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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 67 122
Rank change year-on-year +3 +55 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 697 455 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.59% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.92% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 347 266
10th Percentile £397 £398 £400
25th Percentile £463 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £66.25 £27.81
25th Percentile £18.25 £71.88 £33.51
Median hourly rate £22.75 £82.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -72.42% +79.13% -45.82%
75th Percentile £36.19 £91.88 £49.67
90th Percentile £52.73 £96.75 £50.02
England median hourly rate £67.50 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +148.85% -32.19% +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 15,430 11,609 15,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.20% 91.65% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,356 7,870 11,343
10th Percentile £352 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £801 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 332
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.54 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.86 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +26 94 £550 - 53
West London - 32 £603 - 8
East London -2 9 £495 -13.91% 9
South London -15 6 £500 -16.71% 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 89 (12.77%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.16%) Apache
3 29 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.72%) Confluence
4 12 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.57%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.57%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Actimize
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 280 (40.17%) Azure
2 176 (25.25%) Power Platform
3 152 (21.81%) AWS
4 103 (14.78%) GCP
5 102 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 83 (11.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.75%) Collibra
8 55 (7.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 51 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (7.17%) Amazon S3
11 46 (6.60%) Snowflake
12 38 (5.45%) GitHub
13 35 (5.02%) dbt
14 30 (4.30%) Serverless
15 28 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
20 15 (2.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.43%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) IPv4
3 2 (0.29%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (23.67%) Power BI
2 142 (20.37%) Metadata
3 135 (19.37%) Data Warehouse
4 103 (14.78%) Data Lake
5 53 (7.60%) Tableau
6 49 (7.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (6.74%) NoSQL
8 46 (6.60%) Delta Lake
9 37 (5.31%) BigQuery
10 28 (4.02%) Big Data
11 26 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 23 (3.30%) SQL Server
13 22 (3.16%) Mixpanel
13 22 (3.16%) OLAP
14 20 (2.87%) OLTP
15 16 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
15 16 (2.30%) Spark SQL
16 15 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (2.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 66 (9.47%) Git
2 32 (4.59%) JIRA
3 19 (2.73%) ERwin
4 13 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.72%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (1.15%) MLflow
7 6 (0.86%) GitLab
8 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.43%) LSMW
10 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.29%) Selenium
11 1 (0.14%) GCC
11 1 (0.14%) NUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Postman
11 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.14%) Snyk
11 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 234 (33.57%) Finance
2 222 (31.85%) Social Skills
3 155 (22.24%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.90%) Banking
6 32 (4.59%) Legal
7 30 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.73%) Marketing
9 18 (2.58%) Financial Institution
10 17 (2.44%) Retail
11 14 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.29%) Electronics
13 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Local Government
14 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.86%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 153 (21.95%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.08%) Analyst
3 105 (15.06%) Architect
4 98 (14.06%) Lead
5 76 (10.90%) Data Analyst
6 74 (10.62%) Senior
7 67 (9.61%) Business Analyst
8 53 (7.60%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (4.88%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (4.30%) Developer
12 29 (4.16%) Data Business Analyst
13 25 (3.59%) Project Manager
14 23 (3.30%) Consultant
14 23 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (3.16%) Data Modeller
16 20 (2.87%) Principal Data Engineer
16 20 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
18 17 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.33%) PySpark
2 59 (8.46%) Kafka
3 28 (4.02%) REST
4 21 (3.01%) Great Expectations
5 17 (2.44%) SOAP
6 16 (2.30%) Middleware
7 14 (2.01%) .NET
8 12 (1.72%) JSON
9 11 (1.58%) Web Services
10 10 (1.43%) Pandas
10 10 (1.43%) YAML
11 8 (1.15%) OAuth
11 8 (1.15%) Spring
12 6 (0.86%) boto
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (0.86%) NumPy
12 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (0.72%) Node.js
13 5 (0.72%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.33%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.03%) Data Structures
3 38 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.87%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.44%) Reference Data
9 16 (2.30%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
11 12 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.58%) Clustering
13 10 (1.43%) CMDB
13 10 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.29%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (42.61%) Data Modelling
2 269 (38.59%) Analytics
3 191 (27.40%) ETL
4 188 (26.97%) Business Intelligence
5 185 (26.54%) Data Engineering
6 182 (26.11%) Data Pipeline
7 173 (24.82%) Agile
8 167 (23.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 163 (23.39%) AI
10 154 (22.09%) CI/CD
11 148 (21.23%) Data Architecture
12 124 (17.79%) DevOps
13 123 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (16.07%) Validation
15 107 (15.35%) Decision-Making
16 105 (15.06%) Data Management
17 93 (13.34%) Migration
18 90 (12.91%) Data Integration
18 90 (12.91%) Machine Learning
19 84 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 325 (46.63%) SQL
2 234 (33.57%) Python
3 48 (6.89%) Scala
4 37 (5.31%) C#
5 19 (2.73%) R
6 18 (2.58%) Java
7 16 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.01%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.58%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.43%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.57%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.43%) SOQL
13 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) Bash
14 2 (0.29%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 137 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 118 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.75%) Degree
4 34 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.29%) PMP
11 5 (0.72%) CISSP
11 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.43%) CBAP
14 2 (0.29%) CEH
14 2 (0.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (43.47%) Data Quality
2 111 (15.93%) GDPR
3 42 (6.03%) QA
4 15 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.87%) Solvency II
6 12 (1.72%) IFRS
7 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.29%) IFRS 17
7 9 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.72%) COREP
8 5 (0.72%) FINREP
8 5 (0.72%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.72%) PERC
8 5 (0.72%) PMO
9 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.57%) GRC
9 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.43%) HL7
10 3 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (3.87%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 76 (10.90%) Terraform
2 35 (5.02%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.86%) Grafana
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.57%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.29%) Istio
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 168 (24.10%) Databricks
2 135 (19.37%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.31%) Google
4 43 (6.17%) Oracle
5 35 (5.02%) Salesforce
6 33 (4.73%) SAP
7 28 (4.02%) Informatica
8 20 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.43%) Adobe
11 9 (1.29%) Tealium
12 8 (1.15%) GoldenSource
13 7 (1.00%) Sparx
13 7 (1.00%) Workday
14 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.86%) OneTrust
15 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.72%) Foundry
15 5 (0.72%) mParticle
16 4 (0.57%) Refinitiv