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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 83 121
Rank change year-on-year +21 +38 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 787 448 373
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.30% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 3.59% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 314 285
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £614
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.35% -5.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £745 £763 £888
England median daily rate £538 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -0.23% -6.30% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £57.75 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.37% -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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +20 108 £568 +3.18% 31
West London +16 29 £603 +41.76% 8
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 4
South London -11 4 £637 -6.50% 6
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 55 (6.99%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.32%) Apache
4 16 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.89%) Confluence
6 6 (0.76%) CMS
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 36 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.89%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.38%) Workfront
6 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.25%) Maximo
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 293 (37.23%) Azure
2 176 (22.36%) Power Platform
3 152 (19.31%) AWS
4 110 (13.98%) GCP
5 76 (9.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 64 (8.13%) Snowflake
7 62 (7.88%) Collibra
7 62 (7.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 59 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 54 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (6.61%) dbt
11 40 (5.08%) GitHub
12 38 (4.83%) Amazon S3
13 29 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 26 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
14 26 (3.30%) Serverless
15 20 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (2.41%) Entra ID
17 18 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.25%) IPv4
3 2 (0.25%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (21.22%) Metadata
2 156 (19.82%) Power BI
3 104 (13.21%) Data Lake
4 103 (13.09%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (6.10%) Delta Lake
6 47 (5.97%) Tableau
7 34 (4.32%) BigQuery
8 26 (3.30%) NoSQL
9 25 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (3.18%) Big Data
9 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.92%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (2.80%) Data Vault
12 18 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (2.03%) Star Schema
15 15 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (1.78%) Hadoop
17 12 (1.52%) OLTP
17 12 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (5.08%) Git
2 29 (3.68%) JIRA
3 25 (3.18%) ERwin
4 13 (1.65%) ER Studio
4 13 (1.65%) PowerDesigner
5 9 (1.14%) GitLab
6 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) git-flow
7 3 (0.38%) MLflow
8 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) GCC
9 1 (0.13%) LSMW
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 268 (34.05%) Finance
2 220 (27.95%) Social Skills
3 148 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.05%) Banking
5 76 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
6 35 (4.45%) Legal
6 35 (4.45%) Retail
7 18 (2.29%) Marketing
8 16 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.52%) Local Government
13 11 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.89%) Front Office
15 7 (0.89%) Law
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (19.19%) Analyst
2 140 (17.79%) Architect
3 134 (17.03%) Data Engineer
4 97 (12.33%) Lead
5 92 (11.69%) Data Analyst
6 91 (11.56%) Senior
7 69 (8.77%) Business Analyst
8 67 (8.51%) Data Architect
9 36 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.45%) Project Manager
11 34 (4.32%) Data Business Analyst
12 29 (3.68%) Governance Analyst
12 29 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
13 28 (3.56%) Developer
14 27 (3.43%) Data Manager
15 26 (3.30%) Consultant
16 25 (3.18%) Data Modeller
17 23 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
18 20 (2.54%) Lead Data Engineer
19 18 (2.29%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.99%) PySpark
2 49 (6.23%) Kafka
3 26 (3.30%) REST
4 17 (2.16%) Middleware
5 16 (2.03%) JSON
6 15 (1.91%) SOAP
7 12 (1.52%) Great Expectations
8 11 (1.40%) Web Services
9 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (1.27%) Spring
10 9 (1.14%) .NET
10 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (0.89%) OAuth
12 6 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (0.76%) YAML
13 5 (0.64%) Spring Boot
14 4 (0.51%) Node.js
14 4 (0.51%) Pandas
14 4 (0.51%) RESTful
14 4 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.12%) Product Ownership
3 54 (6.86%) Data Structures
4 47 (5.97%) Onboarding
5 40 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.43%) Reference Data
7 24 (3.05%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.16%) Management Information System
11 16 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.78%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.52%) Clustering
14 11 (1.40%) CMDB
14 11 (1.40%) Life Science
15 10 (1.27%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.27%) Security Posture
16 9 (1.14%) NHS
17 8 (1.02%) FMCG
17 8 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.64%) Linux
2 4 (0.51%) Unix
2 4 (0.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (37.36%) Data Modelling
2 285 (36.21%) Analytics
3 209 (26.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 202 (25.67%) AI
5 184 (23.38%) ETL
6 180 (22.87%) Business Intelligence
7 173 (21.98%) Data Pipeline
8 162 (20.58%) Data Engineering
9 157 (19.95%) CI/CD
10 152 (19.31%) Data Architecture
11 151 (19.19%) Agile
12 139 (17.66%) Validation
13 137 (17.41%) Migration
14 132 (16.77%) DevOps
15 131 (16.65%) Data Management
16 122 (15.50%) Decision-Making
17 119 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
18 112 (14.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 89 (11.31%) Machine Learning
20 88 (11.18%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 306 (38.88%) SQL
2 203 (25.79%) Python
3 25 (3.18%) C#
3 25 (3.18%) Scala
4 21 (2.67%) Java
5 13 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (1.65%) PL/SQL
6 11 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.14%) Bicep
7 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.76%) Bash
9 5 (0.64%) R
10 3 (0.38%) Cypher
10 3 (0.38%) VBA
11 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.25%) Delphi
11 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.25%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 126 (16.01%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.37%) Degree
4 36 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.91%) PMP
8 14 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.40%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.76%) CISSP
12 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.51%) CEH
13 4 (0.51%) CISM
13 4 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (42.57%) Data Quality
2 118 (14.99%) GDPR
3 42 (5.34%) QA
4 16 (2.03%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.14%) NIST
7 9 (1.14%) PMO
8 8 (1.02%) COREP
8 8 (1.02%) FINREP
9 7 (0.89%) IFRS
10 5 (0.64%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.64%) NCSC
11 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.51%) COBIT
11 4 (0.51%) GRC
11 4 (0.51%) GxP
11 4 (0.51%) MiFID
11 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 24 (3.05%) Docker
2 19 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (8.13%) Terraform
2 28 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.14%) Grafana
4 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 160 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 131 (16.65%) Databricks
3 52 (6.61%) Oracle
4 40 (5.08%) SAP
5 38 (4.83%) Google
6 32 (4.07%) Informatica
7 27 (3.43%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.65%) Foundry
11 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.27%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.02%) Workday
13 7 (0.89%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.64%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.64%) IBM
15 4 (0.51%) Murex
15 4 (0.51%) Sparx
16 3 (0.38%) Adobe
16 3 (0.38%) Refinitiv