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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 70 130
Rank change year-on-year +3 +60 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 655 460 331
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.47% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.81% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 347 255
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £457 £511 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £938 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - £28.40
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £35.63
75th Percentile £22.88 - £49.08
90th Percentile £41.70 - £49.78
England median hourly rate £58.00 £26.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +116.32% -32.97% +53.85%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +18 93 £575 +4.55% 85
West London +7 27 £603 - 12
East London -1 6 £566 +25.83% 7
South London -14 3 £475 -20.83% 8
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 80 (12.21%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.89%) Apache
3 26 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.83%) Confluence
5 10 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.98%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.46%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.76%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.46%) Actimize
4 3 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 271 (41.37%) Azure
2 168 (25.65%) Power Platform
3 150 (22.90%) AWS
4 106 (16.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (14.50%) GCP
6 82 (12.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 59 (9.01%) Microsoft Purview
7 59 (9.01%) Snowflake
8 53 (8.09%) Collibra
9 50 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (6.41%) Amazon S3
11 34 (5.19%) GitHub
12 32 (4.89%) dbt
13 31 (4.73%) Serverless
14 27 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) 4G
3 1 (0.15%) 5G
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (23.82%) Power BI
2 132 (20.15%) Data Warehouse
2 132 (20.15%) Metadata
3 94 (14.35%) Data Lake
4 49 (7.48%) Tableau
5 47 (7.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (7.02%) NoSQL
7 38 (5.80%) Delta Lake
8 35 (5.34%) BigQuery
9 32 (4.89%) SQL Server
10 31 (4.73%) Snowflake Schema
11 30 (4.58%) Big Data
12 24 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (3.51%) Relational Database
14 20 (3.05%) Data Vault
14 20 (3.05%) Mixpanel
14 20 (3.05%) OLAP
15 18 (2.75%) OLTP
16 17 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (9.16%) Git
2 33 (5.04%) JIRA
3 20 (3.05%) ERwin
4 15 (2.29%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.37%) MLflow
7 8 (1.22%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.76%) GitLab
9 3 (0.46%) LSMW
10 2 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.31%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.31%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.15%) git-flow
11 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.15%) Postman
11 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 224 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 222 (33.89%) Finance
3 137 (20.92%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.94%) Banking
6 33 (5.04%) Legal
7 22 (3.36%) Marketing
8 20 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.90%) Retail
10 15 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.83%) Publishing
12 9 (1.37%) Electronics
12 9 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.22%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.07%) Local Government
15 6 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (19.54%) Data Engineer
2 111 (16.95%) Analyst
3 105 (16.03%) Lead
4 99 (15.11%) Architect
5 66 (10.08%) Data Analyst
6 60 (9.16%) Senior
7 59 (9.01%) Business Analyst
8 56 (8.55%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
10 35 (5.34%) Developer
11 34 (5.19%) Azure Data Engineer
12 27 (4.12%) Data Business Analyst
12 27 (4.12%) Project Manager
13 25 (3.82%) Data Modeller
14 24 (3.66%) Consultant
15 19 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
16 17 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.44%) Azure Architect
17 16 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (12.21%) PySpark
2 48 (7.33%) Kafka
3 21 (3.21%) REST
4 17 (2.60%) .NET
4 17 (2.60%) Great Expectations
5 11 (1.68%) Pandas
6 10 (1.53%) OAuth
6 10 (1.53%) SOAP
7 9 (1.37%) JSON
8 8 (1.22%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.22%) YAML
9 7 (1.07%) Middleware
10 6 (0.92%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.92%) boto
10 6 (0.92%) NumPy
10 6 (0.92%) OpenID
10 6 (0.92%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.92%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.92%) XML
11 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.41%) Data Structures
3 26 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (3.21%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.44%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.68%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.37%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.22%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.22%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.07%) Replication
13 6 (0.92%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.31%) Android
1 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.15%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (43.82%) Data Modelling
2 239 (36.49%) Analytics
3 181 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
3 181 (27.63%) ETL
4 176 (26.87%) Data Engineering
5 173 (26.41%) Agile
6 159 (24.27%) Data Pipeline
7 151 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (21.53%) Data Architecture
9 135 (20.61%) AI
10 134 (20.46%) CI/CD
11 119 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (16.95%) DevOps
13 98 (14.96%) Decision-Making
14 94 (14.35%) Data Management
15 93 (14.20%) Validation
16 91 (13.89%) Data Integration
16 91 (13.89%) Migration
17 80 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 79 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 302 (46.11%) SQL
2 219 (33.44%) Python
3 45 (6.87%) Scala
4 34 (5.19%) C#
5 19 (2.90%) R
6 15 (2.29%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.14%) Java
8 13 (1.98%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.68%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.37%) Bicep
12 6 (0.92%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.31%) Bash
14 2 (0.31%) C
14 2 (0.31%) C++
14 2 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.31%) SOQL
14 2 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 104 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.38%) Degree
4 34 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.98%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.68%) PMP
9 10 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.07%) CISSP
11 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.46%) CBAP
14 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.15%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (42.29%) Data Quality
2 110 (16.79%) GDPR
3 40 (6.11%) QA
4 22 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.83%) IFRS
6 11 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (1.53%) Solvency II
8 9 (1.37%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.07%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.76%) GRC
10 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.76%) PERC
11 4 (0.61%) MiFID
11 4 (0.61%) PMO
12 3 (0.46%) HL7
12 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.31%) GAAP
13 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.15%) Basel III
System Software
1 37 (5.65%) Docker
2 6 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 75 (11.45%) Terraform
2 38 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.76%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.46%) Grafana
5 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 167 (25.50%) Databricks
2 127 (19.39%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.26%) Oracle
4 34 (5.19%) Google
4 34 (5.19%) Salesforce
4 34 (5.19%) SAP
5 27 (4.12%) Informatica
6 14 (2.14%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.83%) Workday
8 10 (1.53%) Adobe
9 9 (1.37%) Sparx
9 9 (1.37%) Tealium
10 6 (0.92%) OneTrust
11 5 (0.76%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.76%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.76%) mParticle
11 5 (0.76%) Talend
11 5 (0.76%) VMware
12 4 (0.61%) Ariba