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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 77 133
Rank change year-on-year +23 +56 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 876 471 332
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.37% 3.55% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 3.84% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 326 238
10th Percentile £375 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £540 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.49% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £19.05 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.13 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +23.41% -18.66%
75th Percentile £28.67 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £33.28 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.40% +24.93% -10.85%

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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +18 130 £570 +5.46% 76
West London +12 31 £520 +22.35% 26
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 10
South London -10 4 £637 -6.50% 3
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 56 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 54 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.22%) Apache
4 24 (2.74%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.14%) Confluence
6 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.91%) SAS
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) Mendix
10 1 (0.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 40 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.37%) SAP MDG
3 11 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.68%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.34%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.11%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.11%) Maximo
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 326 (37.21%) Azure
2 181 (20.66%) AWS
3 172 (19.63%) Power Platform
4 105 (11.99%) GCP
5 85 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 79 (9.02%) Snowflake
7 70 (7.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 65 (7.42%) dbt
9 64 (7.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 61 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (6.74%) Collibra
12 41 (4.68%) Amazon S3
13 39 (4.45%) Serverless
14 36 (4.11%) GitHub
15 33 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
16 32 (3.65%) Microsoft Copilot
17 29 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (2.97%) Azure Databricks
19 22 (2.51%) Entra ID
20 20 (2.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
1 6 (0.68%) Network Security
2 3 (0.34%) Firewall
3 2 (0.23%) IPv4
3 2 (0.23%) IPv6
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (24.77%) Metadata
2 152 (17.35%) Power BI
3 130 (14.84%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (11.07%) Data Lake
5 53 (6.05%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.79%) Tableau
7 31 (3.54%) BigQuery
7 31 (3.54%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.31%) Big Data
9 24 (2.74%) NoSQL
9 24 (2.74%) Star Schema
10 23 (2.63%) Data Vault
11 21 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (2.05%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.83%) Parquet
14 16 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
15 15 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 39 (4.45%) Git
2 35 (4.00%) JIRA
3 30 (3.42%) ERwin
4 20 (2.28%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.37%) PowerDesigner
6 11 (1.26%) GitLab
7 9 (1.03%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.57%) Selenium
9 4 (0.46%) MLflow
9 4 (0.46%) RStudio
10 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.23%) git-flow
10 2 (0.23%) JMeter
10 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) GCC
11 1 (0.11%) LSMW
11 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 302 (34.47%) Finance
2 286 (32.65%) Social Skills
3 157 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (12.21%) Banking
5 91 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.91%) Retail
7 41 (4.68%) Legal
8 31 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.54%) Marketing
9 25 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.63%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.37%) Local Government
15 11 (1.26%) Law
15 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.03%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 189 (21.58%) Architect
2 166 (18.95%) Analyst
3 141 (16.10%) Data Engineer
4 109 (12.44%) Lead
5 98 (11.19%) Data Architect
6 96 (10.96%) Data Analyst
7 86 (9.82%) Senior
8 65 (7.42%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (4.22%) Consultant
11 32 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (3.54%) Data Modeller
13 30 (3.42%) Data Manager
13 30 (3.42%) Governance Analyst
14 28 (3.20%) Data Business Analyst
15 27 (3.08%) Project Manager
16 23 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
16 23 (2.63%) Databricks Engineer
17 21 (2.40%) Product Owner
18 19 (2.17%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.56%) PySpark
2 62 (7.08%) Terraform
3 48 (5.48%) Kafka
4 24 (2.74%) REST
5 16 (1.83%) JSON
6 15 (1.71%) Middleware
7 12 (1.37%) SOAP
7 12 (1.37%) Web Services
8 10 (1.14%) Great Expectations
9 9 (1.03%) Spring
10 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.68%) .NET
11 6 (0.68%) React
11 6 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.68%) YAML
12 5 (0.57%) MACH
12 5 (0.57%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.57%) OAuth
12 5 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 70 (7.99%) Data Structures
4 60 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 44 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (4.79%) Reference Data
7 33 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 27 (3.08%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.83%) Low-Code
13 15 (1.71%) Taxonomies
14 13 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.37%) Clustering
15 12 (1.37%) FMCG
16 11 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.26%) Life Science
16 11 (1.26%) Security Posture
17 10 (1.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.68%) Linux
1 6 (0.68%) Unix
2 4 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) VMS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (39.27%) Data Modelling
2 315 (35.96%) Analytics
3 284 (32.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 241 (27.51%) AI
5 197 (22.49%) Data Engineering
6 192 (21.92%) ETL
7 191 (21.80%) Data Pipeline
8 190 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
8 190 (21.69%) Data Architecture
9 189 (21.58%) Agile
10 184 (21.00%) CI/CD
11 169 (19.29%) Migration
12 150 (17.12%) DevOps
12 150 (17.12%) Validation
13 149 (17.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 146 (16.67%) Data Management
15 134 (15.30%) Decision-Making
16 124 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
17 123 (14.04%) Roadmaps
18 121 (13.81%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 334 (38.13%) SQL
2 204 (23.29%) Python
3 25 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (2.51%) Java
5 17 (1.94%) Scala
6 15 (1.71%) C#
7 14 (1.60%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.48%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.37%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.37%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.91%) Bicep
11 5 (0.57%) Bash
11 5 (0.57%) R
12 3 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.23%) Delphi
13 2 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.23%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 140 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 115 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.37%) Degree
4 38 (4.34%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.48%) PMP
9 12 (1.37%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.37%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.68%) CISSP
12 5 (0.57%) CISM
12 5 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.46%) CEH
13 4 (0.46%) GIAC
13 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (46.69%) Data Quality
2 117 (13.36%) GDPR
3 40 (4.57%) QA
4 15 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.71%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.48%) NIST
6 10 (1.14%) GRC
7 8 (0.91%) COREP
7 8 (0.91%) FINREP
8 7 (0.80%) GxP
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
9 6 (0.68%) IFRS
9 6 (0.68%) MiFID
9 6 (0.68%) NCSC
10 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.46%) COBIT
11 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.34%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 23 (2.63%) Docker
2 20 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.80%) Grafana
2 7 (0.80%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.68%) Ansible
4 5 (0.57%) Control-M
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.23%) Istio
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 197 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 166 (18.95%) Databricks
3 52 (5.94%) Oracle
4 43 (4.91%) Informatica
5 38 (4.34%) Google
5 38 (4.34%) SAP
6 26 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.37%) Adobe
8 12 (1.37%) Foundry
9 11 (1.26%) GoldenSource
10 10 (1.14%) Workday
11 9 (1.03%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.91%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.91%) IBM
13 7 (0.80%) Sparx
13 7 (0.80%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.68%) Confluent
14 6 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.57%) Talend