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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 126 178
Rank change year-on-year +60 +52 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 499 332 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.72% 2.06% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 2.30% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 237 228
10th Percentile £405 £400 £463
25th Percentile £464 £500 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £738
90th Percentile £750 £875 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £38.50 £32.68 -
25th Percentile £47.50 £39.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.67 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +23.41% +49.14% -49.55%
75th Percentile £83.75 £66.02 £39.41
90th Percentile £93.50 £73.66 £46.21
England median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% -50.00%

All Process and 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 12,434 14,409 19,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.57% 89.23% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,225 9,616 14,380
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 180 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.56
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%
75th Percentile £48.13 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +36 86 £550 -10.42% 58
East London - 2 £675 - 1
South London - 2 £681 - 2
West London -24 1 £425 -26.09% 10
North London - 1 - - 1
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (7.21%) Apache Spark
2 30 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (5.01%) Apache
4 19 (3.81%) Confluence
5 12 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.20%) CMS
6 6 (1.20%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.20%) Revit
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.20%) SAP MDG
3 9 (1.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.80%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.40%) Magento
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.40%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.40%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.40%) Shopify
6 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.20%) Maximo
7 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 184 (36.87%) Azure
2 128 (25.65%) AWS
3 98 (19.64%) Power Platform
4 78 (15.63%) GCP
5 65 (13.03%) Snowflake
6 41 (8.22%) Collibra
7 40 (8.02%) dbt
8 39 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 38 (7.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 33 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.81%) Amazon S3
13 15 (3.01%) GitHub
14 13 (2.61%) Serverless
15 12 (2.40%) SaaS
16 11 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (2.20%) PowerApps
17 9 (1.80%) Entra ID
18 8 (1.60%) Alation
18 8 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) DKIM
2 1 (0.20%) DMARC
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) FTP
2 1 (0.20%) MPLS
2 1 (0.20%) PSTN
2 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (20.84%) Metadata
2 95 (19.04%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (16.83%) Power BI
4 70 (14.03%) Data Lake
5 29 (5.81%) Big Data
6 26 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (5.01%) Delta Lake
7 25 (5.01%) Tableau
8 24 (4.81%) NoSQL
9 22 (4.41%) BigQuery
10 21 (4.21%) Data Vault
10 21 (4.21%) SQL Server
11 20 (4.01%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (3.01%) Power Query
13 13 (2.61%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (2.20%) Relational Database
15 10 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 38 (7.62%) JIRA
2 23 (4.61%) ERwin
3 15 (3.01%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.40%) Git
4 12 (2.40%) PowerDesigner
5 7 (1.40%) GitLab
6 5 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.00%) MLflow
7 4 (0.80%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.60%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.60%) Maven
9 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.20%) LSMW
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 200 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 160 (32.06%) Finance
3 86 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.62%) Banking
5 45 (9.02%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.61%) Legal
7 20 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (4.01%) Investment Banking
8 19 (3.81%) Financial Institution
9 16 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.01%) Retail
11 12 (2.40%) Marketing
12 9 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.20%) Back Office
15 6 (1.20%) Front Office
15 6 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 118 (23.65%) Architect
2 86 (17.23%) Analyst
3 71 (14.23%) Data Architect
4 57 (11.42%) Data Engineer
5 51 (10.22%) Data Analyst
5 51 (10.22%) Lead
6 40 (8.02%) Senior
7 36 (7.21%) Business Analyst
8 32 (6.41%) Data Modeller
9 23 (4.61%) Governance Analyst
10 21 (4.21%) Data Manager
11 20 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (3.61%) Consultant
12 18 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.41%) Azure Data Engineer
14 16 (3.21%) Data Business Analyst
15 15 (3.01%) Project Manager
16 13 (2.61%) Developer
17 12 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
18 11 (2.20%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.81%) PySpark
2 29 (5.81%) Kafka
3 11 (2.20%) Middleware
4 10 (2.00%) REST
5 6 (1.20%) Great Expectations
5 6 (1.20%) Hugging Face
6 5 (1.00%) SOAP
7 4 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (0.80%) FHIR
7 4 (0.80%) LangChain
7 4 (0.80%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.80%) RESTful
7 4 (0.80%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.60%) .NET
8 3 (0.60%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.60%) Hibernate
8 3 (0.60%) JPA
8 3 (0.60%) Keras
8 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.82%) Data Structures
2 24 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.01%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.81%) Reference Data
8 13 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.20%) Taxonomies
11 10 (2.00%) Low-Code
11 10 (2.00%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.60%) Life Science
12 8 (1.60%) NHS
12 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.00%) Derivative
13 5 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.00%) FMCG
13 5 (1.00%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.20%) Unix
1 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (40.68%) Data Modelling
2 164 (32.87%) Analytics
3 132 (26.45%) ETL
4 117 (23.45%) Business Intelligence
5 103 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (20.24%) Agile
7 99 (19.84%) Data Management
8 97 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
9 85 (17.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 83 (16.63%) Data Architecture
11 74 (14.83%) Data Integration
12 73 (14.63%) Data Engineering
12 73 (14.63%) Migration
13 72 (14.43%) Metadata Management
13 72 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 66 (13.23%) Decision-Making
15 65 (13.03%) Data Science
16 64 (12.83%) Artificial Intelligence
17 63 (12.63%) DevOps
18 61 (12.22%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 175 (35.07%) SQL
2 129 (25.85%) Python
3 28 (5.61%) Java
4 17 (3.41%) R
4 17 (3.41%) Scala
5 11 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (1.60%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.40%) C#
8 5 (1.00%) Bicep
8 5 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.80%) C
9 4 (0.80%) C++
9 4 (0.80%) Perl
9 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.60%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.60%) Korn
10 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.20%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 54 (10.82%) Security Cleared
2 46 (9.22%) Degree
3 44 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.80%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.80%) PMP
7 8 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.60%) MCP
11 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.20%) ACCA
12 1 (0.20%) CBAP
12 1 (0.20%) CIMA
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (33.87%) Data Quality
2 91 (18.24%) GDPR
3 21 (4.21%) QA
4 18 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.00%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.80%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.80%) NIST
7 9 (1.80%) PMO
8 8 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.80%) HL7
9 4 (0.80%) MiFID
10 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.60%) Dodd-Frank
10 3 (0.60%) GRC
10 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.40%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 14 (2.81%) Docker
2 9 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) NFS
3 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (8.02%) Terraform
2 16 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.40%) Ansible
4 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.20%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (16.43%) Databricks
1 82 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.62%) Informatica
3 37 (7.41%) Google
4 32 (6.41%) SAP
5 26 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.20%) Oracle
7 10 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.00%) Sparx
8 9 (1.80%) Talend
9 7 (1.40%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.40%) Workday
10 5 (1.00%) Adobe
11 4 (0.80%) Apple
11 4 (0.80%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.80%) IBM
11 4 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.60%) Duck Creek