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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 172 134
Rank change year-on-year +76 -38 +138
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 415 445 905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.22% 1.88% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 2.07% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 324 291 513
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £46,570
25th Percentile £82,188 £61,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +7.14% -5.25%
75th Percentile £122,500 £105,000 £90,773
90th Percentile £152,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +21.43% +3.70% +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 12,397 21,536 32,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,220 15,919 23,171
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,477
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,532 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
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 16 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 16 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 +20 64 £92,500 +54.17% 27
West London +36 1 £56,500 -40.53% 15
South London -6 1 £51,500 -47.85% 5
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 28 (6.75%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.89%) Apache
3 11 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.45%) CMS
5 4 (0.96%) SAS
6 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.72%) Maya
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.24%) Simulink
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.24%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 113 (27.23%) Azure
2 70 (16.87%) Power Platform
3 58 (13.98%) AWS
4 40 (9.64%) Microsoft Purview
5 33 (7.95%) GCP
6 21 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (5.06%) Collibra
7 20 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (4.58%) Serverless
9 18 (4.34%) Snowflake
10 13 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.17%) GitHub
12 9 (2.17%) PaaS
12 9 (2.17%) Power Automate
13 8 (1.93%) dbt
14 7 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.45%) SaaS
16 5 (1.20%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.65%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) SMS
3 1 (0.24%) DHCP
3 1 (0.24%) DNS
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (31.81%) Data Lake
2 68 (16.39%) Power BI
3 51 (12.29%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (12.29%) Metadata
4 28 (6.75%) Tableau
5 22 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 18 (4.34%) Big Data
7 16 (3.86%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.86%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.13%) Hadoop
9 11 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (2.65%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.17%) IBM InfoSphere
11 5 (1.20%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.20%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.20%) Power Query
12 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.37%) JIRA
2 11 (2.65%) PowerBuilder
3 8 (1.93%) Git
4 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.72%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.48%) ERwin
7 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) MagicDraw
General
1 232 (55.90%) Finance
2 114 (27.47%) Front Office
3 105 (25.30%) Social Skills
4 45 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (8.92%) Legal
6 26 (6.27%) Law
6 26 (6.27%) Marketing
7 22 (5.30%) Banking
8 19 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.17%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.45%) Advertising
14 6 (1.45%) Local Government
14 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.20%) Retail
16 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (28.92%) Lead
2 82 (19.76%) Architect
3 57 (13.73%) Data Architect
4 40 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 39 (9.40%) Analyst
5 39 (9.40%) Governance Manager
6 38 (9.16%) Data Governance Analyst
6 38 (9.16%) Data Governance Manager
7 37 (8.92%) Senior
8 30 (7.23%) Head of Finance
9 26 (6.27%) Finance Manager
9 26 (6.27%) Programme Manager
10 21 (5.06%) Data Analyst
11 18 (4.34%) Consultant
12 17 (4.10%) Head of Data Management
12 17 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.37%) Data Manager
14 14 (3.37%) Lead Architect
14 14 (3.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.78%) REST
2 23 (5.54%) SOAP
3 18 (4.34%) Kafka
4 15 (3.61%) .NET
5 12 (2.89%) Middleware
6 11 (2.65%) GraphQL
6 11 (2.65%) React
7 10 (2.41%) ADO
7 10 (2.41%) PySpark
8 8 (1.93%) MERN Stack
8 8 (1.93%) WebSockets
9 6 (1.45%) JSON
10 4 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (0.72%) Great Expectations
11 3 (0.72%) pytest
11 3 (0.72%) XML
11 3 (0.72%) YAML
12 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.48%) Spark Streaming
12 2 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 109 (26.27%) Hedge funds
2 108 (26.02%) Derivative
2 108 (26.02%) Equities
2 108 (26.02%) Fixed Income
2 108 (26.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 59 (14.22%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.82%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.89%) Reinsurance
7 10 (2.41%) FMCG
8 9 (2.17%) Reference Data
8 9 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.93%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.20%) Blackberry
11 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.96%) Smart City
12 3 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.61%) Windows
2 6 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (46.02%) Agile
2 183 (44.10%) Roadmaps
3 171 (41.20%) Data Management
4 135 (32.53%) Migration
5 130 (31.33%) Regulatory Compliance
6 110 (26.51%) Investment Management
7 108 (26.02%) Analytics
8 90 (21.69%) Data Modelling
9 82 (19.76%) Data Architecture
9 82 (19.76%) Data Strategy
10 80 (19.28%) Business Intelligence
11 74 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (15.90%) Data Engineering
12 66 (15.90%) Decision-Making
13 55 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
14 54 (13.01%) ETL
15 53 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
15 53 (12.77%) Machine Learning
16 52 (12.53%) CI/CD
17 48 (11.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 97 (23.37%) SQL
2 59 (14.22%) Python
3 18 (4.34%) JavaScript
4 14 (3.37%) C#
5 11 (2.65%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.41%) Java
6 10 (2.41%) Scala
7 8 (1.93%) R
8 7 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.96%) Bash
9 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.72%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.24%) Bicep
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (20.72%) Degree
2 16 (3.86%) Master's Degree
3 15 (3.61%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.20%) PhD
8 4 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.96%) PMP
9 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.48%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) CISA
11 1 (0.24%) CRISC
11 1 (0.24%) OCP
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (26.27%) Data Quality
2 55 (13.25%) MiFID
3 44 (10.60%) GDPR
4 20 (4.82%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.41%) QA
6 7 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.72%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) COBIT
10 1 (0.24%) DICOM
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) HL7
10 1 (0.24%) NIST
10 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (5.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.58%) Terraform
3 5 (1.20%) SCCM
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 79 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.05%) Databricks
3 34 (8.19%) Informatica
4 21 (5.06%) Google
5 9 (2.17%) IBM
6 7 (1.69%) Talend
7 6 (1.45%) SAP
8 5 (1.20%) Remedy
9 4 (0.96%) Duck Creek
9 4 (0.96%) iManage
9 4 (0.96%) Intapp
9 4 (0.96%) Oracle
10 3 (0.72%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.72%) Facebook
10 3 (0.72%) Snowplow
10 3 (0.72%) YouTube
11 2 (0.48%) Palantir
11 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.24%) Cerner
12 1 (0.24%) InterSystems