7 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (0.90%) SOAP
8 7 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (0.79%) Web Services
9 6 (0.68%) OAuth
9 6 (0.68%) React
9 6 (0.68%) YAML
10 5 (0.56%) Apache Avro
10 5 (0.56%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.56%) pytest
10 5 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.78%) Data Structures
3 66 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 64 (7.22%) Onboarding
5 42 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (4.62%) Reference Data
7 37 (4.17%) Management Information System
8 30 (3.38%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
11 20 (2.25%) Taxonomies
12 16 (1.80%) Low-Code
13 15 (1.69%) Life Science
14 14 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.35%) Clustering
16 12 (1.35%) FMCG
17 11 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
18 10 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.68%) Linux
2 5 (0.56%) Unix
3 4 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) VMS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (39.46%) Data Modelling
2 324 (36.53%) Analytics
3 298 (33.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 251 (28.30%) AI
5 199 (22.44%) Data Engineering
6 196 (22.10%) Data Architecture
7 194 (21.87%) Business Intelligence
8 193 (21.76%) Agile
9 192 (21.65%) Data Pipeline
10 191 (21.53%) ETL
11 181 (20.41%) CI/CD
12 172 (19.39%) Migration
13 160 (18.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 153 (17.25%) Validation
15 151 (17.02%) Data Management
16 144 (16.23%) Decision-Making
17 143 (16.12%) DevOps
18 131 (14.77%) Metadata Management
18 131 (14.77%) Roadmaps
19 126 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 337 (37.99%) SQL
2 207 (23.34%) Python
3 27 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (2.03%) Java
5 16 (1.80%) C#
6 15 (1.69%) Scala
7 14 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.58%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.90%) Bicep
10 5 (0.56%) Bash
10 5 (0.56%) R
11 3 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.23%) Cypher
12 2 (0.23%) Delphi
12 2 (0.23%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 133 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 105 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.74%) Degree
4 38 (4.28%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.80%) PMP
8 15 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.35%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.79%) CISSP
13 6 (0.68%) CISM
13 6 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.56%) CEH
14 5 (0.56%) GIAC
15 4 (0.45%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (47.24%) Data Quality
2 114 (12.85%) GDPR
3 40 (4.51%) QA
4 14 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.58%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.35%) NIST
6 10 (1.13%) GRC
6 10 (1.13%) PMO
7 8 (0.90%) COREP
7 8 (0.90%) FINREP
7 8 (0.90%) NCSC
8 7 (0.79%) GxP
9 6 (0.68%) IFRS
9 6 (0.68%) MiFID
10 5 (0.56%) COBIT
10 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.34%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.34%) PERC
System Software
1 21 (2.37%) Docker
2 20 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.68%) Ansible
2 6 (0.68%) Control-M
3 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.23%) Istio
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 209 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 171 (19.28%) Databricks
3 54 (6.09%) Oracle
4 48 (5.41%) Informatica
5 39 (4.40%) SAP
6 34 (3.83%) Google
7 25 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.35%) Adobe
10 11 (1.24%) Foundry
10 11 (1.24%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.13%) IBM
11 10 (1.13%) Workday
12 9 (1.01%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.90%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.79%) Sparx
14 7 (0.79%) Talend
14 7 (0.79%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.68%) Confluent