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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 63 115
Rank change year-on-year 0 +52 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 701 472 379
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.76% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.08% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 359 289
10th Percentile £372 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £840
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £20.80 £66.25 £29.73
25th Percentile £23.13 £71.88 £32.57
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £38.17
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +116.14% -55.09%
75th Percentile £45.38 £91.88 £44.65
90th Percentile £56.40 £96.75 £48.01
England median hourly rate £67.50 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +154.72% -33.75% +5.36%

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 15,684 11,567 15,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.64% 92.16% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,506 7,851 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +24 98 £550 - 36
West London - 32 £603 - 5
East London 0 9 £495 -18.52% 6
South London -11 4 £637 +6.17% 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 81 (11.55%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.28%) Apache
3 28 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.57%) Confluence
4 11 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.71%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.28%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 274 (39.09%) Azure
2 171 (24.39%) Power Platform
3 145 (20.68%) AWS
4 103 (14.69%) GCP
5 100 (14.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 83 (11.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.70%) Collibra
8 59 (8.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 52 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.85%) Amazon S3
11 43 (6.13%) Snowflake
12 35 (4.99%) dbt
12 35 (4.99%) GitHub
13 28 (3.99%) Serverless
14 25 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.43%) Azure Key Vault
17 17 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.43%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) IPv4
3 2 (0.29%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (22.82%) Power BI
2 142 (20.26%) Metadata
3 124 (17.69%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (13.98%) Data Lake
5 49 (6.99%) Delta Lake
5 49 (6.99%) Tableau
6 43 (6.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (5.42%) NoSQL
8 37 (5.28%) BigQuery
9 26 (3.71%) Big Data
10 25 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (3.57%) SQL Server
11 24 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (2.85%) Mixpanel
12 20 (2.85%) OLAP
13 19 (2.71%) OLTP
14 16 (2.28%) Spark SQL
15 15 (2.14%) Data Vault
15 15 (2.14%) Star Schema
16 14 (2.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 66 (9.42%) Git
2 33 (4.71%) JIRA
3 19 (2.71%) ERwin
4 13 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.71%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (1.00%) GitLab
6 7 (1.00%) MLflow
7 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.57%) LSMW
8 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) GCC
9 1 (0.14%) NUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Snyk
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 241 (34.38%) Finance
2 223 (31.81%) Social Skills
3 149 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.99%) Banking
6 36 (5.14%) Legal
7 33 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (4.14%) Marketing
9 19 (2.71%) Retail
10 18 (2.57%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.43%) Local Government
14 9 (1.28%) Electronics
14 9 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.00%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 147 (20.97%) Data Engineer
2 130 (18.54%) Analyst
3 98 (13.98%) Lead
4 97 (13.84%) Architect
5 78 (11.13%) Senior
6 75 (10.70%) Data Analyst
7 67 (9.56%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.56%) Data Architect
9 37 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (4.42%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (4.28%) Developer
12 27 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (3.85%) Project Manager
13 25 (3.57%) Consultant
14 21 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (2.85%) Data Modeller
16 19 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
17 18 (2.57%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.70%) PySpark
2 54 (7.70%) Kafka
3 28 (3.99%) REST
4 19 (2.71%) Great Expectations
5 18 (2.57%) Middleware
6 17 (2.43%) SOAP
7 14 (2.00%) .NET
8 13 (1.85%) JSON
9 11 (1.57%) Web Services
10 10 (1.43%) YAML
11 9 (1.28%) Pandas
11 9 (1.28%) Spring
12 7 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
13 6 (0.86%) boto
13 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (0.86%) scikit-learn
14 5 (0.71%) NumPy
14 5 (0.71%) OAuth
14 5 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
14 5 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.27%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.28%) Data Structures
3 42 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.71%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (2.28%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
10 12 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.57%) Clustering
12 10 (1.43%) CMDB
12 10 (1.43%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (41.08%) Data Modelling
2 271 (38.66%) Analytics
3 183 (26.11%) Business Intelligence
4 180 (25.68%) Data Pipeline
5 176 (25.11%) ETL
6 172 (24.54%) Data Engineering
7 169 (24.11%) Agile
8 165 (23.54%) AI
8 165 (23.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 155 (22.11%) CI/CD
10 134 (19.12%) Data Architecture
11 123 (17.55%) DevOps
12 121 (17.26%) Validation
13 117 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (15.69%) Decision-Making
15 106 (15.12%) Data Management
16 103 (14.69%) Migration
17 89 (12.70%) Machine Learning
18 81 (11.55%) Data Science
18 81 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 316 (45.08%) SQL
2 229 (32.67%) Python
3 44 (6.28%) Scala
4 36 (5.14%) C#
5 18 (2.57%) R
6 17 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (2.43%) Java
7 15 (2.14%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.71%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.43%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.86%) Bicep
11 4 (0.57%) VBA
12 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.43%) Bash
12 3 (0.43%) SOQL
12 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.29%) C
13 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 134 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.99%) Degree
4 36 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.14%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.57%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.14%) PMP
11 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.71%) CISSP
12 5 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.57%) CBAP
13 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.29%) CEH
14 2 (0.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (42.51%) Data Quality
2 116 (16.55%) GDPR
3 43 (6.13%) QA
4 13 (1.85%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.71%) IFRS
6 9 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.14%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.86%) COREP
8 6 (0.86%) FINREP
8 6 (0.86%) PMO
9 5 (0.71%) NIST
9 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.71%) PERC
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) GRC
10 4 (0.57%) MiFID
11 3 (0.43%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (3.85%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (10.27%) Terraform
2 35 (4.99%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.00%) Grafana
3 7 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.57%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.57%) Istio
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 159 (22.68%) Databricks
2 141 (20.11%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.42%) Oracle
4 44 (6.28%) Google
5 38 (5.42%) SAP
6 36 (5.14%) Salesforce
7 28 (3.99%) Informatica
8 18 (2.57%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.71%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.43%) Adobe
11 9 (1.28%) GoldenSource
11 9 (1.28%) Tealium
12 8 (1.14%) Workday
13 7 (1.00%) OneTrust
14 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.86%) Foundry
14 6 (0.86%) Sparx
15 5 (0.71%) Ariba
15 5 (0.71%) mParticle
15 5 (0.71%) VMware