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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 119
Rank change year-on-year -1 +55 +93
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 694 476 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.74% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.06% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 362 275
10th Percentile £387 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £838
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% +23.84%

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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £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 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +21 96 £550 - 38
West London - 32 £603 - 10
East London +1 9 £495 -18.52% 8
South London -8 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 82 (11.82%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.61%) Apache
3 28 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.44%) Confluence
6 5 (0.72%) SAS
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.58%) 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%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
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 HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 273 (39.34%) Azure
2 171 (24.64%) Power Platform
3 147 (21.18%) AWS
4 105 (15.13%) GCP
5 98 (14.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 85 (12.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 60 (8.65%) Collibra
8 57 (8.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 50 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (7.06%) Amazon S3
11 46 (6.63%) Snowflake
12 35 (5.04%) GitHub
13 34 (4.90%) dbt
14 28 (4.03%) Serverless
15 27 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
19 17 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.72%) 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 (23.05%) Power BI
2 139 (20.03%) Metadata
3 125 (18.01%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (13.98%) Data Lake
5 51 (7.35%) Tableau
6 47 (6.77%) Delta Lake
7 44 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (6.05%) NoSQL
9 38 (5.48%) BigQuery
10 26 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (3.75%) Big Data
10 26 (3.75%) SQL Server
11 25 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (3.03%) Mixpanel
12 21 (3.03%) OLAP
13 20 (2.88%) OLTP
14 16 (2.31%) Data Vault
14 16 (2.31%) Spark SQL
15 15 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (2.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (9.37%) Git
2 32 (4.61%) JIRA
3 21 (3.03%) ERwin
4 14 (2.02%) PowerDesigner
5 13 (1.87%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.01%) GitLab
6 7 (1.01%) MLflow
7 4 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.58%) 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%) Visual Studio
General
1 238 (34.29%) Finance
2 223 (32.13%) Social Skills
3 149 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.79%) Banking
6 36 (5.19%) Legal
7 32 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (4.03%) Marketing
9 19 (2.74%) Retail
10 18 (2.59%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.30%) Electronics
12 9 (1.30%) Local Government
12 9 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (21.18%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.30%) Analyst
3 98 (14.12%) Architect
4 97 (13.98%) Lead
5 75 (10.81%) Senior
6 74 (10.66%) Data Analyst
7 66 (9.51%) Business Analyst
8 47 (6.77%) Data Architect
9 37 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (4.47%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (4.32%) Developer
12 27 (3.89%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (3.89%) Project Manager
13 24 (3.46%) Consultant
14 22 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (3.03%) Data Modeller
15 21 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.74%) Principal Data Engineer
16 19 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.81%) PySpark
2 55 (7.93%) Kafka
3 28 (4.03%) REST
4 20 (2.88%) Great Expectations
5 18 (2.59%) Middleware
6 17 (2.45%) SOAP
7 14 (2.02%) .NET
8 13 (1.87%) JSON
9 11 (1.59%) Web Services
10 10 (1.44%) YAML
11 9 (1.30%) Pandas
11 9 (1.30%) Spring
12 6 (0.86%) boto
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.72%) HTML
13 5 (0.72%) NumPy
13 5 (0.72%) OAuth
13 5 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.52%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 40 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 31 (4.47%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (2.45%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
11 12 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.59%) Clustering
13 10 (1.44%) CMDB
13 10 (1.44%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.15%) Taxonomies
16 7 (1.01%) Replication
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 (41.50%) Data Modelling
2 267 (38.47%) Analytics
3 183 (26.37%) Business Intelligence
4 180 (25.94%) Data Pipeline
5 178 (25.65%) ETL
6 174 (25.07%) Data Engineering
7 167 (24.06%) Agile
8 164 (23.63%) AI
9 163 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 153 (22.05%) CI/CD
11 137 (19.74%) Data Architecture
12 121 (17.44%) DevOps
13 119 (17.15%) Validation
14 118 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (15.42%) Decision-Making
16 103 (14.84%) Data Management
17 100 (14.41%) Migration
18 90 (12.97%) Machine Learning
19 81 (11.67%) Data Integration
19 81 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 313 (45.10%) SQL
2 227 (32.71%) Python
3 45 (6.48%) Scala
4 37 (5.33%) C#
5 17 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.45%) R
6 16 (2.31%) Java
7 15 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.44%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.86%) Bicep
11 4 (0.58%) VBA
12 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.43%) SOQL
12 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.29%) Bash
13 2 (0.29%) C
13 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 134 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.14%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.50%) Degree
4 35 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.44%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.15%) PMP
12 5 (0.72%) CISSP
12 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.58%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.43%) CBAP
14 3 (0.43%) IIBA
15 2 (0.29%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (42.07%) Data Quality
2 115 (16.57%) GDPR
3 41 (5.91%) QA
4 14 (2.02%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.73%) IFRS
6 9 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.30%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.86%) COREP
7 6 (0.86%) FINREP
7 6 (0.86%) PMO
8 5 (0.72%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.72%) PERC
9 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.58%) GRC
9 4 (0.58%) MiFID
10 3 (0.43%) HL7
10 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (4.03%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (10.37%) Terraform
2 36 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.01%) Grafana
3 7 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.58%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.58%) 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
1 160 (23.05%) Databricks
2 137 (19.74%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.48%) Google
3 45 (6.48%) Oracle
4 37 (5.33%) SAP
5 36 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 28 (4.03%) Informatica
7 18 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.44%) Adobe
10 9 (1.30%) GoldenSource
10 9 (1.30%) Tealium
11 8 (1.15%) Workday
12 7 (1.01%) OneTrust
12 7 (1.01%) Sparx
13 6 (0.86%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.86%) Foundry
14 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.72%) Ariba
14 5 (0.72%) VMware