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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 88 144
Rank change year-on-year +24 +56 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 577 409 315
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 2.95% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 3.27% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 295 235
10th Percentile £400 £388 £400
25th Percentile £463 £507 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% -0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £768 £738
90th Percentile £739 £938 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 £45.50 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +67.74% -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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £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 £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +32 100 £563 -3.23% 35
West London -1 15 £603 - 8
South London -1 3 £475 -20.83% 8
East London -7 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 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.99%) Apache
3 18 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.43%) Confluence
5 10 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.69%) 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 34 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (2.25%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.69%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.04%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.69%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.52%) Actimize
5 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 236 (40.90%) Azure
2 147 (25.48%) Power Platform
3 135 (23.40%) AWS
4 85 (14.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (12.65%) GCP
6 67 (11.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 66 (11.44%) Snowflake
8 43 (7.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 42 (7.28%) Collibra
10 38 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (6.24%) Amazon S3
12 29 (5.03%) dbt
12 29 (5.03%) Serverless
13 21 (3.64%) GitHub
14 20 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.60%) SaaS
19 13 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.69%) 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
1 131 (22.70%) Power BI
2 123 (21.32%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (20.10%) Metadata
4 75 (13.00%) Data Lake
5 44 (7.63%) NoSQL
6 40 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (6.59%) Tableau
8 30 (5.20%) Big Data
9 28 (4.85%) SQL Server
10 26 (4.51%) Delta Lake
11 25 (4.33%) Relational Database
12 24 (4.16%) Snowflake Schema
13 21 (3.64%) Data Vault
14 19 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (3.29%) BigQuery
15 18 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (2.77%) Star Schema
17 15 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (2.60%) Spark SQL
18 13 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 42 (7.28%) Git
2 36 (6.24%) JIRA
3 22 (3.81%) ERwin
4 17 (2.95%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.08%) ER Studio
6 10 (1.73%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.56%) 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
1 212 (36.74%) Social Skills
2 198 (34.32%) Finance
3 114 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.32%) Banking
6 30 (5.20%) Legal
7 25 (4.33%) Marketing
8 19 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.95%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.43%) Retail
12 11 (1.91%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.91%) Publishing
13 10 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.56%) Electronics
15 8 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.21%) Local Government
16 7 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (19.24%) Analyst
2 99 (17.16%) Architect
3 93 (16.12%) Data Engineer
4 77 (13.34%) Lead
5 63 (10.92%) Data Analyst
6 56 (9.71%) Data Architect
7 51 (8.84%) Business Analyst
8 37 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
8 37 (6.41%) Senior
9 33 (5.72%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (5.03%) Data Modeller
11 27 (4.68%) Consultant
12 22 (3.81%) Governance Analyst
13 21 (3.64%) Developer
14 19 (3.29%) Project Manager
15 17 (2.95%) Data Business Analyst
15 17 (2.95%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.77%) Azure Architect
17 13 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
18 12 (2.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.31%) PySpark
2 37 (6.41%) Kafka
3 14 (2.43%) REST
4 11 (1.91%) .NET
5 9 (1.56%) Great Expectations
5 9 (1.56%) OAuth
5 9 (1.56%) Pandas
6 8 (1.39%) SOAP
7 7 (1.21%) LangChain
7 7 (1.21%) Middleware
7 7 (1.21%) 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 (0.69%) boto
10 4 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.93%) Cloud Native
1 40 (6.93%) Data Structures
2 24 (4.16%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.25%) Reference Data
8 12 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.08%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.91%) Life Science
10 10 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.21%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.04%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.04%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.35%) Android
1 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (45.06%) Data Modelling
2 202 (35.01%) Analytics
3 168 (29.12%) Agile
4 152 (26.34%) Business Intelligence
5 146 (25.30%) Data Engineering
6 140 (24.26%) ETL
7 136 (23.57%) Data Pipeline
8 123 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 121 (20.97%) Data Architecture
10 116 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (19.06%) AI
12 106 (18.37%) CI/CD
13 96 (16.64%) Data Integration
14 94 (16.29%) DevOps
15 88 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 82 (14.21%) Data Management
17 79 (13.69%) Decision-Making
18 75 (13.00%) Machine Learning
19 74 (12.82%) Metadata Management
20 73 (12.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 250 (43.33%) SQL
2 184 (31.89%) Python
3 33 (5.72%) Scala
4 22 (3.81%) C#
5 20 (3.47%) R
6 18 (3.12%) Java
7 15 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.08%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.39%) Bicep
12 6 (1.04%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.87%) 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 99 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.23%) Degree
4 31 (5.37%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.08%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.73%) PMP
11 7 (1.21%) 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
1 233 (40.38%) Data Quality
2 106 (18.37%) GDPR
3 28 (4.85%) QA
4 25 (4.33%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.56%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.21%) IFRS
8 7 (1.21%) NIST
9 5 (0.87%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.87%) MiFID
9 5 (0.87%) PERC
9 5 (0.87%) PMO
9 5 (0.87%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.69%) IFRS 17
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%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 33 (5.72%) Docker
2 6 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (9.71%) Terraform
2 34 (5.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.69%) 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
1 146 (25.30%) Databricks
2 111 (19.24%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.72%) Salesforce
3 33 (5.72%) SAP
4 29 (5.03%) Google
5 24 (4.16%) Informatica
6 23 (3.99%) Oracle
7 12 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.08%) Sparx
8 11 (1.91%) Adobe
8 11 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.56%) Tealium
9 9 (1.56%) Workday
10 8 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.21%) OneTrust
12 5 (0.87%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.87%) mParticle
13 4 (0.69%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.69%) Talend
13 4 (0.69%) VMware