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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 124 158
Rank change year-on-year +57 +34 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 527 322 311
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 2.06% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 2.31% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 219 223
10th Percentile £400 £369 £475
25th Percentile £463 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £690 £743
90th Percentile £750 £808 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -4.55% -10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £76.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £77.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -76.13% +119.45% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £78.75 £45.72
90th Percentile £28.13 - £49.92
England median hourly rate £22.89 £30.00 £40.84
% change year-on-year -23.70% -26.55% +83.31%

All Process and 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 12,740 13,914 18,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.46% 89.10% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,386 8,952 13,004
10th Percentile £331 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 165 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.90 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +40 85 £550 -10.20% 241
West London -15 5 £601 +4.57% 9
South London - 5 £500 - 4
East London +1 1 £638 +59.38% 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 48 (9.11%) Apache Spark
2 30 (5.69%) Apache
3 26 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.98%) Confluence
5 12 (2.28%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.95%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) Appian
9 1 (0.19%) Luigi
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.19%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.19%) Revit
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.90%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.57%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 199 (37.76%) Azure
2 134 (25.43%) AWS
3 117 (22.20%) Power Platform
4 79 (14.99%) GCP
5 72 (13.66%) Snowflake
6 49 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 42 (7.97%) dbt
8 38 (7.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 37 (7.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 36 (6.83%) Collibra
11 27 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (4.17%) Amazon S3
13 19 (3.61%) GitHub
13 19 (3.61%) Serverless
14 16 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.66%) Entra ID
17 13 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
19 11 (2.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.38%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) DKIM
3 1 (0.19%) DMARC
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) MPLS
3 1 (0.19%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (21.82%) Metadata
2 101 (19.17%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (18.79%) Power BI
4 64 (12.14%) Data Lake
5 33 (6.26%) Big Data
5 33 (6.26%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.88%) Tableau
7 28 (5.31%) SQL Server
8 25 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (4.55%) Delta Lake
10 22 (4.17%) BigQuery
11 21 (3.98%) Relational Database
12 20 (3.80%) Data Vault
13 17 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (2.47%) Star Schema
16 12 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (2.09%) Power Query
18 9 (1.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (7.78%) JIRA
2 29 (5.50%) ERwin
3 20 (3.80%) Git
4 19 (3.61%) PowerDesigner
5 17 (3.23%) ER Studio
6 9 (1.71%) MLflow
7 4 (0.76%) GitLab
7 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.38%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.19%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.19%) Postman
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 210 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 175 (33.21%) Finance
3 101 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 52 (9.87%) Banking
6 25 (4.74%) Legal
7 19 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.85%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.66%) Retail
11 12 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.28%) Publishing
12 10 (1.90%) Marketing
13 9 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Back Office
14 6 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Local Government
14 6 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (21.06%) Architect
2 87 (16.51%) Analyst
3 65 (12.33%) Data Engineer
4 62 (11.76%) Data Architect
5 61 (11.57%) Lead
6 47 (8.92%) Data Analyst
7 43 (8.16%) Business Analyst
8 37 (7.02%) Data Modeller
9 35 (6.64%) Senior
10 25 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
11 22 (4.17%) Consultant
12 20 (3.80%) Governance Analyst
13 18 (3.42%) Data Manager
14 16 (3.04%) Data Business Analyst
15 15 (2.85%) Project Manager
15 15 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (2.28%) Developer
17 11 (2.09%) Azure Architect
17 11 (2.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.73%) PySpark
2 31 (5.88%) Kafka
3 12 (2.28%) REST
4 9 (1.71%) OAuth
5 8 (1.52%) Middleware
6 7 (1.33%) Great Expectations
6 7 (1.33%) LangChain
6 7 (1.33%) PyTorch
7 5 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (0.95%) ARM Templates
7 5 (0.95%) RESTful
7 5 (0.95%) SOAP
7 5 (0.95%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.76%) .NET
8 4 (0.76%) Faiss
8 4 (0.76%) FHIR
8 4 (0.76%) OpenID
8 4 (0.76%) Pandas
8 4 (0.76%) SAML
9 3 (0.57%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.40%) Data Structures
2 30 (5.69%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 24 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.04%) Reference Data
8 15 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.85%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.85%) Reinsurance
9 12 (2.28%) Taxonomies
10 11 (2.09%) Life Science
11 8 (1.52%) NHS
12 6 (1.14%) Data Fabric
12 6 (1.14%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.14%) IoT
12 6 (1.14%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.19%) Android
1 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (43.64%) Data Modelling
2 157 (29.79%) Analytics
3 139 (26.38%) ETL
4 127 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
5 126 (23.91%) Agile
6 110 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (19.54%) Data Engineering
7 103 (19.54%) Data Pipeline
8 99 (18.79%) Data Architecture
9 90 (17.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (16.13%) CI/CD
10 85 (16.13%) Data Management
10 85 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 82 (15.56%) Metadata Management
12 79 (14.99%) DevOps
13 78 (14.80%) AI
14 77 (14.61%) Data Integration
14 77 (14.61%) Migration
15 65 (12.33%) Data Lineage
16 63 (11.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 202 (38.33%) SQL
2 150 (28.46%) Python
3 30 (5.69%) Java
4 22 (4.17%) Scala
5 15 (2.85%) R
6 9 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (1.52%) C#
7 8 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.14%) Bicep
8 6 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.95%) C++
9 5 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.76%) C
10 4 (0.76%) Perl
10 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.57%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 65 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.44%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.06%) Degree
4 18 (3.42%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.71%) PMI Certification
8 9 (1.71%) PMP
9 8 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.14%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.76%) MCP
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.38%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.19%) ACCA
14 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (36.24%) Data Quality
2 88 (16.70%) GDPR
3 28 (5.31%) QA
4 25 (4.74%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.28%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (1.52%) NIST
9 6 (1.14%) PMO
10 5 (0.95%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.95%) MiFID
10 5 (0.95%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.76%) HL7
12 3 (0.57%) Basel III
12 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.57%) GMP
12 3 (0.57%) IFRS
12 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.38%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (4.55%) Docker
2 11 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (8.92%) Terraform
2 27 (5.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.38%) Ansible
4 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 99 (18.79%) Databricks
2 93 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.26%) Google
4 27 (5.12%) Salesforce
5 26 (4.93%) SAP
6 23 (4.36%) Informatica
7 20 (3.80%) Oracle
8 13 (2.47%) Sparx
9 10 (1.90%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.71%) Workday
11 8 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.52%) Talend
12 7 (1.33%) Guidewire
13 6 (1.14%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.95%) OneTrust
15 4 (0.76%) Adobe
15 4 (0.76%) Apple
15 4 (0.76%) MuleSoft
16 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
16 3 (0.57%) Refinitiv