Data Governance Jobs in London

Data Governance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 174 128
Rank change year-on-year +70 -46 +139
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 391 451 898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.08% 1.88% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 2.08% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 302 304 512
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £46,570
25th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £122,500 £105,000 £91,563
90th Percentile £152,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £72,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.06% +6.67% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,216 21,652 31,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.32% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,929 15,871 22,511
10th Percentile £41,700 £37,500 £42,789
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,055
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in London

Data Governance
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Central London +22 69 £90,000 +44.00% 37
West London +18 2 £51,500 -38.51% 52
East London -17 2 £115,000 -4.17% 1
South London -6 1 £51,500 -47.85% 2
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (7.42%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.56%) Apache
2 10 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) CMS
4 4 (1.02%) SAS
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.77%) Maya
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.77%) Shopify
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.26%) Lorenzo
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.67%) Azure
2 73 (18.67%) Power Platform
3 58 (14.83%) AWS
4 40 (10.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 35 (8.95%) GCP
6 20 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (5.12%) Collibra
7 19 (4.86%) Serverless
7 19 (4.86%) Snowflake
8 17 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.07%) PaaS
10 11 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.56%) GitHub
12 9 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 9 (2.30%) SaaS
13 8 (2.05%) dbt
14 6 (1.53%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.28%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.81%) HTTP
2 3 (0.77%) SMS
3 1 (0.26%) DHCP
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (27.37%) Data Lake
2 68 (17.39%) Power BI
3 52 (13.30%) Metadata
4 50 (12.79%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (6.65%) Tableau
6 19 (4.86%) SQL Server
7 18 (4.60%) Big Data
8 16 (4.09%) Relational Database
9 15 (3.84%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.32%) Hadoop
11 11 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (2.81%) BigQuery
12 9 (2.30%) IBM InfoSphere
13 8 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.53%) Power Query
15 5 (1.28%) Data Mining
16 4 (1.02%) Data Vault
16 4 (1.02%) Delta Lake
17 3 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
17 3 (0.77%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.58%) JIRA
2 11 (2.81%) PowerBuilder
3 8 (2.05%) Git
4 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.77%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.26%) ERwin
6 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 206 (52.69%) Finance
2 97 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 88 (22.51%) Front Office
4 45 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.97%) Legal
6 31 (7.93%) Law
7 27 (6.91%) Marketing
8 26 (6.65%) Banking
9 21 (5.37%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.56%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.30%) Local Government
12 8 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.28%) Retail
16 3 (0.77%) Advertising
16 3 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (30.18%) Lead
2 83 (21.23%) Architect
3 54 (13.81%) Data Architect
4 42 (10.74%) Data Engineer
5 38 (9.72%) Senior
6 33 (8.44%) Analyst
7 30 (7.67%) Head of Finance
8 22 (5.63%) Data Analyst
9 21 (5.37%) Governance Manager
10 20 (5.12%) Data Governance Analyst
10 20 (5.12%) Data Governance Manager
11 19 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
11 19 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (4.35%) Consultant
12 17 (4.35%) Finance Manager
12 17 (4.35%) Head of Data Management
12 17 (4.35%) Programme Manager
13 14 (3.58%) Technical Leader
14 13 (3.32%) Data Steward
15 12 (3.07%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.88%) REST
2 22 (5.63%) SOAP
3 20 (5.12%) Kafka
4 15 (3.84%) .NET
5 12 (3.07%) Middleware
6 11 (2.81%) GraphQL
6 11 (2.81%) PySpark
6 11 (2.81%) React
7 10 (2.56%) ADO
8 8 (2.05%) MERN Stack
8 8 (2.05%) WebSockets
9 6 (1.53%) JSON
10 4 (1.02%) Great Expectations
10 4 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.02%) pytest
11 3 (0.77%) XML
11 3 (0.77%) YAML
12 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.51%) HTML5 Canvas
12 2 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.23%) Hedge funds
2 82 (20.97%) Derivative
2 82 (20.97%) Equities
2 82 (20.97%) Fixed Income
2 82 (20.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (9.72%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.86%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 16 (4.09%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.07%) FMCG
8 11 (2.81%) Reinsurance
9 9 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.05%) Reference Data
10 8 (2.05%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.28%) Blackberry
12 4 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.77%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.84%) Windows
2 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (43.22%) Data Management
2 164 (41.94%) Agile
3 155 (39.64%) Roadmaps
4 111 (28.39%) Analytics
5 107 (27.37%) Migration
6 105 (26.85%) Regulatory Compliance
7 90 (23.02%) Data Modelling
8 85 (21.74%) Investment Management
9 80 (20.46%) Data Architecture
9 80 (20.46%) Data Strategy
10 78 (19.95%) Business Intelligence
11 72 (18.41%) Data Engineering
12 70 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (17.65%) Decision-Making
14 60 (15.35%) Data Pipeline
15 57 (14.58%) CI/CD
16 56 (14.32%) Machine Learning
17 55 (14.07%) DevOps
18 53 (13.55%) Artificial Intelligence
19 52 (13.30%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 100 (25.58%) SQL
2 66 (16.88%) Python
3 18 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 14 (3.58%) C#
5 13 (3.32%) Scala
6 11 (2.81%) Java
6 11 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (1.79%) R
9 5 (1.28%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.77%) Bash
10 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.77%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (21.99%) Degree
2 17 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.58%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.28%) PhD
9 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.02%) PMP
10 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.51%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.26%) CISA
12 1 (0.26%) CRISC
12 1 (0.26%) OCP
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (28.39%) Data Quality
2 42 (10.74%) GDPR
3 39 (9.97%) MiFID
4 17 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.81%) QA
6 8 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.77%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) DICOM
10 1 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.26%) EMIR
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) NIST
10 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (5.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (5.12%) Kubernetes
1 20 (5.12%) Terraform
2 5 (1.28%) SCCM
3 2 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 79 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 53 (13.55%) Databricks
3 32 (8.18%) Informatica
4 21 (5.37%) Google
5 9 (2.30%) IBM
6 7 (1.79%) Talend
7 6 (1.53%) SAP
8 5 (1.28%) Oracle
8 5 (1.28%) Remedy
9 4 (1.02%) iManage
9 4 (1.02%) Intapp
10 3 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.77%) Duck Creek
10 3 (0.77%) Facebook
10 3 (0.77%) Snowplow
10 3 (0.77%) YouTube
11 1 (0.26%) Foundry
11 1 (0.26%) InterSystems
11 1 (0.26%) MEDITECH
11 1 (0.26%) Sage