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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 72 113
Rank change year-on-year +8 +41 +108
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 716 436 393
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.80% 3.55% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.85% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 317 307
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £745 £756
90th Percentile £738 £938 £875
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £31.62
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £37.30
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +70.10% -42.94%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.05
England median hourly rate £60.50 £32.73 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.85% -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 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 94 £550 - 39
West London +4 29 £603 +41.76% 6
East London +3 9 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -5 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 57 (7.96%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.77%) Apache
4 12 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.12%) Confluence
6 6 (0.84%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 33 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.70%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.56%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG-S
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 267 (37.29%) Azure
2 179 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 135 (18.85%) AWS
4 101 (14.11%) GCP
5 78 (10.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 71 (9.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 66 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 61 (8.52%) Collibra
9 52 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (7.26%) Snowflake
10 39 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.45%) dbt
11 38 (5.31%) GitHub
12 27 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (3.49%) Serverless
14 23 (3.21%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (2.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) Network Security
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) IPv4
3 2 (0.28%) IPv6
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (22.21%) Power BI
2 150 (20.95%) Metadata
3 97 (13.55%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (13.27%) Data Lake
5 54 (7.54%) Delta Lake
6 44 (6.15%) Tableau
7 36 (5.03%) BigQuery
8 29 (4.05%) SQL Server
9 28 (3.91%) NoSQL
10 26 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (2.79%) Data Vault
13 18 (2.51%) Big Data
14 16 (2.23%) Mixpanel
14 16 (2.23%) OLAP
14 16 (2.23%) Spark SQL
14 16 (2.23%) Star Schema
15 15 (2.09%) OLTP
16 13 (1.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (7.40%) Git
2 30 (4.19%) JIRA
3 24 (3.35%) ERwin
4 13 (1.82%) PowerDesigner
5 11 (1.54%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.84%) GitLab
6 6 (0.84%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.70%) MLflow
8 3 (0.42%) git-flow
9 2 (0.28%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) LSMW
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Snyk
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 238 (33.24%) Finance
2 198 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 132 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (10.47%) Banking
5 68 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.91%) Legal
8 23 (3.21%) Retail
9 16 (2.23%) Marketing
10 15 (2.09%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.54%) Local Government
14 10 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.70%) Billing
17 5 (0.70%) Law
17 5 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (18.16%) Data Engineer
2 127 (17.74%) Analyst
3 112 (15.64%) Architect
4 100 (13.97%) Lead
5 80 (11.17%) Data Analyst
5 80 (11.17%) Senior
6 56 (7.82%) Business Analyst
7 54 (7.54%) Data Architect
8 28 (3.91%) Developer
8 28 (3.91%) Project Manager
9 27 (3.77%) Data Modeller
10 26 (3.63%) Data Business Analyst
11 25 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.49%) Consultant
12 24 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (3.21%) Governance Analyst
13 23 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.79%) Data Manager
15 19 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.24%) PySpark
2 44 (6.15%) Kafka
3 24 (3.35%) REST
4 16 (2.23%) Middleware
5 15 (2.09%) Great Expectations
5 15 (2.09%) SOAP
6 14 (1.96%) .NET
7 11 (1.54%) Web Services
8 10 (1.40%) JSON
8 10 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.12%) YAML
10 7 (0.98%) Spring
11 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.84%) OAuth
12 5 (0.70%) boto
12 5 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.70%) Pandas
13 4 (0.56%) OpenID
13 4 (0.56%) RESTful
13 4 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.01%) Data Structures
4 35 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 34 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.49%) AI Agents
7 22 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.07%) Reference Data
8 17 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.68%) Clustering
12 10 (1.40%) CMDB
13 9 (1.26%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.26%) Life Science
13 9 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Unix
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (37.71%) Data Modelling
2 263 (36.73%) Analytics
3 184 (25.70%) AI
4 176 (24.58%) Business Intelligence
5 172 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 168 (23.46%) ETL
7 156 (21.79%) Data Engineering
8 153 (21.37%) Data Pipeline
9 152 (21.23%) CI/CD
10 141 (19.69%) Agile
11 139 (19.41%) Data Architecture
12 128 (17.88%) Migration
13 127 (17.74%) Validation
14 125 (17.46%) DevOps
15 118 (16.48%) Data Management
16 109 (15.22%) Decision-Making
16 109 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
17 94 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 87 (12.15%) Machine Learning
19 82 (11.45%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 295 (41.20%) SQL
2 198 (27.65%) Python
3 31 (4.33%) C#
4 27 (3.77%) Scala
5 17 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (1.96%) Java
6 14 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.40%) Bicep
10 8 (1.12%) R
11 4 (0.56%) Bash
12 3 (0.42%) VBA
13 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.14%) ABAP
14 1 (0.14%) C
14 1 (0.14%) COBOL
14 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (18.30%) Security Cleared
2 110 (15.36%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.24%) Degree
4 38 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.40%) PMP
11 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.84%) CISSP
13 5 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.56%) CEH
14 4 (0.56%) CISM
14 4 (0.56%) GIAC
15 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (42.60%) Data Quality
2 113 (15.78%) GDPR
3 44 (6.15%) QA
4 16 (2.23%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.26%) IFRS
7 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.98%) COREP
7 7 (0.98%) FINREP
7 7 (0.98%) IFRS 17
7 7 (0.98%) NIST
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 5 (0.70%) GRC
9 5 (0.70%) MiFID
10 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.56%) COBIT
10 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (3.35%) Docker
2 10 (1.40%) 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 68 (9.50%) Terraform
2 29 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.84%) Grafana
3 6 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.56%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.56%) Istio
6 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 156 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 134 (18.72%) Databricks
3 53 (7.40%) Oracle
4 39 (5.45%) Google
4 39 (5.45%) SAP
5 28 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.07%) Informatica
7 14 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.40%) Foundry
10 9 (1.26%) GoldenSource
11 8 (1.12%) Workday
12 5 (0.70%) IBM
12 5 (0.70%) VMware
13 4 (0.56%) Ariba
13 4 (0.56%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.56%) Sparx
14 3 (0.42%) IFS
14 3 (0.42%) Zscaler