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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 73 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 +40 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 727 440 393
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.83% 3.53% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.82% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 319 304
10th Percentile £400 £407 £400
25th Percentile £463 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.11%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £741
90th Percentile £738 £928 £875
England median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £52.79 £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 16,854 11,524 15,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.35% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,217 7,730 11,175
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 209 315
10th Percentile £18.04 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +15.40% -28.60%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +11 96 £550 - 18
West London +2 27 £603 +41.76% 8
East London +4 9 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -5 4 £637 -6.50% 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 58 (7.98%) Apache Spark
2 35 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.58%) Apache
4 15 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.10%) Confluence
6 6 (0.83%) CMS
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 33 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.51%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.55%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 271 (37.28%) Azure
2 177 (24.35%) Power Platform
3 141 (19.39%) AWS
4 105 (14.44%) GCP
5 77 (10.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 72 (9.90%) Microsoft Purview
7 62 (8.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 60 (8.25%) Collibra
9 54 (7.43%) Snowflake
10 51 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (5.50%) Amazon S3
11 40 (5.50%) dbt
12 39 (5.36%) GitHub
13 29 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (3.71%) Serverless
15 25 (3.44%) Microsoft Copilot
16 21 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (2.20%) Power Automate
18 16 (2.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) IPv4
3 2 (0.28%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.60%) Power BI
2 156 (21.46%) Metadata
3 96 (13.20%) Data Lake
3 96 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (7.29%) Delta Lake
5 45 (6.19%) Tableau
6 36 (4.95%) BigQuery
7 28 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 28 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
9 23 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
10 22 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (2.89%) Big Data
11 21 (2.89%) Data Vault
12 15 (2.06%) Hadoop
12 15 (2.06%) OLAP
12 15 (2.06%) Spark SQL
13 14 (1.93%) OLTP
13 14 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (1.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (7.02%) Git
2 29 (3.99%) JIRA
3 25 (3.44%) ERwin
4 13 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.65%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.96%) GitLab
7 6 (0.83%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.69%) MLflow
9 3 (0.41%) git-flow
10 2 (0.28%) JMeter
10 2 (0.28%) LSMW
10 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.14%) GCC
11 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.14%) Selenium
11 1 (0.14%) Snyk
11 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 250 (34.39%) Finance
2 207 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 131 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.00%) Banking
5 68 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.85%) Legal
8 23 (3.16%) Retail
9 16 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 16 (2.20%) Marketing
10 13 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.65%) Local Government
12 11 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.69%) Billing
14 5 (0.69%) Law
14 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (18.43%) Analyst
2 129 (17.74%) Data Engineer
3 118 (16.23%) Architect
4 97 (13.34%) Lead
5 83 (11.42%) Data Analyst
5 83 (11.42%) Senior
6 58 (7.98%) Business Analyst
7 52 (7.15%) Data Architect
8 29 (3.99%) Project Manager
8 29 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.85%) Developer
10 27 (3.71%) Data Business Analyst
10 27 (3.71%) Data Modeller
11 25 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.44%) Consultant
12 24 (3.30%) Governance Analyst
13 23 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (3.03%) Data Manager
15 19 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.34%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.98%) PySpark
2 44 (6.05%) Kafka
3 27 (3.71%) REST
4 17 (2.34%) Middleware
4 17 (2.34%) SOAP
5 14 (1.93%) Great Expectations
6 13 (1.79%) .NET
7 11 (1.51%) JSON
7 11 (1.51%) Web Services
8 10 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.10%) YAML
10 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.96%) Spring
11 6 (0.83%) OAuth
12 5 (0.69%) boto
12 5 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.69%) Pandas
12 5 (0.69%) XML
13 4 (0.55%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.55%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.05%) Data Structures
2 44 (6.05%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 34 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (3.44%) AI Agents
6 22 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 18 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.65%) Clustering
11 10 (1.38%) CMDB
11 10 (1.38%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.38%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.24%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.10%) Equities
13 8 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.10%) Life Science
13 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.41%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (37.96%) Data Modelling
2 266 (36.59%) Analytics
3 187 (25.72%) AI
4 179 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 175 (24.07%) Business Intelligence
6 165 (22.70%) ETL
7 156 (21.46%) Data Engineering
7 156 (21.46%) Data Pipeline
8 153 (21.05%) CI/CD
9 146 (20.08%) Agile
10 141 (19.39%) Data Architecture
11 129 (17.74%) Validation
12 127 (17.47%) DevOps
13 126 (17.33%) Migration
14 121 (16.64%) Data Management
15 110 (15.13%) Decision-Making
16 109 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
17 99 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 88 (12.10%) Machine Learning
19 84 (11.55%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 290 (39.89%) SQL
2 198 (27.24%) Python
3 29 (3.99%) C#
4 27 (3.71%) Scala
5 15 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (1.93%) Java
7 13 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.51%) Bicep
8 11 (1.51%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.10%) R
10 5 (0.69%) Bash
11 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.41%) VBA
12 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 132 (18.16%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.41%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.84%) Degree
4 37 (5.09%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.51%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.51%) PMP
9 9 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.83%) CISSP
11 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.69%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.55%) CEH
12 4 (0.55%) CISM
12 4 (0.55%) GIAC
13 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (42.23%) Data Quality
2 111 (15.27%) GDPR
3 44 (6.05%) QA
4 16 (2.20%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.24%) IFRS
7 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.96%) COREP
8 7 (0.96%) FINREP
8 7 (0.96%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.96%) NIST
8 7 (0.96%) PMO
9 5 (0.69%) MiFID
10 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.55%) COBIT
10 4 (0.55%) GRC
10 4 (0.55%) NCSC
10 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.41%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (3.30%) Docker
2 11 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (9.35%) Terraform
2 29 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.83%) Grafana
3 6 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.55%) Istio
6 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 158 (21.73%) Microsoft
2 131 (18.02%) Databricks
3 53 (7.29%) Oracle
4 38 (5.23%) Google
5 36 (4.95%) SAP
6 30 (4.13%) Salesforce
7 25 (3.44%) Informatica
8 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.65%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.38%) Foundry
11 9 (1.24%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.10%) Workday
13 5 (0.69%) IBM
13 5 (0.69%) VMware
14 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.55%) CyberArk
14 4 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.55%) Murex
14 4 (0.55%) Sparx
15 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft