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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 74 114
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 +106
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 730 439 392
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.84% 3.51% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.80% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 318 303
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.11%
75th Percentile £638 £734 £744
90th Percentile £738 £925 £875
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
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 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.85% -18.18% +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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +14 96 £550 - 15
West London -1 27 £603 +41.76% 7
East London +5 9 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -4 4 £637 -6.50% 4
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 58 (7.95%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.70%) Apache
4 16 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.10%) Confluence
6 6 (0.82%) CMS
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 33 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.51%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.55%) SAP HCM
3 4 (0.55%) SAP MDG
3 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.27%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.14%) Maximo
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 272 (37.26%) Azure
2 178 (24.38%) Power Platform
3 144 (19.73%) AWS
4 106 (14.52%) GCP
5 77 (10.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 73 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 62 (8.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 59 (8.08%) Collibra
9 56 (7.67%) Snowflake
10 52 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (5.62%) Amazon S3
11 41 (5.62%) dbt
12 39 (5.34%) GitHub
13 30 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
14 28 (3.84%) Serverless
15 26 (3.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (2.33%) Power Automate
18 16 (2.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.27%) IPv4
3 2 (0.27%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.51%) Power BI
2 156 (21.37%) Metadata
3 97 (13.29%) Data Lake
3 97 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (7.26%) Delta Lake
5 45 (6.16%) Tableau
6 36 (4.93%) BigQuery
7 29 (3.97%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.84%) NoSQL
9 25 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
10 23 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (2.88%) Big Data
11 21 (2.88%) Data Vault
12 15 (2.05%) Hadoop
12 15 (2.05%) OLAP
12 15 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (2.05%) Spark SQL
13 14 (1.92%) OLTP
13 14 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (6.85%) Git
2 30 (4.11%) JIRA
3 25 (3.42%) ERwin
4 13 (1.78%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.64%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.96%) GitLab
7 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.68%) MLflow
9 3 (0.41%) git-flow
10 2 (0.27%) JMeter
10 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.14%) GCC
11 1 (0.14%) LSMW
11 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.14%) Selenium
11 1 (0.14%) Snyk
11 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 249 (34.11%) Finance
2 210 (28.77%) Social Skills
3 133 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.96%) Banking
5 68 (9.32%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.84%) Legal
8 24 (3.29%) Retail
9 17 (2.33%) Marketing
10 16 (2.19%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.64%) Local Government
12 12 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.68%) Billing
15 5 (0.68%) Law
15 5 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (18.49%) Analyst
2 130 (17.81%) Data Engineer
3 118 (16.16%) Architect
4 98 (13.42%) Lead
5 84 (11.51%) Data Analyst
6 83 (11.37%) Senior
7 59 (8.08%) Business Analyst
8 52 (7.12%) Data Architect
9 28 (3.84%) Data Business Analyst
9 28 (3.84%) Project Manager
9 28 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
10 27 (3.70%) Data Modeller
10 27 (3.70%) Developer
11 26 (3.56%) Consultant
12 24 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (3.29%) Governance Analyst
13 23 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (3.01%) Data Manager
15 19 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.81%) PySpark
2 45 (6.16%) Kafka
3 27 (3.70%) REST
4 17 (2.33%) Middleware
4 17 (2.33%) SOAP
5 14 (1.92%) Great Expectations
6 12 (1.64%) .NET
6 12 (1.64%) JSON
7 11 (1.51%) Web Services
8 10 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.10%) Spring
9 8 (1.10%) YAML
10 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.82%) OAuth
12 5 (0.68%) boto
12 5 (0.68%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.68%) Pandas
12 5 (0.68%) XML
13 4 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 44 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 34 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.42%) AI Agents
7 23 (3.15%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.01%) Reference Data
9 18 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.64%) Clustering
12 12 (1.64%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.37%) CMDB
13 10 (1.37%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.23%) Fixed Income
15 8 (1.10%) Equities
15 8 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.10%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.41%) Windows
2 2 (0.27%) Linux
2 2 (0.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (37.81%) Data Modelling
2 268 (36.71%) Analytics
3 192 (26.30%) AI
4 179 (24.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 175 (23.97%) Business Intelligence
6 166 (22.74%) ETL
7 159 (21.78%) Data Engineering
8 158 (21.64%) Data Pipeline
9 154 (21.10%) CI/CD
10 147 (20.14%) Agile
11 143 (19.59%) Data Architecture
12 131 (17.95%) Validation
13 128 (17.53%) DevOps
14 126 (17.26%) Migration
15 122 (16.71%) Data Management
16 110 (15.07%) Decision-Making
16 110 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
17 101 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 89 (12.19%) Machine Learning
19 84 (11.51%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 291 (39.86%) SQL
2 198 (27.12%) Python
3 28 (3.84%) C#
4 27 (3.70%) Scala
5 15 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (2.05%) Java
6 12 (1.64%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.51%) Bicep
7 11 (1.51%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.51%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.10%) R
9 5 (0.68%) Bash
10 3 (0.41%) Cypher
10 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.41%) VBA
11 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.27%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.22%) Degree
4 37 (5.07%) Azure Certification
5 30 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.64%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.51%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.51%) PMP
11 9 (1.23%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.82%) CISSP
13 5 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.68%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.55%) CEH
14 4 (0.55%) CISM
14 4 (0.55%) GIAC
15 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (42.33%) Data Quality
2 112 (15.34%) GDPR
3 45 (6.16%) QA
4 16 (2.19%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.23%) IFRS
7 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.96%) COREP
8 7 (0.96%) FINREP
8 7 (0.96%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.96%) NIST
8 7 (0.96%) PMO
9 5 (0.68%) MiFID
10 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.55%) COBIT
10 4 (0.55%) GRC
10 4 (0.55%) NCSC
10 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.41%) HL7
System Software
1 25 (3.42%) Docker
2 11 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (9.32%) Terraform
2 30 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.96%) Grafana
3 7 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.55%) Istio
6 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 160 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 130 (17.81%) Databricks
3 52 (7.12%) Oracle
4 38 (5.21%) Google
5 34 (4.66%) SAP
6 31 (4.25%) Salesforce
7 26 (3.56%) Informatica
8 14 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.37%) Foundry
11 9 (1.23%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.10%) Workday
13 5 (0.68%) IBM
13 5 (0.68%) VMware
14 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.55%) CyberArk
14 4 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.55%) Murex
14 4 (0.55%) Sparx
15 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft