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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 75 117
Rank change year-on-year +12 +42 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 822 476 347
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.08% 3.48% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 3.77% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 337 265
10th Percentile £400 £402 £379
25th Percentile £463 £469 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £760 £883
England median daily rate £538 £538 £575
% change year-on-year - -6.52% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £38.50 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £65.00 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -58.46% +23.41% -34.16%
75th Percentile £36.35 £83.75 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £93.50 £73.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.85% +1.43% +8.36%

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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +18 117 £563 +12.50% 83
West London +11 33 £520 +22.35% 27
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -12 4 £637 -6.50% 5
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 55 (6.69%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.14%) Apache
4 20 (2.43%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.85%) Confluence
6 6 (0.73%) CMS
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 39 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 17 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.61%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.36%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) Maximo
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 304 (36.98%) Azure
2 174 (21.17%) Power Platform
3 163 (19.83%) AWS
4 105 (12.77%) GCP
5 82 (9.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (8.39%) Snowflake
7 66 (8.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 55 (6.69%) Collibra
11 54 (6.57%) dbt
12 39 (4.74%) GitHub
13 36 (4.38%) Amazon S3
14 28 (3.41%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (3.16%) Serverless
17 21 (2.55%) Entra ID
18 20 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (2.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.85%) Network Security
2 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) IPv4
3 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 1 (0.12%) 4G
4 1 (0.12%) 5G
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (21.78%) Metadata
2 155 (18.86%) Power BI
3 117 (14.23%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (12.41%) Data Lake
5 52 (6.33%) Delta Lake
6 42 (5.11%) Tableau
7 30 (3.65%) BigQuery
8 27 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.16%) Big Data
10 24 (2.92%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (2.55%) Data Vault
12 21 (2.55%) Star Schema
13 20 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (1.58%) Parquet
17 13 (1.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (4.50%) Git
2 32 (3.89%) JIRA
3 30 (3.65%) ERwin
4 19 (2.31%) ER Studio
5 13 (1.58%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (1.22%) GitLab
7 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) git-flow
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
9 2 (0.24%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) GCC
10 1 (0.12%) LSMW
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 280 (34.06%) Finance
2 242 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 153 (18.61%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.80%) Banking
5 78 (9.49%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.87%) Retail
7 39 (4.74%) Legal
8 34 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.16%) Marketing
10 18 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.07%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.34%) Local Government
16 9 (1.09%) Front Office
16 9 (1.09%) Law
17 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (20.56%) Architect
2 154 (18.73%) Analyst
3 133 (16.18%) Data Engineer
4 92 (11.19%) Data Analyst
4 92 (11.19%) Lead
5 87 (10.58%) Senior
6 86 (10.46%) Data Architect
7 67 (8.15%) Business Analyst
8 44 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (4.14%) Project Manager
10 32 (3.89%) Data Business Analyst
11 30 (3.65%) Data Modeller
12 29 (3.53%) Consultant
13 28 (3.41%) Governance Analyst
13 28 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (3.28%) Data Manager
15 23 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.55%) Developer
17 20 (2.43%) Product Owner
18 19 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.30%) PySpark
2 43 (5.23%) Kafka
3 25 (3.04%) REST
4 17 (2.07%) JSON
4 17 (2.07%) Middleware
5 14 (1.70%) SOAP
6 13 (1.58%) Web Services
7 10 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.22%) Spring
8 8 (0.97%) Great Expectations
8 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.85%) .NET
9 7 (0.85%) OAuth
10 6 (0.73%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (0.73%) YAML
11 5 (0.61%) Pandas
11 5 (0.61%) PyTorch
11 5 (0.61%) RESTful
11 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.39%) Product Ownership
3 65 (7.91%) Data Structures
4 51 (6.20%) Onboarding
5 41 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (4.01%) Reference Data
7 25 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.70%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.46%) Clustering
14 11 (1.34%) CMDB
14 11 (1.34%) FMCG
14 11 (1.34%) Life Science
14 11 (1.34%) Low-Code
14 11 (1.34%) NHS
15 10 (1.22%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.61%) Linux
1 5 (0.61%) Unix
2 3 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (39.29%) Data Modelling
2 295 (35.89%) Analytics
3 235 (28.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 215 (26.16%) AI
5 188 (22.87%) Business Intelligence
6 184 (22.38%) Data Pipeline
7 182 (22.14%) ETL
8 177 (21.53%) Data Engineering
9 170 (20.68%) Data Architecture
10 163 (19.83%) CI/CD
11 162 (19.71%) Agile
12 145 (17.64%) Migration
13 143 (17.40%) Validation
14 137 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 136 (16.55%) DevOps
16 130 (15.82%) Data Management
17 121 (14.72%) Decision-Making
18 115 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
19 96 (11.68%) Data Lineage
20 92 (11.19%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 319 (38.81%) SQL
2 198 (24.09%) Python
3 22 (2.68%) Java
4 20 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (2.31%) Scala
6 17 (2.07%) C#
7 15 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.22%) Bicep
9 10 (1.22%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.97%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.73%) Bash
12 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.36%) VBA
13 2 (0.24%) Cypher
13 2 (0.24%) Go
13 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.24%) R
13 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 133 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.72%) Degree
4 36 (4.38%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.70%) PMP
8 13 (1.58%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.73%) CISSP
14 5 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.49%) CEH
15 4 (0.49%) CISM
15 4 (0.49%) GIAC
15 4 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (43.80%) Data Quality
2 111 (13.50%) GDPR
3 38 (4.62%) QA
4 16 (1.95%) Solvency II
5 15 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.58%) NIST
7 12 (1.46%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.09%) COREP
8 9 (1.09%) FINREP
8 9 (1.09%) PMO
9 7 (0.85%) GRC
10 6 (0.73%) GxP
10 6 (0.73%) IFRS
11 5 (0.61%) MiFID
11 5 (0.61%) NCSC
11 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.49%) COBIT
12 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (2.80%) Docker
2 19 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (7.30%) Terraform
2 28 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.97%) Grafana
4 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.36%) Ansible
5 3 (0.36%) Control-M
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.24%) Istio
6 2 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 175 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 146 (17.76%) Databricks
3 49 (5.96%) Oracle
4 37 (4.50%) Google
5 35 (4.26%) SAP
6 30 (3.65%) Informatica
7 24 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.46%) Foundry
10 10 (1.22%) Adobe
10 10 (1.22%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.22%) GoldenSource
10 10 (1.22%) Workday
11 9 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.85%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.61%) IBM
13 5 (0.61%) Sparx
14 4 (0.49%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.49%) Murex