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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 78 133
Rank change year-on-year +11 +55 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 599 436 322
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.20% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 3.54% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 320 243
10th Percentile £380 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% -0.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £798
England median daily rate £518 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £40.84
75th Percentile £18.75 - £49.96
90th Percentile £28.13 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.13 £47.28
% change year-on-year +108.29% -42.63% +112.20%

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 13,517 12,331 16,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.89% 90.53% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,968 7,825 11,739
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +18.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £55.50 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +30 97 £550 -6.38% 52
West London -1 20 £603 - 9
East London -2 6 £566 +25.83% 8
South London -8 3 £475 -20.83% 6
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 73 (12.19%) Apache Spark
2 28 (4.67%) Apache
3 20 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.67%) Confluence
5 12 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.67%) 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 29 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.67%) 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 16 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.50%) Actimize
4 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.50%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.33%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 250 (41.74%) Azure
2 152 (25.38%) Power Platform
3 142 (23.71%) AWS
4 96 (16.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 78 (13.02%) GCP
6 74 (12.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 63 (10.52%) Snowflake
8 48 (8.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 47 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (7.18%) Collibra
11 39 (6.51%) Amazon S3
12 32 (5.34%) Serverless
13 31 (5.18%) dbt
14 27 (4.51%) GitHub
15 24 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
19 15 (2.50%) 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
1 136 (22.70%) Power BI
2 120 (20.03%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (19.70%) Metadata
4 83 (13.86%) Data Lake
5 47 (7.85%) NoSQL
6 42 (7.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 42 (7.01%) Tableau
7 32 (5.34%) Big Data
8 31 (5.18%) Delta Lake
9 29 (4.84%) SQL Server
10 27 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 25 (4.17%) Relational Database
12 24 (4.01%) Data Vault
13 23 (3.84%) BigQuery
14 20 (3.34%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (2.84%) OLAP
15 17 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (2.67%) Mixpanel
17 15 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (8.51%) Git
2 40 (6.68%) JIRA
3 23 (3.84%) ERwin
4 15 (2.50%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (2.00%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.84%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.67%) MLflow
8 6 (1.00%) 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%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.17%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 222 (37.06%) Social Skills
2 205 (34.22%) Finance
3 116 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.35%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.35%) Banking
6 30 (5.01%) Legal
7 24 (4.01%) Marketing
8 18 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (3.01%) Retail
9 15 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.00%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.00%) Publishing
11 9 (1.50%) Electronics
11 9 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.17%) Local Government
14 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (17.70%) Data Engineer
2 104 (17.36%) Analyst
3 94 (15.69%) Lead
4 90 (15.03%) Architect
5 63 (10.52%) Data Analyst
6 52 (8.68%) Business Analyst
6 52 (8.68%) Data Architect
7 46 (7.68%) Senior
8 39 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
9 33 (5.51%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (5.18%) Data Modeller
11 28 (4.67%) Developer
12 25 (4.17%) Consultant
13 20 (3.34%) Project Manager
14 19 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
15 17 (2.84%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.67%) Governance Analyst
17 15 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 14 (2.34%) Principal Engineer
19 13 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.85%) PySpark
2 42 (7.01%) Kafka
3 17 (2.84%) REST
4 15 (2.50%) .NET
5 14 (2.34%) Great Expectations
6 9 (1.50%) OAuth
6 9 (1.50%) Pandas
6 9 (1.50%) SOAP
7 8 (1.34%) YAML
8 7 (1.17%) JSON
8 7 (1.17%) LangChain
8 7 (1.17%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (1.17%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.00%) NumPy
9 6 (1.00%) XML
10 5 (0.83%) boto
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.83%) Middleware
10 5 (0.83%) scikit-learn
10 5 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.34%) Data Structures
3 23 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.84%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.34%) Reference Data
7 13 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.00%) Reinsurance
9 10 (1.67%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.34%) Life Science
11 7 (1.17%) Data Fabric
11 7 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.17%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.33%) Android
1 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (44.24%) Data Modelling
2 206 (34.39%) Analytics
3 176 (29.38%) Agile
4 159 (26.54%) ETL
5 158 (26.38%) Business Intelligence
5 158 (26.38%) Data Engineering
6 138 (23.04%) Data Pipeline
7 134 (22.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 125 (20.87%) Data Architecture
9 124 (20.70%) AI
10 120 (20.03%) CI/CD
11 118 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (17.53%) DevOps
13 91 (15.19%) Data Integration
14 87 (14.52%) Data Management
14 87 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 85 (14.19%) Decision-Making
15 85 (14.19%) Validation
16 83 (13.86%) Migration
17 80 (13.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 266 (44.41%) SQL
2 199 (33.22%) Python
3 40 (6.68%) Scala
4 32 (5.34%) C#
5 21 (3.51%) R
6 14 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (2.34%) Java
7 13 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.34%) Bicep
9 8 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.50%) 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%) Go
Qualifications
1 104 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 65 (10.85%) Degree
4 34 (5.68%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.84%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.34%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.00%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.67%) PMP
11 8 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.00%) CISSP
13 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.67%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.50%) CBAP
15 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.50%) SnowPro
15 3 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 1 (0.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (41.90%) Data Quality
2 114 (19.03%) GDPR
3 39 (6.51%) QA
4 23 (3.84%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (1.84%) IFRS
7 9 (1.50%) IFRS 17
8 8 (1.34%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.17%) NIST
9 7 (1.17%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.83%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.83%) GRC
10 5 (0.83%) PERC
10 5 (0.83%) PMO
11 4 (0.67%) MiFID
12 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.33%) GMP
13 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 34 (5.68%) Docker
2 7 (1.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (10.85%) Terraform
2 34 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.83%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.50%) Grafana
7 2 (0.33%) Istio
8 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.17%) SCCM
8 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 157 (26.21%) Databricks
2 121 (20.20%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.34%) Salesforce
4 33 (5.51%) SAP
5 31 (5.18%) Oracle
6 29 (4.84%) Google
7 27 (4.51%) Informatica
8 15 (2.50%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.17%) Workday
10 11 (1.84%) Sparx
11 10 (1.67%) Adobe
11 10 (1.67%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.50%) Tealium
13 7 (1.17%) OneTrust
14 5 (0.83%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.83%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.83%) mParticle
14 5 (0.83%) Talend
14 5 (0.83%) VMware
15 4 (0.67%) Ariba