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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 77 121
Rank change year-on-year +15 +44 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 788 447 368
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 3.30% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.58% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 312 281
10th Percentile £400 £403 £400
25th Percentile £463 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £614
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.35% -5.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £763 £888
England median daily rate £540 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +0.47% -6.52% -6.12%
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 £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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £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 £650 £675 £680
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 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +21 112 £550 +4.76% 70
West London +17 30 £520 +22.35% 9
East London +4 5 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -12 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 56 (7.11%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.57%) Apache
4 17 (2.16%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.89%) Confluence
6 6 (0.76%) CMS
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) 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%) Luigi
Applications
1 37 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.89%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.63%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.51%) 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
1 295 (37.44%) Azure
2 172 (21.83%) Power Platform
3 149 (18.91%) AWS
4 108 (13.71%) GCP
5 81 (10.28%) Azure Data Factory
6 64 (8.12%) Snowflake
7 63 (7.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (7.61%) Collibra
9 59 (7.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 57 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (6.60%) dbt
12 39 (4.95%) GitHub
13 37 (4.70%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
16 24 (3.05%) Serverless
17 21 (2.66%) Entra ID
18 18 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (2.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) 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
1 168 (21.32%) Metadata
2 152 (19.29%) Power BI
3 105 (13.32%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (13.20%) Data Lake
5 51 (6.47%) Delta Lake
6 43 (5.46%) Tableau
7 34 (4.31%) BigQuery
8 26 (3.30%) NoSQL
9 25 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.05%) Big Data
11 23 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
12 22 (2.79%) Data Vault
12 22 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (2.03%) Star Schema
15 15 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.52%) Hadoop
16 12 (1.52%) Parquet
16 12 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (4.82%) Git
2 29 (3.68%) JIRA
3 26 (3.30%) ERwin
4 15 (1.90%) ER Studio
5 13 (1.65%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.14%) GitLab
7 7 (0.89%) 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 (34.52%) Finance
2 223 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 152 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (11.68%) Banking
5 74 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.70%) Legal
7 35 (4.44%) Retail
8 34 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.41%) Marketing
10 15 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.78%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.52%) Local Government
13 12 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.89%) Front Office
15 7 (0.89%) Law
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (19.16%) Analyst
2 146 (18.53%) Architect
3 132 (16.75%) Data Engineer
4 95 (12.06%) Lead
5 93 (11.80%) Data Analyst
6 92 (11.68%) Senior
7 71 (9.01%) Data Architect
8 68 (8.63%) Business Analyst
9 36 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.31%) Data Business Analyst
10 34 (4.31%) Project Manager
11 30 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
12 28 (3.55%) Governance Analyst
13 27 (3.43%) Data Manager
14 26 (3.30%) Consultant
15 25 (3.17%) Data Modeller
16 24 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
17 23 (2.92%) Developer
18 19 (2.41%) Product Owner
18 19 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.61%) PySpark
2 49 (6.22%) Kafka
3 26 (3.30%) REST
4 17 (2.16%) JSON
4 17 (2.16%) Middleware
5 15 (1.90%) SOAP
6 11 (1.40%) Great Expectations
6 11 (1.40%) Web Services
7 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.27%) Spring
8 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.89%) .NET
9 7 (0.89%) OAuth
10 6 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (0.76%) YAML
11 5 (0.63%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.51%) Node.js
12 4 (0.51%) Pandas
12 4 (0.51%) RESTful
12 4 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 60 (7.61%) Data Structures
4 50 (6.35%) Onboarding
5 40 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.68%) Reference Data
7 23 (2.92%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.54%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.78%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.40%) Clustering
12 11 (1.40%) CMDB
12 11 (1.40%) Life Science
13 10 (1.27%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.14%) FMCG
14 9 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.63%) Linux
2 4 (0.51%) Unix
2 4 (0.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (38.07%) Data Modelling
2 285 (36.17%) Analytics
3 212 (26.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 198 (25.13%) AI
5 184 (23.35%) ETL
6 179 (22.72%) Business Intelligence
7 177 (22.46%) Data Pipeline
8 166 (21.07%) Data Engineering
9 156 (19.80%) Agile
9 156 (19.80%) Data Architecture
10 155 (19.67%) CI/CD
11 142 (18.02%) Validation
12 137 (17.39%) Migration
13 134 (17.01%) DevOps
14 131 (16.62%) Data Management
15 118 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
16 117 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 115 (14.59%) Decision-Making
18 87 (11.04%) Machine Learning
19 86 (10.91%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 307 (38.96%) SQL
2 203 (25.76%) Python
3 23 (2.92%) Scala
4 22 (2.79%) C#
5 21 (2.66%) Java
6 13 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.52%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.27%) Bicep
9 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.76%) Bash
11 4 (0.51%) R
12 3 (0.38%) Cypher
12 3 (0.38%) VBA
13 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.25%) Delphi
13 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.25%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 124 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 102 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.23%) Degree
4 37 (4.70%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.90%) PMP
8 14 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.52%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.76%) CISSP
13 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.63%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.51%) CEH
14 4 (0.51%) CISM
14 4 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (43.02%) Data Quality
2 115 (14.59%) GDPR
3 42 (5.33%) QA
4 16 (2.03%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.14%) NIST
7 9 (1.14%) PMO
8 8 (1.02%) COREP
8 8 (1.02%) FINREP
9 7 (0.89%) IFRS
10 5 (0.63%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.63%) NCSC
11 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.51%) COBIT
11 4 (0.51%) GRC
11 4 (0.51%) GxP
11 4 (0.51%) MiFID
11 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 23 (2.92%) Docker
2 20 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (7.87%) Terraform
2 27 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.14%) Grafana
4 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.25%) Ansible
7 2 (0.25%) Control-M
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 164 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 133 (16.88%) Databricks
3 51 (6.47%) Oracle
4 39 (4.95%) SAP
5 37 (4.70%) Google
6 32 (4.06%) Informatica
7 26 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.65%) Foundry
9 13 (1.65%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.27%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.14%) Workday
12 7 (0.89%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.63%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.63%) IBM
14 4 (0.51%) Murex
14 4 (0.51%) Sparx
15 3 (0.38%) Adobe
15 3 (0.38%) Refinitiv