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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 122
Rank change year-on-year +2 +55 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 693 465 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.01% 3.67% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.00% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 354 270
10th Percentile £386 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £741
90th Percentile £738 £938 £826
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £66.25 £43.40
25th Percentile £18.25 £71.88 £43.96
Median hourly rate £22.75 £82.50 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year -72.42% +74.50% -44.38%
75th Percentile £36.19 £91.88 £49.96
90th Percentile £52.73 £96.75 £50.13
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 15,407 11,629 15,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 91.83% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 7,876 11,244
10th Percentile £353 £349 £338
25th Percentile £426 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £675
90th Percentile £754 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 166 331
10th Percentile £18.28 £16.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.80 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.23 £50.69 £48.92
90th Percentile £73.00 £63.50 £66.75
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +23 93 £550 - 60
West London - 32 £603 - 12
East London -2 9 £495 -14.66% 8
South London -8 5 £500 -16.67% 6
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 88 (12.70%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.91%) Apache
3 29 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.44%) Confluence
6 5 (0.72%) SAS
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.58%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
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 Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 276 (39.83%) Azure
2 173 (24.96%) Power Platform
3 148 (21.36%) AWS
4 104 (15.01%) GCP
5 100 (14.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 85 (12.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 60 (8.66%) Collibra
8 56 (8.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 51 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (7.22%) Amazon S3
11 44 (6.35%) Snowflake
12 37 (5.34%) GitHub
13 34 (4.91%) dbt
14 29 (4.18%) Serverless
15 28 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
20 16 (2.31%) SaaS
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
1 162 (23.38%) Power BI
2 141 (20.35%) Metadata
3 132 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (14.57%) Data Lake
5 50 (7.22%) Tableau
6 48 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (6.78%) NoSQL
8 46 (6.64%) Delta Lake
9 38 (5.48%) BigQuery
10 28 (4.04%) Big Data
11 26 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 24 (3.46%) SQL Server
14 22 (3.17%) Mixpanel
14 22 (3.17%) OLAP
15 20 (2.89%) OLTP
16 17 (2.45%) Spark SQL
17 16 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
18 15 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (2.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (9.67%) Git
2 30 (4.33%) JIRA
3 21 (3.03%) ERwin
4 14 (2.02%) PowerDesigner
5 13 (1.88%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.15%) MLflow
7 6 (0.87%) GitLab
8 4 (0.58%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.58%) LSMW
9 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) GCC
10 1 (0.14%) NUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Snyk
10 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 235 (33.91%) Finance
2 220 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 155 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.66%) Banking
6 33 (4.76%) Legal
7 32 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.75%) Marketing
9 19 (2.74%) Retail
10 18 (2.60%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.30%) Electronics
13 9 (1.30%) Local Government
13 9 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (21.93%) Data Engineer
2 125 (18.04%) Analyst
3 102 (14.72%) Architect
4 99 (14.29%) Lead
5 75 (10.82%) Data Analyst
6 72 (10.39%) Senior
7 67 (9.67%) Business Analyst
8 50 (7.22%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (4.91%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (4.33%) Developer
12 29 (4.18%) Data Business Analyst
13 25 (3.61%) Project Manager
14 24 (3.46%) Consultant
15 23 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
16 21 (3.03%) Data Modeller
17 20 (2.89%) Principal Data Engineer
17 20 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
18 19 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
19 17 (2.45%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.40%) PySpark
2 56 (8.08%) Kafka
3 28 (4.04%) REST
4 21 (3.03%) Great Expectations
5 18 (2.60%) Middleware
6 17 (2.45%) SOAP
7 14 (2.02%) .NET
8 12 (1.73%) JSON
9 11 (1.59%) Web Services
10 10 (1.44%) YAML
11 9 (1.30%) Pandas
12 8 (1.15%) Spring
13 7 (1.01%) OAuth
14 6 (0.87%) boto
14 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
14 6 (0.87%) scikit-learn
15 5 (0.72%) Node.js
15 5 (0.72%) NumPy
15 5 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
15 5 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 38 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.45%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.45%) Reference Data
8 13 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
9 12 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.59%) Clustering
11 10 (1.44%) CMDB
11 10 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.15%) Taxonomies
14 7 (1.01%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.01%) Replication
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
1 294 (42.42%) Data Modelling
2 263 (37.95%) Analytics
3 185 (26.70%) ETL
4 184 (26.55%) Business Intelligence
4 184 (26.55%) Data Pipeline
5 180 (25.97%) Data Engineering
6 173 (24.96%) Agile
7 165 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 163 (23.52%) AI
9 156 (22.51%) CI/CD
10 142 (20.49%) Data Architecture
11 123 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (17.46%) DevOps
13 114 (16.45%) Validation
14 106 (15.30%) Decision-Making
15 101 (14.57%) Data Management
16 95 (13.71%) Migration
17 90 (12.99%) Machine Learning
18 89 (12.84%) Data Integration
19 86 (12.41%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 322 (46.46%) SQL
2 233 (33.62%) Python
3 49 (7.07%) Scala
4 37 (5.34%) C#
5 19 (2.74%) Java
5 19 (2.74%) R
6 16 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.02%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.59%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.44%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.87%) Bicep
11 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.58%) VBA
12 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.43%) SOQL
13 2 (0.29%) Bash
13 2 (0.29%) C
13 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.14%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 118 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.51%) Degree
4 34 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 29 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.15%) PMP
11 5 (0.72%) CISSP
11 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.43%) CBAP
13 3 (0.43%) IIBA
14 2 (0.29%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (43.15%) Data Quality
2 112 (16.16%) GDPR
3 40 (5.77%) QA
4 15 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.88%) Solvency II
6 12 (1.73%) IFRS
7 9 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.30%) IFRS 17
7 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.72%) COREP
8 5 (0.72%) FINREP
8 5 (0.72%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.72%) PERC
8 5 (0.72%) PMO
9 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.58%) GRC
10 3 (0.43%) HL7
10 3 (0.43%) MiFID
10 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (4.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (10.82%) Terraform
2 36 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.87%) Grafana
3 6 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.58%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.58%) 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
1 167 (24.10%) Databricks
2 137 (19.77%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.49%) Google
4 43 (6.20%) Oracle
5 37 (5.34%) SAP
6 35 (5.05%) Salesforce
7 28 (4.04%) Informatica
8 19 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.44%) Adobe
11 9 (1.30%) Tealium
12 8 (1.15%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.15%) Workday
13 7 (1.01%) Sparx
14 6 (0.87%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.87%) OneTrust
15 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.72%) Ariba
15 5 (0.72%) Foundry
15 5 (0.72%) mParticle