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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 84 137
Rank change year-on-year +20 +53 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 603 435 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.08% 3.15% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 3.48% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 320 238
10th Percentile £374 £394 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £606
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +3.09% +1.04%
75th Percentile £638 £765 £738
90th Percentile £750 £938 £779
England median daily rate £515 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -11.21% +0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile - - £30.60
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.63
75th Percentile £18.75 - £49.67
90th Percentile £28.13 - £50.45
England median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £46.06
% change year-on-year +102.76% -41.10% +106.71%

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 13,441 12,496 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,906 7,945 11,669
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.11 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £56.13 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +29 97 £550 -8.33% 48
West London -1 19 £603 - 10
East London 0 6 £566 +25.83% 7
South London -5 3 £475 -20.83% 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 72 (11.94%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.48%) Apache
3 20 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.65%) Confluence
5 12 (1.99%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.66%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.33%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 31 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.99%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.66%) Trello
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.17%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.17%) Revit
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.66%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.50%) Actimize
5 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.50%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 248 (41.13%) Azure
2 154 (25.54%) Power Platform
3 143 (23.71%) AWS
4 94 (15.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 78 (12.94%) GCP
6 73 (12.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 66 (10.95%) Snowflake
8 51 (8.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 44 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (6.63%) Collibra
11 38 (6.30%) Amazon S3
12 31 (5.14%) dbt
13 30 (4.98%) Serverless
14 26 (4.31%) GitHub
15 23 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
17 18 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.49%) SaaS
19 14 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.83%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (23.05%) Power BI
2 124 (20.56%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (19.90%) Metadata
4 81 (13.43%) Data Lake
5 46 (7.63%) NoSQL
6 43 (7.13%) Tableau
7 41 (6.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (5.31%) Big Data
9 31 (5.14%) Delta Lake
9 31 (5.14%) SQL Server
10 27 (4.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 25 (4.15%) Relational Database
12 24 (3.98%) Data Vault
13 22 (3.65%) BigQuery
14 18 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (2.82%) Star Schema
16 16 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (2.65%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 47 (7.79%) Git
2 40 (6.63%) JIRA
3 24 (3.98%) ERwin
4 16 (2.65%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.99%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.82%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.66%) MLflow
8 5 (0.83%) GitLab
9 3 (0.50%) LSMW
10 2 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.33%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.33%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
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%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 229 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 209 (34.66%) Finance
3 116 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.13%) Banking
6 31 (5.14%) Legal
7 24 (3.98%) Marketing
8 18 (2.99%) Retail
9 17 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.32%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.99%) Publishing
13 10 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.49%) Electronics
14 9 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.16%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.16%) Local Government
17 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (17.74%) Analyst
2 105 (17.41%) Data Engineer
3 93 (15.42%) Architect
4 91 (15.09%) Lead
5 65 (10.78%) Data Analyst
6 54 (8.96%) Data Architect
7 53 (8.79%) Business Analyst
8 45 (7.46%) Senior
9 38 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (5.64%) Azure Data Engineer
11 32 (5.31%) Data Modeller
12 27 (4.48%) Consultant
13 25 (4.15%) Developer
14 20 (3.32%) Project Manager
15 19 (3.15%) Data Business Analyst
16 17 (2.82%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.82%) Governance Analyst
17 14 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
18 13 (2.16%) Azure Architect
18 13 (2.16%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.77%) PySpark
2 40 (6.63%) Kafka
3 14 (2.32%) REST
4 13 (2.16%) .NET
4 13 (2.16%) Great Expectations
5 9 (1.49%) OAuth
5 9 (1.49%) Pandas
6 8 (1.33%) SOAP
7 7 (1.16%) LangChain
7 7 (1.16%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.16%) YAML
8 6 (1.00%) NumPy
9 5 (0.83%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.83%) boto
9 5 (0.83%) JSON
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.83%) Middleware
9 5 (0.83%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.83%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.30%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.16%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.99%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.82%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.49%) Life Science
12 8 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 7 (1.16%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.33%) Android
1 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (44.28%) Data Modelling
2 206 (34.16%) Analytics
3 179 (29.68%) Agile
4 162 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
5 157 (26.04%) Data Engineering
5 157 (26.04%) ETL
6 140 (23.22%) Data Pipeline
7 133 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 127 (21.06%) Data Architecture
9 124 (20.56%) AI
10 120 (19.90%) CI/CD
11 119 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (17.41%) DevOps
13 95 (15.75%) Data Integration
14 90 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 88 (14.59%) Data Management
16 87 (14.43%) Decision-Making
17 85 (14.10%) Validation
18 80 (13.27%) Migration
19 79 (13.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 266 (44.11%) SQL
2 196 (32.50%) Python
3 39 (6.47%) Scala
4 27 (4.48%) C#
5 22 (3.65%) R
6 19 (3.15%) Java
7 15 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.16%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.33%) Bicep
11 6 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.33%) C++
12 2 (0.33%) Korn
12 2 (0.33%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.33%) SOQL
13 1 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.17%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 106 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 90 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.61%) Degree
4 32 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.81%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.32%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.99%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.66%) PMP
11 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.16%) MCP
13 6 (1.00%) CISSP
14 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.66%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.50%) CBAP
16 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.50%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (40.96%) Data Quality
2 111 (18.41%) GDPR
3 38 (6.30%) QA
4 24 (3.98%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.99%) IFRS
6 11 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.49%) IFRS 17
8 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.16%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.16%) NIST
9 7 (1.16%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.83%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.83%) GRC
10 5 (0.83%) MiFID
10 5 (0.83%) PERC
10 5 (0.83%) PMO
11 3 (0.50%) GMP
11 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 34 (5.64%) Docker
2 7 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (10.45%) Terraform
2 36 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.83%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.33%) Grafana
6 2 (0.33%) Istio
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 156 (25.87%) Databricks
2 119 (19.73%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.80%) Salesforce
3 35 (5.80%) SAP
4 30 (4.98%) Google
5 29 (4.81%) Oracle
6 27 (4.48%) Informatica
7 13 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.99%) Sparx
8 12 (1.99%) Workday
9 11 (1.82%) Adobe
10 10 (1.66%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.49%) Tealium
12 7 (1.16%) OneTrust
13 5 (0.83%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.83%) mParticle
13 5 (0.83%) Talend
13 5 (0.83%) VMware
14 4 (0.66%) Ariba