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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 68 112
Rank change year-on-year +4 +44 +118
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 696 473 390
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.91% 3.76% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.08% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 359 297
10th Percentile £384 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
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 £850
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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £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 £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +14 100 £550 - 70
West London - 33 £603 - 7
East London -3 8 £473 -22.22% 6
South London -11 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 81 (11.64%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.31%) Apache
3 25 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.58%) Confluence
4 11 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.72%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.15%) 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 14 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) SAP HCM
3 4 (0.57%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) 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
1 275 (39.51%) Azure
2 170 (24.43%) Power Platform
3 148 (21.26%) AWS
4 106 (15.23%) GCP
5 97 (13.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 82 (11.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.76%) Collibra
8 60 (8.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 52 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (6.90%) Amazon S3
11 42 (6.03%) Snowflake
12 37 (5.32%) dbt
13 36 (5.17%) GitHub
14 28 (4.02%) Serverless
15 25 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
19 17 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
2 2 (0.29%) IPv4
2 2 (0.29%) IPv6
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (22.41%) Power BI
2 145 (20.83%) Metadata
3 122 (17.53%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (14.08%) Data Lake
5 54 (7.76%) Delta Lake
6 48 (6.90%) Tableau
7 42 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 37 (5.32%) BigQuery
9 36 (5.17%) NoSQL
10 27 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (3.74%) Big Data
12 25 (3.59%) SQL Server
13 24 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
14 20 (2.87%) Mixpanel
14 20 (2.87%) OLAP
15 19 (2.73%) OLTP
16 16 (2.30%) Spark SQL
17 15 (2.16%) Data Vault
17 15 (2.16%) Star Schema
18 14 (2.01%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 64 (9.20%) Git
2 33 (4.74%) JIRA
3 19 (2.73%) ERwin
4 13 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.72%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (1.01%) GitLab
6 7 (1.01%) MLflow
7 6 (0.86%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.57%) LSMW
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.14%) GCC
10 1 (0.14%) NUnit
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 237 (34.05%) Finance
2 215 (30.89%) Social Skills
3 145 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.05%) Banking
6 34 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (4.74%) Legal
8 27 (3.88%) Marketing
9 17 (2.44%) Retail
10 16 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.58%) Local Government
14 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.15%) Electronics
15 8 (1.15%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.72%) Law
16 5 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (20.55%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.25%) Analyst
3 100 (14.37%) Architect
4 95 (13.65%) Lead
5 80 (11.49%) Senior
6 76 (10.92%) Data Analyst
7 64 (9.20%) Business Analyst
8 47 (6.75%) Data Architect
9 36 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (4.31%) Developer
11 29 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (4.02%) Data Business Analyst
13 27 (3.88%) Project Manager
14 23 (3.30%) Consultant
14 23 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (2.87%) Data Modeller
17 19 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
17 19 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
18 18 (2.59%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.63%) PySpark
2 54 (7.76%) Kafka
3 27 (3.88%) REST
4 19 (2.73%) Great Expectations
5 17 (2.44%) Middleware
5 17 (2.44%) SOAP
6 14 (2.01%) .NET
7 13 (1.87%) JSON
8 11 (1.58%) Web Services
9 10 (1.44%) YAML
10 9 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.29%) Spring
11 8 (1.15%) Pandas
12 6 (0.86%) boto
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (0.72%) Model Context Protocol
13 5 (0.72%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
13 5 (0.72%) XML
14 4 (0.57%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 71 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.03%) Data Structures
4 33 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.87%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.16%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.58%) Clustering
10 11 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.44%) CMDB
12 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Android
2 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (40.80%) Data Modelling
2 269 (38.65%) Analytics
3 179 (25.72%) Business Intelligence
4 177 (25.43%) Data Pipeline
5 176 (25.29%) ETL
6 170 (24.43%) Data Engineering
7 166 (23.85%) Agile
7 166 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 164 (23.56%) AI
9 159 (22.84%) CI/CD
10 133 (19.11%) Data Architecture
11 125 (17.96%) DevOps
12 120 (17.24%) Validation
13 116 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (15.95%) Decision-Making
15 103 (14.80%) Migration
16 101 (14.51%) Data Management
17 88 (12.64%) Machine Learning
18 80 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 80 (11.49%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 315 (45.26%) SQL
2 225 (32.33%) Python
3 42 (6.03%) Scala
4 36 (5.17%) C#
5 17 (2.44%) Java
5 17 (2.44%) R
6 16 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.72%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.15%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.57%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.43%) Bash
13 3 (0.43%) SOQL
13 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 130 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 109 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.91%) Degree
4 34 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 28 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.29%) PMP
11 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.57%) CBAP
13 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.43%) CISSP
15 2 (0.29%) CEH
15 2 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (42.53%) Data Quality
2 114 (16.38%) GDPR
3 42 (6.03%) QA
4 13 (1.87%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.72%) IFRS
6 9 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.29%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.86%) COREP
8 6 (0.86%) FINREP
8 6 (0.86%) MiFID
8 6 (0.86%) PMO
9 5 (0.72%) NIST
9 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.72%) PERC
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) GRC
11 3 (0.43%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (4.17%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (10.20%) Terraform
2 35 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.01%) Grafana
3 7 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.57%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.57%) 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
1 159 (22.84%) Databricks
2 140 (20.11%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.61%) Oracle
4 43 (6.18%) SAP
5 42 (6.03%) Google
6 36 (5.17%) Salesforce
7 28 (4.02%) Informatica
8 17 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.15%) Adobe
10 8 (1.15%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.15%) Workday
11 7 (1.01%) Foundry
11 7 (1.01%) Tealium
12 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.72%) Ariba
12 5 (0.72%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.72%) mParticle
12 5 (0.72%) VMware
13 4 (0.57%) OneTrust