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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 88 141
Rank change year-on-year +23 +53 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 575 401 314
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 2.84% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 3.15% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 288 233
10th Percentile £400 £384 £400
25th Percentile £463 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -1.88% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £739 £938 £785
England median daily rate £521 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.32
75th Percentile £18.75 - £45.72
90th Percentile £28.13 - £49.92
England median hourly rate £36.00 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +32.72% -33.59% +83.31%

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 13,014 12,735 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.41% 90.26% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,150 11,402
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 157 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.06 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £53.75 £54.56
90th Percentile £69.42 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +30 98 £575 -3.16% 53
West London -3 14 £603 - 7
South London -4 3 £475 -20.83% 5
East London -6 2 £566 +41.56% 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 65 (11.30%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.00%) Apache
3 19 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.43%) Confluence
5 11 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.70%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.04%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.52%) Actimize
4 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 235 (40.87%) Azure
2 150 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 134 (23.30%) AWS
4 84 (14.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 74 (12.87%) GCP
6 66 (11.48%) Snowflake
7 65 (11.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 43 (7.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 40 (6.96%) Collibra
10 38 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (6.09%) Amazon S3
12 30 (5.22%) dbt
13 29 (5.04%) Serverless
14 21 (3.65%) GitHub
15 19 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (2.43%) SaaS
19 13 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.70%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.17%) DKIM
2 1 (0.17%) DMARC
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) PSTN
2 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (23.13%) Power BI
2 124 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (19.83%) Metadata
4 73 (12.70%) Data Lake
5 45 (7.83%) NoSQL
6 40 (6.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 39 (6.78%) Tableau
8 30 (5.22%) Big Data
9 28 (4.87%) SQL Server
10 26 (4.52%) Delta Lake
11 25 (4.35%) Relational Database
12 24 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
13 21 (3.65%) Data Vault
14 20 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (3.30%) BigQuery
16 18 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 16 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (2.78%) Spark SQL
17 16 (2.78%) Star Schema
18 12 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 42 (7.30%) Git
2 37 (6.43%) JIRA
3 22 (3.83%) ERwin
4 17 (2.96%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.09%) ER Studio
6 10 (1.74%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.57%) MLflow
8 5 (0.87%) GitLab
9 3 (0.52%) LSMW
10 2 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.35%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.35%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.17%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 216 (37.57%) Social Skills
2 198 (34.43%) Finance
3 117 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (11.65%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.00%) Banking
6 31 (5.39%) Legal
7 25 (4.35%) Marketing
8 20 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.78%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.43%) Retail
11 11 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.91%) Publishing
12 10 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.57%) Electronics
14 8 (1.39%) Local Government
15 7 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (18.96%) Analyst
2 99 (17.22%) Architect
3 91 (15.83%) Data Engineer
4 78 (13.57%) Lead
5 62 (10.78%) Data Analyst
6 57 (9.91%) Data Architect
7 50 (8.70%) Business Analyst
8 37 (6.43%) Senior
9 36 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (5.57%) Azure Data Engineer
11 29 (5.04%) Data Modeller
12 26 (4.52%) Consultant
13 21 (3.65%) Governance Analyst
14 20 (3.48%) Developer
14 20 (3.48%) Project Manager
15 18 (3.13%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.96%) Data Business Analyst
17 16 (2.78%) Azure Architect
18 12 (2.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 12 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.35%) PySpark
2 36 (6.26%) Kafka
3 14 (2.43%) REST
4 10 (1.74%) .NET
5 9 (1.57%) Great Expectations
5 9 (1.57%) OAuth
5 9 (1.57%) Pandas
6 8 (1.39%) SOAP
7 7 (1.22%) LangChain
7 7 (1.22%) Middleware
7 7 (1.22%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.04%) NumPy
9 5 (0.87%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.87%) HTML
9 5 (0.87%) JSON
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.87%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.87%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.70%) boto
10 4 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.13%) Data Structures
2 38 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.26%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.26%) Reference Data
9 12 (2.09%) Reinsurance
10 11 (1.91%) Life Science
11 10 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
12 9 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.39%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 6 (1.04%) Data Fabric
16 5 (0.87%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.35%) Android
1 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (45.39%) Data Modelling
2 200 (34.78%) Analytics
3 166 (28.87%) Agile
4 154 (26.78%) Business Intelligence
5 143 (24.87%) Data Engineering
6 140 (24.35%) ETL
7 136 (23.65%) Data Pipeline
8 123 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 121 (21.04%) Data Architecture
10 120 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (18.61%) AI
12 105 (18.26%) CI/CD
13 96 (16.70%) Data Integration
14 93 (16.17%) DevOps
15 88 (15.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 81 (14.09%) Data Management
17 79 (13.74%) Decision-Making
18 75 (13.04%) Migration
19 73 (12.70%) Machine Learning
19 73 (12.70%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 249 (43.30%) SQL
2 185 (32.17%) Python
3 33 (5.74%) Scala
4 22 (3.83%) R
5 20 (3.48%) C#
6 19 (3.30%) Java
7 16 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.09%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.39%) Bicep
12 6 (1.04%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.35%) C++
15 2 (0.35%) Korn
15 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.35%) SOQL
16 1 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
16 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 100 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.09%) Degree
4 31 (5.39%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.09%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.74%) PMP
11 7 (1.22%) MCP
12 6 (1.04%) CISSP
13 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.87%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.52%) CBAP
14 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.35%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (39.83%) Data Quality
2 105 (18.26%) GDPR
3 29 (5.04%) QA
4 25 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.57%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.22%) IFRS
7 7 (1.22%) NIST
8 6 (1.04%) PMO
9 5 (0.87%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.87%) MiFID
9 5 (0.87%) PERC
10 4 (0.70%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.70%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.52%) GMP
11 3 (0.52%) GRC
11 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 33 (5.74%) Docker
2 6 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (9.39%) Terraform
2 34 (5.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.52%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (24.87%) Databricks
2 114 (19.83%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.74%) SAP
4 31 (5.39%) Salesforce
5 30 (5.22%) Google
6 24 (4.17%) Informatica
7 21 (3.65%) Oracle
8 12 (2.09%) Adobe
8 12 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.09%) Sparx
9 11 (1.91%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.57%) Tealium
10 9 (1.57%) Workday
11 8 (1.39%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.22%) OneTrust
13 5 (0.87%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.87%) mParticle
14 4 (0.70%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.70%) Talend
14 4 (0.70%) VMware