Data Governance Job Trends in the East of England

Data Governance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 163 131
Rank change year-on-year +27 -32 +75
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 21 17 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.51% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.55% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 9
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,750 £42,800
25th Percentile £63,438 £52,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £65,000 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -21.69% +50.91%
75th Percentile £98,750 £99,076 £111,250
90th Percentile £99,650 £113,551 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +5.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,069 3,066 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.40% 87.23% 86.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,192 1,583
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,700 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the East of England

Data Governance
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cambridgeshire +22 11 £97,500 +12.01% 9
Suffolk - 6 £97,500 - 7
Hertfordshire +18 4 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Bloomreach
4 1 (4.76%) H2O.ai
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.76%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) 5G
1 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Metadata
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (47.62%) Publishing
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Architect
2 10 (47.62%) Enterprise Architect
3 8 (38.10%) ERP Architect
3 8 (38.10%) SAP Architect
3 8 (38.10%) SAP Enterprise Architect
4 6 (28.57%) AWS Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
6 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) IT Manager
6 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Administrator
7 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) IT Administrator
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Keras
1 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) PropTech
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (52.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (52.38%) Technology Roadmap
3 11 (52.38%) TOGAF
4 10 (47.62%) Architectural Design
4 10 (47.62%) Cost Reduction
4 10 (47.62%) ERP
4 10 (47.62%) Project Delivery
5 5 (23.81%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) Data Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Data Management
7 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (14.29%) Generative AI
8 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Degree
2 10 (47.62%) AWS Certification
2 10 (47.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (47.62%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) SAP
2 10 (47.62%) Workday
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) HubSpot
4 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce