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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 66 127
Rank change year-on-year +11 +61 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 875 517 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.34% 3.86% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 4.16% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 368 241
10th Percentile £373 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% -9.23%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £875
England median daily rate £550 £529 £557
% change year-on-year +3.97% -5.03% -7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £19.08 - £32.68
25th Percentile £19.19 £18.25 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.12 £18.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year +46.57% -64.88% +49.14%
75th Percentile £44.76 £28.13 £66.02
90th Percentile £59.90 £33.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £27.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +83.28% -9.07% -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 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £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 £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +16 136 £560 +1.82% 131
West London +12 34 £520 +1.46% 27
East London +3 3 £450 -33.33% 13
South London -9 1 - - 5
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 54 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (5.60%) Apache Spark
3 36 (4.11%) Apache
4 28 (3.20%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.49%) Confluence
6 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.91%) SAS
7 7 (0.80%) CMS
8 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 41 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.37%) SAP MDG
3 9 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.69%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Workfront
7 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.11%) Maximo
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 337 (38.51%) Azure
2 177 (20.23%) AWS
2 177 (20.23%) Power Platform
3 104 (11.89%) GCP
4 89 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 89 (10.17%) Snowflake
5 82 (9.37%) Microsoft Purview
6 65 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 62 (7.09%) dbt
8 60 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (6.40%) Collibra
10 44 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 37 (4.23%) Serverless
13 36 (4.11%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.31%) GitHub
15 26 (2.97%) Entra ID
16 25 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (2.74%) Azure Databricks
18 23 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.91%) Cisco IPT
2 6 (0.69%) Network Security
3 4 (0.46%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) Broadband
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) DNS
5 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (26.06%) Metadata
2 154 (17.60%) Power BI
3 126 (14.40%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (11.43%) Data Lake
5 47 (5.37%) Delta Lake
6 40 (4.57%) Tableau
7 33 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.66%) BigQuery
9 24 (2.74%) Big Data
9 24 (2.74%) Data Vault
10 22 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (2.40%) NoSQL
11 21 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (2.40%) Star Schema
12 18 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (1.94%) Power Query
13 17 (1.94%) Semantic Layer
13 17 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (1.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (4.80%) Git
2 33 (3.77%) JIRA
3 26 (2.97%) ERwin
4 19 (2.17%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
6 9 (1.03%) GitLab
7 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.46%) RStudio
8 4 (0.46%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) MLflow
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) git-flow
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 291 (33.26%) Finance
1 291 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 152 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
3 102 (11.66%) Banking
4 90 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 50 (5.71%) Legal
6 41 (4.69%) Retail
7 33 (3.77%) Marketing
8 25 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 24 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.60%) Local Government
12 14 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.26%) Front Office
14 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.03%) Law
16 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 187 (21.37%) Architect
2 169 (19.31%) Analyst
3 127 (14.51%) Data Engineer
4 107 (12.23%) Data Architect
4 107 (12.23%) Lead
5 92 (10.51%) Data Analyst
6 91 (10.40%) Senior
7 72 (8.23%) Business Analyst
8 41 (4.69%) Consultant
9 38 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
11 33 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
12 30 (3.43%) Data Manager
13 29 (3.31%) Data Modeller
14 28 (3.20%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.20%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (2.74%) Developer
17 22 (2.51%) Azure Engineer
18 21 (2.40%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (8.11%) PySpark
2 58 (6.63%) Terraform
3 45 (5.14%) Kafka
4 23 (2.63%) REST
5 20 (2.29%) JSON
6 10 (1.14%) .NET
7 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.91%) OAuth
8 8 (0.91%) YAML
9 6 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (0.69%) GraphQL
9 6 (0.69%) Great Expectations
10 5 (0.57%) Apache Avro
10 5 (0.57%) Middleware
10 5 (0.57%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.57%) pytest
10 5 (0.57%) React
10 5 (0.57%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 69 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 68 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.86%) Onboarding
4 45 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (5.03%) Reference Data
6 37 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 32 (3.66%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (2.86%) Taxonomies
10 23 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.83%) Life Science
11 16 (1.83%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.37%) FMCG
14 11 (1.26%) Reinsurance
15 10 (1.14%) Clustering
15 10 (1.14%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.03%) Linux
2 6 (0.69%) Windows
3 5 (0.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) VMS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (39.09%) Data Modelling
2 316 (36.11%) Analytics
3 309 (35.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 255 (29.14%) AI
5 208 (23.77%) Data Architecture
6 189 (21.60%) Business Intelligence
7 188 (21.49%) Agile
8 186 (21.26%) Data Engineering
9 184 (21.03%) Migration
10 183 (20.91%) Data Pipeline
11 174 (19.89%) ETL
12 170 (19.43%) CI/CD
13 165 (18.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 154 (17.60%) Validation
15 146 (16.69%) Data Management
16 137 (15.66%) Decision-Making
16 137 (15.66%) DevOps
17 136 (15.54%) Roadmaps
18 127 (14.51%) Metadata Management
19 126 (14.40%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 320 (36.57%) SQL
2 198 (22.63%) Python
3 28 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (2.29%) Java
5 18 (2.06%) C#
6 17 (1.94%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.60%) Scala
8 13 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.14%) Bicep
10 9 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.80%) Bash
12 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.69%) R
13 4 (0.46%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) Cypher
15 2 (0.23%) Delphi
15 2 (0.23%) Korn
15 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 127 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.14%) Degree
4 35 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.94%) PMP
8 16 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.37%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.57%) CISSP
13 4 (0.46%) CISM
13 4 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.34%) CEH
14 3 (0.34%) CSPO
14 3 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (46.74%) Data Quality
2 115 (13.14%) GDPR
3 34 (3.89%) QA
4 13 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.37%) GRC
6 11 (1.26%) NIST
6 11 (1.26%) Solvency II
7 10 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.03%) PMO
9 8 (0.91%) GxP
10 6 (0.69%) IFRS
10 6 (0.69%) MiFID
10 6 (0.69%) NCSC
11 5 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 5 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.46%) COREP
12 4 (0.46%) FINREP
12 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 23 (2.63%) Docker
2 22 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.34%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.03%) Ansible
3 7 (0.80%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.69%) Control-M
4 6 (0.69%) Grafana
4 6 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.34%) Puppet
6 2 (0.23%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 229 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 172 (19.66%) Databricks
3 49 (5.60%) Oracle
4 46 (5.26%) Informatica
5 39 (4.46%) SAP
6 36 (4.11%) Google
7 22 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.71%) Adobe
9 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.26%) Foundry
10 11 (1.26%) IBM
10 11 (1.26%) Workday
11 10 (1.14%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.03%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.80%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.80%) Sparx
13 7 (0.80%) Talend
13 7 (0.80%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.69%) Confluent