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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 71 124
Rank change year-on-year +16 +53 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 867 477 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 3.57% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 3.86% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 332 246
10th Percentile £375 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £472 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £747
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £540 £527 £575
% change year-on-year +2.47% -8.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +23.41% -18.66%
75th Percentile £28.67 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.40% +24.93% -14.29%

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 17,945 12,360 14,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.46% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,728 8,229 9,956
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 253 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.60 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +16 128 £572 +5.97% 50
West London +11 33 £520 +22.35% 23
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 10
South London -9 4 £637 -6.50% 2
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 55 (6.34%) Apache Spark
2 48 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.81%) Apache
4 24 (2.77%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.92%) Confluence
5 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.92%) SAS
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 40 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.27%) SAP MDG
3 7 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.69%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.35%) Workfront
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 319 (36.79%) Azure
2 180 (20.76%) AWS
3 173 (19.95%) Power Platform
4 101 (11.65%) GCP
5 85 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (8.65%) Snowflake
7 72 (8.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 64 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 61 (7.04%) Collibra
10 60 (6.92%) dbt
11 59 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (4.61%) Amazon S3
13 37 (4.27%) GitHub
13 37 (4.27%) Serverless
14 32 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (3.58%) Microsoft Copilot
16 27 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (2.42%) Entra ID
17 21 (2.42%) SaaS
18 20 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.81%) Network Security
2 6 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) IPv4
4 2 (0.23%) IPv6
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (24.45%) Metadata
2 153 (17.65%) Power BI
3 122 (14.07%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (11.53%) Data Lake
5 52 (6.00%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.84%) Tableau
7 29 (3.34%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.23%) Big Data
8 28 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 23 (2.65%) Data Vault
9 23 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 23 (2.65%) Star Schema
10 20 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.08%) Spark SQL
13 16 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.73%) Parquet
14 15 (1.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (4.15%) Git
2 35 (4.04%) JIRA
3 30 (3.46%) ERwin
4 20 (2.31%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.38%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.15%) GitLab
7 8 (0.92%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.58%) Selenium
9 4 (0.46%) MLflow
9 4 (0.46%) RStudio
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) git-flow
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) GCC
11 1 (0.12%) LSMW
11 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 295 (34.03%) Finance
2 277 (31.95%) Social Skills
3 154 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (12.11%) Banking
5 89 (10.27%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.73%) Retail
7 40 (4.61%) Legal
8 29 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (3.34%) Marketing
9 22 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.54%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.61%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.50%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.50%) Local Government
14 11 (1.27%) Law
15 9 (1.04%) Front Office
15 9 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (21.34%) Architect
2 167 (19.26%) Analyst
3 136 (15.69%) Data Engineer
4 109 (12.57%) Lead
5 98 (11.30%) Data Analyst
6 95 (10.96%) Data Architect
7 81 (9.34%) Senior
8 66 (7.61%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (4.38%) Consultant
11 31 (3.58%) Data Modeller
12 30 (3.46%) Governance Analyst
13 29 (3.34%) Project Manager
13 29 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
14 28 (3.23%) Data Business Analyst
14 28 (3.23%) Data Manager
15 23 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.42%) Product Owner
17 20 (2.31%) Data Consultant
18 19 (2.19%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.30%) PySpark
2 64 (7.38%) Terraform
3 49 (5.65%) Kafka
4 26 (3.00%) REST
5 16 (1.85%) JSON
6 15 (1.73%) Middleware
7 14 (1.61%) SOAP
7 14 (1.61%) Web Services
8 10 (1.15%) Great Expectations
9 9 (1.04%) Spring
10 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.69%) OAuth
11 6 (0.69%) React
11 6 (0.69%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.69%) YAML
12 5 (0.58%) MACH
12 5 (0.58%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.46%) Playwright
13 4 (0.46%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 67 (7.73%) Data Structures
4 59 (6.81%) Onboarding
5 46 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (4.73%) Reference Data
7 32 (3.69%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.00%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.85%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.50%) Taxonomies
14 12 (1.38%) FMCG
14 12 (1.38%) Life Science
14 12 (1.38%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (1.15%) CMDB
16 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.69%) Linux
1 6 (0.69%) Unix
2 4 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (38.41%) Data Modelling
2 309 (35.64%) Analytics
3 278 (32.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 238 (27.45%) AI
5 192 (22.15%) Data Engineering
6 190 (21.91%) Business Intelligence
7 183 (21.11%) Data Architecture
7 183 (21.11%) Data Pipeline
8 182 (20.99%) Agile
8 182 (20.99%) ETL
9 179 (20.65%) CI/CD
10 165 (19.03%) Migration
11 148 (17.07%) Data Management
11 148 (17.07%) Validation
12 147 (16.96%) DevOps
12 147 (16.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 132 (15.22%) Decision-Making
14 119 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
15 117 (13.49%) Roadmaps
16 115 (13.26%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 328 (37.83%) SQL
2 200 (23.07%) Python
3 24 (2.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (2.42%) Java
5 17 (1.96%) Scala
6 14 (1.61%) C#
6 14 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.50%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.27%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.15%) Bicep
10 6 (0.69%) Bash
11 5 (0.58%) R
12 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.23%) Cypher
13 2 (0.23%) Delphi
13 2 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 139 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.31%) Degree
4 39 (4.50%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.50%) PMP
9 12 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.38%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.69%) CISSP
13 5 (0.58%) CISM
13 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.46%) CEH
14 4 (0.46%) GIAC
14 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (46.14%) Data Quality
2 118 (13.61%) GDPR
3 40 (4.61%) QA
4 16 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.73%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.50%) NIST
7 8 (0.92%) COREP
7 8 (0.92%) FINREP
8 7 (0.81%) GRC
8 7 (0.81%) GxP
8 7 (0.81%) PMO
9 6 (0.69%) IFRS
9 6 (0.69%) MiFID
9 6 (0.69%) NCSC
10 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.46%) COBIT
11 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 23 (2.65%) Docker
2 20 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.81%) Grafana
2 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.69%) Ansible
4 5 (0.58%) Control-M
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) Istio
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 199 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 160 (18.45%) Databricks
3 52 (6.00%) Oracle
4 41 (4.73%) Informatica
5 38 (4.38%) SAP
6 35 (4.04%) Google
7 26 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.38%) Adobe
9 12 (1.38%) Foundry
10 10 (1.15%) GoldenSource
10 10 (1.15%) Workday
11 9 (1.04%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.92%) IBM
13 7 (0.81%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.81%) Sparx
13 7 (0.81%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.69%) Confluent
15 4 (0.46%) Talend