Data Governance Jobs in Central London

Data Governance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Governance over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 129 162
Rank change year-on-year +43 +33 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 77 66 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.24% 1.73% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 1.89% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 63 43 68
10th Percentile £54,000 £47,000 £55,875
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £79,845
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -24.85% -0.19%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,000 £111,500
London median annual salary £100,000 £75,543 £70,000
% change year-on-year +32.38% +7.92% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,299 3,488 4,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.76% 91.57% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,585 2,606 3,843
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Central London

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in Central London.

Salary trend for Data Governance in Central London

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Central London over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Central London

Data Governance
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 June 2025. 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
City of London +42 54 £85,000 +41.67% 26
City of Westminster 0 7 £63,127 -12.93% 2
Southwark - 4 £90,000 -
West End of London - 1 £63,127 - 1
Data Governance
London

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.79%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) CMS
4 1 (1.30%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SAP MDG
1 2 (2.60%) SAP MDG-S
1 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.57%) Azure
2 20 (25.97%) Power Platform
3 10 (12.99%) Collibra
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (7.79%) AWS
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.19%) PaaS
6 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.90%) GCP
7 3 (3.90%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.60%) SaaS
9 1 (1.30%) dbt
9 1 (1.30%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.97%) Power BI
2 13 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (16.88%) Metadata
3 11 (14.29%) Tableau
4 6 (7.79%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.49%) IBM InfoSphere
5 5 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.90%) Power Query
6 3 (3.90%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.60%) Big Data
7 2 (2.60%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.60%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (1.30%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.30%) ERwin
General
1 46 (59.74%) Finance
2 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Marketing
4 9 (11.69%) Law
5 8 (10.39%) Banking
6 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.79%) Legal
7 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Publishing
9 2 (2.60%) Retail
10 1 (1.30%) Advertising
10 1 (1.30%) Games
10 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (35.06%) Architect
2 22 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 12 (15.58%) Analyst
3 12 (15.58%) Lead
4 10 (12.99%) Data Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) Data Steward
6 5 (6.49%) Governance Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Head of Engineering
8 3 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Governance Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Head of Data Science
9 2 (2.60%) SAP MDG Architect
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Architect
9 2 (2.60%) SQL Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) Kafka
2 1 (1.30%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.90%) Smart City
3 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.30%) FMCG
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Online Games
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) Data Strategy
2 27 (35.06%) Data Architecture
3 24 (31.17%) Analytics
4 23 (29.87%) Roadmaps
5 22 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (27.27%) Data Management
6 21 (27.27%) Data Modelling
6 21 (27.27%) Decision-Making
7 14 (18.18%) Data Science
7 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.88%) Data Analytics
8 13 (16.88%) Data Engineering
8 13 (16.88%) Data Transformation
8 13 (16.88%) ETL
9 12 (15.58%) Data Lineage
9 12 (15.58%) Visualisation
10 11 (14.29%) Agile
10 11 (14.29%) Data Analysis
10 11 (14.29%) Quality Management
11 10 (12.99%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) SQL
2 12 (15.58%) Python
3 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.90%) Scala
3 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.60%) Java
5 1 (1.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (33.77%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 16 (20.78%) GDPR
3 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.90%) QA
5 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.30%) GRC
6 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.30%) NIST
6 1 (1.30%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) Databricks
3 8 (10.39%) Informatica
4 5 (6.49%) IBM
5 3 (3.90%) Google
5 3 (3.90%) SAP
6 2 (2.60%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.60%) Duck Creek
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle
6 2 (2.60%) Talend
7 1 (1.30%) Confluent
7 1 (1.30%) Sparx
7 1 (1.30%) Workday