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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 70 116
Rank change year-on-year +10 +46 +111
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 715 444 384
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.63% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.93% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 338 294
10th Percentile £386 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £21.58 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £25.06 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £30.62 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £43.20 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £55.53 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £62.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +90.96% -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 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +19 101 £550 - 67
West London - 32 £603 - 6
East London +2 10 £473 -30.00% 5
South London -15 4 £637 -2.00% 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 76 (10.63%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.20%) Apache
3 28 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.26%) Confluence
4 9 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.70%) SAS
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 37 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.42%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.56%) SAP HCM
3 4 (0.56%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 277 (38.74%) Azure
2 173 (24.20%) Power Platform
3 142 (19.86%) AWS
4 106 (14.83%) GCP
5 93 (13.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 78 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 62 (8.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (8.39%) Collibra
9 53 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (6.15%) Amazon S3
11 41 (5.73%) Snowflake
12 38 (5.31%) GitHub
13 35 (4.90%) dbt
14 25 (3.50%) Serverless
15 23 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
19 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Network Security
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) IPv4
2 2 (0.28%) IPv6
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (21.68%) Power BI
2 147 (20.56%) Metadata
3 115 (16.08%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (13.99%) Data Lake
5 57 (7.97%) Delta Lake
6 47 (6.57%) Tableau
7 38 (5.31%) BigQuery
8 36 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (4.76%) NoSQL
10 28 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (3.92%) SQL Server
11 23 (3.22%) Big Data
12 21 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
13 20 (2.80%) Mixpanel
14 19 (2.66%) OLAP
15 18 (2.52%) OLTP
16 17 (2.38%) Spark SQL
17 16 (2.24%) Data Vault
17 16 (2.24%) Star Schema
18 14 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (8.95%) Git
2 31 (4.34%) JIRA
3 21 (2.94%) ERwin
4 13 (1.82%) PowerDesigner
5 9 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.12%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.98%) MLflow
8 6 (0.84%) GitLab
9 4 (0.56%) LSMW
10 3 (0.42%) git-flow
11 2 (0.28%) JMeter
11 2 (0.28%) Selenium
12 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.14%) GCC
12 1 (0.14%) NUnit
12 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 239 (33.43%) Finance
2 204 (28.53%) Social Skills
3 137 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.93%) Public Sector
5 68 (9.51%) Banking
6 35 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (4.06%) Legal
8 22 (3.08%) Marketing
9 21 (2.94%) Retail
10 15 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.68%) Local Government
12 10 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
16 5 (0.70%) Law
16 5 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 143 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 129 (18.04%) Analyst
3 106 (14.83%) Architect
4 95 (13.29%) Lead
5 80 (11.19%) Data Analyst
5 80 (11.19%) Senior
6 61 (8.53%) Business Analyst
7 50 (6.99%) Data Architect
8 36 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (4.34%) Developer
10 28 (3.92%) Azure Data Engineer
11 27 (3.78%) Data Business Analyst
11 27 (3.78%) Project Manager
12 24 (3.36%) Data Modeller
13 23 (3.22%) Consultant
14 22 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (2.94%) Governance Analyst
15 21 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.35%) PySpark
2 51 (7.13%) Kafka
3 26 (3.64%) REST
4 19 (2.66%) Great Expectations
5 16 (2.24%) .NET
5 16 (2.24%) Middleware
5 16 (2.24%) SOAP
6 12 (1.68%) JSON
7 11 (1.54%) Web Services
8 9 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.12%) YAML
10 7 (0.98%) Pandas
10 7 (0.98%) Spring
11 6 (0.84%) boto
11 6 (0.84%) OAuth
12 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (0.56%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.56%) scikit-learn
13 4 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.52%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.54%) Clustering
10 11 (1.54%) CMDB
11 9 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.12%) Equities
13 7 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (40.42%) Data Modelling
2 270 (37.76%) Analytics
3 180 (25.17%) Business Intelligence
4 178 (24.90%) ETL
5 173 (24.20%) AI
5 173 (24.20%) Data Pipeline
6 170 (23.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 169 (23.64%) Data Engineering
8 161 (22.52%) CI/CD
9 158 (22.10%) Agile
10 140 (19.58%) Data Architecture
11 128 (17.90%) DevOps
12 124 (17.34%) Validation
13 117 (16.36%) Migration
14 114 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
15 113 (15.80%) Decision-Making
16 108 (15.10%) Data Management
17 87 (12.17%) Machine Learning
18 80 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
19 78 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 320 (44.76%) SQL
2 221 (30.91%) Python
3 38 (5.31%) C#
3 38 (5.31%) Scala
4 18 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (2.24%) PL/SQL
6 15 (2.10%) Java
7 14 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.68%) R
9 10 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.26%) Bicep
11 4 (0.56%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.56%) VBA
12 3 (0.42%) Bash
13 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.28%) C
13 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.14%) COBOL
14 1 (0.14%) SOQL
14 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 137 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.39%) Degree
4 34 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.26%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.12%) PMP
12 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.70%) CISSP
13 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.56%) CEH
14 4 (0.56%) CISM
14 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.56%) GIAC
15 3 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (42.94%) Data Quality
2 104 (14.55%) GDPR
3 45 (6.29%) QA
4 12 (1.68%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.54%) IFRS
5 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.12%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.98%) NIST
9 6 (0.84%) COREP
9 6 (0.84%) FINREP
9 6 (0.84%) MiFID
9 6 (0.84%) PMO
10 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.56%) COBIT
10 4 (0.56%) GRC
10 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (3.78%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (9.79%) Terraform
2 32 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.84%) Grafana
3 6 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.56%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.56%) Istio
6 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 161 (22.52%) Databricks
2 144 (20.14%) Microsoft
3 49 (6.85%) Oracle
4 41 (5.73%) Google
4 41 (5.73%) SAP
5 32 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 29 (4.06%) Informatica
7 17 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.12%) Foundry
9 8 (1.12%) GoldenSource
9 8 (1.12%) Workday
10 5 (0.70%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.70%) VMware
11 4 (0.56%) Adobe
11 4 (0.56%) Ariba
11 4 (0.56%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.42%) IBM
12 3 (0.42%) Murex