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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 75 127
Rank change year-on-year +20 +52 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 871 472 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 3.56% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 3.85% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 326 241
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 £750
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -8.00%
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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +13 126 £570 +5.46% 84
West London +13 31 £520 +22.35% 24
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 9
South London -12 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 55 (6.31%) Apache Spark
2 50 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.79%) Apache
4 23 (2.64%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.03%) Confluence
6 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.92%) SAS
7 6 (0.69%) 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 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.92%) 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 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.38%) SAP MDG
3 11 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.69%) 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
1 323 (37.08%) Azure
2 179 (20.55%) AWS
3 171 (19.63%) Power Platform
4 102 (11.71%) GCP
5 82 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 78 (8.96%) Snowflake
7 70 (8.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 63 (7.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 62 (7.12%) dbt
10 61 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (6.89%) Collibra
12 40 (4.59%) Amazon S3
13 38 (4.36%) Serverless
14 36 (4.13%) GitHub
15 33 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
16 32 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (2.87%) Azure Databricks
19 22 (2.53%) Entra ID
20 20 (2.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
1 6 (0.69%) 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
1 216 (24.80%) Metadata
2 151 (17.34%) Power BI
3 126 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (11.14%) Data Lake
5 52 (5.97%) Delta Lake
6 42 (4.82%) Tableau
7 31 (3.56%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.33%) Big Data
9 28 (3.21%) BigQuery
10 23 (2.64%) Data Vault
10 23 (2.64%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.64%) Star Schema
11 21 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (2.07%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.84%) Parquet
14 16 (1.84%) Semantic Layer
15 15 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (4.36%) Git
2 34 (3.90%) JIRA
3 30 (3.44%) ERwin
4 20 (2.30%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.38%) 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
1 299 (34.33%) Finance
2 284 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 158 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (12.06%) Banking
5 91 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.82%) Retail
7 41 (4.71%) Legal
8 31 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.44%) Marketing
10 25 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.64%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.38%) Local Government
16 11 (1.26%) Law
17 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (1.03%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 187 (21.47%) Architect
2 167 (19.17%) Analyst
3 139 (15.96%) Data Engineer
4 107 (12.28%) Lead
5 97 (11.14%) Data Analyst
5 97 (11.14%) Data Architect
6 85 (9.76%) Senior
7 66 (7.58%) Business Analyst
8 40 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (4.25%) Consultant
10 31 (3.56%) Data Modeller
10 31 (3.56%) Governance Analyst
11 30 (3.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 28 (3.21%) Data Business Analyst
12 28 (3.21%) Data Manager
13 27 (3.10%) Project Manager
14 23 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (2.64%) Databricks Engineer
15 21 (2.41%) Product Owner
16 19 (2.18%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (8.38%) PySpark
2 62 (7.12%) Terraform
3 48 (5.51%) Kafka
4 25 (2.87%) REST
5 16 (1.84%) JSON
6 15 (1.72%) Middleware
7 12 (1.38%) SOAP
7 12 (1.38%) Web Services
8 9 (1.03%) Great Expectations
8 9 (1.03%) Spring
9 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.69%) .NET
10 6 (0.69%) OAuth
10 6 (0.69%) React
10 6 (0.69%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (0.69%) YAML
11 5 (0.57%) MACH
11 5 (0.57%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 70 (8.04%) Data Structures
4 59 (6.77%) Onboarding
5 44 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (4.82%) Reference Data
7 34 (3.90%) Management Information System
8 27 (3.10%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.84%) Low-Code
13 15 (1.72%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.38%) FMCG
15 12 (1.38%) Life Science
16 11 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.26%) Security Posture
17 10 (1.15%) Clustering
17 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.69%) Linux
1 6 (0.69%) 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
1 341 (39.15%) Data Modelling
2 315 (36.17%) Analytics
3 282 (32.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 244 (28.01%) AI
5 195 (22.39%) Data Engineering
6 190 (21.81%) ETL
7 189 (21.70%) Business Intelligence
8 188 (21.58%) Data Architecture
9 187 (21.47%) Data Pipeline
10 186 (21.35%) Agile
11 182 (20.90%) CI/CD
12 167 (19.17%) Migration
13 151 (17.34%) Validation
14 149 (17.11%) DevOps
15 148 (16.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 146 (16.76%) Data Management
17 134 (15.38%) Decision-Making
18 123 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
18 123 (14.12%) Roadmaps
19 120 (13.78%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 332 (38.12%) SQL
2 205 (23.54%) Python
3 24 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (2.53%) Java
5 16 (1.84%) C#
5 16 (1.84%) Scala
6 14 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.26%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.92%) 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
1 139 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.51%) Degree
4 38 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.49%) PMP
8 12 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.69%) CISSP
11 5 (0.57%) CISM
11 5 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.46%) CEH
12 4 (0.46%) GIAC
12 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 405 (46.50%) Data Quality
2 117 (13.43%) GDPR
3 40 (4.59%) QA
4 15 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.72%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.49%) NIST
6 10 (1.15%) GRC
7 8 (0.92%) COREP
7 8 (0.92%) FINREP
8 7 (0.80%) GxP
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
9 6 (0.69%) IFRS
9 6 (0.69%) MiFID
9 6 (0.69%) 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 (2.64%) Docker
2 20 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) RACF
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.80%) Grafana
2 7 (0.80%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.69%) 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
1 196 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 161 (18.48%) Databricks
3 53 (6.08%) Oracle
4 42 (4.82%) Informatica
5 38 (4.36%) SAP
6 36 (4.13%) Google
7 26 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.38%) Adobe
9 12 (1.38%) Foundry
10 11 (1.26%) GoldenSource
11 10 (1.15%) Workday
12 9 (1.03%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.92%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.92%) IBM
14 7 (0.80%) Sparx
14 7 (0.80%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.69%) Confluent
15 6 (0.69%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.57%) Talend