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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 62 129
Rank change year-on-year +9 +67 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 888 515 337
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.39% 3.88% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 4.19% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 365 235
10th Percentile £375 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £865
England median daily rate £545 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +3.02% -8.00% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £21.10 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £25.38 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -33.55% +49.14%
75th Percentile £28.67 £68.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £87.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% +16.67% -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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +15 140 £575 +4.55% 124
West London +11 35 £520 +1.46% 22
East London +5 4 £450 -33.33% 8
South London -8 1 - - 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 55 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 37 (4.17%) Apache
4 28 (3.15%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.46%) Confluence
6 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.79%) CMS
7 7 (0.79%) SAS
8 5 (0.56%) 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 41 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.35%) SAP MDG
3 11 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.68%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.45%) Workfront
7 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.11%) Maximo
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 338 (38.06%) Azure
2 181 (20.38%) AWS
3 176 (19.82%) Power Platform
4 105 (11.82%) GCP
5 89 (10.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 88 (9.91%) Snowflake
7 80 (9.01%) Microsoft Purview
8 66 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 65 (7.32%) dbt
10 58 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
11 57 (6.42%) Collibra
12 44 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
13 42 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (4.17%) Serverless
15 34 (3.83%) Amazon S3
16 28 (3.15%) GitHub
17 27 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
18 24 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
19 23 (2.59%) Entra ID
19 23 (2.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (0.56%) Network Security
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) Broadband
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (25.79%) Metadata
2 152 (17.12%) Power BI
3 132 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (11.37%) Data Lake
5 49 (5.52%) Delta Lake
6 40 (4.50%) Tableau
7 33 (3.72%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.60%) BigQuery
9 25 (2.82%) Data Vault
10 24 (2.70%) Big Data
11 23 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (2.36%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.36%) Star Schema
13 20 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (1.91%) Power Query
15 17 (1.91%) Semantic Layer
16 16 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (1.80%) Parquet
16 16 (1.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (4.39%) Git
2 34 (3.83%) JIRA
3 28 (3.15%) ERwin
4 19 (2.14%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.24%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.01%) GitLab
7 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.45%) RStudio
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) MLflow
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) git-flow
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 293 (33.00%) Finance
1 293 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (11.82%) Banking
4 96 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 51 (5.74%) Legal
6 44 (4.95%) Retail
7 33 (3.72%) Marketing
8 27 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (2.82%) Investment Banking
10 23 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (1.69%) Local Government
14 15 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.24%) Front Office
16 10 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.01%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 188 (21.17%) Architect
2 172 (19.37%) Analyst
3 131 (14.75%) Data Engineer
4 109 (12.27%) Lead
5 108 (12.16%) Data Architect
6 95 (10.70%) Data Analyst
7 92 (10.36%) Senior
8 72 (8.11%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.50%) Consultant
10 37 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (3.83%) Data Business Analyst
11 34 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (3.49%) Data Manager
12 31 (3.49%) Data Modeller
13 28 (3.15%) Governance Analyst
13 28 (3.15%) Project Manager
14 24 (2.70%) Developer
14 24 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (2.59%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (8.22%) PySpark
2 58 (6.53%) Terraform
3 45 (5.07%) Kafka
4 20 (2.25%) REST
5 18 (2.03%) JSON
6 10 (1.13%) .NET
7 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (0.90%) Middleware
7 8 (0.90%) OAuth
8 6 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (0.68%) GraphQL
8 6 (0.68%) Great Expectations
8 6 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.68%) React
8 6 (0.68%) YAML
9 5 (0.56%) Apache Avro
9 5 (0.56%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.56%) pytest
9 5 (0.56%) Spring
9 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.22%) Data Structures
3 70 (7.88%) Product Ownership
4 63 (7.09%) Onboarding
5 45 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (5.07%) Reference Data
6 37 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.49%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.70%) Taxonomies
10 22 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.80%) Life Science
11 16 (1.80%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.35%) FMCG
14 11 (1.24%) Clustering
14 11 (1.24%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.13%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.79%) Linux
2 5 (0.56%) Unix
2 5 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) VMS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (39.08%) Data Modelling
2 319 (35.92%) Analytics
3 311 (35.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 256 (28.83%) AI
5 205 (23.09%) Data Architecture
6 191 (21.51%) Agile
7 189 (21.28%) Business Intelligence
8 186 (20.95%) Data Pipeline
9 185 (20.83%) Data Engineering
10 184 (20.72%) Migration
11 179 (20.16%) ETL
12 171 (19.26%) CI/CD
13 164 (18.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 152 (17.12%) Validation
15 147 (16.55%) Data Management
16 144 (16.22%) Decision-Making
17 136 (15.32%) DevOps
17 136 (15.32%) Roadmaps
18 127 (14.30%) Metadata Management
19 126 (14.19%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 329 (37.05%) SQL
2 201 (22.64%) Python
3 28 (3.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (2.25%) Java
5 17 (1.91%) C#
6 15 (1.69%) Scala
7 14 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.58%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.13%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.90%) Bicep
10 6 (0.68%) Bash
10 6 (0.68%) R
11 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.23%) Delphi
13 2 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.23%) Korn
13 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 127 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 100 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.95%) Degree
4 36 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.91%) PMP
8 16 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.35%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.56%) CISSP
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
13 4 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.34%) CEH
14 3 (0.34%) CSPO
14 3 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 413 (46.51%) Data Quality
2 118 (13.29%) GDPR
3 34 (3.83%) QA
4 12 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.24%) GRC
5 11 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.24%) Solvency II
6 10 (1.13%) NIST
7 9 (1.01%) PMO
8 8 (0.90%) GxP
9 6 (0.68%) COREP
9 6 (0.68%) FINREP
9 6 (0.68%) IFRS
9 6 (0.68%) MiFID
9 6 (0.68%) NCSC
10 5 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.45%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.34%) PERC
System Software
1 23 (2.59%) Docker
2 21 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.34%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.79%) Ansible
3 6 (0.68%) Control-M
3 6 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.45%) Grafana
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.34%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 226 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 176 (19.82%) Databricks
3 50 (5.63%) Oracle
4 47 (5.29%) Informatica
5 38 (4.28%) SAP
6 36 (4.05%) Google
7 22 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.69%) Adobe
9 14 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.35%) IBM
11 11 (1.24%) Bloomberg
12 10 (1.13%) Foundry
12 10 (1.13%) Workday
13 9 (1.01%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.01%) GoldenSource
13 9 (1.01%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.90%) Sparx
15 7 (0.79%) Talend
15 7 (0.79%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.68%) Confluent