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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 73 134
Rank change year-on-year +7 +61 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 681 445 337
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 3.52% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 3.85% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 341 260
10th Percentile £398 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £27.81
25th Percentile £18.25 £62.50 £33.51
Median hourly rate £18.50 £65.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -71.54% +41.14% -45.82%
75th Percentile £24.94 £67.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £45.38 - £50.02
England median hourly rate £67.50 £26.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +151.75% -32.97% +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 15,109 11,547 15,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.66% 91.42% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,127 7,832 11,395
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 169 335
10th Percentile £18.14 £19.16 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +26 92 £550 - 53
West London - 30 £603 - 8
East London -3 7 £638 +41.67% 9
South London -9 6 £500 -16.71% 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 88 (12.92%) Apache Spark
2 35 (5.14%) Apache
3 28 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.91%) Confluence
5 12 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.59%) SAS
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 35 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.44%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.59%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.44%) Actimize
4 3 (0.44%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 278 (40.82%) Azure
2 177 (25.99%) Power Platform
3 154 (22.61%) AWS
4 100 (14.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 100 (14.68%) GCP
5 79 (11.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 60 (8.81%) Collibra
7 56 (8.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 50 (7.34%) Amazon S3
8 50 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (7.34%) Snowflake
9 36 (5.29%) GitHub
10 31 (4.55%) dbt
10 31 (4.55%) Serverless
11 28 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
15 16 (2.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.73%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.44%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) IPv4
3 2 (0.29%) IPv6
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (24.38%) Power BI
2 137 (20.12%) Metadata
3 134 (19.68%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (14.68%) Data Lake
5 54 (7.93%) Tableau
6 49 (7.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (6.90%) NoSQL
8 43 (6.31%) Delta Lake
9 33 (4.85%) BigQuery
10 30 (4.41%) Big Data
11 27 (3.96%) SQL Server
12 26 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (3.52%) Snowflake Schema
14 22 (3.23%) Mixpanel
14 22 (3.23%) OLAP
15 20 (2.94%) OLTP
15 20 (2.94%) Relational Database
16 16 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (2.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (9.84%) Git
2 34 (4.99%) JIRA
3 17 (2.50%) ERwin
4 13 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.62%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.32%) MLflow
7 6 (0.88%) GitLab
8 3 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.44%) LSMW
9 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) GCC
10 1 (0.15%) NUnit
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 232 (34.07%) Finance
2 223 (32.75%) Social Skills
3 151 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.66%) Banking
6 29 (4.26%) Legal
7 27 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.67%) Marketing
9 17 (2.50%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.20%) Retail
11 10 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.32%) Electronics
12 9 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.03%) Local Government
14 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.03%) Publishing
15 6 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (21.59%) Data Engineer
2 124 (18.21%) Analyst
3 102 (14.98%) Architect
4 101 (14.83%) Lead
5 73 (10.72%) Data Analyst
6 67 (9.84%) Senior
7 66 (9.69%) Business Analyst
8 51 (7.49%) Data Architect
9 36 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (4.70%) Azure Data Engineer
10 32 (4.70%) Developer
11 30 (4.41%) Data Business Analyst
12 25 (3.67%) Consultant
13 24 (3.52%) Project Manager
14 23 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (3.08%) Data Modeller
16 20 (2.94%) Principal Data Engineer
17 19 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
18 17 (2.50%) Governance Analyst
18 17 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.60%) PySpark
2 58 (8.52%) Kafka
3 28 (4.11%) REST
4 21 (3.08%) Great Expectations
5 16 (2.35%) SOAP
6 14 (2.06%) .NET
7 13 (1.91%) Middleware
8 11 (1.62%) JSON
9 10 (1.47%) Pandas
9 10 (1.47%) Web Services
10 8 (1.17%) YAML
11 7 (1.03%) OAuth
11 7 (1.03%) Spring
12 6 (0.88%) boto
12 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (0.88%) NumPy
12 6 (0.88%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.88%) XML
13 5 (0.73%) Spark Streaming
13 5 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.87%) Data Structures
3 36 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 28 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.79%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.50%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
11 11 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.47%) CMDB
13 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.32%) Taxonomies
14 8 (1.17%) Clustering
14 8 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.15%) Unix
2 1 (0.15%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (42.58%) Data Modelling
2 261 (38.33%) Analytics
3 190 (27.90%) ETL
4 189 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
5 184 (27.02%) Data Engineering
6 172 (25.26%) Data Pipeline
7 166 (24.38%) Agile
8 160 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 150 (22.03%) CI/CD
10 149 (21.88%) AI
11 147 (21.59%) Data Architecture
12 123 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
13 119 (17.47%) DevOps
14 114 (16.74%) Validation
15 103 (15.12%) Data Management
16 100 (14.68%) Decision-Making
17 98 (14.39%) Migration
18 91 (13.36%) Data Integration
19 86 (12.63%) Machine Learning
20 82 (12.04%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 318 (46.70%) SQL
2 230 (33.77%) Python
3 47 (6.90%) Scala
4 38 (5.58%) C#
5 19 (2.79%) R
6 17 (2.50%) Java
7 16 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (1.91%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.62%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.62%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.32%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.88%) Bicep
12 4 (0.59%) VBA
13 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.44%) SOQL
13 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) Bash
14 2 (0.29%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 132 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.40%) Degree
4 31 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.62%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.32%) PMP
11 5 (0.73%) CISSP
11 5 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.59%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.44%) CBAP
14 2 (0.29%) CEH
14 2 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (44.20%) Data Quality
2 108 (15.86%) GDPR
3 44 (6.46%) QA
4 18 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.06%) Solvency II
6 12 (1.76%) IFRS
7 10 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (1.32%) IFRS 17
9 8 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.73%) NIST
10 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.73%) PERC
10 5 (0.73%) PMO
11 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.59%) GRC
11 4 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.44%) COREP
12 3 (0.44%) FINREP
12 3 (0.44%) HL7
12 3 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (4.55%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) HDFS
3 1 (0.15%) RACF
Systems Management
1 71 (10.43%) Terraform
2 38 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.88%) Grafana
4 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.59%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.29%) Istio
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 163 (23.94%) Databricks
2 131 (19.24%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.46%) Oracle
4 43 (6.31%) Google
5 35 (5.14%) Salesforce
6 33 (4.85%) SAP
7 30 (4.41%) Informatica
8 20 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.91%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.47%) Adobe
11 9 (1.32%) Tealium
12 7 (1.03%) Sparx
12 7 (1.03%) Workday
13 6 (0.88%) GoldenSource
13 6 (0.88%) OneTrust
14 5 (0.73%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.73%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.73%) mParticle
14 5 (0.73%) Talend
15 4 (0.59%) CyberArk