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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 71 116
Rank change year-on-year +4 +45 +96
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 706 435 382
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.55% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.85% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 316 299
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 £750 £744
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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +13 93 £550 - 40
West London +5 29 £603 +41.76% 6
East London +4 9 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -9 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 60 (8.50%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.97%) Apache
4 10 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.13%) Confluence
6 6 (0.85%) CMS
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
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.71%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.57%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.57%) 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 EBS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 262 (37.11%) Azure
2 174 (24.65%) Power Platform
3 138 (19.55%) AWS
4 101 (14.31%) GCP
5 78 (11.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (9.49%) Microsoft Purview
7 64 (9.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 58 (8.22%) Collibra
9 51 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (6.94%) Snowflake
11 42 (5.95%) Amazon S3
12 39 (5.52%) dbt
13 37 (5.24%) GitHub
14 26 (3.68%) Serverless
15 24 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (2.83%) Microsoft Copilot
18 16 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
18 16 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) Network Security
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) IPv4
2 2 (0.28%) IPv6
3 1 (0.14%) 4G
3 1 (0.14%) 5G
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (21.81%) Power BI
2 146 (20.68%) Metadata
3 96 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (13.03%) Data Lake
5 52 (7.37%) Delta Lake
6 42 (5.95%) Tableau
7 36 (5.10%) BigQuery
8 29 (4.11%) NoSQL
9 28 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (3.97%) SQL Server
10 25 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (2.69%) Data Vault
13 18 (2.55%) Big Data
14 17 (2.41%) Mixpanel
14 17 (2.41%) OLAP
15 16 (2.27%) OLTP
15 16 (2.27%) Spark SQL
16 15 (2.12%) Star Schema
17 13 (1.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (7.51%) Git
2 30 (4.25%) JIRA
3 24 (3.40%) ERwin
4 13 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (1.42%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.85%) GitLab
6 6 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.71%) MLflow
8 3 (0.42%) git-flow
8 3 (0.42%) LSMW
9 2 (0.28%) JMeter
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
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
1 228 (32.29%) Finance
2 196 (27.76%) Social Skills
3 133 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (10.34%) Banking
5 69 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.97%) Legal
8 23 (3.26%) Retail
9 18 (2.55%) Marketing
10 14 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.98%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.42%) Local Government
12 10 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.71%) Billing
15 5 (0.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 130 (18.41%) Data Engineer
2 124 (17.56%) Analyst
3 105 (14.87%) Architect
4 97 (13.74%) Lead
5 77 (10.91%) Senior
6 76 (10.76%) Data Analyst
7 56 (7.93%) Business Analyst
8 50 (7.08%) Data Architect
9 29 (4.11%) Project Manager
10 28 (3.97%) Developer
11 27 (3.82%) Data Modeller
12 26 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (3.54%) Consultant
14 24 (3.40%) Data Business Analyst
15 23 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
16 22 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (2.97%) Data Manager
17 21 (2.97%) Governance Analyst
18 19 (2.69%) Azure Data Engineer
18 19 (2.69%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.36%) PySpark
2 44 (6.23%) Kafka
3 25 (3.54%) REST
4 16 (2.27%) Great Expectations
4 16 (2.27%) Middleware
5 15 (2.12%) SOAP
6 14 (1.98%) .NET
7 11 (1.56%) JSON
7 11 (1.56%) Web Services
8 10 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.13%) YAML
10 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.99%) Spring
11 6 (0.85%) OAuth
12 5 (0.71%) boto
12 5 (0.71%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.71%) Pandas
13 4 (0.57%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.57%) Spark Streaming
13 4 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.81%) Data Structures
4 35 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.40%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.97%) Reference Data
8 17 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.56%) Clustering
12 10 (1.42%) CMDB
13 9 (1.27%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.13%) Equities
14 8 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.13%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.99%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (37.96%) Data Modelling
2 260 (36.83%) Analytics
3 176 (24.93%) AI
4 174 (24.65%) Business Intelligence
5 166 (23.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 163 (23.09%) ETL
7 157 (22.24%) Data Engineering
8 154 (21.81%) Data Pipeline
9 151 (21.39%) CI/CD
10 141 (19.97%) Agile
11 139 (19.69%) Data Architecture
12 124 (17.56%) DevOps
13 122 (17.28%) Validation
14 119 (16.86%) Migration
15 112 (15.86%) Data Management
16 110 (15.58%) Decision-Making
17 106 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
18 90 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 85 (12.04%) Machine Learning
20 80 (11.33%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 297 (42.07%) SQL
2 200 (28.33%) Python
3 32 (4.53%) C#
4 29 (4.11%) Scala
5 17 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (1.98%) Java
6 14 (1.98%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.84%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.27%) Bicep
9 9 (1.27%) R
10 4 (0.57%) Bash
11 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.42%) VBA
12 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.14%) Cypher
13 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
13 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 136 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.07%) Degree
4 35 (4.96%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.56%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.42%) PMP
10 8 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.85%) CISSP
12 5 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.71%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.57%) CEH
13 4 (0.57%) CISM
13 4 (0.57%) GIAC
14 3 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (42.21%) Data Quality
2 109 (15.44%) GDPR
3 44 (6.23%) QA
4 13 (1.84%) Solvency II
5 11 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.13%) IFRS
7 7 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.99%) COREP
7 7 (0.99%) FINREP
7 7 (0.99%) NIST
8 6 (0.85%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.85%) PMO
9 5 (0.71%) GRC
9 5 (0.71%) MiFID
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.57%) COBIT
10 4 (0.57%) NCSC
10 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (3.40%) Docker
2 8 (1.13%) 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 69 (9.77%) Terraform
2 29 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.85%) Grafana
3 6 (0.85%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.57%) AirWatch
4 4 (0.57%) Istio
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 150 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 135 (19.12%) Databricks
3 50 (7.08%) Oracle
4 40 (5.67%) Google
4 40 (5.67%) SAP
5 28 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.12%) Informatica
7 14 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.27%) Foundry
9 9 (1.27%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.13%) Workday
11 5 (0.71%) IBM
11 5 (0.71%) VMware
12 4 (0.57%) Ariba
12 4 (0.57%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.57%) Sparx
13 3 (0.42%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.42%) Zscaler