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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 74 128
Rank change year-on-year +18 +54 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 850 477 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.24% 3.55% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 3.84% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 337 254
10th Percentile £392 £402 £400
25th Percentile £456 £469 £500
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 £888
England median daily rate £538 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.61% -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% -18.66%
75th Percentile £36.35 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £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 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +19 124 £572 +9.00% 58
West London +12 34 £520 +22.35% 19
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -3 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 (6.24%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.76%) Apache
4 22 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.06%) Confluence
6 6 (0.71%) CMS
6 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.59%) SAS
8 3 (0.35%) 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
10 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 41 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.94%) SAP MDG
4 7 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.35%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.35%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 308 (36.24%) Azure
2 171 (20.12%) AWS
3 170 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 100 (11.76%) GCP
5 83 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 73 (8.59%) Microsoft Purview
6 73 (8.59%) Snowflake
7 60 (7.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 60 (7.06%) Collibra
8 58 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (6.12%) dbt
10 37 (4.35%) Amazon S3
10 37 (4.35%) GitHub
11 31 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (3.65%) Serverless
12 30 (3.53%) Microsoft Copilot
13 23 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.24%) Entra ID
16 18 (2.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) Network Security
2 6 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) IPv4
4 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (23.18%) Metadata
2 150 (17.65%) Power BI
3 117 (13.76%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (11.53%) Data Lake
5 50 (5.88%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.94%) Tableau
7 29 (3.41%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.18%) BigQuery
9 26 (3.06%) Big Data
10 22 (2.59%) Data Vault
10 22 (2.59%) NoSQL
10 22 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (2.35%) Star Schema
12 19 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (1.76%) Parquet
15 15 (1.76%) Spark SQL
16 14 (1.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (4.35%) JIRA
2 35 (4.12%) Git
3 29 (3.41%) ERwin
4 19 (2.24%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.41%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.18%) GitLab
7 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.35%) MLflow
8 3 (0.35%) RStudio
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) git-flow
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) GCC
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 287 (33.76%) Finance
2 264 (31.06%) Social Skills
3 152 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (11.76%) Banking
5 84 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.06%) Legal
6 43 (5.06%) Retail
7 30 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (3.41%) Marketing
9 21 (2.47%) Investment Banking
10 20 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.41%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.29%) Law
15 11 (1.29%) Local Government
16 9 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 175 (20.59%) Architect
2 163 (19.18%) Analyst
3 130 (15.29%) Data Engineer
4 104 (12.24%) Lead
5 98 (11.53%) Data Analyst
6 89 (10.47%) Data Architect
7 81 (9.53%) Senior
8 66 (7.76%) Business Analyst
9 42 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.12%) Project Manager
11 34 (4.00%) Consultant
12 31 (3.65%) Data Modeller
13 30 (3.53%) Data Business Analyst
14 29 (3.41%) Governance Analyst
15 28 (3.29%) Data Manager
16 27 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
17 24 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
18 21 (2.47%) Product Owner
19 20 (2.35%) Developer
20 17 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.53%) PySpark
2 61 (7.18%) Terraform
3 47 (5.53%) Kafka
4 27 (3.18%) REST
5 17 (2.00%) JSON
6 15 (1.76%) Middleware
7 14 (1.65%) SOAP
8 13 (1.53%) Web Services
9 10 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.06%) Spring
11 8 (0.94%) Great Expectations
12 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (0.71%) OAuth
13 6 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
13 6 (0.71%) YAML
14 5 (0.59%) MACH
14 5 (0.59%) Spring Boot
15 4 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
15 4 (0.47%) Model Context Protocol
15 4 (0.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 66 (7.76%) Data Structures
4 56 (6.59%) Onboarding
5 45 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (4.12%) Reference Data
7 31 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.82%) AI Agents
9 23 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.53%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.53%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.41%) Life Science
13 12 (1.41%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.29%) Clustering
14 11 (1.29%) CMDB
14 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.29%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.29%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.59%) Linux
1 5 (0.59%) Unix
2 3 (0.35%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (38.24%) Data Modelling
2 299 (35.18%) Analytics
3 262 (30.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 226 (26.59%) AI
5 185 (21.76%) Business Intelligence
6 183 (21.53%) Data Engineering
7 179 (21.06%) Data Pipeline
7 179 (21.06%) ETL
8 177 (20.82%) Data Architecture
9 173 (20.35%) Agile
10 169 (19.88%) CI/CD
11 156 (18.35%) Migration
12 145 (17.06%) Validation
13 141 (16.59%) DevOps
14 140 (16.47%) Data Management
15 137 (16.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 127 (14.94%) Decision-Making
17 115 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
18 110 (12.94%) Data Lineage
19 108 (12.71%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 320 (37.65%) SQL
2 198 (23.29%) Python
3 21 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (2.47%) Java
4 17 (2.00%) Scala
5 14 (1.65%) C#
5 14 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.53%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.29%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.18%) Bicep
9 9 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.59%) Bash
10 5 (0.59%) R
11 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.35%) 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
1 137 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 115 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.65%) Degree
4 37 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.76%) PMP
8 14 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.65%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.41%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
12 5 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.47%) CEH
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) GIAC
13 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.35%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (44.24%) Data Quality
2 114 (13.41%) GDPR
3 39 (4.59%) QA
4 16 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.65%) Solvency II
6 13 (1.53%) NIST
7 9 (1.06%) PMO
8 8 (0.94%) COREP
8 8 (0.94%) FINREP
9 7 (0.82%) GRC
9 7 (0.82%) GxP
9 7 (0.82%) IFRS
10 6 (0.71%) MiFID
10 6 (0.71%) NCSC
11 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.47%) COBIT
11 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 21 (2.47%) Docker
2 19 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.82%) Grafana
2 7 (0.82%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.47%) Ansible
3 4 (0.47%) Control-M
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.24%) Istio
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 190 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 150 (17.65%) Databricks
3 55 (6.47%) Oracle
4 36 (4.24%) Informatica
5 34 (4.00%) SAP
6 33 (3.88%) Google
7 26 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.41%) Adobe
9 12 (1.41%) Foundry
10 9 (1.06%) Bloomberg
10 9 (1.06%) GoldenSource
10 9 (1.06%) Workday
11 8 (0.94%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.94%) IBM
12 7 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.82%) Sparx
12 7 (0.82%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.71%) Confluent
14 4 (0.47%) Guidewire