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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 71 115
Rank change year-on-year +10 +44 +106
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 724 430 386
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 3.55% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 3.85% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 326 298
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £750 £738
90th Percentile £745 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £21.58 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £25.06 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £30.62 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £43.20 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £55.53 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £61.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.90% -18.18% +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 16,097 11,157 15,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.20% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,758 7,514 11,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £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 £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 181 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% +10.33% -29.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.84 £63.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +13 102 £550 - 60
West London +4 32 £603 +41.76% 6
East London +2 10 £473 -30.00% 4
South London -10 4 £637 -2.00% 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 74 (10.22%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.28%) Apache
2 31 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.10%) Confluence
5 5 (0.69%) CMS
5 5 (0.69%) SAS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.14%) Luigi
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 39 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.41%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.55%) SAP HCM
3 4 (0.55%) SAP MDG
3 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.28%) 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
1 283 (39.09%) Azure
2 179 (24.72%) Power Platform
3 143 (19.75%) AWS
4 105 (14.50%) GCP
5 91 (12.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 76 (10.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 65 (8.98%) Microsoft Purview
8 60 (8.29%) Collibra
9 56 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (6.08%) Snowflake
11 43 (5.94%) Amazon S3
12 38 (5.25%) GitHub
13 37 (5.11%) dbt
14 25 (3.45%) Serverless
15 24 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
17 19 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (2.49%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.41%) Network Security
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) IPv4
2 2 (0.28%) IPv6
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.96%) Power BI
2 152 (20.99%) Metadata
3 113 (15.61%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (13.81%) Data Lake
5 58 (8.01%) Delta Lake
6 47 (6.49%) Tableau
7 38 (5.25%) BigQuery
8 34 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (4.70%) NoSQL
9 29 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (3.87%) SQL Server
11 24 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (2.90%) Big Data
13 20 (2.76%) Data Vault
13 20 (2.76%) Mixpanel
13 20 (2.76%) OLAP
14 19 (2.62%) OLTP
15 17 (2.35%) Spark SQL
16 16 (2.21%) Star Schema
17 14 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (8.56%) Git
2 31 (4.28%) JIRA
3 23 (3.18%) ERwin
4 13 (1.80%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (1.38%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.97%) MLflow
8 5 (0.69%) GitLab
9 4 (0.55%) LSMW
10 3 (0.41%) git-flow
11 2 (0.28%) JMeter
11 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.14%) GCC
12 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.14%) Selenium
12 1 (0.14%) Snyk
12 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 242 (33.43%) Finance
2 207 (28.59%) Social Skills
3 140 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 69 (9.53%) Banking
6 36 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.87%) Legal
8 24 (3.31%) Retail
9 20 (2.76%) Marketing
10 15 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.80%) Local Government
12 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.69%) Billing
15 5 (0.69%) Law
15 5 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 143 (19.75%) Data Engineer
2 133 (18.37%) Analyst
3 107 (14.78%) Architect
4 96 (13.26%) Lead
5 83 (11.46%) Data Analyst
6 80 (11.05%) Senior
7 60 (8.29%) Business Analyst
8 52 (7.18%) Data Architect
9 33 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (4.14%) Developer
10 30 (4.14%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.73%) Data Business Analyst
12 26 (3.59%) Data Modeller
13 25 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
14 23 (3.18%) Consultant
14 23 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (3.04%) Governance Analyst
16 21 (2.90%) Data Manager
16 21 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
16 21 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (9.94%) PySpark
2 50 (6.91%) Kafka
3 26 (3.59%) REST
4 19 (2.62%) Great Expectations
5 16 (2.21%) Middleware
5 16 (2.21%) SOAP
6 15 (2.07%) .NET
7 11 (1.52%) JSON
7 11 (1.52%) Web Services
8 9 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.24%) YAML
9 7 (0.97%) Spring
10 6 (0.83%) OAuth
10 6 (0.83%) Pandas
11 5 (0.69%) boto
11 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (0.55%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.55%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.22%) Data Structures
3 42 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.70%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.31%) AI Agents
7 22 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.49%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.52%) Clustering
10 11 (1.52%) CMDB
11 9 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.24%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.10%) Equities
13 7 (0.97%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (39.92%) Data Modelling
2 273 (37.71%) Analytics
3 183 (25.28%) Business Intelligence
4 178 (24.59%) AI
5 174 (24.03%) ETL
5 174 (24.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 172 (23.76%) Data Engineering
6 172 (23.76%) Data Pipeline
7 158 (21.82%) Agile
8 156 (21.55%) CI/CD
9 141 (19.48%) Data Architecture
10 130 (17.96%) DevOps
11 123 (16.99%) Validation
12 119 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (15.88%) Decision-Making
13 115 (15.88%) Migration
14 112 (15.47%) Data Management
15 88 (12.15%) Machine Learning
16 84 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 80 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 321 (44.34%) SQL
2 220 (30.39%) Python
3 37 (5.11%) Scala
4 36 (4.97%) C#
5 19 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (2.07%) Java
6 15 (2.07%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.66%) R
9 11 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.24%) Bicep
11 4 (0.55%) Bash
11 4 (0.55%) VBA
12 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.14%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.14%) SOQL
14 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 139 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 115 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.15%) Degree
4 36 (4.97%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.24%) PMP
10 7 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.83%) CISSP
12 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.69%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.55%) CEH
13 4 (0.55%) CISM
13 4 (0.55%) GIAC
14 3 (0.41%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (43.65%) Data Quality
2 109 (15.06%) GDPR
3 45 (6.22%) QA
4 13 (1.80%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.24%) IFRS
7 7 (0.97%) NIST
8 6 (0.83%) COREP
8 6 (0.83%) FINREP
8 6 (0.83%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.83%) PMO
9 5 (0.69%) GRC
9 5 (0.69%) MiFID
10 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.55%) COBIT
10 4 (0.55%) NCSC
10 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.41%) HL7
System Software
1 26 (3.59%) Docker
2 6 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) RACF
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (9.81%) Terraform
2 31 (4.28%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.83%) Grafana
3 6 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.55%) Istio
6 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 159 (21.96%) Databricks
2 147 (20.30%) Microsoft
3 50 (6.91%) Oracle
4 41 (5.66%) Google
5 40 (5.52%) SAP
6 31 (4.28%) Salesforce
7 29 (4.01%) Informatica
8 17 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.52%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.10%) Foundry
10 8 (1.10%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.10%) Workday
11 5 (0.69%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.69%) VMware
12 4 (0.55%) Ariba
12 4 (0.55%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.55%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.55%) Sparx
13 3 (0.41%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.41%) MicroStrategy