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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 119 166
Rank change year-on-year +47 +47 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 507 344 313
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 2.16% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 2.42% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 236 223
10th Percentile £406 £394 £465
25th Percentile £463 £479 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £743
90th Percentile £758 £844 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £614
% change year-on-year -4.55% -10.39% +2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £76.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £77.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -76.13% +119.45% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £78.75 £45.72
90th Percentile £28.13 - £49.92
England median hourly rate £22.89 £30.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -23.70% -15.80% -

All Process and 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 12,373 14,239 18,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.45% 89.33% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 9,210 13,447
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 175 228
10th Percentile £18.06 £17.70 £18.45
25th Percentile £24.94 £24.17 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.25 £38.07 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -3.92% +1.77%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £64.93 £78.75 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 +42 84 £550 -10.20% 115
South London - 3 £650 - 5
West London -20 2 £513 -10.87% 10
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 33 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 26 (5.13%) Apache
3 24 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (4.14%) Confluence
5 12 (2.37%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.18%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.99%) CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.20%) Appian
9 1 (0.20%) Luigi
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.20%) Revit
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.97%) SAP MDG
2 10 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.20%) Actimize
5 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.20%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 185 (36.49%) Azure
2 127 (25.05%) AWS
3 105 (20.71%) Power Platform
4 78 (15.38%) GCP
5 69 (13.61%) Snowflake
6 41 (8.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 40 (7.89%) dbt
8 37 (7.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 36 (7.10%) Collibra
10 33 (6.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (3.94%) GitHub
13 17 (3.35%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.16%) Serverless
15 15 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (2.56%) Entra ID
17 10 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (1.97%) PowerApps
18 9 (1.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) DKIM
2 1 (0.20%) DMARC
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) MPLS
2 1 (0.20%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (21.10%) Metadata
2 96 (18.93%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (17.36%) Power BI
4 63 (12.43%) Data Lake
5 33 (6.51%) Big Data
6 30 (5.92%) SQL Server
7 24 (4.73%) Delta Lake
7 24 (4.73%) NoSQL
7 24 (4.73%) Tableau
8 22 (4.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (3.94%) BigQuery
10 19 (3.75%) Data Vault
10 19 (3.75%) Relational Database
11 17 (3.35%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (2.56%) Star Schema
14 12 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.17%) Power Query
16 10 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
17 9 (1.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (8.09%) JIRA
2 25 (4.93%) ERwin
3 17 (3.35%) ER Studio
4 15 (2.96%) PowerDesigner
5 14 (2.76%) Git
6 8 (1.58%) MLflow
7 6 (1.18%) GitLab
8 3 (0.59%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.59%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 199 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 169 (33.33%) Finance
3 95 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.26%) Banking
5 51 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.13%) Legal
7 19 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.16%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.96%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.76%) Publishing
11 13 (2.56%) Retail
12 12 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.78%) Marketing
13 9 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.18%) Back Office
15 6 (1.18%) Local Government
15 6 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 110 (21.70%) Architect
2 80 (15.78%) Analyst
3 61 (12.03%) Lead
4 60 (11.83%) Data Architect
5 51 (10.06%) Data Engineer
6 45 (8.88%) Data Analyst
7 37 (7.30%) Business Analyst
8 35 (6.90%) Data Modeller
8 35 (6.90%) Senior
9 22 (4.34%) Governance Analyst
10 20 (3.94%) Consultant
10 20 (3.94%) Data Manager
11 18 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (3.35%) Project Manager
12 17 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.16%) Data Business Analyst
14 15 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
15 14 (2.76%) Developer
16 11 (2.17%) Azure Architect
17 10 (1.97%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.50%) PySpark
2 29 (5.72%) Kafka
3 11 (2.17%) REST
4 10 (1.97%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.58%) OAuth
5 8 (1.58%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.38%) LangChain
6 7 (1.38%) Middleware
7 6 (1.18%) Hugging Face
8 5 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (0.99%) Great Expectations
8 5 (0.99%) RESTful
8 5 (0.99%) SOAP
9 4 (0.79%) .NET
9 4 (0.79%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.79%) Faiss
9 4 (0.79%) FHIR
10 3 (0.59%) Keras
10 3 (0.59%) Pandas
10 3 (0.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 28 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.54%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.96%) Reference Data
9 14 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.76%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.37%) Reinsurance
11 11 (2.17%) Life Science
11 11 (2.17%) Taxonomies
12 8 (1.58%) NHS
12 8 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.18%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.99%) Genomics
14 5 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (41.22%) Data Modelling
2 157 (30.97%) Analytics
3 129 (25.44%) ETL
4 116 (22.88%) Agile
5 114 (22.49%) Business Intelligence
6 110 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (17.75%) Data Pipeline
8 88 (17.36%) Data Engineering
9 83 (16.37%) Data Architecture
9 83 (16.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 81 (15.98%) CI/CD
10 81 (15.98%) Data Management
11 80 (15.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 78 (15.38%) Migration
13 77 (15.19%) AI
14 75 (14.79%) DevOps
15 74 (14.60%) Metadata Management
16 72 (14.20%) Data Integration
17 66 (13.02%) Decision-Making
18 60 (11.83%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 184 (36.29%) SQL
2 139 (27.42%) Python
3 28 (5.52%) Java
4 17 (3.35%) R
5 15 (2.96%) Scala
6 9 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.18%) Bicep
7 6 (1.18%) C#
7 6 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.18%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.99%) C++
8 5 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.79%) C
9 4 (0.79%) Perl
9 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.59%) Korn
11 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.39%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.20%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (10.45%) Degree
2 49 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 39 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.14%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.17%) PMP
8 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.79%) CISSP
11 4 (0.79%) MCP
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.20%) ACCA
13 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) PhD
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (34.12%) Data Quality
2 88 (17.36%) GDPR
3 26 (5.13%) QA
4 22 (4.34%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.56%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.78%) EU AI Act
8 8 (1.58%) NIST
9 7 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.18%) PMO
11 5 (0.99%) MiFID
12 4 (0.79%) HL7
12 4 (0.79%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.59%) GMP
13 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.39%) Basel III
14 2 (0.39%) DICOM
14 2 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
14 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.54%) Docker
2 11 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (8.28%) Terraform
2 25 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.39%) Ansible
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.20%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 89 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 88 (17.36%) Databricks
3 32 (6.31%) Google
4 28 (5.52%) SAP
5 26 (5.13%) Salesforce
6 22 (4.34%) Informatica
7 18 (3.55%) Oracle
8 13 (2.56%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.97%) Sparx
9 10 (1.97%) Workday
10 9 (1.78%) Talend
11 7 (1.38%) Guidewire
12 6 (1.18%) Alteryx
12 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.79%) Apple
13 4 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.59%) Adobe
14 3 (0.59%) Duck Creek
15 2 (0.39%) Cerner
15 2 (0.39%) IBM