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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 82 116
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 779 445 372
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.94% 3.29% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 3.57% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 313 285
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £750
90th Percentile £738 £775 £888
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -8.00%
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 £60.50 £27.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year +121.77% -31.80% +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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +28 106 £559 +1.59% 27
West London +14 30 £603 +41.76% 10
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -10 4 £637 -6.50% 7
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 53 (6.80%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.98%) Apache
4 16 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.03%) Confluence
6 6 (0.77%) CMS
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 36 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.90%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.39%) Workfront
6 2 (0.26%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 288 (36.97%) Azure
2 176 (22.59%) Power Platform
3 151 (19.38%) AWS
4 111 (14.25%) GCP
5 74 (9.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 62 (7.96%) Collibra
7 61 (7.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (7.70%) Snowflake
9 57 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 52 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (6.68%) dbt
11 40 (5.13%) GitHub
12 38 (4.88%) Amazon S3
13 29 (3.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 26 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
15 25 (3.21%) Serverless
16 20 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.31%) Power Automate
18 17 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 3 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) IPv4
3 2 (0.26%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (21.69%) Metadata
2 156 (20.03%) Power BI
3 103 (13.22%) Data Lake
4 100 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (6.16%) Delta Lake
5 48 (6.16%) Tableau
6 34 (4.36%) BigQuery
7 26 (3.34%) Amazon Athena
7 26 (3.34%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.34%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.08%) Big Data
9 23 (2.95%) Data Vault
9 23 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
10 18 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.93%) Star Schema
13 14 (1.80%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.54%) Mixpanel
14 12 (1.54%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 40 (5.13%) Git
2 31 (3.98%) JIRA
3 25 (3.21%) ERwin
4 13 (1.67%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.54%) ER Studio
6 9 (1.16%) GitLab
7 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.39%) git-flow
8 3 (0.39%) MLflow
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) LSMW
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Selenium
10 1 (0.13%) Snyk
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 262 (33.63%) Finance
2 219 (28.11%) Social Skills
3 146 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (11.04%) Banking
5 76 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
6 35 (4.49%) Retail
7 33 (4.24%) Legal
8 18 (2.31%) Marketing
9 16 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.93%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.54%) Local Government
14 11 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.90%) Law
16 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 149 (19.13%) Analyst
2 136 (17.46%) Data Engineer
3 135 (17.33%) Architect
4 98 (12.58%) Lead
5 91 (11.68%) Data Analyst
6 87 (11.17%) Senior
7 68 (8.73%) Business Analyst
8 63 (8.09%) Data Architect
9 35 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.36%) Data Business Analyst
11 33 (4.24%) Project Manager
12 29 (3.72%) Governance Analyst
13 28 (3.59%) Developer
13 28 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
14 26 (3.34%) Consultant
14 26 (3.34%) Data Manager
14 26 (3.34%) Data Modeller
15 23 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
17 18 (2.31%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.93%) PySpark
2 47 (6.03%) Kafka
3 26 (3.34%) REST
4 17 (2.18%) Middleware
5 15 (1.93%) JSON
5 15 (1.93%) SOAP
6 12 (1.54%) Great Expectations
7 11 (1.41%) Web Services
8 10 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.28%) Spring
9 9 (1.16%) .NET
9 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.90%) OAuth
10 7 (0.90%) YAML
11 6 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (0.64%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.51%) Node.js
13 4 (0.51%) Pandas
13 4 (0.51%) RESTful
13 4 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 51 (6.55%) Data Structures
4 46 (5.91%) Onboarding
5 39 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.21%) Reference Data
7 24 (3.08%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.80%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.54%) Clustering
13 11 (1.41%) CMDB
13 11 (1.41%) Life Science
14 10 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.03%) Fixed Income
15 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.51%) Linux
1 4 (0.51%) Windows
2 3 (0.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (37.48%) Data Modelling
2 285 (36.59%) Analytics
3 203 (26.06%) AI
3 203 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 180 (23.11%) ETL
5 177 (22.72%) Business Intelligence
6 173 (22.21%) Data Pipeline
7 161 (20.67%) Data Engineering
8 157 (20.15%) CI/CD
9 151 (19.38%) Agile
10 149 (19.13%) Data Architecture
11 138 (17.72%) Migration
12 136 (17.46%) Validation
13 133 (17.07%) Data Management
14 130 (16.69%) DevOps
15 122 (15.66%) Decision-Making
16 119 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
17 110 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 89 (11.42%) Machine Learning
19 85 (10.91%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 302 (38.77%) SQL
2 203 (26.06%) Python
3 25 (3.21%) C#
4 24 (3.08%) Scala
5 21 (2.70%) Java
6 13 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.16%) Bicep
9 9 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.77%) Bash
11 5 (0.64%) R
12 3 (0.39%) Cypher
12 3 (0.39%) VBA
13 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.26%) Go
13 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.26%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 126 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.57%) Degree
4 35 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.80%) PMP
8 12 (1.54%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.77%) CISSP
11 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.51%) CEH
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
12 4 (0.51%) GIAC
12 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (42.36%) Data Quality
2 118 (15.15%) GDPR
3 45 (5.78%) QA
4 16 (2.05%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.16%) NIST
7 9 (1.16%) PMO
8 8 (1.03%) IFRS
9 7 (0.90%) COREP
9 7 (0.90%) FINREP
10 6 (0.77%) IFRS 17
11 5 (0.64%) NCSC
12 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.51%) COBIT
12 4 (0.51%) GRC
12 4 (0.51%) GxP
12 4 (0.51%) MiFID
12 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (3.08%) Docker
2 16 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.39%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (8.22%) Terraform
2 28 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.03%) Grafana
4 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.26%) Ansible
6 2 (0.26%) Istio
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.13%) Control-M
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 160 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 130 (16.69%) Databricks
3 52 (6.68%) Oracle
4 40 (5.13%) SAP
5 39 (5.01%) Google
6 31 (3.98%) Informatica
7 27 (3.47%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.67%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.54%) Foundry
11 9 (1.16%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.03%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.90%) Workday
14 5 (0.64%) IBM
14 5 (0.64%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.51%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.51%) Murex
15 4 (0.51%) Sparx
16 3 (0.39%) IFS
16 3 (0.39%) MuleSoft