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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 72 123
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 690 438 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 3.48% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 3.80% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 336 266
10th Percentile £396 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £27.81
25th Percentile £18.25 £62.50 £33.51
Median hourly rate £18.50 £65.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -71.54% +41.14% -45.82%
75th Percentile £27.00 £67.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £49.05 - £50.02
England median hourly rate £67.50 £26.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +151.75% -32.97% +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 15,153 11,521 15,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.47% 91.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,178 7,819 11,391
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 167 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.65 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.10 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 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 2 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 2 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 +37 96 £550 - 53
West London - 31 £603 - 8
East London +1 8 £566 +13.25% 9
South London -8 6 £500 -16.71% 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 90 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.36%) Apache
3 29 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.74%) Confluence
4 12 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.58%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.58%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Actimize
4 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
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 EBS
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
Cloud Services
1 283 (41.01%) Azure
2 179 (25.94%) Power Platform
3 156 (22.61%) AWS
4 102 (14.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 99 (14.35%) GCP
6 81 (11.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (8.84%) Collibra
8 56 (8.12%) Microsoft Purview
9 51 (7.39%) Amazon S3
10 50 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (6.96%) Snowflake
12 37 (5.36%) GitHub
13 33 (4.78%) dbt
14 32 (4.64%) Serverless
15 28 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
17 23 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
18 21 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
20 15 (2.17%) Power Automate
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
1 168 (24.35%) Power BI
2 138 (20.00%) Metadata
3 134 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (14.64%) Data Lake
5 54 (7.83%) Tableau
6 49 (7.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (6.81%) NoSQL
8 46 (6.67%) Delta Lake
9 33 (4.78%) BigQuery
10 29 (4.20%) Big Data
11 26 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (3.77%) SQL Server
12 24 (3.48%) Snowflake Schema
13 22 (3.19%) Mixpanel
13 22 (3.19%) OLAP
14 20 (2.90%) OLTP
15 17 (2.46%) Relational Database
16 16 (2.32%) Spark SQL
16 16 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (2.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 68 (9.86%) Git
2 31 (4.49%) JIRA
3 17 (2.46%) ERwin
4 13 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.59%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (1.16%) MLflow
7 6 (0.87%) GitLab
8 3 (0.43%) LSMW
9 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 231 (33.48%) Finance
2 221 (32.03%) Social Skills
3 151 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.55%) Banking
6 31 (4.49%) Legal
7 30 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.62%) Marketing
9 18 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 17 (2.46%) Retail
11 15 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.30%) Electronics
13 9 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.16%) Local Government
14 8 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.87%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 149 (21.59%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.41%) Analyst
3 103 (14.93%) Architect
4 101 (14.64%) Lead
5 75 (10.87%) Data Analyst
6 68 (9.86%) Senior
7 67 (9.71%) Business Analyst
8 51 (7.39%) Data Architect
9 38 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
10 33 (4.78%) Azure Data Engineer
11 32 (4.64%) Developer
12 30 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
13 24 (3.48%) Consultant
13 24 (3.48%) Project Manager
14 23 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
15 20 (2.90%) Data Modeller
15 20 (2.90%) Principal Data Engineer
15 20 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.46%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (11.59%) PySpark
2 59 (8.55%) Kafka
3 29 (4.20%) REST
4 21 (3.04%) Great Expectations
5 17 (2.46%) SOAP
6 16 (2.32%) Middleware
7 14 (2.03%) .NET
8 11 (1.59%) JSON
8 11 (1.59%) Web Services
9 10 (1.45%) Pandas
10 8 (1.16%) OAuth
10 8 (1.16%) Spring
10 8 (1.16%) YAML
11 6 (0.87%) boto
11 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.87%) NumPy
11 6 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.87%) XML
12 5 (0.72%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.09%) Data Structures
3 37 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 31 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.61%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
11 11 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.45%) CMDB
13 9 (1.30%) Clustering
13 9 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.30%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.30%) Taxonomies
14 8 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Android
1 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (42.32%) Data Modelling
2 265 (38.41%) Analytics
3 193 (27.97%) ETL
4 190 (27.54%) Business Intelligence
5 186 (26.96%) Data Engineering
6 175 (25.36%) Data Pipeline
7 170 (24.64%) Agile
8 162 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 154 (22.32%) CI/CD
10 152 (22.03%) AI
11 148 (21.45%) Data Architecture
12 122 (17.68%) DevOps
13 121 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (16.23%) Validation
15 106 (15.36%) Data Management
16 101 (14.64%) Decision-Making
17 95 (13.77%) Migration
18 89 (12.90%) Data Integration
19 86 (12.46%) Machine Learning
20 84 (12.17%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 322 (46.67%) SQL
2 233 (33.77%) Python
3 48 (6.96%) Scala
4 38 (5.51%) C#
5 19 (2.75%) R
6 18 (2.61%) Java
7 16 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.03%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.45%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.87%) Bicep
12 4 (0.58%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.43%) SOQL
13 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) Bash
14 2 (0.29%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 134 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 117 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.99%) Degree
4 32 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.32%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.59%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.30%) PMP
12 5 (0.72%) CISSP
12 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.58%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.43%) CBAP
15 2 (0.29%) CEH
15 2 (0.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (43.77%) Data Quality
2 111 (16.09%) GDPR
3 43 (6.23%) QA
4 16 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.88%) Solvency II
6 12 (1.74%) IFRS
7 10 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (1.30%) IFRS 17
8 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.72%) NIST
9 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.72%) PERC
9 5 (0.72%) PMO
10 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.58%) COREP
10 4 (0.58%) FINREP
10 4 (0.58%) GRC
10 4 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.43%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 30 (4.35%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (10.87%) Terraform
2 38 (5.51%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.87%) Grafana
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.58%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.29%) 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
1 170 (24.64%) Databricks
2 132 (19.13%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.52%) Oracle
4 43 (6.23%) Google
5 35 (5.07%) Salesforce
6 33 (4.78%) SAP
7 29 (4.20%) Informatica
8 20 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.88%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.45%) Adobe
11 9 (1.30%) Tealium
12 7 (1.01%) GoldenSource
12 7 (1.01%) Sparx
12 7 (1.01%) Workday
13 6 (0.87%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.87%) OneTrust
14 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.72%) mParticle
14 5 (0.72%) Talend
15 4 (0.58%) Refinitiv