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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 80 115
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 781 444 376
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.27% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 3.55% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 312 289
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £750
90th Percentile £743 £775 £888
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.32% -4.35% -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 £60.50 £27.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year +121.77% -31.80% +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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +22 107 £550 - 27
West London +14 29 £603 +41.76% 9
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 4
South London -10 4 £637 -6.50% 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 54 (6.91%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (4.23%) Apache
4 16 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.90%) Confluence
6 6 (0.77%) CMS
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.26%) 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 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.90%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.38%) Workfront
6 2 (0.26%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) 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
1 290 (37.13%) Azure
2 176 (22.54%) Power Platform
3 150 (19.21%) AWS
4 111 (14.21%) GCP
5 75 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 62 (7.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 61 (7.81%) Collibra
8 60 (7.68%) Snowflake
9 59 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 53 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (6.66%) dbt
12 39 (4.99%) GitHub
13 38 (4.87%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.71%) Microsoft Copilot
15 26 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
15 26 (3.33%) Serverless
16 20 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.43%) Entra ID
18 18 (2.30%) Power Automate
19 17 (2.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) IPv4
3 2 (0.26%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (21.38%) Metadata
2 156 (19.97%) Power BI
3 105 (13.44%) Data Lake
4 102 (13.06%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (6.15%) Delta Lake
5 48 (6.15%) Tableau
6 34 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 26 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
8 25 (3.20%) Big Data
9 23 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
10 21 (2.69%) Data Vault
11 18 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (2.05%) Star Schema
14 15 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (1.79%) Hadoop
16 12 (1.54%) OLAP
16 12 (1.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (5.12%) Git
2 29 (3.71%) JIRA
3 26 (3.33%) ERwin
4 13 (1.66%) ER Studio
4 13 (1.66%) PowerDesigner
5 9 (1.15%) GitLab
6 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) git-flow
7 3 (0.38%) MLflow
8 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
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
1 265 (33.93%) Finance
2 216 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 148 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.88%) Banking
5 76 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.61%) Retail
7 35 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (4.23%) Legal
9 18 (2.30%) Marketing
10 16 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.54%) Local Government
14 11 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.90%) Law
17 6 (0.77%) Front Office
17 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 152 (19.46%) Analyst
2 136 (17.41%) Architect
3 134 (17.16%) Data Engineer
4 97 (12.42%) Lead
5 93 (11.91%) Data Analyst
6 90 (11.52%) Senior
7 70 (8.96%) Business Analyst
8 64 (8.19%) Data Architect
9 35 (4.48%) Data Business Analyst
9 35 (4.48%) Project Manager
9 35 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
10 29 (3.71%) Governance Analyst
10 29 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 28 (3.59%) Developer
12 26 (3.33%) Consultant
12 26 (3.33%) Data Manager
12 26 (3.33%) Data Modeller
13 23 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (2.56%) Lead Data Engineer
15 18 (2.30%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.91%) PySpark
2 48 (6.15%) Kafka
3 26 (3.33%) REST
4 17 (2.18%) Middleware
5 15 (1.92%) SOAP
6 14 (1.79%) JSON
7 12 (1.54%) Great Expectations
8 11 (1.41%) Web Services
9 10 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (1.28%) Spring
10 9 (1.15%) .NET
10 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (0.90%) OAuth
11 7 (0.90%) YAML
12 6 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
13 5 (0.64%) Spring Boot
14 4 (0.51%) Node.js
14 4 (0.51%) OpenID
14 4 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (0.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 53 (6.79%) Data Structures
4 47 (6.02%) Onboarding
5 39 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (3.33%) Reference Data
7 24 (3.07%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.30%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.79%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.54%) Clustering
13 11 (1.41%) CMDB
13 11 (1.41%) Life Science
14 10 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.15%) Fixed Income
16 8 (1.02%) FMCG
16 8 (1.02%) NHS
16 8 (1.02%) Operational Technology
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
1 293 (37.52%) Data Modelling
2 283 (36.24%) Analytics
3 207 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 200 (25.61%) AI
5 182 (23.30%) ETL
6 178 (22.79%) Business Intelligence
7 173 (22.15%) Data Pipeline
8 161 (20.61%) Data Engineering
9 156 (19.97%) CI/CD
10 151 (19.33%) Agile
11 149 (19.08%) Data Architecture
12 139 (17.80%) Migration
13 138 (17.67%) Validation
14 133 (17.03%) Data Management
15 130 (16.65%) DevOps
16 124 (15.88%) Decision-Making
17 119 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
18 109 (13.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 89 (11.40%) Machine Learning
20 85 (10.88%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 303 (38.80%) SQL
2 201 (25.74%) Python
3 25 (3.20%) C#
3 25 (3.20%) Scala
4 21 (2.69%) Java
5 13 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 11 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.15%) Bicep
7 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.77%) Bash
9 5 (0.64%) R
10 3 (0.38%) Cypher
10 3 (0.38%) VBA
11 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.26%) Go
11 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.55%) Degree
4 35 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.92%) PMP
7 14 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.54%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.77%) CISSP
11 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.51%) CEH
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
12 4 (0.51%) GIAC
12 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (42.38%) Data Quality
2 118 (15.11%) GDPR
3 43 (5.51%) QA
4 16 (2.05%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.15%) NIST
7 9 (1.15%) PMO
8 8 (1.02%) COREP
8 8 (1.02%) FINREP
9 7 (0.90%) IFRS
10 5 (0.64%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.64%) NCSC
11 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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
System Software
1 24 (3.07%) Docker
2 18 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (8.07%) Terraform
2 28 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.02%) Grafana
4 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.26%) Ansible
6 2 (0.26%) Control-M
6 2 (0.26%) Istio
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 161 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 129 (16.52%) Databricks
3 52 (6.66%) Oracle
4 40 (5.12%) SAP
5 39 (4.99%) Google
6 31 (3.97%) Informatica
7 27 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.66%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.54%) Foundry
11 10 (1.28%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.02%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.90%) Workday
13 7 (0.90%) 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%) IFS
16 3 (0.38%) MuleSoft