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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 117 159
Rank change year-on-year +25 +42 -17
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 43 57 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.11% 1.71% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.86% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 34 45 63
10th Percentile £52,500 - £56,250
25th Percentile £54,063 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £102,375 £83,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £111,500 £114,000
Central London median annual salary £91,250 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +52.08% -25.00% -

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 1,953 3,057 4,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.97% 91.91% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,479 2,401 3,648
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £43,000
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 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 18 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 7 (16.28%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.30%) Apache
3 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.65%) Confluence
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.33%) CMS
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) Power Platform
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (13.95%) Collibra
5 5 (11.63%) AWS
6 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.98%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (6.98%) PaaS
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.65%) GCP
8 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.65%) SaaS
9 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Power BI
2 11 (25.58%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (18.60%) Metadata
4 6 (13.95%) Tableau
5 5 (11.63%) Data Lake
5 5 (11.63%) IBM InfoSphere
5 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.98%) Big Data
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.65%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.65%) Power Query
7 2 (4.65%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.33%) Data Mart
8 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.33%) ERwin
General
1 20 (46.51%) Finance
2 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Law
4 7 (16.28%) Marketing
5 4 (9.30%) Banking
5 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.98%) Legal
7 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Advertising
8 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Analyst
2 9 (20.93%) Data Analyst
2 9 (20.93%) Lead
3 8 (18.60%) Senior
4 6 (13.95%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Data Steward
6 4 (9.30%) Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Governance Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Data Manager
7 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Governance Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Kafka
2 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) FMCG
2 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Analytics
1 17 (39.53%) Data Modelling
2 14 (32.56%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (32.56%) Decision-Making
3 12 (27.91%) Agile
3 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (25.58%) Data Analysis
4 11 (25.58%) Data Management
4 11 (25.58%) Data Transformation
5 10 (23.26%) Data Lineage
5 10 (23.26%) ETL
5 10 (23.26%) Quality Management
5 10 (23.26%) Use Case
5 10 (23.26%) Visualisation
6 9 (20.93%) Business Strategy
6 9 (20.93%) Data Integration
7 8 (18.60%) Data Mapping
7 8 (18.60%) Data Science
7 8 (18.60%) Data Strategy
7 8 (18.60%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) SQL
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.65%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) Scala
5 1 (2.33%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (53.49%) Data Quality
2 11 (25.58%) GDPR
3 6 (13.95%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.98%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.33%) QA
5 1 (2.33%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.26%) Databricks
3 7 (16.28%) Informatica
4 5 (11.63%) IBM
5 3 (6.98%) Duck Creek
6 2 (4.65%) Google
6 2 (4.65%) Talend
7 1 (2.33%) Confluent
7 1 (2.33%) Palantir
7 1 (2.33%) Sparx