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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 79 121
Rank change year-on-year +20 +42 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 819 457 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 3.36% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 3.65% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 321 270
10th Percentile £400 £400 £384
25th Percentile £463 £465 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £606
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -8.45% -6.73%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £750 £901
England median daily rate £538 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.61% -8.00% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +56.64% -38.04%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £55.00 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -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 17,817 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.81 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +29 117 £559 +11.75% 41
West London +12 32 £520 +22.35% 14
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -16 4 £637 -6.50% 4
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 56 (6.84%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.15%) Apache
4 19 (2.32%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.85%) Confluence
6 6 (0.73%) CMS
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 38 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.73%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.37%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) Maximo
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 310 (37.85%) Azure
2 180 (21.98%) Power Platform
3 160 (19.54%) AWS
4 110 (13.43%) GCP
5 85 (10.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (8.18%) Snowflake
7 64 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (7.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 56 (6.84%) Collibra
10 52 (6.35%) dbt
11 38 (4.64%) Amazon S3
11 38 (4.64%) GitHub
12 29 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
14 25 (3.05%) Serverless
15 21 (2.56%) Entra ID
16 19 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.61%) Network Security
2 3 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.37%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) IPv4
3 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 1 (0.12%) 4G
4 1 (0.12%) 5G
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (21.12%) Metadata
2 162 (19.78%) Power BI
3 113 (13.80%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (12.70%) Data Lake
5 53 (6.47%) Delta Lake
6 45 (5.49%) Tableau
7 32 (3.91%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.05%) Big Data
10 24 (2.93%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (2.56%) Data Vault
13 20 (2.44%) Star Schema
14 18 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (1.59%) Parquet
17 13 (1.59%) Power Query
18 12 (1.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (4.40%) Git
2 31 (3.79%) JIRA
3 30 (3.66%) ERwin
4 18 (2.20%) ER Studio
5 14 (1.71%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.34%) GitLab
7 8 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.37%) git-flow
8 3 (0.37%) MLflow
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) GCC
10 1 (0.12%) LSMW
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 274 (33.46%) Finance
2 232 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 153 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.84%) Banking
5 78 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.88%) Retail
7 39 (4.76%) Legal
8 35 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (3.30%) Marketing
10 16 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.83%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.47%) Local Government
13 12 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.10%) Front Office
15 9 (1.10%) Law
16 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 160 (19.54%) Architect
2 148 (18.07%) Analyst
3 136 (16.61%) Data Engineer
4 97 (11.84%) Lead
5 92 (11.23%) Senior
6 91 (11.11%) Data Analyst
7 78 (9.52%) Data Architect
8 66 (8.06%) Business Analyst
9 41 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.27%) Project Manager
11 34 (4.15%) Data Business Analyst
12 30 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
13 29 (3.54%) Data Modeller
14 28 (3.42%) Consultant
15 27 (3.30%) Data Manager
15 27 (3.30%) Governance Analyst
16 25 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (3.05%) Developer
17 20 (2.44%) Product Owner
18 18 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.33%) PySpark
2 46 (5.62%) Kafka
3 27 (3.30%) REST
4 18 (2.20%) JSON
5 17 (2.08%) Middleware
6 14 (1.71%) SOAP
7 13 (1.59%) Web Services
8 10 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.22%) Spring
9 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.98%) Great Expectations
11 7 (0.85%) .NET
11 7 (0.85%) OAuth
12 6 (0.73%) Spark Streaming
13 5 (0.61%) MACH
13 5 (0.61%) Pandas
13 5 (0.61%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.61%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 64 (7.81%) Data Structures
4 49 (5.98%) Onboarding
5 41 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (4.03%) Reference Data
7 23 (2.81%) AI Agents
8 22 (2.69%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.59%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.47%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.34%) Clustering
14 11 (1.34%) CMDB
14 11 (1.34%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.34%) FMCG
14 11 (1.34%) Life Science
14 11 (1.34%) NHS
15 10 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.61%) Linux
2 4 (0.49%) Unix
2 4 (0.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (38.95%) Data Modelling
2 295 (36.02%) Analytics
3 225 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 206 (25.15%) AI
5 191 (23.32%) Business Intelligence
6 186 (22.71%) ETL
7 182 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
8 176 (21.49%) Data Engineering
9 164 (20.02%) Agile
9 164 (20.02%) CI/CD
9 164 (20.02%) Data Architecture
10 146 (17.83%) Validation
11 141 (17.22%) Migration
12 138 (16.85%) DevOps
13 131 (16.00%) Data Management
14 128 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 121 (14.77%) Decision-Making
16 117 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 92 (11.23%) Data Lineage
18 90 (10.99%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 322 (39.32%) SQL
2 204 (24.91%) Python
3 22 (2.69%) Java
4 21 (2.56%) C#
4 21 (2.56%) Scala
5 18 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.34%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.22%) Bicep
9 7 (0.85%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.73%) Bash
11 3 (0.37%) Cypher
11 3 (0.37%) R
11 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.37%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Delphi
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.47%) Degree
4 37 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.83%) PMP
8 14 (1.71%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.47%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.73%) CISSP
11 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.49%) CEH
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
13 4 (0.49%) GIAC
13 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (43.47%) Data Quality
2 115 (14.04%) GDPR
3 38 (4.64%) QA
4 15 (1.83%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.47%) NIST
7 9 (1.10%) COREP
7 9 (1.10%) FINREP
7 9 (1.10%) PMO
8 6 (0.73%) GRC
8 6 (0.73%) IFRS
9 5 (0.61%) GxP
9 5 (0.61%) MiFID
9 5 (0.61%) NCSC
10 4 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.49%) COBIT
10 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (2.81%) Docker
2 19 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.37%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (7.69%) Terraform
2 30 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.10%) Grafana
4 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.24%) Ansible
6 2 (0.24%) Control-M
6 2 (0.24%) Istio
6 2 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 171 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 145 (17.70%) Databricks
3 50 (6.11%) Oracle
4 38 (4.64%) Google
4 38 (4.64%) SAP
5 31 (3.79%) Informatica
6 24 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.59%) Foundry
9 12 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.34%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.22%) Adobe
11 10 (1.22%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.22%) Workday
12 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.85%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.61%) IBM
14 4 (0.49%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.49%) Sparx
15 3 (0.37%) Refinitiv