Data Governance Job Trends in England

Data Governance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 192 243
Rank change year-on-year +59 +51 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 906 751 626
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.71% 1.56% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.72% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 569 451 430
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +10.34% +5.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £94,688
90th Percentile £115,250 £142,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £72,085
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.98% +6.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in England

Data Governance
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in England

Data Governance
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London +40 448 £82,500 -8.33% 176
South East +96 176 £60,000 -7.69% 192
North of England +17 116 £67,500 +28.57% 115
Midlands +46 105 £62,750 +0.40% 72
West Midlands +37 75 £62,000 -0.80% 41
Yorkshire +4 58 £68,000 +29.52% 44
North West +24 53 £61,250 +16.67% 47
East Midlands +2 28 £65,000 - 29
East of England +31 22 £97,500 +30.00% 70
South West -1 21 £64,350 -11.24% 49
North East +2 5 £55,000 -12.00% 26
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 46 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.10%) Apache
4 10 (1.10%) SAS
5 6 (0.66%) CMS
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.33%) Appian
7 3 (0.33%) Confluence
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 84 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) Maya
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 26 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.44%) Maximo
4 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.33%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.33%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 347 (38.30%) Azure
2 244 (26.93%) Power Platform
3 168 (18.54%) AWS
4 82 (9.05%) GCP
5 71 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 71 (7.84%) Snowflake
6 59 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 49 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
9 34 (3.75%) dbt
10 33 (3.64%) Collibra
11 32 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
12 29 (3.20%) SaaS
13 25 (2.76%) Serverless
14 24 (2.65%) Amazon S3
15 20 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (2.10%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.88%) GitHub
18 16 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
19 14 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.77%) CHAP
2 4 (0.44%) Broadband
2 4 (0.44%) DHCP
2 4 (0.44%) DNS
2 4 (0.44%) VPN
3 2 (0.22%) 5G
3 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.11%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.11%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (23.95%) Power BI
2 179 (19.76%) Data Warehouse
2 179 (19.76%) Metadata
3 134 (14.79%) Data Lake
4 78 (8.61%) SQL Server
5 58 (6.40%) Tableau
6 47 (5.19%) Big Data
7 44 (4.86%) NoSQL
8 39 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (3.97%) Hadoop
9 36 (3.97%) Relational Database
10 34 (3.75%) SAP BW
11 26 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (2.54%) BigQuery
13 21 (2.32%) Delta Lake
13 21 (2.32%) MongoDB
14 20 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (2.21%) DynamoDB
14 20 (2.21%) MySQL
15 18 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (3.64%) Git
2 19 (2.10%) ERwin
3 12 (1.32%) MLflow
4 8 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
5 7 (0.77%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.55%) GitLab
6 5 (0.55%) JIRA
7 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 382 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 338 (37.31%) Finance
3 178 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.50%) Law
5 56 (6.18%) Banking
6 54 (5.96%) Legal
7 42 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 41 (4.53%) Manufacturing
9 37 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 35 (3.86%) Marketing
11 34 (3.75%) Retail
12 32 (3.53%) Financial Institution
13 27 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.55%) Publishing
15 11 (1.21%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.99%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.77%) Advertising
18 7 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 187 (20.64%) Architect
2 172 (18.98%) Lead
3 143 (15.78%) Data Architect
4 117 (12.91%) Data Engineer
5 113 (12.47%) Senior
6 88 (9.71%) Analyst
7 80 (8.83%) Data Manager
8 63 (6.95%) Data Analyst
9 32 (3.53%) Senior Manager
10 31 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 31 (3.42%) Senior Data Engineer
11 28 (3.09%) Developer
12 24 (2.65%) Lead Data Engineer
13 23 (2.54%) Consultant
14 21 (2.32%) Enterprise Architect
15 20 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.10%) Azure Architect
16 19 (2.10%) Governance Manager
16 19 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
17 18 (1.99%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.30%) Kafka
2 28 (3.09%) PySpark
3 25 (2.76%) TensorFlow
4 22 (2.43%) PyTorch
5 14 (1.55%) Keras
6 11 (1.21%) Middleware
7 10 (1.10%) FHIR
8 9 (0.99%) LangChain
8 9 (0.99%) XML
9 8 (0.88%) boto
9 8 (0.88%) EDI
9 8 (0.88%) Hugging Face
9 8 (0.88%) REST
9 8 (0.88%) Snowpark
9 8 (0.88%) Spark Streaming
10 7 (0.77%) JSON
11 6 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.66%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.66%) Web Services
12 4 (0.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 121 (13.36%) Management Information System
2 48 (5.30%) Data Structures
3 41 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.64%) Life Science
5 32 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.10%) Low-Code
11 18 (1.99%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.55%) Reference Data
14 13 (1.43%) FMCG
14 13 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.43%) Reinsurance
15 12 (1.32%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.21%) Omics
16 11 (1.21%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.43%) Windows
2 7 (0.77%) Unix
3 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.33%) Linux
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (48.23%) Analytics
2 349 (38.52%) Data Modelling
3 298 (32.89%) Business Intelligence
4 237 (26.16%) Data Architecture
5 232 (25.61%) AI
6 215 (23.73%) Data Engineering
7 212 (23.40%) Data Strategy
8 209 (23.07%) Data Management
8 209 (23.07%) ETL
9 200 (22.08%) Decision-Making
10 193 (21.30%) Data Pipeline
11 191 (21.08%) Roadmaps
12 182 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
13 172 (18.98%) Agile
14 162 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 157 (17.33%) Machine Learning
16 148 (16.34%) Data Science
17 138 (15.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 137 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
19 135 (14.90%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 278 (30.68%) SQL
2 213 (23.51%) Python
3 29 (3.20%) Scala
4 26 (2.87%) Java
5 21 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (1.99%) C#
7 13 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.88%) Bash
10 8 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.88%) R
11 7 (0.77%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (0.33%) Bicep
13 2 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.22%) SOQL
13 2 (0.22%) SOSL
14 1 (0.11%) Groovy
14 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (23.95%) Degree
2 56 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.96%) Master's Degree
4 42 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 37 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.87%) CISSP
7 25 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 23 (2.54%) CISA
10 21 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (1.55%) CISM
13 13 (1.43%) PhD
14 12 (1.32%) OCP
14 12 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
15 11 (1.21%) DV Cleared
15 11 (1.21%) MCSE
16 8 (0.88%) FFIEC
17 7 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (37.64%) Data Quality
2 155 (17.11%) GDPR
3 51 (5.63%) Accessibility
4 35 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (3.31%) QA
6 13 (1.43%) NIST
7 12 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.10%) CDISC
8 10 (1.10%) GxP
8 10 (1.10%) HL7
9 9 (0.99%) COBIT
10 7 (0.77%) SLA
11 6 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.66%) IFRS
12 5 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (2.76%) Docker
2 10 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.88%) HDFS
4 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (3.86%) Terraform
2 18 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.44%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.11%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 146 (16.11%) Databricks
2 137 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 79 (8.72%) SAP
4 53 (5.85%) Oracle
5 35 (3.86%) Informatica
6 22 (2.43%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.88%) Workday
8 16 (1.77%) Google
9 15 (1.66%) Dell
9 15 (1.66%) Talend
10 14 (1.55%) Palantir
11 11 (1.21%) Foundry
11 11 (1.21%) NVIDIA
11 11 (1.21%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.88%) Dataiku
13 6 (0.66%) Planon
14 5 (0.55%) IBM
14 5 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.44%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.44%) HubSpot