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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 68 121
Rank change year-on-year +15 +53 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 886 517 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.38% 3.85% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 4.16% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 363 243
10th Percentile £368 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% -9.23%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £875
England median daily rate £550 £527 £550
% change year-on-year +4.36% -4.18% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £19.08 - £32.68
25th Percentile £19.19 £18.25 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.12 £18.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year +46.57% -64.88% +49.14%
75th Percentile £44.76 £23.44 £66.02
90th Percentile £59.90 £31.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £24.68 £30.00
% change year-on-year +102.63% -17.75% -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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £664 £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 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +14 138 £560 +1.82% 141
West London +13 33 £520 +1.46% 23
East London - 2 £600 - 11
South London -12 1 - - 9
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 57 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (5.76%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.29%) Apache
4 28 (3.16%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.47%) Confluence
6 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.90%) SAS
8 7 (0.79%) CMS
9 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) Mendix
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 41 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.35%) SAP MDG
3 9 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.68%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.45%) Workfront
7 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.34%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 343 (38.71%) Azure
2 183 (20.65%) Power Platform
3 178 (20.09%) AWS
4 100 (11.29%) GCP
5 93 (10.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 91 (10.27%) Snowflake
7 82 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 68 (7.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 64 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (7.00%) dbt
11 55 (6.21%) Collibra
12 43 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
13 40 (4.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 38 (4.29%) Serverless
15 36 (4.06%) Amazon S3
16 30 (3.39%) GitHub
17 28 (3.16%) Entra ID
18 25 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (2.82%) Azure Databricks
19 23 (2.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
2 6 (0.68%) Network Security
3 4 (0.45%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) Broadband
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) DNS
5 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (26.19%) Metadata
2 160 (18.06%) Power BI
3 131 (14.79%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (11.51%) Data Lake
5 46 (5.19%) Delta Lake
6 40 (4.51%) Tableau
7 34 (3.84%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.16%) BigQuery
9 26 (2.93%) Big Data
10 23 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (2.60%) Data Vault
11 22 (2.48%) Star Schema
12 21 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.37%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (2.03%) Power Query
14 17 (1.92%) Relational Database
15 16 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (4.85%) Git
2 34 (3.84%) JIRA
3 24 (2.71%) ERwin
4 17 (1.92%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.24%) GitLab
6 9 (1.02%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.45%) RStudio
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) MLflow
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) git-flow
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 299 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 288 (32.51%) Finance
3 154 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.63%) Banking
5 92 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.53%) Legal
7 40 (4.51%) Retail
8 34 (3.84%) Marketing
9 27 (3.05%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.58%) Local Government
15 12 (1.35%) Front Office
15 12 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.02%) Law
17 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 194 (21.90%) Architect
2 170 (19.19%) Analyst
3 132 (14.90%) Data Engineer
4 113 (12.75%) Data Architect
5 112 (12.64%) Lead
6 91 (10.27%) Data Analyst
7 89 (10.05%) Senior
8 73 (8.24%) Business Analyst
9 42 (4.74%) Consultant
10 39 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (4.06%) Data Business Analyst
12 32 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (3.39%) Data Manager
13 30 (3.39%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.16%) Project Manager
15 27 (3.05%) Data Modeller
16 25 (2.82%) Developer
16 25 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
17 22 (2.48%) Data Consultant
18 21 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.58%) PySpark
2 59 (6.66%) Terraform
3 45 (5.08%) Kafka
4 25 (2.82%) REST
5 18 (2.03%) JSON
6 10 (1.13%) .NET
7 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.90%) OAuth
9 7 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (0.79%) Middleware
10 6 (0.68%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.68%) Great Expectations
10 6 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.68%) React
10 6 (0.68%) YAML
11 5 (0.56%) Apache Avro
11 5 (0.56%) LangChain
11 5 (0.56%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (0.56%) pytest
11 5 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.13%) Data Structures
2 68 (7.67%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 57 (6.43%) Onboarding
4 47 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (5.30%) Reference Data
5 39 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 30 (3.39%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.82%) Taxonomies
9 23 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.92%) Life Science
11 15 (1.69%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.35%) FMCG
14 12 (1.35%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.13%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.13%) Operational Technology
16 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.13%) Linux
2 6 (0.68%) Windows
3 5 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) VMS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (39.39%) Data Modelling
2 322 (36.34%) Analytics
3 310 (34.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 249 (28.10%) AI
5 213 (24.04%) Data Architecture
6 194 (21.90%) Business Intelligence
7 190 (21.44%) Data Pipeline
7 190 (21.44%) Migration
8 189 (21.33%) Agile
8 189 (21.33%) Data Engineering
9 178 (20.09%) CI/CD
10 177 (19.98%) ETL
11 168 (18.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 157 (17.72%) Validation
13 150 (16.93%) Data Management
14 141 (15.91%) DevOps
15 135 (15.24%) Roadmaps
16 134 (15.12%) Decision-Making
17 127 (14.33%) Metadata Management
18 126 (14.22%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 328 (37.02%) SQL
2 204 (23.02%) Python
3 30 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (2.26%) Java
5 19 (2.14%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.03%) C#
7 14 (1.58%) Scala
8 13 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.35%) Bicep
9 12 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.90%) Bash
12 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.68%) R
13 5 (0.56%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) Delphi
15 2 (0.23%) Go
15 2 (0.23%) Korn
15 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 131 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 105 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.42%) Degree
4 35 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.92%) PMP
8 16 (1.81%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.56%) CISSP
12 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.45%) CISM
13 4 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.34%) CEH
14 3 (0.34%) CSPO
14 3 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 414 (46.73%) Data Quality
2 116 (13.09%) GDPR
3 33 (3.72%) QA
4 14 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.35%) GRC
6 11 (1.24%) NIST
6 11 (1.24%) Solvency II
7 10 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.02%) PMO
9 8 (0.90%) GxP
10 6 (0.68%) IFRS
10 6 (0.68%) MiFID
10 6 (0.68%) NCSC
11 5 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.45%) COREP
12 4 (0.45%) FINREP
13 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 24 (2.71%) Docker
2 22 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.45%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.13%) Ansible
3 7 (0.79%) Grafana
3 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.68%) Control-M
4 6 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.45%) Puppet
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.23%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 232 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 180 (20.32%) Databricks
3 55 (6.21%) Oracle
4 46 (5.19%) Informatica
5 39 (4.40%) SAP
6 36 (4.06%) Google
7 22 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.69%) Adobe
9 14 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.24%) IBM
10 11 (1.24%) Workday
11 10 (1.13%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.13%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.13%) Foundry
11 10 (1.13%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.90%) Talend
13 7 (0.79%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.79%) Sparx
13 7 (0.79%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.68%) Confluent