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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 77 117
Rank change year-on-year +16 +40 +99
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 751 435 390
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.93% 3.43% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 3.71% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 314 302
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £747
90th Percentile £741 £839 £875
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +16 98 £550 - 28
West London +2 26 £603 +41.76% 9
East London +6 9 £450 -33.33% 4
South London -5 4 £637 -6.50% 4
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 (7.46%) Apache Spark
2 37 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.46%) Apache
4 17 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.07%) Confluence
6 6 (0.80%) CMS
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) SAS
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 34 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.67%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.53%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 282 (37.55%) Azure
2 177 (23.57%) Power Platform
3 147 (19.57%) AWS
4 107 (14.25%) GCP
5 78 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 74 (9.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 63 (8.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 58 (7.72%) Collibra
9 57 (7.59%) Snowflake
10 51 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (5.73%) dbt
12 40 (5.33%) GitHub
13 39 (5.19%) Amazon S3
14 31 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
16 26 (3.46%) Serverless
17 21 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
18 17 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (2.26%) Power Automate
19 16 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Network Security
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.27%) IPv4
3 2 (0.27%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.17%) Metadata
2 156 (20.77%) Power BI
3 101 (13.45%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (13.18%) Data Lake
5 52 (6.92%) Delta Lake
6 45 (5.99%) Tableau
7 33 (4.39%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.73%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.46%) NoSQL
10 25 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (3.06%) Data Vault
11 23 (3.06%) Snowflake Schema
12 22 (2.93%) Big Data
13 21 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (2.00%) Hadoop
14 15 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (1.86%) OLAP
15 14 (1.86%) Star Schema
16 13 (1.73%) OLTP
16 13 (1.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 48 (6.39%) Git
2 30 (3.99%) JIRA
3 25 (3.33%) ERwin
4 13 (1.73%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.60%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.07%) GitLab
7 6 (0.80%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.67%) MLflow
9 3 (0.40%) git-flow
10 2 (0.27%) JMeter
10 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) GCC
11 1 (0.13%) LSMW
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.13%) Snyk
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 256 (34.09%) Finance
2 217 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.92%) Banking
5 71 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (4.13%) Legal
8 27 (3.60%) Retail
9 18 (2.40%) Marketing
10 16 (2.13%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.60%) Local Government
13 9 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.80%) Law
15 5 (0.67%) Billing
15 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (18.38%) Analyst
2 132 (17.58%) Data Engineer
3 125 (16.64%) Architect
4 98 (13.05%) Lead
5 87 (11.58%) Senior
6 85 (11.32%) Data Analyst
7 61 (8.12%) Business Analyst
8 56 (7.46%) Data Architect
9 32 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 30 (3.99%) Data Business Analyst
11 29 (3.86%) Project Manager
12 27 (3.60%) Consultant
12 27 (3.60%) Data Modeller
12 27 (3.60%) Developer
13 26 (3.46%) Data Manager
14 25 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (3.33%) Governance Analyst
14 25 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.26%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.46%) PySpark
2 44 (5.86%) Kafka
3 26 (3.46%) REST
4 17 (2.26%) Middleware
4 17 (2.26%) SOAP
5 13 (1.73%) Great Expectations
6 12 (1.60%) .NET
6 12 (1.60%) JSON
7 11 (1.46%) Web Services
8 10 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (1.07%) Spring
9 8 (1.07%) YAML
10 6 (0.80%) OAuth
11 5 (0.67%) XML
12 4 (0.53%) Node.js
12 4 (0.53%) OpenID
12 4 (0.53%) RESTful
12 4 (0.53%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.99%) Data Structures
4 41 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 35 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.20%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.93%) Reference Data
8 19 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.60%) Clustering
10 12 (1.60%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.33%) CMDB
11 10 (1.33%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.20%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.20%) Life Science
13 8 (1.07%) Equities
13 8 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.40%) Windows
2 2 (0.27%) Linux
2 2 (0.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (37.55%) Data Modelling
2 274 (36.48%) Analytics
3 198 (26.36%) AI
4 188 (25.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 175 (23.30%) Business Intelligence
6 170 (22.64%) ETL
7 162 (21.57%) Data Pipeline
8 161 (21.44%) Data Engineering
9 155 (20.64%) CI/CD
10 152 (20.24%) Agile
11 147 (19.57%) Data Architecture
12 132 (17.58%) Migration
12 132 (17.58%) Validation
13 129 (17.18%) Data Management
14 127 (16.91%) DevOps
15 113 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
16 111 (14.78%) Decision-Making
17 102 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 91 (12.12%) Machine Learning
19 85 (11.32%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 292 (38.88%) SQL
2 195 (25.97%) Python
3 27 (3.60%) C#
3 27 (3.60%) Scala
4 15 (2.00%) Java
5 14 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (1.60%) PL/SQL
6 12 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.46%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.33%) Bicep
9 7 (0.93%) R
10 5 (0.67%) Bash
11 3 (0.40%) Cypher
11 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.40%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.27%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 136 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.99%) Degree
4 37 (4.93%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.86%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.73%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.60%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.60%) PMP
11 11 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.80%) CISSP
14 5 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.67%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.53%) CEH
15 4 (0.53%) CISM
15 4 (0.53%) GIAC
15 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (41.94%) Data Quality
2 116 (15.45%) GDPR
3 46 (6.13%) QA
4 17 (2.26%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.33%) IFRS
7 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.07%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.07%) NIST
8 7 (0.93%) COREP
8 7 (0.93%) FINREP
8 7 (0.93%) PMO
9 5 (0.67%) GRC
9 5 (0.67%) MiFID
10 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.53%) COBIT
10 4 (0.53%) GxP
10 4 (0.53%) NCSC
10 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (3.33%) Docker
2 12 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (9.05%) Terraform
2 29 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.93%) Grafana
4 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.53%) AirWatch
6 3 (0.40%) Istio
6 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 165 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 135 (17.98%) Databricks
3 52 (6.92%) Oracle
4 37 (4.93%) Google
5 34 (4.53%) SAP
6 31 (4.13%) Salesforce
7 27 (3.60%) Informatica
8 14 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.33%) Foundry
11 9 (1.20%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.07%) Workday
13 5 (0.67%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.67%) IBM
13 5 (0.67%) VMware
14 4 (0.53%) CyberArk
14 4 (0.53%) Murex
14 4 (0.53%) Sparx
15 3 (0.40%) IFS
15 3 (0.40%) Zscaler