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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 79 121
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 807 457 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 3.36% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 3.65% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 321 270
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 £639 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £750 £901
England median daily rate £539 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.84% -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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 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 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +24 113 £571 +14.25% 44
West London +13 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 54 (6.69%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.21%) Apache
4 17 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.87%) Confluence
6 6 (0.74%) CMS
7 5 (0.62%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.25%) 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 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.99%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.74%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.37%) Workfront
7 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) 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
1 305 (37.79%) Azure
2 178 (22.06%) Power Platform
3 160 (19.83%) AWS
4 109 (13.51%) GCP
5 81 (10.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (8.30%) Snowflake
7 63 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
8 58 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 56 (6.94%) Collibra
10 52 (6.44%) dbt
11 38 (4.71%) Amazon S3
11 38 (4.71%) GitHub
12 28 (3.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 26 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
14 25 (3.10%) Serverless
15 21 (2.60%) Entra ID
16 19 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.62%) Network Security
2 3 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.37%) Firewall
3 2 (0.25%) IPv4
3 2 (0.25%) 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 (21.44%) Metadata
2 160 (19.83%) Power BI
3 111 (13.75%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (12.89%) Data Lake
5 53 (6.57%) Delta Lake
6 45 (5.58%) Tableau
7 32 (3.97%) BigQuery
8 26 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 24 (2.97%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.85%) Big Data
11 22 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (2.60%) Data Vault
13 18 (2.23%) Star Schema
14 16 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.61%) Parquet
17 12 (1.49%) Hadoop
17 12 (1.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (4.46%) Git
2 31 (3.84%) JIRA
3 30 (3.72%) ERwin
4 18 (2.23%) ER Studio
5 14 (1.73%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.12%) GitLab
7 7 (0.87%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.37%) git-flow
8 3 (0.37%) MLflow
9 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.25%) 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%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 269 (33.33%) Finance
2 227 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 153 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.90%) Banking
5 77 (9.54%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.71%) Legal
6 38 (4.71%) Retail
7 35 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (2.97%) Marketing
9 16 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.86%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.49%) Local Government
12 12 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.12%) Law
15 8 (0.99%) Front Office
16 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 155 (19.21%) Architect
2 148 (18.34%) Analyst
3 136 (16.85%) Data Engineer
4 96 (11.90%) Lead
5 91 (11.28%) Data Analyst
5 91 (11.28%) Senior
6 75 (9.29%) Data Architect
7 66 (8.18%) Business Analyst
8 39 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (4.34%) Project Manager
10 34 (4.21%) Data Business Analyst
11 30 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
12 29 (3.59%) Data Modeller
13 28 (3.47%) Consultant
14 27 (3.35%) Data Manager
14 27 (3.35%) Governance Analyst
15 24 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
16 23 (2.85%) Developer
17 20 (2.48%) Product Owner
18 18 (2.23%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.43%) PySpark
2 46 (5.70%) Kafka
3 27 (3.35%) REST
4 18 (2.23%) JSON
5 17 (2.11%) Middleware
6 14 (1.73%) SOAP
7 13 (1.61%) Web Services
8 10 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.24%) Spring
9 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.99%) Great Expectations
11 7 (0.87%) .NET
11 7 (0.87%) OAuth
12 6 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
13 5 (0.62%) MACH
13 5 (0.62%) Pandas
13 5 (0.62%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.62%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.62%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 63 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 49 (6.07%) Onboarding
5 41 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (4.09%) Reference Data
7 21 (2.60%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.61%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.36%) Clustering
12 11 (1.36%) CMDB
12 11 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.36%) FMCG
12 11 (1.36%) Life Science
12 11 (1.36%) NHS
12 11 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.62%) Linux
2 4 (0.50%) Unix
2 4 (0.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (39.03%) Data Modelling
2 294 (36.43%) Analytics
3 219 (27.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 203 (25.15%) AI
5 189 (23.42%) Business Intelligence
6 183 (22.68%) ETL
7 180 (22.30%) Data Pipeline
8 174 (21.56%) Data Engineering
9 162 (20.07%) Agile
10 161 (19.95%) Data Architecture
11 160 (19.83%) CI/CD
12 146 (18.09%) Validation
13 140 (17.35%) Migration
14 134 (16.60%) DevOps
15 131 (16.23%) Data Management
16 123 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 120 (14.87%) Decision-Making
18 115 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
19 91 (11.28%) Data Lineage
20 89 (11.03%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 319 (39.53%) SQL
2 204 (25.28%) Python
3 21 (2.60%) Scala
4 20 (2.48%) Java
5 19 (2.35%) C#
6 16 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.36%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.24%) Bicep
10 9 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.74%) Bash
12 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.37%) Cypher
13 3 (0.37%) R
13 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.37%) VBA
14 2 (0.25%) Delphi
14 2 (0.25%) Go
14 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.57%) Degree
4 37 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.86%) PMP
8 14 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.49%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.74%) CISSP
11 6 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.50%) CEH
13 4 (0.50%) CISM
13 4 (0.50%) GIAC
13 4 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (43.62%) Data Quality
2 112 (13.88%) GDPR
3 37 (4.58%) QA
4 15 (1.86%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.24%) NIST
8 9 (1.12%) COREP
8 9 (1.12%) FINREP
8 9 (1.12%) PMO
9 5 (0.62%) GRC
9 5 (0.62%) IFRS
9 5 (0.62%) MiFID
9 5 (0.62%) NCSC
10 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.50%) COBIT
10 4 (0.50%) GxP
10 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 23 (2.85%) Docker
2 19 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.37%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (7.56%) Terraform
2 28 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.12%) Grafana
4 7 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 168 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 141 (17.47%) Databricks
3 50 (6.20%) Oracle
4 38 (4.71%) SAP
5 37 (4.58%) Google
6 31 (3.84%) Informatica
7 23 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.49%) Foundry
9 12 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.36%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.24%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.24%) Workday
12 9 (1.12%) Adobe
13 7 (0.87%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.62%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.62%) IBM
15 4 (0.50%) Guidewire
15 4 (0.50%) Sparx
16 3 (0.37%) Refinitiv