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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 95 129
Rank change year-on-year +32 +34 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 580 396 337
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 2.67% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 2.97% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 280 255
10th Percentile £400 £380 £400
25th Percentile £457 £502 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -2.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.32
75th Percentile £18.75 - £45.72
90th Percentile £28.13 - £49.92
England median hourly rate £35.50 £27.13 £40.84
% change year-on-year +30.88% -33.59% +83.31%

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 13,097 13,344 16,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.12% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,632 8,554 11,793
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +12.31% -16.13%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 December 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 28 December 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 28 December 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 +33 100 £575 -3.16% 152
West London -3 14 £603 - 10
South London -1 3 £475 -20.83% 18
East London -4 2 £566 +41.56% 11
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 66 (11.38%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.66%) Apache
3 21 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.76%) Confluence
5 11 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.52%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (1.21%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.52%) Actimize
4 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 243 (41.90%) Azure
2 155 (26.72%) Power Platform
3 137 (23.62%) AWS
4 81 (13.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 77 (13.28%) GCP
6 70 (12.07%) Snowflake
7 66 (11.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 41 (7.07%) Collibra
8 41 (7.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 38 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (6.21%) dbt
11 34 (5.86%) Amazon S3
12 28 (4.83%) Serverless
13 21 (3.62%) GitHub
14 19 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (2.41%) Entra ID
16 14 (2.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.17%) DKIM
2 1 (0.17%) DMARC
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) PSTN
2 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (23.62%) Power BI
2 127 (21.90%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (20.34%) Metadata
4 72 (12.41%) Data Lake
5 45 (7.76%) NoSQL
6 41 (7.07%) Tableau
7 40 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 29 (5.00%) Big Data
10 27 (4.66%) Delta Lake
11 25 (4.31%) Relational Database
12 23 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 22 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (3.62%) Data Vault
15 19 (3.28%) BigQuery
16 18 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
18 16 (2.76%) Star Schema
19 14 (2.41%) Spark SQL
20 13 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 41 (7.07%) Git
2 38 (6.55%) JIRA
3 23 (3.97%) ERwin
4 18 (3.10%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.07%) ER Studio
5 12 (2.07%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.55%) MLflow
7 5 (0.86%) GitLab
8 3 (0.52%) LSMW
9 2 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.34%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 228 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 201 (34.66%) Finance
3 122 (21.03%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.28%) Banking
6 33 (5.69%) Legal
7 24 (4.14%) Marketing
8 22 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.93%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.59%) Retail
11 13 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.90%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.90%) Publishing
13 10 (1.72%) Electronics
13 10 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.38%) Local Government
14 8 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (18.62%) Analyst
2 104 (17.93%) Architect
3 89 (15.34%) Data Engineer
4 71 (12.24%) Lead
5 61 (10.52%) Data Analyst
6 57 (9.83%) Data Architect
7 51 (8.79%) Business Analyst
8 36 (6.21%) Senior
9 35 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.34%) Azure Data Engineer
11 29 (5.00%) Data Modeller
12 27 (4.66%) Consultant
13 20 (3.45%) Project Manager
14 19 (3.28%) Data Business Analyst
14 19 (3.28%) Data Manager
14 19 (3.28%) Developer
14 19 (3.28%) Governance Analyst
15 15 (2.59%) Azure Architect
16 11 (1.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 10 (1.72%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.41%) PySpark
2 39 (6.72%) Kafka
3 13 (2.24%) REST
4 10 (1.72%) Great Expectations
5 9 (1.55%) .NET
5 9 (1.55%) OAuth
6 8 (1.38%) Middleware
6 8 (1.38%) Pandas
7 7 (1.21%) LangChain
7 7 (1.21%) SOAP
8 6 (1.03%) JSON
8 6 (1.03%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.86%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.86%) HTML
9 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.86%) NumPy
9 5 (0.86%) RESTful
10 4 (0.69%) Faiss
10 4 (0.69%) SAML
10 4 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.07%) Data Structures
2 39 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.79%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.59%) Reference Data
7 14 (2.41%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.07%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.90%) Life Science
10 10 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.38%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.03%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.34%) Android
1 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (45.86%) Data Modelling
2 203 (35.00%) Analytics
3 165 (28.45%) Agile
4 161 (27.76%) Business Intelligence
5 148 (25.52%) ETL
6 135 (23.28%) Data Engineering
7 132 (22.76%) Data Pipeline
8 129 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (20.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 118 (20.34%) Data Architecture
11 108 (18.62%) CI/CD
12 102 (17.59%) AI
13 98 (16.90%) DevOps
14 94 (16.21%) Data Integration
15 91 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 85 (14.66%) Data Management
17 80 (13.79%) Decision-Making
17 80 (13.79%) Migration
18 78 (13.45%) Metadata Management
19 74 (12.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 254 (43.79%) SQL
2 187 (32.24%) Python
3 31 (5.34%) Scala
4 24 (4.14%) R
5 22 (3.79%) Java
6 19 (3.28%) C#
7 17 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.07%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.21%) Bicep
11 6 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.52%) Korn
14 2 (0.34%) C++
14 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.34%) SOQL
15 1 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 95 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 79 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.86%) Degree
4 30 (5.17%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.97%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.93%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (2.07%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.72%) PMP
11 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.03%) CISSP
11 6 (1.03%) MCP
12 5 (0.86%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.52%) CBAP
14 3 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.34%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (40.17%) Data Quality
2 106 (18.28%) GDPR
3 30 (5.17%) QA
4 25 (4.31%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.90%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.21%) IFRS
7 7 (1.21%) NIST
8 6 (1.03%) MiFID
8 6 (1.03%) PMO
9 5 (0.86%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.86%) PERC
10 4 (0.69%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.69%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.52%) GMP
11 3 (0.52%) GRC
11 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (5.69%) Docker
2 9 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (9.66%) Terraform
2 33 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.17%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) Istio
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (25.17%) Databricks
2 113 (19.48%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.86%) SAP
4 32 (5.52%) Google
5 30 (5.17%) Salesforce
6 25 (4.31%) Informatica
6 25 (4.31%) Oracle
7 12 (2.07%) Adobe
7 12 (2.07%) Sparx
8 11 (1.90%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.90%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.55%) Tealium
10 8 (1.38%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.38%) OneTrust
10 8 (1.38%) Workday
11 6 (1.03%) Bloomberg
11 6 (1.03%) Talend
12 5 (0.86%) mParticle
13 4 (0.69%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.69%) Refinitiv