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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 77 118
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 767 441 383
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 3.37% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.65% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 316 295
10th Percentile £400 £410 £400
25th Percentile £463 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £720 £744
90th Percentile £744 £825 £883
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%
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 £56.50 £27.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year +107.11% -31.80% +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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +18 97 £550 - 66
West London +5 27 £603 +41.76% 10
East London +5 9 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -4 4 £637 -6.50% 7
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 (7.17%) Apache Spark
2 40 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.65%) Apache
4 18 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.04%) Confluence
6 6 (0.78%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 34 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.65%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.52%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Workfront
7 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG-S
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 287 (37.42%) Azure
2 176 (22.95%) Power Platform
3 149 (19.43%) AWS
4 108 (14.08%) GCP
5 77 (10.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 71 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 61 (7.95%) Snowflake
8 59 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 59 (7.69%) Collibra
9 52 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.26%) dbt
11 41 (5.35%) GitHub
12 38 (4.95%) Amazon S3
13 30 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
15 25 (3.26%) Serverless
16 20 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.35%) Power Automate
18 17 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Network Security
2 3 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) IPv4
3 2 (0.26%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (21.12%) Metadata
2 155 (20.21%) Power BI
3 103 (13.43%) Data Lake
3 103 (13.43%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (6.65%) Delta Lake
5 45 (5.87%) Tableau
6 33 (4.30%) BigQuery
7 28 (3.65%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.52%) NoSQL
9 26 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
10 23 (3.00%) Big Data
10 23 (3.00%) Data Vault
10 23 (3.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.96%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.96%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.83%) OLAP
15 13 (1.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (5.74%) Git
2 31 (4.04%) JIRA
3 26 (3.39%) ERwin
4 13 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.56%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.04%) GitLab
7 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.65%) MLflow
9 3 (0.39%) git-flow
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) GCC
11 1 (0.13%) LSMW
11 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.13%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) Snyk
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 267 (34.81%) Finance
2 223 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 138 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.08%) Banking
5 73 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (4.30%) Legal
8 29 (3.78%) Retail
9 19 (2.48%) Marketing
10 16 (2.09%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.56%) Local Government
14 10 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.78%) Law
15 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 142 (18.51%) Analyst
2 133 (17.34%) Data Engineer
3 132 (17.21%) Architect
4 95 (12.39%) Lead
5 87 (11.34%) Data Analyst
5 87 (11.34%) Senior
6 66 (8.60%) Business Analyst
7 61 (7.95%) Data Architect
8 35 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (4.30%) Data Business Analyst
9 33 (4.30%) Project Manager
10 28 (3.65%) Consultant
11 27 (3.52%) Data Manager
11 27 (3.52%) Data Modeller
11 27 (3.52%) Governance Analyst
12 26 (3.39%) Developer
12 26 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.22%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.17%) PySpark
2 46 (6.00%) Kafka
3 26 (3.39%) REST
4 17 (2.22%) Middleware
5 16 (2.09%) SOAP
6 13 (1.69%) Great Expectations
7 12 (1.56%) JSON
8 11 (1.43%) .NET
8 11 (1.43%) Web Services
9 10 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (1.17%) Spring
11 8 (1.04%) YAML
12 6 (0.78%) OAuth
13 5 (0.65%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.65%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.65%) XML
14 4 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (0.52%) Spark Streaming
14 4 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 46 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 42 (5.48%) Onboarding
5 34 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (3.00%) AI Agents
6 23 (3.00%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.83%) Taxonomies
11 12 (1.56%) Clustering
12 10 (1.30%) CMDB
12 10 (1.30%) Life Science
12 10 (1.30%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.17%) Fixed Income
14 8 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.04%) Equities
14 8 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.39%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (37.03%) Data Modelling
2 280 (36.51%) Analytics
3 203 (26.47%) AI
4 199 (25.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 178 (23.21%) ETL
6 175 (22.82%) Business Intelligence
7 165 (21.51%) Data Pipeline
8 161 (20.99%) Data Engineering
9 159 (20.73%) CI/CD
10 152 (19.82%) Agile
11 148 (19.30%) Data Architecture
12 135 (17.60%) Validation
13 133 (17.34%) Migration
14 131 (17.08%) Data Management
15 130 (16.95%) DevOps
16 117 (15.25%) Decision-Making
17 116 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
18 106 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 93 (12.13%) Machine Learning
20 84 (10.95%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 298 (38.85%) SQL
2 195 (25.42%) Python
3 26 (3.39%) C#
4 25 (3.26%) Scala
5 17 (2.22%) Java
6 14 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.56%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.17%) Bicep
10 6 (0.78%) R
11 5 (0.65%) Bash
12 3 (0.39%) Cypher
12 3 (0.39%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.39%) VBA
13 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.26%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 133 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.08%) Degree
4 36 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.83%) PMP
10 12 (1.56%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.78%) CISSP
13 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.65%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.52%) CEH
14 4 (0.52%) CISM
14 4 (0.52%) GIAC
14 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (41.85%) Data Quality
2 118 (15.38%) GDPR
3 46 (6.00%) QA
4 17 (2.22%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.30%) IFRS
7 8 (1.04%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.04%) NIST
8 7 (0.91%) COREP
8 7 (0.91%) FINREP
8 7 (0.91%) PMO
9 5 (0.65%) GRC
9 5 (0.65%) MiFID
10 4 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.52%) COBIT
10 4 (0.52%) GxP
10 4 (0.52%) NCSC
10 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (3.13%) Docker
2 13 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) HDFS
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (8.87%) Terraform
2 28 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.04%) Grafana
4 6 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.39%) AirWatch
6 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.26%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Ansible
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 165 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 133 (17.34%) Databricks
3 52 (6.78%) Oracle
4 38 (4.95%) Google
5 37 (4.82%) SAP
6 30 (3.91%) Salesforce
7 27 (3.52%) Informatica
8 15 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.43%) Foundry
11 9 (1.17%) GoldenSource
12 7 (0.91%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.91%) Workday
13 5 (0.65%) IBM
13 5 (0.65%) Murex
14 4 (0.52%) Sparx
14 4 (0.52%) VMware
15 3 (0.39%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.39%) CyberArk
15 3 (0.39%) Zscaler