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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 74 131
Rank change year-on-year +19 +57 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 890 488 333
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.38% 3.61% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 3.91% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 339 241
10th Percentile £375 £402 £400
25th Percentile £450 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +23.41% +6.40%
75th Percentile £28.67 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.40% +24.93% -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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +15 140 £570 +3.55% 82
West London +11 29 £520 +22.35% 13
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 13
South London -10 2 £500 -26.61% 2
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 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (6.18%) Apache Spark
3 37 (4.16%) Apache
4 27 (3.03%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.12%) Confluence
6 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.90%) SAS
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) Mendix
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 44 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.35%) SAP MDG
3 7 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.34%) Workfront
7 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.11%) Maximo
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 332 (37.30%) Azure
2 180 (20.22%) AWS
3 179 (20.11%) Power Platform
4 105 (11.80%) GCP
5 89 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 83 (9.33%) Snowflake
7 74 (8.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 68 (7.64%) dbt
9 66 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 63 (7.08%) Collibra
11 57 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
13 38 (4.27%) Amazon S3
14 37 (4.16%) Serverless
15 36 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
16 33 (3.71%) GitHub
17 27 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (2.92%) Azure Databricks
19 22 (2.47%) Entra ID
20 21 (2.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.79%) Cisco IPT
2 6 (0.67%) Network Security
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (25.39%) Metadata
2 157 (17.64%) Power BI
3 132 (14.83%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (10.79%) Data Lake
5 50 (5.62%) Delta Lake
6 44 (4.94%) Tableau
7 33 (3.71%) SQL Server
8 31 (3.48%) BigQuery
9 27 (3.03%) Big Data
10 25 (2.81%) Star Schema
11 23 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 23 (2.58%) Data Vault
11 23 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (2.36%) NoSQL
12 21 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (1.91%) Parquet
13 17 (1.91%) Semantic Layer
13 17 (1.91%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 38 (4.27%) Git
2 34 (3.82%) JIRA
3 30 (3.37%) ERwin
4 20 (2.25%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.35%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.12%) GitLab
7 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.56%) Selenium
9 4 (0.45%) RStudio
10 3 (0.34%) MLflow
11 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.22%) git-flow
11 2 (0.22%) JMeter
11 2 (0.22%) Postman
11 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.11%) LSMW
12 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 306 (34.38%) Finance
2 288 (32.36%) Social Skills
3 158 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (12.25%) Banking
5 92 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.94%) Legal
6 44 (4.94%) Retail
7 32 (3.60%) Marketing
8 31 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.70%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.46%) Local Government
13 11 (1.24%) Law
13 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.12%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 186 (20.90%) Architect
2 166 (18.65%) Analyst
3 146 (16.40%) Data Engineer
4 111 (12.47%) Lead
5 103 (11.57%) Data Architect
6 95 (10.67%) Data Analyst
7 90 (10.11%) Senior
8 66 (7.42%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.49%) Consultant
10 38 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
12 30 (3.37%) Data Manager
12 30 (3.37%) Data Modeller
12 30 (3.37%) Governance Analyst
13 28 (3.15%) Data Business Analyst
14 27 (3.03%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (2.47%) Databricks Engineer
17 21 (2.36%) Data Consultant
17 21 (2.36%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.43%) PySpark
2 59 (6.63%) Terraform
3 47 (5.28%) Kafka
4 24 (2.70%) REST
5 17 (1.91%) JSON
6 13 (1.46%) Middleware
7 9 (1.01%) Great Expectations
7 9 (1.01%) SOAP
8 8 (0.90%) .NET
8 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.90%) Web Services
9 6 (0.67%) OAuth
9 6 (0.67%) React
9 6 (0.67%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (0.67%) YAML
10 5 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (0.56%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.56%) pytest
10 5 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 71 (7.98%) Data Structures
3 68 (7.64%) Product Ownership
4 64 (7.19%) Onboarding
5 42 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (4.72%) Reference Data
6 37 (4.16%) Management Information System
7 29 (3.26%) AI Agents
8 22 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.13%) Taxonomies
11 16 (1.80%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.69%) Life Science
13 14 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.35%) Clustering
15 12 (1.35%) FMCG
16 11 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
17 10 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.67%) Linux
2 5 (0.56%) Unix
3 4 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) VMS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (39.78%) Data Modelling
2 323 (36.29%) Analytics
3 295 (33.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 247 (27.75%) AI
5 200 (22.47%) Data Engineering
6 197 (22.13%) Data Architecture
7 196 (22.02%) Business Intelligence
8 194 (21.80%) Data Pipeline
8 194 (21.80%) ETL
9 192 (21.57%) Agile
10 181 (20.34%) CI/CD
11 174 (19.55%) Migration
12 160 (17.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 155 (17.42%) Validation
14 151 (16.97%) Data Management
15 147 (16.52%) DevOps
16 142 (15.96%) Decision-Making
17 131 (14.72%) Metadata Management
18 129 (14.49%) Roadmaps
19 126 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 341 (38.31%) SQL
2 209 (23.48%) Python
3 27 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (2.02%) Java
5 16 (1.80%) C#
5 16 (1.80%) Scala
6 14 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.46%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.90%) Bicep
10 5 (0.56%) Bash
10 5 (0.56%) R
11 3 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.22%) Cypher
12 2 (0.22%) Go
12 2 (0.22%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 135 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 108 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.83%) Degree
4 38 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.80%) PMP
8 15 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.35%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.67%) CISSP
13 5 (0.56%) CISM
13 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.56%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.45%) CEH
14 4 (0.45%) GIAC
14 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (47.53%) Data Quality
2 116 (13.03%) GDPR
3 40 (4.49%) QA
4 15 (1.69%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.24%) NIST
7 10 (1.12%) GRC
8 9 (1.01%) PMO
9 8 (0.90%) COREP
9 8 (0.90%) FINREP
10 7 (0.79%) GxP
10 7 (0.79%) NCSC
11 6 (0.67%) IFRS
11 6 (0.67%) MiFID
12 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.45%) COBIT
13 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.47%) Docker
2 20 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.22%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.67%) Ansible
2 6 (0.67%) Control-M
2 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.56%) Grafana
3 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.22%) Istio
5 2 (0.22%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 209 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 170 (19.10%) Databricks
3 55 (6.18%) Oracle
4 49 (5.51%) Informatica
5 39 (4.38%) SAP
6 35 (3.93%) Google
7 26 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.35%) Adobe
9 12 (1.35%) Foundry
10 11 (1.24%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.12%) IBM
11 10 (1.12%) Workday
12 9 (1.01%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.90%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.79%) Sparx
14 7 (0.79%) Talend
14 7 (0.79%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.67%) Confluent