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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 65 127
Rank change year-on-year +11 +62 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 890 501 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.40% 3.72% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 4.02% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 355 237
10th Percentile £375 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £875
England median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +23.41% +49.14%
75th Percentile £28.67 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -14.29%

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 17,985 12,452 14,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.52% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,227 9,667
10th Percentile £360 £331 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 252 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +13 141 £575 +4.55% 140
West London +10 35 £520 +22.35% 21
East London +4 4 £450 -33.33% 19
South London -9 2 £500 -26.61% 5
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 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (5.73%) Apache Spark
3 37 (4.16%) Apache
4 28 (3.15%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.12%) Confluence
6 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.90%) SAS
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 43 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.35%) SAP MDG
3 8 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.45%) Workfront
6 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.11%) Maximo
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 337 (37.87%) Azure
2 181 (20.34%) AWS
3 174 (19.55%) Power Platform
4 105 (11.80%) GCP
5 90 (10.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 84 (9.44%) Snowflake
7 78 (8.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 67 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 66 (7.42%) dbt
10 58 (6.52%) Collibra
11 57 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (4.16%) Serverless
15 34 (3.82%) Amazon S3
16 30 (3.37%) GitHub
17 27 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (2.81%) Azure Databricks
19 23 (2.58%) Entra ID
20 22 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (0.56%) Network Security
3 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 2 (0.22%) Firewall
3 2 (0.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (25.17%) Metadata
2 150 (16.85%) Power BI
3 127 (14.27%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (11.12%) Data Lake
5 51 (5.73%) Delta Lake
6 40 (4.49%) Tableau
7 32 (3.60%) BigQuery
8 30 (3.37%) SQL Server
9 24 (2.70%) Big Data
9 24 (2.70%) Data Vault
10 22 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (2.47%) Star Schema
11 21 (2.36%) NoSQL
12 18 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
13 17 (1.91%) Parquet
13 17 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.80%) Power Query
14 16 (1.80%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (4.38%) Git
2 33 (3.71%) JIRA
3 28 (3.15%) ERwin
4 19 (2.13%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.24%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.01%) GitLab
7 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.56%) Selenium
9 4 (0.45%) RStudio
10 3 (0.34%) MLflow
11 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.22%) git-flow
11 2 (0.22%) JMeter
11 2 (0.22%) Postman
11 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 300 (33.71%) Finance
2 292 (32.81%) Social Skills
3 159 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (11.91%) Banking
5 96 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 47 (5.28%) Legal
7 44 (4.94%) Retail
8 33 (3.71%) Marketing
9 29 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.81%) Investment Banking
11 18 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 16 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.57%) Local Government
15 11 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.24%) Front Office
15 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 189 (21.24%) Architect
2 162 (18.20%) Analyst
3 135 (15.17%) Data Engineer
4 111 (12.47%) Lead
5 105 (11.80%) Data Architect
6 93 (10.45%) Data Analyst
7 90 (10.11%) Senior
8 64 (7.19%) Business Analyst
9 41 (4.61%) Consultant
10 39 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (3.48%) Data Manager
12 31 (3.48%) Data Modeller
13 30 (3.37%) Data Business Analyst
14 29 (3.26%) Governance Analyst
14 29 (3.26%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (2.58%) Databricks Engineer
15 23 (2.58%) Developer
16 22 (2.47%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.54%) PySpark
2 59 (6.63%) Terraform
3 46 (5.17%) Kafka
4 23 (2.58%) REST
5 16 (1.80%) JSON
6 9 (1.01%) .NET
6 9 (1.01%) Middleware
7 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.79%) Great Expectations
8 7 (0.79%) OAuth
8 7 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (0.79%) SOAP
8 7 (0.79%) Web Services
9 6 (0.67%) GraphQL
9 6 (0.67%) React
9 6 (0.67%) YAML
10 5 (0.56%) Apache Avro
10 5 (0.56%) pytest
10 5 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.20%) Product Ownership
3 72 (8.09%) Data Structures
4 62 (6.97%) Onboarding
5 42 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (4.61%) Reference Data
7 37 (4.16%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.71%) AI Agents
9 24 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (2.47%) Taxonomies
11 21 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.91%) Life Science
12 17 (1.91%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.35%) FMCG
16 11 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
17 10 (1.12%) Clustering
17 10 (1.12%) Fixed Income
17 10 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.67%) Linux
2 5 (0.56%) Unix
2 5 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) VMS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (38.65%) Data Modelling
2 319 (35.84%) Analytics
3 307 (34.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 254 (28.54%) AI
5 203 (22.81%) Data Architecture
6 195 (21.91%) Agile
7 189 (21.24%) Business Intelligence
7 189 (21.24%) Data Pipeline
8 187 (21.01%) Data Engineering
9 183 (20.56%) ETL
10 177 (19.89%) Migration
11 175 (19.66%) CI/CD
12 163 (18.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 151 (16.97%) Validation
14 144 (16.18%) Data Management
15 143 (16.07%) Decision-Making
16 140 (15.73%) DevOps
17 137 (15.39%) Roadmaps
18 128 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
19 126 (14.16%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 333 (37.42%) SQL
2 204 (22.92%) Python
3 27 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (2.13%) Java
5 16 (1.80%) C#
6 15 (1.69%) Scala
7 14 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.57%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.24%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.01%) Bicep
10 5 (0.56%) Bash
10 5 (0.56%) R
11 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.22%) Delphi
13 2 (0.22%) Go
13 2 (0.22%) Korn
13 2 (0.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 132 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 104 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.72%) Degree
4 36 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.91%) PMP
8 16 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.35%) DBS Check
12 11 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.67%) CISSP
15 5 (0.56%) CISM
15 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.45%) CEH
16 4 (0.45%) GIAC
16 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.34%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 415 (46.63%) Data Quality
2 114 (12.81%) GDPR
3 38 (4.27%) QA
4 12 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.24%) GRC
5 11 (1.24%) NIST
5 11 (1.24%) Solvency II
6 10 (1.12%) PMO
7 8 (0.90%) GxP
8 7 (0.79%) COREP
8 7 (0.79%) FINREP
8 7 (0.79%) NCSC
9 6 (0.67%) IFRS
9 6 (0.67%) MiFID
10 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.45%) COBIT
11 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.47%) Docker
2 21 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.22%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.67%) Ansible
2 6 (0.67%) Control-M
2 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.22%) Istio
6 2 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 220 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 177 (19.89%) Databricks
3 52 (5.84%) Oracle
4 48 (5.39%) Informatica
5 39 (4.38%) SAP
6 34 (3.82%) Google
7 24 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.46%) Adobe
10 11 (1.24%) Bloomberg
10 11 (1.24%) Foundry
10 11 (1.24%) IBM
11 10 (1.12%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.12%) Workday
12 8 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.90%) Sparx
13 7 (0.79%) Talend
13 7 (0.79%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.67%) Alteryx