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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 82 124
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 775 441 375
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 3.32% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.60% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 314 289
10th Percentile £398 £409 £400
25th Percentile £463 £476 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £750
90th Percentile £740 £800 £888
England median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -8.00%
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 £58.50 £27.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year +114.44% -31.80% +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 17,355 12,260 15,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.20% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 8,183 11,073
10th Percentile £359 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.80 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +19 98 £550 - 51
West London +7 27 £603 +41.76% 7
East London +6 9 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -4 4 £637 -6.50% 7
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 56 (7.23%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.74%) Apache
4 18 (2.32%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.03%) Confluence
6 6 (0.77%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.39%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 36 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.77%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.52%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.39%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.39%) Workfront
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 289 (37.29%) Azure
2 175 (22.58%) Power Platform
3 151 (19.48%) AWS
4 111 (14.32%) GCP
5 75 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 71 (9.16%) Microsoft Purview
7 61 (7.87%) Collibra
7 61 (7.87%) Snowflake
8 59 (7.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 53 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (6.32%) dbt
11 42 (5.42%) GitHub
12 37 (4.77%) Amazon S3
13 30 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (3.48%) Microsoft Copilot
15 24 (3.10%) Serverless
16 19 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.32%) Power Automate
18 17 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Network Security
2 3 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) IPv4
3 2 (0.26%) IPv6
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (21.29%) Metadata
2 154 (19.87%) Power BI
3 103 (13.29%) Data Lake
4 101 (13.03%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (6.58%) Delta Lake
6 46 (5.94%) Tableau
7 33 (4.26%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
9 26 (3.35%) NoSQL
10 24 (3.10%) Big Data
11 23 (2.97%) Data Vault
11 23 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.94%) Hadoop
14 15 (1.94%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.81%) OLAP
16 13 (1.68%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 43 (5.55%) Git
2 30 (3.87%) JIRA
3 26 (3.35%) ERwin
4 13 (1.68%) PowerDesigner
5 12 (1.55%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.03%) GitLab
7 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.65%) MLflow
9 3 (0.39%) git-flow
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.13%) LSMW
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.13%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) Snyk
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 270 (34.84%) Finance
2 227 (29.29%) Social Skills
3 138 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.97%) Banking
5 75 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (4.26%) Legal
8 31 (4.00%) Retail
9 19 (2.45%) Marketing
10 16 (2.06%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.55%) Local Government
14 11 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.77%) Law
16 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 142 (18.32%) Analyst
2 136 (17.55%) Data Engineer
3 132 (17.03%) Architect
4 96 (12.39%) Lead
5 90 (11.61%) Senior
6 85 (10.97%) Data Analyst
7 67 (8.65%) Business Analyst
8 61 (7.87%) Data Architect
9 35 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
10 32 (4.13%) Data Business Analyst
10 32 (4.13%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.61%) Consultant
11 28 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
12 27 (3.48%) Data Modeller
13 26 (3.35%) Data Manager
13 26 (3.35%) Developer
13 26 (3.35%) Governance Analyst
14 24 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
16 16 (2.06%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.97%) PySpark
2 47 (6.06%) Kafka
3 26 (3.35%) REST
4 17 (2.19%) Middleware
5 16 (2.06%) SOAP
6 13 (1.68%) Great Expectations
6 13 (1.68%) JSON
7 11 (1.42%) Web Services
8 10 (1.29%) .NET
8 10 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (1.16%) Spring
10 7 (0.90%) YAML
11 6 (0.77%) OAuth
12 5 (0.65%) Pandas
12 5 (0.65%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (0.65%) TensorFlow
13 4 (0.52%) MACH
13 4 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 47 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 35 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.97%) AI Agents
5 23 (2.97%) Reference Data
6 20 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.94%) Taxonomies
10 12 (1.55%) Clustering
11 11 (1.42%) Life Science
12 10 (1.29%) CMDB
12 10 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.16%) Fixed Income
14 8 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.03%) Equities
14 8 (1.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (36.77%) Data Modelling
2 282 (36.39%) Analytics
3 203 (26.19%) AI
4 196 (25.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 181 (23.35%) ETL
6 176 (22.71%) Business Intelligence
7 167 (21.55%) Data Pipeline
8 162 (20.90%) Data Engineering
9 161 (20.77%) CI/CD
10 149 (19.23%) Agile
11 147 (18.97%) Data Architecture
12 138 (17.81%) Migration
13 137 (17.68%) Validation
14 132 (17.03%) Data Management
15 131 (16.90%) DevOps
16 118 (15.23%) Decision-Making
17 116 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
18 106 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 93 (12.00%) Machine Learning
20 85 (10.97%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 300 (38.71%) SQL
2 199 (25.68%) Python
3 27 (3.48%) C#
4 26 (3.35%) Scala
5 18 (2.32%) Java
6 14 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (1.55%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.55%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.29%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.16%) Bicep
10 6 (0.77%) R
11 5 (0.65%) Bash
12 3 (0.39%) Cypher
12 3 (0.39%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.39%) VBA
13 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.26%) Go
13 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.26%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 132 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.13%) Degree
4 36 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.81%) PMP
10 12 (1.55%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.42%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.77%) CISSP
13 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.65%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.52%) CEH
14 4 (0.52%) CISM
14 4 (0.52%) GIAC
14 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (41.68%) Data Quality
2 118 (15.23%) GDPR
3 46 (5.94%) QA
4 17 (2.19%) Solvency II
5 12 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.29%) IFRS
8 9 (1.16%) PMO
9 8 (1.03%) IFRS 17
9 8 (1.03%) NIST
10 7 (0.90%) COREP
10 7 (0.90%) FINREP
11 5 (0.65%) GRC
11 5 (0.65%) MiFID
12 4 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.52%) COBIT
12 4 (0.52%) GxP
12 4 (0.52%) NCSC
12 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 26 (3.35%) Docker
2 13 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) HDFS
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (8.77%) Terraform
2 30 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.03%) Grafana
4 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.39%) AirWatch
6 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.26%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Ansible
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 166 (21.42%) Microsoft
2 133 (17.16%) Databricks
3 53 (6.84%) Oracle
4 39 (5.03%) SAP
5 38 (4.90%) Google
6 29 (3.74%) Informatica
6 29 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.42%) Foundry
8 11 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.16%) GoldenSource
10 7 (0.90%) Bloomberg
10 7 (0.90%) Workday
11 5 (0.65%) IBM
11 5 (0.65%) Murex
12 4 (0.52%) Sparx
12 4 (0.52%) VMware
13 3 (0.39%) Adobe
13 3 (0.39%) Ariba
13 3 (0.39%) Zscaler