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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 79 120
Rank change year-on-year +18 +41 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 804 450 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.32% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 3.60% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 314 276
10th Percentile £400 £403 £393
25th Percentile £463 £465 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £620
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -10.82% -4.69%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £750 £894
England median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +56.64% -38.04%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £55.00 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -17.20% +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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +29 112 £568 +10.73% 43
West London +11 31 £520 +22.35% 15
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -14 4 £637 -6.50% 5
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 54 (6.72%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.23%) Apache
4 17 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.87%) Confluence
6 6 (0.75%) CMS
7 5 (0.62%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 37 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.75%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.37%) Workfront
7 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 305 (37.94%) Azure
2 178 (22.14%) Power Platform
3 160 (19.90%) AWS
4 109 (13.56%) GCP
5 83 (10.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 63 (7.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 59 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (7.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 57 (7.09%) Collibra
11 52 (6.47%) dbt
12 39 (4.85%) GitHub
13 38 (4.73%) Amazon S3
14 27 (3.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 26 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (3.11%) Serverless
17 21 (2.61%) Entra ID
18 19 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (1.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.62%) Network Security
2 3 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.37%) Firewall
3 2 (0.25%) IPv4
3 2 (0.25%) IPv6
4 1 (0.12%) 4G
4 1 (0.12%) 5G
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (21.52%) Metadata
2 159 (19.78%) Power BI
3 111 (13.81%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (13.06%) Data Lake
5 54 (6.72%) Delta Lake
6 45 (5.60%) Tableau
7 32 (3.98%) BigQuery
8 26 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.11%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.86%) Big Data
11 22 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (2.61%) Data Vault
13 18 (2.24%) Star Schema
14 17 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (1.62%) Parquet
18 12 (1.49%) Hadoop
18 12 (1.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (4.73%) Git
2 31 (3.86%) JIRA
3 30 (3.73%) ERwin
4 18 (2.24%) ER Studio
5 14 (1.74%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.12%) GitLab
7 7 (0.87%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.37%) git-flow
8 3 (0.37%) MLflow
9 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) LSMW
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 268 (33.33%) Finance
2 226 (28.11%) Social Skills
3 155 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.94%) Banking
5 77 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.73%) Retail
7 37 (4.60%) Legal
8 34 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.99%) Marketing
10 16 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.87%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.62%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.49%) Local Government
13 12 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.12%) Law
16 8 (1.00%) Front Office
17 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (19.03%) Architect
2 149 (18.53%) Analyst
3 136 (16.92%) Data Engineer
4 94 (11.69%) Lead
5 92 (11.44%) Data Analyst
6 91 (11.32%) Senior
7 73 (9.08%) Data Architect
8 67 (8.33%) Business Analyst
9 38 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
10 35 (4.35%) Project Manager
11 30 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
12 29 (3.61%) Data Modeller
13 28 (3.48%) Consultant
14 27 (3.36%) Data Manager
14 27 (3.36%) Governance Analyst
15 25 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.99%) Developer
17 20 (2.49%) Product Owner
18 18 (2.24%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.59%) PySpark
2 46 (5.72%) Kafka
3 29 (3.61%) REST
4 19 (2.36%) JSON
5 18 (2.24%) Middleware
6 15 (1.87%) SOAP
7 13 (1.62%) Web Services
8 10 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.24%) Spring
9 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.00%) .NET
10 8 (1.00%) Great Expectations
11 7 (0.87%) OAuth
12 6 (0.75%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (0.75%) YAML
13 5 (0.62%) MACH
13 5 (0.62%) Pandas
13 5 (0.62%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.62%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.84%) Data Structures
2 63 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 49 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 41 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.10%) Reference Data
6 22 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.62%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.37%) Clustering
12 11 (1.37%) CMDB
12 11 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.37%) FMCG
12 11 (1.37%) Life Science
12 11 (1.37%) NHS
12 11 (1.37%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.62%) Linux
2 4 (0.50%) Unix
2 4 (0.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (39.18%) Data Modelling
2 291 (36.19%) Analytics
3 218 (27.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 200 (24.88%) AI
5 186 (23.13%) Business Intelligence
6 185 (23.01%) ETL
7 181 (22.51%) Data Pipeline
8 172 (21.39%) Data Engineering
9 163 (20.27%) Agile
10 159 (19.78%) CI/CD
10 159 (19.78%) Data Architecture
11 144 (17.91%) Validation
12 139 (17.29%) Migration
13 134 (16.67%) DevOps
14 132 (16.42%) Data Management
15 124 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 120 (14.93%) Decision-Making
17 117 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
18 91 (11.32%) Data Lineage
19 88 (10.95%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 320 (39.80%) SQL
2 206 (25.62%) Python
3 22 (2.74%) Scala
4 21 (2.61%) C#
5 20 (2.49%) Java
6 15 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.24%) Bicep
9 9 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.75%) Bash
11 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.37%) Cypher
12 3 (0.37%) R
12 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.37%) VBA
13 2 (0.25%) Go
13 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.81%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.72%) Degree
4 38 (4.73%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.87%) PMP
8 14 (1.74%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.24%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.75%) CISSP
12 6 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.50%) CEH
14 4 (0.50%) CISM
14 4 (0.50%) GIAC
14 4 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (43.41%) Data Quality
2 114 (14.18%) GDPR
3 37 (4.60%) QA
4 15 (1.87%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.12%) COREP
7 9 (1.12%) FINREP
7 9 (1.12%) NIST
7 9 (1.12%) PMO
8 5 (0.62%) IFRS
8 5 (0.62%) MiFID
8 5 (0.62%) NCSC
9 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.50%) COBIT
9 4 (0.50%) GRC
9 4 (0.50%) GxP
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 23 (2.86%) Docker
2 19 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.37%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (7.59%) Terraform
2 28 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.12%) Grafana
4 7 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.25%) Ansible
6 2 (0.25%) Control-M
6 2 (0.25%) Istio
6 2 (0.25%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 167 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 139 (17.29%) Databricks
3 51 (6.34%) Oracle
4 38 (4.73%) SAP
5 37 (4.60%) Google
6 31 (3.86%) Informatica
7 24 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.62%) Foundry
9 13 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.37%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.24%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.12%) Adobe
12 9 (1.12%) Workday
13 7 (0.87%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.62%) IBM
15 4 (0.50%) Guidewire
15 4 (0.50%) Sparx
16 3 (0.37%) Duck Creek