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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 79 116
Rank change year-on-year +18 +37 +79
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 799 454 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.02% 3.34% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.62% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 318 278
10th Percentile £400 £403 £396
25th Percentile £463 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -6.64% -5.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £763 £891
England median daily rate £540 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +2.08% -8.00% -6.31%
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 £57.75 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.37% -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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +19 112 £550 +7.32% 38
West London +13 30 £520 +22.35% 14
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -11 4 £637 -6.50% 6
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 (7.13%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.63%) Apache
4 18 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.00%) Confluence
6 6 (0.75%) CMS
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Mendix
Applications
1 37 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.63%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.38%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.38%) Workfront
7 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 304 (38.05%) Azure
2 178 (22.28%) Power Platform
3 156 (19.52%) AWS
4 111 (13.89%) GCP
5 84 (10.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 65 (8.14%) Snowflake
7 62 (7.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 61 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 60 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
10 59 (7.38%) Collibra
11 54 (6.76%) dbt
12 40 (5.01%) GitHub
13 38 (4.76%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 26 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
16 24 (3.00%) Serverless
17 21 (2.63%) Entra ID
18 19 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
19 18 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
19 18 (2.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.50%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.25%) IPv4
3 2 (0.25%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (21.53%) Metadata
2 158 (19.77%) Power BI
3 107 (13.39%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (13.27%) Data Lake
5 54 (6.76%) Delta Lake
6 44 (5.51%) Tableau
7 34 (4.26%) BigQuery
8 26 (3.25%) NoSQL
9 25 (3.13%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.00%) Big Data
11 23 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
12 22 (2.75%) Data Vault
12 22 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (2.13%) Star Schema
14 16 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.50%) Hadoop
16 12 (1.50%) Parquet
16 12 (1.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (4.88%) Git
2 31 (3.88%) JIRA
3 29 (3.63%) ERwin
4 18 (2.25%) ER Studio
5 14 (1.75%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.13%) GitLab
7 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.38%) git-flow
8 3 (0.38%) MLflow
9 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) GCC
10 1 (0.13%) LSMW
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Selenium
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 272 (34.04%) Finance
2 227 (28.41%) Social Skills
3 154 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (11.89%) Banking
5 78 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.63%) Legal
7 36 (4.51%) Retail
8 34 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.75%) Marketing
10 16 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.88%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.50%) Local Government
12 12 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.25%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.13%) Law
15 7 (0.88%) Front Office
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (18.90%) Analyst
2 150 (18.77%) Architect
3 134 (16.77%) Data Engineer
4 95 (11.89%) Lead
5 93 (11.64%) Data Analyst
6 90 (11.26%) Senior
7 71 (8.89%) Data Architect
8 69 (8.64%) Business Analyst
9 38 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.38%) Data Business Analyst
11 34 (4.26%) Project Manager
12 30 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
13 28 (3.50%) Data Modeller
14 27 (3.38%) Consultant
14 27 (3.38%) Data Manager
14 27 (3.38%) Governance Analyst
15 25 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (3.00%) Developer
17 20 (2.50%) Product Owner
18 19 (2.38%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (7.76%) PySpark
2 49 (6.13%) Kafka
3 28 (3.50%) REST
4 18 (2.25%) JSON
4 18 (2.25%) Middleware
5 15 (1.88%) SOAP
6 12 (1.50%) Web Services
7 11 (1.38%) Great Expectations
8 10 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.25%) Spring
9 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.00%) .NET
11 7 (0.88%) OAuth
12 6 (0.75%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (0.75%) YAML
13 5 (0.63%) Spring Boot
14 4 (0.50%) Node.js
14 4 (0.50%) OpenID
14 4 (0.50%) Pandas
14 4 (0.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 63 (7.88%) Data Structures
4 50 (6.26%) Onboarding
5 41 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (4.26%) Reference Data
7 23 (2.88%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.75%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.38%) Clustering
12 11 (1.38%) CMDB
12 11 (1.38%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.38%) Life Science
13 10 (1.25%) FMCG
13 10 (1.25%) NHS
13 10 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.63%) Linux
2 4 (0.50%) Unix
2 4 (0.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (38.92%) Data Modelling
2 291 (36.42%) Analytics
3 215 (26.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 199 (24.91%) AI
5 185 (23.15%) Business Intelligence
5 185 (23.15%) ETL
6 178 (22.28%) Data Pipeline
7 167 (20.90%) Data Engineering
8 161 (20.15%) Agile
9 159 (19.90%) Data Architecture
10 158 (19.77%) CI/CD
11 144 (18.02%) Validation
12 138 (17.27%) Migration
13 137 (17.15%) DevOps
14 132 (16.52%) Data Management
15 120 (15.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 118 (14.77%) Decision-Making
16 118 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
17 90 (11.26%) Data Lineage
18 87 (10.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 318 (39.80%) SQL
2 206 (25.78%) Python
3 23 (2.88%) C#
3 23 (2.88%) Scala
4 21 (2.63%) Java
5 14 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (1.50%) PL/SQL
6 12 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.25%) Bicep
8 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.75%) Bash
10 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.50%) R
11 3 (0.38%) Cypher
11 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.38%) VBA
12 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.25%) Delphi
12 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 129 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 107 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.01%) Degree
4 38 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.88%) PMP
8 14 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.50%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.75%) CISSP
11 6 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.63%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.50%) CEH
13 4 (0.50%) CISM
13 4 (0.50%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (43.30%) Data Quality
2 117 (14.64%) GDPR
3 40 (5.01%) QA
4 15 (1.88%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.13%) NIST
7 9 (1.13%) PMO
8 8 (1.00%) COREP
8 8 (1.00%) FINREP
9 6 (0.75%) IFRS
10 5 (0.63%) MiFID
10 5 (0.63%) NCSC
11 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.50%) COBIT
11 4 (0.50%) GRC
11 4 (0.50%) GxP
11 4 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 23 (2.88%) Docker
2 19 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (7.88%) Terraform
2 27 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.13%) Grafana
4 7 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 165 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 138 (17.27%) Databricks
3 51 (6.38%) Oracle
4 40 (5.01%) SAP
5 38 (4.76%) Google
6 32 (4.01%) Informatica
7 26 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.63%) Foundry
9 13 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.25%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.25%) GoldenSource
11 8 (1.00%) Workday
12 7 (0.88%) Adobe
12 7 (0.88%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.63%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.63%) IBM
14 4 (0.50%) Murex
14 4 (0.50%) Sparx
15 3 (0.38%) Refinitiv