Data Governance Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Data Governance
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 72 58
Rank change year-on-year +20 -14 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 4 6 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.54% 0.77% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.89% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £56,500 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +69.23% -54.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - £72,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +1.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 527 677 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 71.80% 86.57% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 370 330 562
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,661 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,375 £80,125 £78,975
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Oxfordshire

Data Governance
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Abingdon - 1 - - 1
Data Governance
South East

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Airbyte
1 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Sharing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft