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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 91 139
Rank change year-on-year +24 +48 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 590 395 314
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 2.70% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.00% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 280 235
10th Percentile £400 £380 £400
25th Percentile £461 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £609 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% -2.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £748 £938 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.32
75th Percentile £18.75 - £45.72
90th Percentile £28.13 - £49.92
England median hourly rate £35.50 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +30.88% -33.59% +83.31%

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 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +32 102 £575 -4.17% 41
West London -3 14 £603 - 7
South London -4 3 £475 -20.83% 5
East London -4 2 £566 +41.56% 10
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 67 (11.36%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.24%) Apache
3 21 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.54%) Confluence
5 11 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.51%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (1.19%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.51%) Actimize
4 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (41.53%) Azure
2 155 (26.27%) Power Platform
3 139 (23.56%) AWS
4 83 (14.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 76 (12.88%) GCP
6 70 (11.86%) Snowflake
7 69 (11.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 44 (7.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 41 (6.95%) Collibra
10 40 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (5.93%) Amazon S3
12 34 (5.76%) dbt
13 29 (4.92%) Serverless
14 21 (3.56%) GitHub
15 19 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (2.37%) Entra ID
18 14 (2.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.17%) DKIM
2 1 (0.17%) DMARC
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) PSTN
2 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (23.22%) Power BI
2 127 (21.53%) Data Warehouse
3 119 (20.17%) Metadata
4 74 (12.54%) Data Lake
5 46 (7.80%) NoSQL
6 41 (6.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (6.78%) Tableau
8 30 (5.08%) Big Data
9 29 (4.92%) SQL Server
10 28 (4.75%) Delta Lake
11 25 (4.24%) Relational Database
12 24 (4.07%) Snowflake Schema
13 22 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (3.56%) Data Vault
15 20 (3.39%) BigQuery
16 19 (3.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
18 16 (2.71%) Star Schema
19 15 (2.54%) Spark SQL
20 13 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 44 (7.46%) Git
2 37 (6.27%) JIRA
3 23 (3.90%) ERwin
4 18 (3.05%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.03%) ER Studio
5 12 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.53%) MLflow
7 5 (0.85%) GitLab
8 3 (0.51%) LSMW
9 2 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.34%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 228 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 203 (34.41%) Finance
3 122 (20.68%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.14%) Banking
6 34 (5.76%) Legal
7 24 (4.07%) Marketing
8 22 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.88%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.37%) Retail
11 13 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.86%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.86%) Publishing
13 10 (1.69%) Electronics
13 10 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.36%) Local Government
15 7 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (18.31%) Analyst
2 105 (17.80%) Architect
3 92 (15.59%) Data Engineer
4 77 (13.05%) Lead
5 62 (10.51%) Data Analyst
6 57 (9.66%) Data Architect
7 50 (8.47%) Business Analyst
8 36 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (6.10%) Senior
9 32 (5.42%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (4.92%) Data Modeller
11 27 (4.58%) Consultant
12 20 (3.39%) Governance Analyst
12 20 (3.39%) Project Manager
13 19 (3.22%) Developer
14 18 (3.05%) Data Business Analyst
14 18 (3.05%) Data Manager
15 15 (2.54%) Azure Architect
16 12 (2.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 11 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.54%) PySpark
2 39 (6.61%) Kafka
3 14 (2.37%) REST
4 10 (1.69%) Great Expectations
5 9 (1.53%) .NET
5 9 (1.53%) OAuth
6 8 (1.36%) Middleware
6 8 (1.36%) Pandas
6 8 (1.36%) SOAP
7 7 (1.19%) LangChain
8 6 (1.02%) JSON
8 6 (1.02%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.85%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.85%) HTML
9 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.85%) NumPy
9 5 (0.85%) RESTful
10 4 (0.68%) Faiss
10 4 (0.68%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.95%) Data Structures
2 39 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.54%) Reference Data
9 14 (2.37%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.03%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.86%) Life Science
12 10 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
13 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.36%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (1.02%) IoT
16 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.34%) Android
1 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (45.42%) Data Modelling
2 204 (34.58%) Analytics
3 168 (28.47%) Agile
4 159 (26.95%) Business Intelligence
5 148 (25.08%) ETL
6 138 (23.39%) Data Engineering
7 137 (23.22%) Data Pipeline
8 129 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (20.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 122 (20.68%) Data Architecture
11 112 (18.98%) CI/CD
12 107 (18.14%) AI
13 100 (16.95%) DevOps
14 94 (15.93%) Data Integration
15 90 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 87 (14.75%) Data Management
17 83 (14.07%) Migration
18 80 (13.56%) Decision-Making
19 78 (13.22%) Metadata Management
20 74 (12.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 258 (43.73%) SQL
2 191 (32.37%) Python
3 33 (5.59%) Scala
4 25 (4.24%) R
5 21 (3.56%) Java
6 19 (3.22%) C#
7 17 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.03%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.86%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.36%) Bicep
11 6 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.51%) Korn
14 2 (0.34%) C++
14 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.34%) SOQL
15 1 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 99 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.02%) Degree
4 30 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.90%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (2.20%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.86%) PMP
11 7 (1.19%) MCP
12 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.02%) CISSP
13 5 (0.85%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.51%) CBAP
15 3 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.34%) SnowPro
17 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (40.34%) Data Quality
2 108 (18.31%) GDPR
3 30 (5.08%) QA
4 25 (4.24%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.86%) HIPAA
5 11 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.19%) IFRS
7 7 (1.19%) NIST
8 6 (1.02%) MiFID
8 6 (1.02%) PMO
9 5 (0.85%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.85%) PERC
10 4 (0.68%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.51%) GMP
11 3 (0.51%) GRC
11 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (5.93%) Docker
2 8 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (9.66%) Terraform
2 35 (5.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.34%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Grafana
5 2 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (25.08%) Databricks
2 116 (19.66%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.76%) SAP
4 31 (5.25%) Google
4 31 (5.25%) Salesforce
5 25 (4.24%) Informatica
6 22 (3.73%) Oracle
7 12 (2.03%) Adobe
7 12 (2.03%) Sparx
8 11 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.53%) Tealium
9 9 (1.53%) Workday
10 8 (1.36%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.36%) OneTrust
11 6 (1.02%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.85%) mParticle
12 5 (0.85%) Talend
13 4 (0.68%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.68%) Refinitiv