Data Governance Job Trends in Central London

Data Governance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 116 89
Rank change year-on-year +68 -27 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 113 66 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.81% 2.02% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 2.11% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 84 32 62
10th Percentile £57,875 £57,160 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,188 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,438 £108,125
90th Percentile £119,625 £119,100 £120,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +16.67% +3.45%

All Process & 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 2,080 3,122 2,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.51% 95.65% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 1,933 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,950 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% - -

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Central London over the 6 months to 31 December 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 31 December 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 +68 84 £85,000 +6.25% 102
City of Westminster +36 10 - - 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £65,000 -
Data Governance
London

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 7 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Appian
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.51%) Power Platform
2 38 (33.63%) Azure
3 13 (11.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (10.62%) AWS
5 11 (9.73%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (7.08%) GCP
8 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.42%) dbt
10 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.65%) Serverless
12 2 (1.77%) Alation
12 2 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.77%) Collibra
12 2 (1.77%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.74%) Power BI
2 32 (28.32%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (13.27%) Data Lake
4 11 (9.73%) Tableau
5 9 (7.96%) Metadata
6 5 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.42%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.54%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.65%) Big Data
8 3 (2.65%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.65%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.65%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.65%) MySQL
8 3 (2.65%) Power Query
8 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) ERwin
1 7 (6.19%) Git
2 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.77%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.77%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.88%) MLflow
General
1 64 (56.64%) Finance
2 39 (34.51%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.62%) Banking
5 10 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.85%) Law
5 10 (8.85%) Legal
6 7 (6.19%) Retail
7 6 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.65%) International Banking
10 3 (2.65%) Marketing
10 3 (2.65%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Automotive
12 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (36.28%) Architect
2 37 (32.74%) Data Architect
3 22 (19.47%) Lead
4 12 (10.62%) Analyst
5 10 (8.85%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) Senior
7 7 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Lead Architect
8 5 (4.42%) Lead Data Architect
8 5 (4.42%) Risk Manager
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Risk Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.54%) Technology Risk Manager
10 3 (2.65%) Azure Architect
10 3 (2.65%) Azure Data Architect
11 2 (1.77%) GCP Data Architect
11 2 (1.77%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) Kafka
2 6 (5.31%) PySpark
3 2 (1.77%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.77%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.77%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.77%) XML
4 1 (0.88%) JDBC
4 1 (0.88%) Keras
4 1 (0.88%) LangChain
4 1 (0.88%) LDAP
4 1 (0.88%) Node.js
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.88%) ODBC
4 1 (0.88%) pydantic
4 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.88%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.19%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.54%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.65%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.65%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.77%) FMCG
6 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.02%) Analytics
2 48 (42.48%) Data Architecture
2 48 (42.48%) Data Strategy
3 44 (38.94%) Data Modelling
4 42 (37.17%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (35.40%) Roadmaps
6 31 (27.43%) Decision-Making
7 28 (24.78%) AI
8 27 (23.89%) Data Engineering
9 24 (21.24%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (21.24%) ETL
10 21 (18.58%) Agile
10 21 (18.58%) Data Management
10 21 (18.58%) Data Science
11 20 (17.70%) Data Analytics
12 19 (16.81%) Machine Learning
13 17 (15.04%) Regulatory Compliance
13 17 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (14.16%) Data Integration
15 15 (13.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.86%) SQL
2 26 (23.01%) Python
3 10 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.31%) Scala
5 3 (2.65%) Java
6 2 (1.77%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.88%) Go
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (30.09%) Degree
2 11 (9.73%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.42%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.42%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (3.54%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.54%) CISA
5 4 (3.54%) CISM
5 4 (3.54%) CISSP
5 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.54%) CRISC
6 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.65%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.65%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.77%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.77%) MBA
8 1 (0.88%) MCSE
8 1 (0.88%) PhD
8 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (24.78%) Data Quality
2 19 (16.81%) GDPR
3 9 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.77%) QA
7 1 (0.88%) Basel III
7 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.88%) MiFID
7 1 (0.88%) NIST
7 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.42%) Terraform
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.35%) Databricks
3 4 (3.54%) Informatica
4 3 (2.65%) Dell
4 3 (2.65%) Oracle
5 2 (1.77%) Cisco
5 2 (1.77%) Google
5 2 (1.77%) IBM
5 2 (1.77%) Meraki
5 2 (1.77%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.88%) Confluent
6 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.88%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.88%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.88%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.88%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Workday