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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 81 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 +32 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 791 444 373
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 3.28% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.56% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 314 286
10th Percentile £390 £403 £400
25th Percentile £461 £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 £745 £775 £888
England median daily rate £537 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -0.51% -6.09% -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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +19 104 £559 +1.59% 46
West London +12 30 £603 +41.76% 7
East London +7 9 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -7 4 £637 -6.50% 6
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 (7.08%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.92%) Apache
4 18 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.01%) Confluence
6 6 (0.76%) CMS
7 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) SAS
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.25%) 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 37 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.76%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.38%) Workfront
6 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.25%) Maximo
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 292 (36.92%) Azure
2 179 (22.63%) Power Platform
3 153 (19.34%) AWS
4 113 (14.29%) GCP
5 78 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (8.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 63 (7.96%) Collibra
8 62 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 60 (7.59%) Snowflake
10 56 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (6.57%) dbt
12 42 (5.31%) GitHub
13 38 (4.80%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
16 25 (3.16%) Serverless
17 20 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (2.28%) Power Automate
19 17 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.25%) IPv4
3 2 (0.25%) 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
1 170 (21.49%) Metadata
2 158 (19.97%) Power BI
3 106 (13.40%) Data Lake
4 104 (13.15%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (6.45%) Delta Lake
6 48 (6.07%) Tableau
7 34 (4.30%) BigQuery
8 27 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (3.41%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.29%) NoSQL
10 24 (3.03%) Big Data
11 23 (2.91%) Data Vault
11 23 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.90%) Hadoop
14 15 (1.90%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.77%) OLAP
16 13 (1.64%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 42 (5.31%) Git
2 31 (3.92%) JIRA
3 26 (3.29%) ERwin
4 13 (1.64%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.52%) ER Studio
6 9 (1.14%) GitLab
7 8 (1.01%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.51%) MLflow
9 3 (0.38%) git-flow
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
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%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) Snyk
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 271 (34.26%) Finance
2 227 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 142 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (10.87%) Banking
5 75 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 36 (4.55%) Legal
7 33 (4.17%) Retail
8 18 (2.28%) Marketing
9 16 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.52%) Local Government
12 11 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.01%) Law
15 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 147 (18.58%) Analyst
2 141 (17.83%) Data Engineer
3 136 (17.19%) Architect
4 96 (12.14%) Lead
5 92 (11.63%) Data Analyst
6 90 (11.38%) Senior
7 67 (8.47%) Business Analyst
8 63 (7.96%) Data Architect
9 35 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.30%) Data Business Analyst
11 32 (4.05%) Project Manager
12 29 (3.67%) Governance Analyst
13 28 (3.54%) Consultant
13 28 (3.54%) Developer
13 28 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (3.41%) Data Modeller
15 26 (3.29%) Data Manager
16 24 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (2.28%) Product Owner
17 18 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.33%) PySpark
2 48 (6.07%) Kafka
3 26 (3.29%) REST
4 17 (2.15%) Middleware
5 16 (2.02%) SOAP
6 14 (1.77%) JSON
7 13 (1.64%) Great Expectations
8 11 (1.39%) Web Services
9 10 (1.26%) .NET
9 10 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (1.14%) Spring
11 7 (0.88%) OAuth
11 7 (0.88%) YAML
12 5 (0.63%) Spark Streaming
13 4 (0.51%) Node.js
13 4 (0.51%) OpenID
13 4 (0.51%) Pandas
13 4 (0.51%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.32%) Data Structures
3 49 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 48 (6.07%) Onboarding
5 39 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.91%) AI Agents
6 23 (2.91%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.90%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.52%) Clustering
13 11 (1.39%) CMDB
13 11 (1.39%) Life Science
14 10 (1.26%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (1.01%) Fixed Income
16 8 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 8 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.51%) Windows
2 3 (0.38%) Linux
3 2 (0.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (37.17%) Data Modelling
2 285 (36.03%) Analytics
3 204 (25.79%) AI
4 201 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 185 (23.39%) ETL
6 181 (22.88%) Business Intelligence
7 173 (21.87%) Data Pipeline
8 166 (20.99%) Data Engineering
9 162 (20.48%) CI/CD
10 152 (19.22%) Agile
11 150 (18.96%) Data Architecture
12 141 (17.83%) Migration
13 139 (17.57%) Validation
14 135 (17.07%) Data Management
15 134 (16.94%) DevOps
16 121 (15.30%) Decision-Making
17 118 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
18 111 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 91 (11.50%) Machine Learning
20 87 (11.00%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 307 (38.81%) SQL
2 206 (26.04%) Python
3 27 (3.41%) C#
4 26 (3.29%) Scala
5 19 (2.40%) Java
6 14 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.14%) Bicep
9 9 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.76%) Bash
10 6 (0.76%) R
11 3 (0.38%) Cypher
11 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.38%) VBA
12 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.25%) Go
12 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.25%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.71%) Degree
4 37 (4.68%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.77%) PMP
10 12 (1.52%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.39%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.76%) CISSP
13 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.63%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.51%) CEH
14 4 (0.51%) CISM
14 4 (0.51%) GIAC
14 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (42.48%) Data Quality
2 122 (15.42%) GDPR
3 46 (5.82%) QA
4 17 (2.15%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.26%) IFRS
8 9 (1.14%) NIST
8 9 (1.14%) PMO
9 8 (1.01%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.88%) COREP
10 7 (0.88%) FINREP
11 5 (0.63%) GRC
11 5 (0.63%) MiFID
12 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.51%) COBIT
12 4 (0.51%) GxP
12 4 (0.51%) NCSC
12 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (3.29%) Docker
2 15 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) HDFS
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (8.72%) Terraform
2 29 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.01%) Grafana
4 6 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.25%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.25%) Ansible
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 169 (21.37%) Microsoft
2 133 (16.81%) Databricks
3 53 (6.70%) Oracle
4 40 (5.06%) Google
5 39 (4.93%) SAP
6 29 (3.67%) Informatica
6 29 (3.67%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.52%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.39%) Foundry
10 9 (1.14%) GoldenSource
10 9 (1.14%) Workday
11 7 (0.88%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.63%) IBM
13 4 (0.51%) Murex
13 4 (0.51%) Sparx
14 3 (0.38%) Adobe
14 3 (0.38%) Ariba
14 3 (0.38%) VMware
14 3 (0.38%) Zscaler