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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 88 134
Rank change year-on-year +26 +46 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 596 415 316
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 2.96% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 3.27% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 300 237
10th Percentile £389 £385 £400
25th Percentile £461 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £746 £938 £775
England median daily rate £523 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -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 £45.50 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +67.74% -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 13,144 12,678 15,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.30% 90.34% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,697 8,106 11,397
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% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 261
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.63
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.01%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.45 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +36 100 £563 -4.26% 42
West London -3 16 £603 - 9
East London -3 6 £566 +25.83% 7
South London -2 3 £475 -20.83% 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 68 (11.41%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.86%) Apache
3 19 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.52%) Confluence
5 12 (2.01%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.67%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.01%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.67%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.50%) Actimize
5 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.50%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 245 (41.11%) Azure
2 153 (25.67%) Power Platform
3 138 (23.15%) AWS
4 91 (15.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 75 (12.58%) GCP
6 70 (11.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 67 (11.24%) Snowflake
8 51 (8.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 43 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (6.71%) Collibra
11 36 (6.04%) Amazon S3
12 31 (5.20%) dbt
13 29 (4.87%) Serverless
14 24 (4.03%) GitHub
15 20 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.52%) SaaS
19 14 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.67%) 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
1 136 (22.82%) Power BI
2 129 (21.64%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (20.64%) Metadata
4 79 (13.26%) Data Lake
5 44 (7.38%) NoSQL
6 41 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (6.38%) Tableau
8 31 (5.20%) Big Data
9 30 (5.03%) Delta Lake
9 30 (5.03%) SQL Server
10 26 (4.36%) Relational Database
11 25 (4.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 23 (3.86%) Data Vault
13 19 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (3.19%) BigQuery
14 18 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (2.85%) Star Schema
16 16 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (2.68%) Spark SQL
17 14 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 44 (7.38%) Git
2 38 (6.38%) JIRA
3 23 (3.86%) ERwin
4 17 (2.85%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.01%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.85%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.68%) MLflow
8 5 (0.84%) GitLab
9 3 (0.50%) LSMW
10 2 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.34%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.17%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 227 (38.09%) Social Skills
2 206 (34.56%) Finance
3 114 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.89%) Banking
6 33 (5.54%) Legal
7 24 (4.03%) Marketing
8 19 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.02%) Financial Institution
10 16 (2.68%) Retail
11 15 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.85%) Publishing
13 10 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.51%) Electronics
15 8 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.17%) Local Government
17 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (18.29%) Analyst
2 103 (17.28%) Data Engineer
3 97 (16.28%) Architect
4 80 (13.42%) Lead
5 62 (10.40%) Data Analyst
6 57 (9.56%) Data Architect
7 52 (8.72%) Business Analyst
8 41 (6.88%) Senior
9 38 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (5.70%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) Data Modeller
12 28 (4.70%) Consultant
13 21 (3.52%) Developer
14 19 (3.19%) Governance Analyst
14 19 (3.19%) Project Manager
15 18 (3.02%) Data Business Analyst
15 18 (3.02%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.68%) Azure Architect
17 12 (2.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (12.75%) PySpark
2 39 (6.54%) Kafka
3 14 (2.35%) REST
4 11 (1.85%) .NET
5 9 (1.51%) Great Expectations
5 9 (1.51%) OAuth
5 9 (1.51%) Pandas
6 8 (1.34%) SOAP
7 7 (1.17%) LangChain
7 7 (1.17%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.01%) JSON
8 6 (1.01%) Middleware
8 6 (1.01%) NumPy
8 6 (1.01%) YAML
9 5 (0.84%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.84%) HTML
9 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.84%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.84%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.67%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.52%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.18%) Reference Data
9 12 (2.01%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.01%) Reinsurance
10 11 (1.85%) Life Science
11 10 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.34%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.34%) Taxonomies
13 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.01%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.34%) Android
1 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (44.80%) Data Modelling
2 206 (34.56%) Analytics
3 172 (28.86%) Agile
4 159 (26.68%) Business Intelligence
5 154 (25.84%) Data Engineering
6 149 (25.00%) ETL
7 142 (23.83%) Data Pipeline
8 126 (21.14%) Data Architecture
8 126 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 116 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (19.30%) AI
11 113 (18.96%) CI/CD
12 101 (16.95%) DevOps
13 99 (16.61%) Data Integration
14 92 (15.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 82 (13.76%) Decision-Making
16 81 (13.59%) Data Management
17 79 (13.26%) Metadata Management
18 78 (13.09%) Validation
19 75 (12.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 260 (43.62%) SQL
2 193 (32.38%) Python
3 36 (6.04%) Scala
4 22 (3.69%) C#
5 21 (3.52%) R
6 19 (3.19%) Java
7 16 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.85%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.34%) Bicep
12 6 (1.01%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.34%) C++
14 2 (0.34%) Korn
14 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.34%) SOQL
15 1 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 105 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 88 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.90%) Degree
4 33 (5.54%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.52%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.18%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.85%) PMP
11 7 (1.17%) MCP
12 6 (1.01%) CISSP
13 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.84%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.50%) CBAP
15 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.34%) SnowPro
17 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (40.27%) Data Quality
2 110 (18.46%) GDPR
3 31 (5.20%) QA
4 26 (4.36%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (1.68%) IFRS
5 10 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.51%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.17%) IFRS 17
7 7 (1.17%) NIST
8 5 (0.84%) EU AI Act
8 5 (0.84%) GRC
8 5 (0.84%) MiFID
8 5 (0.84%) PERC
8 5 (0.84%) PMO
8 5 (0.84%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.50%) GMP
9 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 35 (5.87%) Docker
2 7 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (10.07%) Terraform
2 36 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.67%) AirWatch
4 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
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
1 151 (25.34%) Databricks
2 116 (19.46%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.54%) SAP
4 32 (5.37%) Salesforce
5 29 (4.87%) Google
6 25 (4.19%) Informatica
6 25 (4.19%) Oracle
7 12 (2.01%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.01%) Sparx
8 11 (1.85%) Adobe
8 11 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.85%) Workday
9 9 (1.51%) Tealium
10 7 (1.17%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.17%) OneTrust
11 5 (0.84%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.84%) mParticle
11 5 (0.84%) Talend
11 5 (0.84%) VMware
12 4 (0.67%) Guidewire