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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 131
Rank change year-on-year +2 +63 +69
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 649 454 332
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 3.45% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 3.80% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 341 255
10th Percentile £392 £400 £400
25th Percentile £457 £510 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £636 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - £28.40
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.63
75th Percentile £22.88 - £49.08
90th Percentile £41.70 - £49.78
England median hourly rate £58.00 £26.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +116.32% -32.97% +53.85%

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 14,498 11,963 16,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.24% 90.92% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,728 7,826 11,476
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £78.04 £71.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%

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 4 March 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 March 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 March 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 +22 92 £575 +4.55% 60
West London +3 26 £603 - 12
East London -1 6 £566 +25.83% 7
South London -13 3 £475 -20.83% 8
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 80 (12.33%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.93%) Apache
3 26 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.85%) Confluence
5 9 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.46%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.77%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.46%) Actimize
4 3 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 270 (41.60%) Azure
2 167 (25.73%) Power Platform
3 149 (22.96%) AWS
4 106 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (14.64%) GCP
6 82 (12.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 59 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 57 (8.78%) Microsoft Purview
9 53 (8.17%) Collibra
10 50 (7.70%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (6.47%) Amazon S3
12 34 (5.24%) GitHub
13 32 (4.93%) dbt
14 31 (4.78%) Serverless
15 27 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) 4G
3 1 (0.15%) 5G
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (23.88%) Power BI
2 132 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (20.18%) Metadata
4 93 (14.33%) Data Lake
5 49 (7.55%) Tableau
6 47 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (7.09%) NoSQL
8 38 (5.86%) Delta Lake
9 35 (5.39%) BigQuery
10 32 (4.93%) SQL Server
11 31 (4.78%) Snowflake Schema
12 30 (4.62%) Big Data
13 23 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (3.54%) Relational Database
14 20 (3.08%) Data Vault
14 20 (3.08%) OLAP
15 19 (2.93%) Mixpanel
16 18 (2.77%) OLTP
17 17 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
18 16 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (9.24%) Git
2 33 (5.08%) JIRA
3 20 (3.08%) ERwin
4 15 (2.31%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.39%) MLflow
7 8 (1.23%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.77%) GitLab
9 3 (0.46%) LSMW
10 2 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.31%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.31%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.15%) git-flow
11 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.15%) Postman
11 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 224 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 221 (34.05%) Finance
3 135 (20.80%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 52 (8.01%) Banking
6 33 (5.08%) Legal
7 22 (3.39%) Marketing
8 20 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.93%) Retail
10 15 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.85%) Publishing
12 9 (1.39%) Electronics
12 9 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.08%) Local Government
15 6 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (19.72%) Data Engineer
2 110 (16.95%) Analyst
3 103 (15.87%) Lead
4 98 (15.10%) Architect
5 65 (10.02%) Data Analyst
6 60 (9.24%) Senior
7 59 (9.09%) Business Analyst
8 55 (8.47%) Data Architect
9 39 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
10 35 (5.39%) Developer
11 34 (5.24%) Azure Data Engineer
12 27 (4.16%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (4.16%) Project Manager
13 25 (3.85%) Data Modeller
14 23 (3.54%) Consultant
15 18 (2.77%) Principal Engineer
16 17 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.47%) Azure Architect
17 16 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.17%) PySpark
2 48 (7.40%) Kafka
3 21 (3.24%) REST
4 17 (2.62%) .NET
4 17 (2.62%) Great Expectations
5 11 (1.69%) Pandas
6 10 (1.54%) OAuth
6 10 (1.54%) SOAP
7 9 (1.39%) JSON
8 8 (1.23%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.23%) YAML
9 7 (1.08%) Middleware
10 6 (0.92%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.92%) boto
10 6 (0.92%) NumPy
10 6 (0.92%) OpenID
10 6 (0.92%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.92%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.92%) XML
11 5 (0.77%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.47%) Data Structures
3 26 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.47%) Reference Data
8 11 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.39%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.23%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.23%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.08%) Replication
12 6 (0.92%) Life Science
12 6 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.31%) Android
1 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.15%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (44.07%) Data Modelling
2 238 (36.67%) Analytics
3 181 (27.89%) ETL
4 180 (27.73%) Business Intelligence
5 174 (26.81%) Data Engineering
6 173 (26.66%) Agile
7 159 (24.50%) Data Pipeline
8 150 (23.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 141 (21.73%) Data Architecture
10 134 (20.65%) AI
11 133 (20.49%) CI/CD
12 119 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (17.10%) DevOps
14 97 (14.95%) Decision-Making
15 93 (14.33%) Validation
16 92 (14.18%) Data Management
17 91 (14.02%) Data Integration
18 89 (13.71%) Migration
19 80 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 79 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 301 (46.38%) SQL
2 218 (33.59%) Python
3 45 (6.93%) Scala
4 34 (5.24%) C#
5 19 (2.93%) R
6 15 (2.31%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.16%) Java
8 13 (2.00%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.39%) Bicep
12 6 (0.92%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.31%) Bash
14 2 (0.31%) C
14 2 (0.31%) C++
14 2 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.31%) SOQL
14 2 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 102 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.48%) Degree
4 34 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.39%) Master's Degree
7 21 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.69%) PMP
10 10 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.08%) CISSP
12 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.46%) CBAP
15 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 1 (0.15%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (42.53%) Data Quality
2 110 (16.95%) GDPR
3 39 (6.01%) QA
4 22 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.85%) IFRS
6 11 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (1.54%) Solvency II
8 9 (1.39%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.77%) GRC
10 5 (0.77%) PERC
11 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.62%) MiFID
11 4 (0.62%) PMO
12 3 (0.46%) HL7
12 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.31%) GAAP
13 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 37 (5.70%) Docker
2 6 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 75 (11.56%) Terraform
2 38 (5.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.77%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.46%) Grafana
5 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 165 (25.42%) Databricks
2 124 (19.11%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.32%) Oracle
4 34 (5.24%) Google
4 34 (5.24%) Salesforce
4 34 (5.24%) SAP
5 27 (4.16%) Informatica
6 14 (2.16%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.85%) Workday
8 10 (1.54%) Adobe
9 9 (1.39%) Sparx
9 9 (1.39%) Tealium
10 6 (0.92%) OneTrust
11 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.77%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.77%) mParticle
11 5 (0.77%) Talend
11 5 (0.77%) VMware
12 4 (0.62%) Ariba