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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 73 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 +51 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 830 478 350
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 3.53% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 3.82% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 338 266
10th Percentile £400 £402 £380
25th Percentile £460 £473 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £750 £881
England median daily rate £535 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.13% -8.00% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -58.46% +23.41% -34.16%
75th Percentile £36.35 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +40.85% +18.33% -7.12%

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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +16 115 £550 +4.76% 58
West London +15 34 £520 +22.35% 28
East London +4 5 £450 -33.33% 8
South London -7 4 £637 -6.50% 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 53 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 46 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.10%) Apache
4 20 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.84%) Confluence
6 6 (0.72%) CMS
7 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.60%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 39 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 17 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.84%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.36%) Workfront
8 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
9 1 (0.12%) Maximo
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 304 (36.63%) Azure
2 170 (20.48%) Power Platform
3 167 (20.12%) AWS
4 105 (12.65%) GCP
5 83 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 73 (8.80%) Snowflake
7 68 (8.19%) Microsoft Purview
8 59 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 58 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (6.87%) Collibra
11 54 (6.51%) dbt
12 39 (4.70%) GitHub
13 36 (4.34%) Amazon S3
14 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
15 26 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
15 26 (3.13%) Serverless
16 21 (2.53%) Entra ID
17 20 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) Network Security
2 4 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.24%) IPv4
4 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) 4G
5 1 (0.12%) 5G
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (22.41%) Metadata
2 151 (18.19%) Power BI
3 118 (14.22%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (12.17%) Data Lake
5 52 (6.27%) Delta Lake
6 42 (5.06%) Tableau
7 30 (3.61%) BigQuery
8 27 (3.25%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.01%) Big Data
10 24 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (2.65%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.53%) Data Vault
12 21 (2.53%) Star Schema
13 20 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (1.57%) Parquet
16 13 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (1.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (4.22%) Git
2 33 (3.98%) JIRA
3 30 (3.61%) ERwin
4 19 (2.29%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.20%) GitLab
7 8 (0.96%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) git-flow
8 2 (0.24%) JMeter
8 2 (0.24%) MLflow
8 2 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.12%) LSMW
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) RStudio
9 1 (0.12%) Snyk
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 280 (33.73%) Finance
2 248 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 155 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.81%) Banking
5 80 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.82%) Legal
6 40 (4.82%) Retail
7 34 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (3.25%) Marketing
9 19 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.33%) Local Government
16 9 (1.08%) Front Office
16 9 (1.08%) Law
17 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (20.24%) Architect
2 156 (18.80%) Analyst
3 137 (16.51%) Data Engineer
4 94 (11.33%) Data Analyst
4 94 (11.33%) Lead
5 85 (10.24%) Data Architect
5 85 (10.24%) Senior
6 66 (7.95%) Business Analyst
7 44 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (4.10%) Project Manager
9 31 (3.73%) Consultant
9 31 (3.73%) Data Business Analyst
10 29 (3.49%) Data Modeller
10 29 (3.49%) Governance Analyst
10 29 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 27 (3.25%) Data Manager
12 23 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (2.41%) Developer
13 20 (2.41%) Product Owner
14 19 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (7.47%) PySpark
2 46 (5.54%) Kafka
3 25 (3.01%) REST
4 17 (2.05%) JSON
5 16 (1.93%) Middleware
6 14 (1.69%) SOAP
7 13 (1.57%) Web Services
8 10 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.08%) Spring
10 8 (0.96%) Great Expectations
11 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (0.84%) OAuth
12 6 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (0.72%) YAML
13 5 (0.60%) .NET
13 5 (0.60%) MACH
13 5 (0.60%) Pandas
13 5 (0.60%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 65 (7.83%) Data Structures
4 54 (6.51%) Onboarding
5 43 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (4.22%) Reference Data
7 27 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.89%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.69%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.57%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.33%) Clustering
13 11 (1.33%) CMDB
13 11 (1.33%) FMCG
13 11 (1.33%) Life Science
13 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.33%) NHS
14 10 (1.20%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.60%) Linux
1 5 (0.60%) Unix
2 3 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (38.80%) Data Modelling
2 298 (35.90%) Analytics
3 242 (29.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 217 (26.14%) AI
5 186 (22.41%) Data Pipeline
6 184 (22.17%) ETL
7 183 (22.05%) Business Intelligence
8 178 (21.45%) Data Engineering
9 173 (20.84%) Data Architecture
10 164 (19.76%) Agile
10 164 (19.76%) CI/CD
11 152 (18.31%) Migration
12 144 (17.35%) Validation
13 137 (16.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 136 (16.39%) DevOps
15 133 (16.02%) Data Management
16 124 (14.94%) Decision-Making
17 117 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
18 103 (12.41%) Data Lineage
19 101 (12.17%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 322 (38.80%) SQL
2 201 (24.22%) Python
3 21 (2.53%) Java
4 20 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (2.17%) Scala
6 15 (1.81%) C#
6 15 (1.81%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.20%) PL/SQL
7 10 (1.20%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.08%) Bicep
9 8 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.72%) Bash
11 3 (0.36%) R
11 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.36%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Cypher
12 2 (0.24%) Delphi
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 132 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.54%) Degree
4 36 (4.34%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.81%) PMP
8 14 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.72%) CISSP
14 5 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.48%) CEH
15 4 (0.48%) CISM
15 4 (0.48%) GIAC
15 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.36%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (44.10%) Data Quality
2 110 (13.25%) GDPR
3 38 (4.58%) QA
4 15 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.81%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.57%) NIST
6 12 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.08%) PMO
8 8 (0.96%) COREP
8 8 (0.96%) FINREP
9 7 (0.84%) GRC
9 7 (0.84%) IFRS
10 6 (0.72%) GxP
11 5 (0.60%) MiFID
11 5 (0.60%) NCSC
11 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.48%) COBIT
12 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 21 (2.53%) Docker
2 19 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (7.23%) Terraform
2 28 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.96%) Grafana
4 7 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.48%) Control-M
5 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.36%) Ansible
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.24%) Istio
7 2 (0.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 175 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 150 (18.07%) Databricks
3 52 (6.27%) Oracle
4 36 (4.34%) Google
5 34 (4.10%) SAP
6 33 (3.98%) Informatica
7 24 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.45%) Foundry
10 10 (1.20%) Adobe
10 10 (1.20%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.20%) Workday
11 9 (1.08%) GoldenSource
12 8 (0.96%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.84%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.72%) IBM
14 6 (0.72%) Sparx
15 5 (0.60%) Confluent
16 4 (0.48%) Murex