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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 75 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 710 425 381
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.86% 3.47% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 3.76% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 314 296
10th Percentile £400 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £741
90th Percentile £745 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 16,293 11,314 15,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.27% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,585 11,084
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £449
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 £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 194 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.57 £63.60 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +18 95 £550 - 64
West London +7 29 £603 +41.76% 8
East London +1 9 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -3 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 68 (9.58%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (4.23%) Apache
4 9 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.13%) Confluence
6 6 (0.85%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
7 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 38 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.83%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
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 MM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 277 (39.01%) Azure
2 172 (24.23%) Power Platform
3 143 (20.14%) AWS
4 108 (15.21%) GCP
5 85 (11.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (9.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 63 (8.87%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (8.45%) Collibra
9 55 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (6.90%) Snowflake
11 41 (5.77%) Amazon S3
12 38 (5.35%) dbt
13 37 (5.21%) GitHub
14 25 (3.52%) Serverless
15 23 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.39%) Azure Key Vault
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
1 152 (21.41%) Power BI
2 147 (20.70%) Metadata
3 103 (14.51%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (13.52%) Data Lake
5 56 (7.89%) Delta Lake
6 43 (6.06%) Tableau
7 37 (5.21%) BigQuery
8 33 (4.65%) NoSQL
9 31 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (3.94%) SQL Server
11 27 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
12 24 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 20 (2.82%) Data Vault
14 19 (2.68%) Big Data
15 18 (2.54%) Mixpanel
15 18 (2.54%) OLAP
16 17 (2.39%) OLTP
16 17 (2.39%) Spark SQL
17 15 (2.11%) Star Schema
18 13 (1.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 60 (8.45%) Git
2 31 (4.37%) JIRA
3 23 (3.24%) ERwin
4 13 (1.83%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (1.41%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.99%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.85%) MLflow
8 5 (0.70%) GitLab
9 4 (0.56%) LSMW
10 3 (0.42%) git-flow
11 2 (0.28%) JMeter
11 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.14%) GCC
12 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.14%) Selenium
12 1 (0.14%) Snyk
12 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 229 (32.25%) Finance
2 196 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 138 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.14%) Banking
5 68 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.94%) Legal
8 24 (3.38%) Retail
9 19 (2.68%) Marketing
10 14 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.83%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.69%) Local Government
13 11 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.85%) Law
16 6 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 137 (19.30%) Data Engineer
2 124 (17.46%) Analyst
3 107 (15.07%) Architect
4 97 (13.66%) Lead
5 78 (10.99%) Senior
6 75 (10.56%) Data Analyst
7 59 (8.31%) Business Analyst
8 53 (7.46%) Data Architect
9 30 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (4.23%) Project Manager
10 29 (4.08%) Developer
11 26 (3.66%) Data Modeller
12 25 (3.52%) Consultant
12 25 (3.52%) Data Business Analyst
13 23 (3.24%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (2.96%) Governance Analyst
14 21 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.82%) Data Manager
16 19 (2.68%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.58%) PySpark
2 46 (6.48%) Kafka
3 25 (3.52%) REST
4 17 (2.39%) Great Expectations
5 16 (2.25%) Middleware
6 15 (2.11%) .NET
6 15 (2.11%) SOAP
7 11 (1.55%) JSON
7 11 (1.55%) Web Services
8 9 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.27%) YAML
9 7 (0.99%) Spring
10 6 (0.85%) OAuth
11 5 (0.70%) boto
11 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
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 70 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.77%) Data Structures
4 35 (4.93%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.38%) AI Agents
7 22 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.68%) Reference Data
9 17 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.55%) Clustering
12 10 (1.41%) CMDB
13 9 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.27%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.27%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.13%) Equities
14 8 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.99%) Life Science
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
1 277 (39.01%) Data Modelling
2 265 (37.32%) Analytics
3 178 (25.07%) AI
4 176 (24.79%) Business Intelligence
5 170 (23.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 168 (23.66%) ETL
7 166 (23.38%) Data Engineering
8 163 (22.96%) Data Pipeline
9 155 (21.83%) Agile
10 154 (21.69%) CI/CD
11 142 (20.00%) Data Architecture
12 127 (17.89%) DevOps
13 119 (16.76%) Validation
14 118 (16.62%) Migration
15 115 (16.20%) Data Management
16 114 (16.06%) Decision-Making
17 112 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
18 88 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 87 (12.25%) Machine Learning
20 78 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 308 (43.38%) SQL
2 207 (29.15%) Python
3 34 (4.79%) C#
3 34 (4.79%) Scala
4 17 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (2.11%) Java
5 15 (2.11%) PL/SQL
6 13 (1.83%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.41%) R
8 9 (1.27%) Bicep
9 4 (0.56%) Bash
9 4 (0.56%) VBA
10 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
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
1 137 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.17%) Degree
4 34 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.41%) PMP
10 7 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.85%) CISSP
12 5 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.56%) CEH
13 4 (0.56%) CISM
13 4 (0.56%) GIAC
14 3 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (42.82%) Data Quality
2 107 (15.07%) GDPR
3 45 (6.34%) QA
4 12 (1.69%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.27%) IFRS
7 7 (0.99%) COREP
7 7 (0.99%) FINREP
7 7 (0.99%) NIST
7 7 (0.99%) PMO
8 6 (0.85%) IFRS 17
9 5 (0.70%) GRC
9 5 (0.70%) MiFID
10 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.56%) COBIT
10 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 25 (3.52%) Docker
2 6 (0.85%) 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 30 (4.23%) 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
1 153 (21.55%) Databricks
2 146 (20.56%) Microsoft
3 51 (7.18%) Oracle
4 41 (5.77%) SAP
5 40 (5.63%) Google
6 30 (4.23%) 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%) VMware
13 4 (0.56%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.56%) Ariba
13 4 (0.56%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.56%) Sparx
14 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.42%) Zscaler