Data Governance Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Governance
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 109 137
Rank change year-on-year +61 +28 -18
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 84 16 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 4.29% 0.97% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 1.05% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 19 9 3
10th Percentile - - £70,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £53,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% -47.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £77,750 £68,500 £110,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.69% -12.59% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Governance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,610 1,531 1,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.27% 92.34% 88.51%
Number of salaries quoted 739 666 1,306
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,563 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,750 £93,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Berkshire

Data Governance
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Maidenhead - 19 £57,500 - 2
Slough - 19 - - 19
Windsor - 19 £45,500 -
Reading +23 12 £69,840 +31.77% 5
Data Governance
South East

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (34.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (80.95%) Azure
2 45 (53.57%) Power Platform
3 15 (17.86%) AWS
3 15 (17.86%) GCP
4 11 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.57%) Collibra
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.19%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (48.81%) Data Lake
2 35 (41.67%) Power BI
3 32 (38.10%) SAP BW
4 19 (22.62%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (19.05%) Metadata
6 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.57%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.57%) SAP HANA
8 2 (2.38%) Big Data
8 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.19%) SAS EBI
9 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) ERwin
2 3 (3.57%) MLflow
2 3 (3.57%) PowerDesigner
General
1 50 (59.52%) Social Skills
2 30 (35.71%) Finance
3 14 (16.67%) Marketing
4 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (15.48%) Law
5 7 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Games
7 3 (3.57%) Publishing
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (57.14%) Lead
2 29 (34.52%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 17 (20.24%) Senior
4 13 (15.48%) Architect
4 13 (15.48%) Data Architect
4 13 (15.48%) Senior Architect
4 13 (15.48%) Senior Data Architect
5 8 (9.52%) Developer
5 8 (9.52%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (5.95%) Data Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Data Model Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.57%) SAP Data Manager
7 3 (3.57%) SAP Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.57%) SAP Manager
8 2 (2.38%) Governance Analyst
9 1 (1.19%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) FHIR
2 3 (3.57%) Keras
2 3 (3.57%) scikit-learn
2 3 (3.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Life Science
2 10 (11.90%) Algorithms
2 10 (11.90%) Omics
3 9 (10.71%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.52%) Low-Code
5 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (64.29%) Analytics
2 47 (55.95%) Data Modelling
3 41 (48.81%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (45.24%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (44.05%) Data Science
6 33 (39.29%) Data Strategy
7 30 (35.71%) Data Cleansing
8 29 (34.52%) Actionable Insight
8 29 (34.52%) Data Architecture
8 29 (34.52%) ERP
9 28 (33.33%) AI
9 28 (33.33%) Machine Learning
10 23 (27.38%) Decision-Making
11 22 (26.19%) Data Integration
12 20 (23.81%) ETL
13 18 (21.43%) Data Engineering
14 17 (20.24%) Data Management
14 17 (20.24%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (20.24%) Mentoring
14 17 (20.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Python
2 8 (9.52%) C#
2 8 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (64.29%) Degree
2 10 (11.90%) PhD
3 6 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.57%) PMP
4 3 (3.57%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.38%) CISSP
5 2 (2.38%) MCSE
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.38%) OCP
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (61.90%) Data Quality
2 17 (20.24%) Accessibility
3 10 (11.90%) CDISC
3 10 (11.90%) GxP
3 10 (11.90%) HL7
4 3 (3.57%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 38 (45.24%) SAP
2 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Databricks
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (1.19%) Foundry
5 1 (1.19%) Palantir