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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 74 114
Rank change year-on-year +6 +40 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 723 438 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 3.53% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.82% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 317 308
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.11%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £741
90th Percentile £738 £930 £875
England median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -4.17%
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 £60.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.85% -18.18% +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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +13 94 £550 - 19
West London +2 27 £603 +41.76% 7
East London +4 9 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -5 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 57 (7.88%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.60%) Apache
4 15 (2.07%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.24%) Confluence
6 6 (0.83%) CMS
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 33 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.55%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 271 (37.48%) Azure
2 178 (24.62%) Power Platform
3 139 (19.23%) AWS
4 103 (14.25%) GCP
5 79 (10.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 73 (10.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 64 (8.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 60 (8.30%) Collibra
9 53 (7.33%) Snowflake
10 52 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (5.53%) Amazon S3
11 40 (5.53%) dbt
12 39 (5.39%) GitHub
13 28 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (3.73%) Serverless
15 24 (3.32%) Microsoft Copilot
16 21 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
17 17 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (2.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) IPv4
3 2 (0.28%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (21.85%) Power BI
2 154 (21.30%) Metadata
3 96 (13.28%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (13.14%) Data Lake
5 55 (7.61%) Delta Lake
6 44 (6.09%) Tableau
7 36 (4.98%) BigQuery
8 30 (4.15%) SQL Server
9 28 (3.87%) NoSQL
10 25 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (3.18%) Snowflake Schema
12 22 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (2.77%) Data Vault
14 19 (2.63%) Big Data
15 17 (2.35%) Spark SQL
16 15 (2.07%) OLAP
17 14 (1.94%) Hadoop
17 14 (1.94%) OLTP
17 14 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
17 14 (1.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (7.19%) Git
2 30 (4.15%) JIRA
3 24 (3.32%) ERwin
4 13 (1.80%) PowerDesigner
5 11 (1.52%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.83%) GitLab
7 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.69%) MLflow
8 3 (0.41%) git-flow
9 2 (0.28%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) LSMW
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.14%) GCC
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Snyk
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 245 (33.89%) Finance
2 206 (28.49%) Social Skills
3 131 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (10.65%) Banking
5 68 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.87%) Legal
8 23 (3.18%) Retail
9 16 (2.21%) Marketing
10 15 (2.07%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.66%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.66%) Local Government
13 11 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.69%) Billing
15 5 (0.69%) Law
15 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 132 (18.26%) Analyst
2 129 (17.84%) Data Engineer
3 117 (16.18%) Architect
4 96 (13.28%) Lead
5 83 (11.48%) Data Analyst
6 80 (11.07%) Senior
7 57 (7.88%) Business Analyst
8 54 (7.47%) Data Architect
9 29 (4.01%) Developer
9 29 (4.01%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.73%) Data Business Analyst
10 27 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
11 26 (3.60%) Data Modeller
12 25 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (3.46%) Consultant
13 23 (3.18%) Governance Analyst
13 23 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (3.04%) Data Manager
15 19 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.02%) PySpark
2 44 (6.09%) Kafka
3 27 (3.73%) REST
4 17 (2.35%) Middleware
4 17 (2.35%) SOAP
5 14 (1.94%) .NET
5 14 (1.94%) Great Expectations
6 11 (1.52%) JSON
6 11 (1.52%) Web Services
7 10 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.11%) YAML
9 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.97%) Spring
10 6 (0.83%) OAuth
11 5 (0.69%) boto
11 5 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (0.69%) Pandas
11 5 (0.69%) XML
12 4 (0.55%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.09%) Data Structures
2 44 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 33 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (3.46%) AI Agents
6 23 (3.18%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.04%) Reference Data
8 17 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.66%) Clustering
11 10 (1.38%) CMDB
11 10 (1.38%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.38%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.24%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.11%) Equities
13 8 (1.11%) Life Science
13 8 (1.11%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.41%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (37.90%) Data Modelling
2 264 (36.51%) Analytics
3 184 (25.45%) AI
4 178 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 175 (24.20%) Business Intelligence
6 166 (22.96%) ETL
7 156 (21.58%) Data Engineering
8 154 (21.30%) Data Pipeline
9 153 (21.16%) CI/CD
10 146 (20.19%) Agile
11 142 (19.64%) Data Architecture
12 128 (17.70%) DevOps
12 128 (17.70%) Validation
13 125 (17.29%) Migration
14 119 (16.46%) Data Management
15 110 (15.21%) Decision-Making
16 108 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
17 99 (13.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 86 (11.89%) Machine Learning
19 83 (11.48%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 295 (40.80%) SQL
2 200 (27.66%) Python
3 30 (4.15%) C#
4 27 (3.73%) Scala
5 15 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (1.94%) Java
6 14 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.80%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.52%) Bicep
9 8 (1.11%) R
10 4 (0.55%) Bash
11 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.41%) VBA
12 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 131 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.88%) Degree
4 39 (5.39%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.66%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.66%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.52%) PMP
10 10 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.24%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.83%) CISSP
13 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.69%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.55%) CEH
14 4 (0.55%) CISM
14 4 (0.55%) GIAC
15 3 (0.41%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (42.60%) Data Quality
2 112 (15.49%) GDPR
3 45 (6.22%) QA
4 16 (2.21%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.24%) IFRS
7 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.97%) COREP
8 7 (0.97%) FINREP
8 7 (0.97%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.97%) NIST
9 6 (0.83%) PMO
10 5 (0.69%) GRC
10 5 (0.69%) MiFID
11 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.55%) COBIT
11 4 (0.55%) NCSC
11 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.41%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (3.18%) Docker
2 11 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (9.41%) Terraform
2 28 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.83%) Grafana
3 6 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.55%) Istio
6 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 159 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 132 (18.26%) Databricks
3 55 (7.61%) Oracle
4 38 (5.26%) Google
4 38 (5.26%) SAP
5 30 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 25 (3.46%) Informatica
7 14 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.38%) Foundry
10 9 (1.24%) GoldenSource
11 8 (1.11%) Workday
12 5 (0.69%) IBM
12 5 (0.69%) VMware
13 4 (0.55%) Ariba
13 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.55%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.55%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.55%) Sparx
14 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft