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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 62 113
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 +104
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 698 471 370
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.75% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.07% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 359 282
10th Percentile £372 £399 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -3.03%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £849
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £20.80 £66.25 £29.73
25th Percentile £23.13 £71.88 £32.57
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £38.17
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +116.14% -55.09%
75th Percentile £45.38 £91.88 £44.65
90th Percentile £56.40 £96.75 £48.01
England median hourly rate £67.50 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +154.72% -33.75% +5.36%

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 15,645 11,571 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 92.12% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,478 7,850 11,229
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +24 97 £550 - 32
West London - 32 £603 - 8
East London +1 9 £495 -18.52% 6
South London -14 4 £637 +6.17% 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 81 (11.60%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.30%) Apache
3 28 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.58%) Confluence
4 11 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.72%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 274 (39.26%) Azure
2 171 (24.50%) Power Platform
3 144 (20.63%) AWS
4 103 (14.76%) GCP
5 101 (14.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 83 (11.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.74%) Collibra
8 59 (8.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 52 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.88%) Amazon S3
11 43 (6.16%) Snowflake
12 35 (5.01%) dbt
12 35 (5.01%) GitHub
13 28 (4.01%) Serverless
14 25 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
17 17 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.43%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) IPv4
3 2 (0.29%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (22.92%) Power BI
2 141 (20.20%) Metadata
3 124 (17.77%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (14.04%) Data Lake
5 49 (7.02%) Delta Lake
5 49 (7.02%) Tableau
6 44 (6.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 39 (5.59%) NoSQL
8 37 (5.30%) BigQuery
9 25 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (3.58%) Big Data
9 25 (3.58%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (2.87%) Mixpanel
11 20 (2.87%) OLAP
12 19 (2.72%) OLTP
13 16 (2.29%) Spark SQL
14 15 (2.15%) Data Vault
14 15 (2.15%) Star Schema
15 14 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (9.60%) Git
2 33 (4.73%) JIRA
3 19 (2.72%) ERwin
4 13 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.72%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (1.00%) GitLab
6 7 (1.00%) MLflow
7 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.57%) LSMW
8 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) GCC
9 1 (0.14%) NUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Snyk
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 240 (34.38%) Finance
2 222 (31.81%) Social Skills
3 148 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.03%) Banking
6 36 (5.16%) Legal
7 33 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (4.15%) Marketing
9 19 (2.72%) Retail
10 18 (2.58%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.43%) Local Government
13 9 (1.29%) Electronics
13 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (21.20%) Data Engineer
2 129 (18.48%) Analyst
3 97 (13.90%) Architect
3 97 (13.90%) Lead
4 77 (11.03%) Senior
5 75 (10.74%) Data Analyst
6 67 (9.60%) Business Analyst
7 46 (6.59%) Data Architect
8 38 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
9 32 (4.58%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (4.30%) Developer
11 27 (3.87%) Data Business Analyst
11 27 (3.87%) Project Manager
12 24 (3.44%) Consultant
13 21 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.87%) Data Modeller
15 19 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.58%) Principal Data Engineer
16 18 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (10.89%) PySpark
2 54 (7.74%) Kafka
3 28 (4.01%) REST
4 19 (2.72%) Great Expectations
5 18 (2.58%) Middleware
6 17 (2.44%) SOAP
7 14 (2.01%) .NET
8 13 (1.86%) JSON
9 11 (1.58%) Web Services
10 10 (1.43%) YAML
11 9 (1.29%) Pandas
11 9 (1.29%) Spring
12 6 (0.86%) boto
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.72%) HTML
13 5 (0.72%) NumPy
13 5 (0.72%) OAuth
13 5 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.32%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 42 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.72%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.29%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
11 12 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.58%) Clustering
13 10 (1.43%) CMDB
13 10 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (41.40%) Data Modelling
2 270 (38.68%) Analytics
3 183 (26.22%) Business Intelligence
4 180 (25.79%) Data Pipeline
5 176 (25.21%) ETL
6 173 (24.79%) Data Engineering
7 169 (24.21%) Agile
8 165 (23.64%) AI
9 164 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 155 (22.21%) CI/CD
11 135 (19.34%) Data Architecture
12 123 (17.62%) DevOps
13 120 (17.19%) Validation
14 116 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
15 109 (15.62%) Decision-Making
16 105 (15.04%) Data Management
17 102 (14.61%) Migration
18 88 (12.61%) Machine Learning
19 82 (11.75%) Integration Patterns
20 81 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 315 (45.13%) SQL
2 229 (32.81%) Python
3 45 (6.45%) Scala
4 36 (5.16%) C#
5 17 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.44%) Java
5 17 (2.44%) R
6 15 (2.15%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.72%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.43%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.86%) Bicep
10 4 (0.57%) VBA
11 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.43%) Bash
11 3 (0.43%) SOQL
11 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.29%) C
12 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 134 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.74%) Degree
4 36 (5.16%) Azure Certification
5 28 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.15%) PMP
11 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.72%) CISSP
12 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.57%) CBAP
13 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.29%) CEH
14 2 (0.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (42.55%) Data Quality
2 115 (16.48%) GDPR
3 42 (6.02%) QA
4 13 (1.86%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.58%) IFRS
6 9 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.15%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.86%) COREP
8 6 (0.86%) FINREP
8 6 (0.86%) PMO
9 5 (0.72%) NIST
9 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.72%) PERC
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) GRC
10 4 (0.57%) MiFID
11 3 (0.43%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (3.87%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (10.32%) Terraform
2 35 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.00%) Grafana
3 7 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.57%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.57%) Istio
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 160 (22.92%) Databricks
2 141 (20.20%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.30%) Google
3 44 (6.30%) Oracle
4 37 (5.30%) SAP
5 36 (5.16%) Salesforce
6 28 (4.01%) Informatica
7 18 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.43%) Adobe
10 9 (1.29%) GoldenSource
10 9 (1.29%) Tealium
11 8 (1.15%) Workday
12 7 (1.00%) OneTrust
13 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.86%) Foundry
13 6 (0.86%) Sparx
14 5 (0.72%) Ariba
14 5 (0.72%) mParticle
14 5 (0.72%) VMware