Data Governance Job Trends in Reading

Data Governance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 61 102
Rank change year-on-year +23 +41 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 12 14 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 2.08% 1.92% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.17% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 1
10th Percentile £42,500 - -
25th Percentile £47,750 £37,250 £107,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £53,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.77% -51.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £73,045 £54,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £58,700 -
Berkshire median annual salary £47,000 £53,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -11.32% -47.00% +42.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 456 644 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 78.89% 88.22% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 293 276 645
10th Percentile £30,250 £38,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,625 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +14.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £111,875 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Reading over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Reading

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (8.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) AWS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Big Data
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (8.33%) SAS EBI
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Business Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Data Management
2 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (33.33%) Validation
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Business Process Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Data Governance Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 3 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (25.00%) Data Security
4 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Data Science
5 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft