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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 75 113
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 710 422 372
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 3.49% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 3.78% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 311 291
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £463 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £750
90th Percentile £738 £938 £875
England median daily rate £528 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.09% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £21.58 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £25.06 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £30.62 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £43.20 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £55.53 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £60.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.85% -18.18% +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 16,370 11,170 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 7,467 11,030
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £429 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 194 318
10th Percentile £18.34 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +17 92 £550 - 47
West London +5 29 £603 +41.76% 10
East London +1 9 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -9 4 £637 -2.00% 3
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 63 (8.87%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (4.08%) Apache
4 9 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.13%) Confluence
6 6 (0.85%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.70%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.56%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG-S
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 269 (37.89%) Azure
2 171 (24.08%) Power Platform
3 143 (20.14%) AWS
4 106 (14.93%) GCP
5 79 (11.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 66 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 65 (9.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 59 (8.31%) Collibra
9 53 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (7.04%) Snowflake
11 42 (5.92%) Amazon S3
12 39 (5.49%) dbt
13 37 (5.21%) GitHub
14 26 (3.66%) Serverless
15 23 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
18 16 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
18 16 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Network Security
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) IPv4
2 2 (0.28%) IPv6
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (21.27%) Power BI
2 148 (20.85%) Metadata
3 99 (13.94%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (13.10%) Data Lake
5 55 (7.75%) Delta Lake
6 41 (5.77%) Tableau
7 36 (5.07%) BigQuery
8 30 (4.23%) NoSQL
9 29 (4.08%) SQL Server
10 28 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
11 27 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (2.68%) Big Data
13 19 (2.68%) Data Vault
14 17 (2.39%) Mixpanel
14 17 (2.39%) OLAP
14 17 (2.39%) Spark SQL
15 16 (2.25%) OLTP
16 15 (2.11%) Star Schema
17 13 (1.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 56 (7.89%) Git
2 30 (4.23%) JIRA
3 23 (3.24%) ERwin
4 13 (1.83%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (1.41%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.85%) GitLab
6 6 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.85%) MLflow
7 3 (0.42%) git-flow
7 3 (0.42%) LSMW
8 2 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.14%) Snyk
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 225 (31.69%) Finance
2 197 (27.75%) Social Skills
3 137 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 71 (10.00%) Banking
6 38 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.94%) Legal
8 24 (3.38%) Retail
9 18 (2.54%) Marketing
10 14 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.55%) Local Government
13 10 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.85%) Law
15 6 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 132 (18.59%) Data Engineer
2 123 (17.32%) Analyst
3 110 (15.49%) Architect
4 97 (13.66%) Lead
5 78 (10.99%) Senior
6 75 (10.56%) Data Analyst
7 56 (7.89%) Business Analyst
8 53 (7.46%) Data Architect
9 29 (4.08%) Developer
10 28 (3.94%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (3.66%) Data Modeller
13 25 (3.52%) Consultant
14 24 (3.38%) Data Business Analyst
15 23 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.96%) Data Manager
16 21 (2.96%) Governance Analyst
16 21 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.82%) Azure Data Engineer
18 19 (2.68%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.87%) PySpark
2 44 (6.20%) Kafka
3 25 (3.52%) REST
4 16 (2.25%) Great Expectations
4 16 (2.25%) Middleware
5 15 (2.11%) .NET
5 15 (2.11%) SOAP
6 11 (1.55%) JSON
6 11 (1.55%) Web Services
7 9 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.13%) YAML
9 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.99%) Spring
10 6 (0.85%) OAuth
11 5 (0.70%) boto
11 5 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (0.70%) Pandas
12 4 (0.56%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.63%) Data Structures
4 35 (4.93%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.38%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.96%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.82%) Reference Data
9 17 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.55%) Clustering
11 11 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.41%) CMDB
13 9 (1.27%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.13%) Equities
14 8 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (38.03%) Data Modelling
2 260 (36.62%) Analytics
3 178 (25.07%) AI
4 172 (24.23%) Business Intelligence
5 166 (23.38%) ETL
5 166 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 158 (22.25%) Data Engineering
7 156 (21.97%) Data Pipeline
8 154 (21.69%) CI/CD
9 145 (20.42%) Agile
10 139 (19.58%) Data Architecture
11 125 (17.61%) DevOps
12 120 (16.90%) Validation
13 117 (16.48%) Migration
14 112 (15.77%) Data Management
15 111 (15.63%) Decision-Making
16 110 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
17 88 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 87 (12.25%) Machine Learning
19 79 (11.13%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 303 (42.68%) SQL
2 201 (28.31%) Python
3 33 (4.65%) C#
4 30 (4.23%) Scala
5 15 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (2.11%) Java
5 15 (2.11%) PL/SQL
6 12 (1.69%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.27%) Bicep
8 9 (1.27%) R
9 4 (0.56%) Bash
10 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.42%) VBA
11 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.14%) Cypher
12 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.14%) SOQL
12 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 138 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 116 (16.34%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.03%) Degree
4 33 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.69%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.41%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.27%) PMP
12 8 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.85%) CISSP
14 5 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.56%) CEH
15 4 (0.56%) CISM
15 4 (0.56%) GIAC
16 3 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (42.11%) Data Quality
2 109 (15.35%) GDPR
3 44 (6.20%) QA
4 12 (1.69%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.13%) IFRS
8 7 (0.99%) COREP
8 7 (0.99%) FINREP
8 7 (0.99%) NIST
9 6 (0.85%) IFRS 17
9 6 (0.85%) PMO
10 5 (0.70%) GRC
10 5 (0.70%) MiFID
11 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.56%) COBIT
11 4 (0.56%) NCSC
11 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (3.38%) Docker
2 8 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (9.72%) Terraform
2 29 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.85%) Grafana
3 6 (0.85%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.56%) AirWatch
4 4 (0.56%) Istio
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 148 (20.85%) Microsoft
2 143 (20.14%) Databricks
3 51 (7.18%) Oracle
4 40 (5.63%) SAP
5 39 (5.49%) Google
6 29 (4.08%) Salesforce
7 23 (3.24%) Informatica
8 15 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.55%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.27%) Foundry
10 9 (1.27%) GoldenSource
11 8 (1.13%) Workday
12 5 (0.70%) IBM
12 5 (0.70%) VMware
13 4 (0.56%) Ariba
13 4 (0.56%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.56%) Sparx
14 3 (0.42%) Alteryx
14 3 (0.42%) Zscaler