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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 80 119
Rank change year-on-year +21 +39 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Governance 825 456 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 3.35% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 3.64% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 322 269
10th Percentile £400 £400 £383
25th Percentile £463 £465 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £537 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.56% -8.00% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.10 £66.25 £32.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £71.88 £39.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.50 £52.67
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +56.64% -38.04%
75th Percentile £36.35 £91.88 £66.02
90th Percentile £52.79 £96.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £52.50 £33.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.51% -17.20% +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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +28 117 £550 +10.00% 52
West London +15 33 £520 +22.35% 14
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -13 4 £637 -6.50% 4
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 57 (6.91%) Apache Spark
2 45 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.36%) Apache
4 19 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.85%) Confluence
6 6 (0.73%) CMS
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 38 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.97%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.73%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.36%) Workfront
8 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.24%) Maximo
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 311 (37.70%) Azure
2 181 (21.94%) Power Platform
3 160 (19.39%) AWS
4 110 (13.33%) GCP
5 86 (10.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (8.36%) Snowflake
7 65 (7.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 61 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 56 (6.79%) Collibra
11 53 (6.42%) dbt
12 40 (4.85%) GitHub
13 38 (4.61%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
16 24 (2.91%) Serverless
17 21 (2.55%) Entra ID
18 20 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
19 19 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
20 18 (2.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.61%) Network Security
2 3 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (0.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) IPv4
3 2 (0.24%) IPv6
4 1 (0.12%) 4G
4 1 (0.12%) 5G
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (21.70%) Metadata
2 164 (19.88%) Power BI
3 116 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (12.61%) Data Lake
5 53 (6.42%) Delta Lake
6 46 (5.58%) Tableau
7 33 (4.00%) BigQuery
8 28 (3.39%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.03%) Big Data
9 25 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (2.67%) Data Vault
12 20 (2.42%) Star Schema
13 18 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.58%) Parquet
16 13 (1.58%) Power Query
17 12 (1.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (4.36%) Git
2 31 (3.76%) ERwin
2 31 (3.76%) JIRA
3 19 (2.30%) ER Studio
4 14 (1.70%) PowerDesigner
5 11 (1.33%) GitLab
6 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.36%) git-flow
7 3 (0.36%) MLflow
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.12%) GCC
9 1 (0.12%) LSMW
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.12%) RStudio
9 1 (0.12%) Snyk
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 275 (33.33%) Finance
2 237 (28.73%) Social Skills
3 157 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.88%) Banking
5 79 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.85%) Retail
7 39 (4.73%) Legal
8 35 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (3.39%) Marketing
10 17 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.45%) Local Government
13 12 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.09%) Front Office
15 9 (1.09%) Law
16 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 164 (19.88%) Architect
2 150 (18.18%) Analyst
3 137 (16.61%) Data Engineer
4 95 (11.52%) Lead
5 93 (11.27%) Senior
6 91 (11.03%) Data Analyst
7 81 (9.82%) Data Architect
8 66 (8.00%) Business Analyst
9 43 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.24%) Project Manager
11 34 (4.12%) Data Business Analyst
12 31 (3.76%) Data Modeller
12 31 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
13 29 (3.52%) Consultant
14 28 (3.39%) Governance Analyst
15 27 (3.27%) Data Manager
16 25 (3.03%) Developer
17 24 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
18 20 (2.42%) Product Owner
19 18 (2.18%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.39%) PySpark
2 46 (5.58%) Kafka
3 26 (3.15%) REST
4 17 (2.06%) JSON
4 17 (2.06%) Middleware
5 14 (1.70%) SOAP
6 13 (1.58%) Web Services
7 10 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.21%) Spring
8 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.97%) .NET
9 8 (0.97%) Great Expectations
10 7 (0.85%) OAuth
11 6 (0.73%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (0.61%) MACH
12 5 (0.61%) Pandas
12 5 (0.61%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.61%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 66 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 49 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 43 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.88%) Reference Data
6 24 (2.91%) AI Agents
7 23 (2.79%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.58%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.45%) Clustering
12 12 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.33%) CMDB
13 11 (1.33%) FMCG
13 11 (1.33%) Life Science
13 11 (1.33%) NHS
14 10 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.21%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.61%) Linux
1 5 (0.61%) Unix
2 4 (0.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (39.27%) Data Modelling
2 299 (36.24%) Analytics
3 230 (27.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 208 (25.21%) AI
5 194 (23.52%) Business Intelligence
6 188 (22.79%) ETL
7 184 (22.30%) Data Pipeline
8 179 (21.70%) Data Engineering
9 170 (20.61%) Data Architecture
10 166 (20.12%) Agile
10 166 (20.12%) CI/CD
11 147 (17.82%) Validation
12 141 (17.09%) Migration
13 140 (16.97%) DevOps
14 133 (16.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 132 (16.00%) Data Management
16 124 (15.03%) Decision-Making
17 117 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
18 94 (11.39%) Data Lineage
19 91 (11.03%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 323 (39.15%) SQL
2 205 (24.85%) Python
3 23 (2.79%) Java
4 21 (2.55%) Scala
5 20 (2.42%) C#
6 18 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.21%) Bicep
10 7 (0.85%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.73%) Bash
12 3 (0.36%) Cypher
12 3 (0.36%) R
12 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.36%) VBA
13 2 (0.24%) Go
13 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 134 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.30%) Degree
4 36 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.82%) PMP
8 14 (1.70%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.73%) CISSP
11 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.48%) CEH
13 4 (0.48%) CISM
13 4 (0.48%) GIAC
13 4 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (43.64%) Data Quality
2 113 (13.70%) GDPR
3 38 (4.61%) QA
4 15 (1.82%) Solvency II
5 13 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.45%) NIST
7 9 (1.09%) COREP
7 9 (1.09%) FINREP
7 9 (1.09%) PMO
8 6 (0.73%) GRC
8 6 (0.73%) GxP
8 6 (0.73%) IFRS
9 5 (0.61%) MiFID
9 5 (0.61%) NCSC
10 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.48%) COBIT
10 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.36%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (2.79%) Docker
2 19 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (7.76%) Terraform
2 30 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.09%) Grafana
4 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.36%) Control-M
5 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.24%) Ansible
6 2 (0.24%) Istio
6 2 (0.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 171 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 146 (17.70%) Databricks
3 50 (6.06%) Oracle
4 39 (4.73%) Google
5 38 (4.61%) SAP
6 32 (3.88%) Informatica
7 24 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.45%) Foundry
10 11 (1.33%) GoldenSource
10 11 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.33%) Workday
11 10 (1.21%) Adobe
11 10 (1.21%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.85%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.73%) IBM
14 5 (0.61%) Sparx
15 4 (0.48%) Guidewire
16 3 (0.36%) MuleSoft