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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 107
Rank change year-on-year +2 +39 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 696 473 385
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.93% 3.77% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.09% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 361 294
10th Percentile £386 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -3.03%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £838
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £20.80 £66.25 £29.73
25th Percentile £23.13 £71.88 £32.57
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £38.17
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +116.14% -55.09%
75th Percentile £45.38 £91.88 £44.65
90th Percentile £56.40 £96.75 £48.01
England median hourly rate £67.50 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +154.72% -33.75% +5.36%

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 15,703 11,565 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 92.19% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,845 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +15.25% -22.62%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.75 £47.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +17 97 £550 - 36
West London - 32 £603 - 5
East London -1 9 £495 -18.52% 6
South London -13 4 £637 +6.17% 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 81 (11.64%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.31%) Apache
3 27 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.58%) Confluence
4 11 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.72%) 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%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.57%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.29%) Actimize
4 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.29%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.29%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.14%) Maximo
5 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 272 (39.08%) Azure
2 170 (24.43%) Power Platform
3 145 (20.83%) AWS
4 103 (14.80%) GCP
5 99 (14.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 81 (11.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.76%) Collibra
8 59 (8.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 51 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.90%) Amazon S3
11 42 (6.03%) Snowflake
12 35 (5.03%) GitHub
13 33 (4.74%) dbt
14 28 (4.02%) Serverless
15 25 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
18 17 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.57%) 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
1 158 (22.70%) Power BI
2 141 (20.26%) Metadata
3 124 (17.82%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (13.94%) Data Lake
5 49 (7.04%) Delta Lake
5 49 (7.04%) Tableau
6 43 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (5.46%) NoSQL
8 37 (5.32%) BigQuery
9 26 (3.74%) Big Data
10 25 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (3.59%) SQL Server
11 24 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (2.87%) Mixpanel
12 20 (2.87%) OLAP
13 19 (2.73%) OLTP
14 16 (2.30%) Spark SQL
15 15 (2.16%) Data Vault
15 15 (2.16%) Star Schema
16 14 (2.01%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 66 (9.48%) Git
2 33 (4.74%) JIRA
3 17 (2.44%) ERwin
4 13 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.44%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (1.01%) GitLab
6 7 (1.01%) MLflow
7 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.57%) LSMW
8 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) GCC
9 1 (0.14%) NUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Snyk
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 240 (34.48%) Finance
2 221 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 149 (21.41%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.05%) Banking
6 36 (5.17%) Legal
7 33 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (4.17%) Marketing
9 18 (2.59%) Financial Institution
10 17 (2.44%) Retail
11 14 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.44%) Local Government
14 9 (1.29%) Electronics
14 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.01%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 145 (20.83%) Data Engineer
2 131 (18.82%) Analyst
3 96 (13.79%) Architect
3 96 (13.79%) Lead
4 78 (11.21%) Senior
5 76 (10.92%) Data Analyst
6 68 (9.77%) Business Analyst
7 45 (6.47%) Data Architect
8 37 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (4.45%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (4.31%) Developer
11 28 (4.02%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (3.88%) Project Manager
13 25 (3.59%) Consultant
14 21 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (3.02%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
16 18 (2.59%) Data Modeller
16 18 (2.59%) Principal Data Engineer
16 18 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.63%) PySpark
2 54 (7.76%) Kafka
3 28 (4.02%) REST
4 19 (2.73%) Great Expectations
5 18 (2.59%) Middleware
6 17 (2.44%) SOAP
7 14 (2.01%) .NET
8 13 (1.87%) JSON
9 11 (1.58%) Web Services
10 10 (1.44%) YAML
11 9 (1.29%) Pandas
11 9 (1.29%) Spring
12 7 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
13 6 (0.86%) boto
13 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (0.86%) scikit-learn
14 5 (0.72%) NumPy
14 5 (0.72%) OAuth
14 5 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
14 5 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.18%) Data Structures
3 42 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.73%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (2.01%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
10 12 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.58%) Clustering
12 10 (1.44%) CMDB
12 10 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (40.66%) Data Modelling
2 270 (38.79%) Analytics
3 181 (26.01%) Business Intelligence
4 179 (25.72%) Data Pipeline
5 176 (25.29%) ETL
6 171 (24.57%) Data Engineering
7 167 (23.99%) Agile
8 165 (23.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 164 (23.56%) AI
10 156 (22.41%) CI/CD
11 133 (19.11%) Data Architecture
12 122 (17.53%) DevOps
13 119 (17.10%) Validation
14 117 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (15.95%) Decision-Making
16 103 (14.80%) Data Management
17 101 (14.51%) Migration
18 88 (12.64%) Machine Learning
19 81 (11.64%) Integration Patterns
20 80 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 314 (45.11%) SQL
2 227 (32.61%) Python
3 44 (6.32%) Scala
4 36 (5.17%) C#
5 18 (2.59%) R
6 17 (2.44%) Java
7 16 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (2.16%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.44%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.57%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.43%) Bash
13 3 (0.43%) SOQL
13 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 133 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.05%) Degree
4 34 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 28 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.15%) PMP
11 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.57%) CBAP
12 4 (0.57%) CISSP
12 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.29%) CISM
13 2 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (42.53%) Data Quality
2 115 (16.52%) GDPR
3 43 (6.18%) QA
4 13 (1.87%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.72%) IFRS
6 9 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.15%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.86%) COREP
8 6 (0.86%) FINREP
8 6 (0.86%) PMO
9 5 (0.72%) NIST
9 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.72%) PERC
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) GRC
10 4 (0.57%) MiFID
11 3 (0.43%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (3.88%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (10.20%) Terraform
2 35 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.01%) Grafana
3 7 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.57%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.57%) 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
1 159 (22.84%) Databricks
2 140 (20.11%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.47%) Oracle
4 44 (6.32%) Google
5 38 (5.46%) SAP
6 36 (5.17%) Salesforce
7 28 (4.02%) Informatica
8 18 (2.59%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.44%) Adobe
11 9 (1.29%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.29%) Tealium
12 8 (1.15%) Workday
13 7 (1.01%) OneTrust
14 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.86%) Foundry
15 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.72%) Ariba
15 5 (0.72%) mParticle
15 5 (0.72%) VMware