Data Governance Jobs in the City of London

Data Governance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 125 156
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 44 55 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.30% 1.64% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.79% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 35 43 65
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £103,250 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £151,000 £112,000 £113,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £62,500 £79,923
% change year-on-year +44.00% -21.80% -0.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,845 3,067 4,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.24% 91.69% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 2,389 3,587
10th Percentile £42,300 £41,315 £42,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the City of London

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Governance in the City of London

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the City of London

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.82%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
3 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.27%) CMS
4 1 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) Power Platform
3 7 (15.91%) Collibra
4 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (11.36%) AWS
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (9.09%) PaaS
6 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (4.55%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.55%) SaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.27%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Power BI
2 12 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (20.45%) Metadata
4 7 (15.91%) Tableau
5 6 (13.64%) Data Lake
6 5 (11.36%) IBM InfoSphere
6 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (6.82%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.55%) Big Data
8 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.55%) Power Query
9 1 (2.27%) Data Mart
9 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
9 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.27%) ERwin
General
1 21 (47.73%) Finance
2 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Law
3 8 (18.18%) Marketing
4 6 (13.64%) Banking
5 4 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 4 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Legal
7 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Advertising
8 1 (2.27%) Games
8 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Analyst
2 10 (22.73%) Lead
3 9 (20.45%) Data Analyst
4 7 (15.91%) Data Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior
5 5 (11.36%) Data Steward
6 4 (9.09%) Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Governance Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Head of Data Science
8 2 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) SQL Data Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.55%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.27%) FMCG
2 1 (2.27%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Data Modelling
2 16 (36.36%) Analytics
3 15 (34.09%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (31.82%) Decision-Making
5 13 (29.55%) Data Management
6 12 (27.27%) Agile
6 12 (27.27%) Data Transformation
6 12 (27.27%) ETL
6 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (25.00%) Data Lineage
7 11 (25.00%) Quality Management
7 11 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 10 (22.73%) Data Analysis
8 10 (22.73%) Data Engineering
8 10 (22.73%) Use Case
9 9 (20.45%) Business Strategy
9 9 (20.45%) Data Integration
9 9 (20.45%) Data Science
9 9 (20.45%) Data Strategy
10 8 (18.18%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) SQL
2 10 (22.73%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) Scala
3 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (56.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (25.00%) GDPR
3 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (2.27%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Databricks
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) Informatica
3 5 (11.36%) IBM
4 3 (6.82%) Duck Creek
5 2 (4.55%) Google
5 2 (4.55%) Talend
6 1 (2.27%) Confluent
6 1 (2.27%) Sparx