Data Governance Jobs in Scotland

Data Governance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 222 179
Rank change year-on-year +109 -43 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 52 62 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.70% 0.92% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.00% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 33 28 21
10th Percentile - £42,467 £42,500
25th Percentile - £52,313 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% +1.24% +23.65%
75th Percentile £54,441 £67,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £98,000 £75,625 £93,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year +17.86% +7.40% +2.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,830 6,192 4,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.79% 92.23% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,398 2,403 2,161
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,487
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in Scotland

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Governance in Scotland

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Scotland

Data Governance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Renfrewshire -3 19 £52,000 +17.02% 7
Edinburgh +14 14 £97,500 +60.51% 17
Inverclyde - 12 £52,000 -
Glasgow +159 5 £52,000 -20.00% 10
Dundee - 1 £57,500 -
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
Applications
1 33 (63.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (5.77%) Azure Stack
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (3.85%) dbt
3 2 (3.85%) SaaS
3 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.92%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) Collibra
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (69.23%) Tableau
2 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Metadata
5 2 (3.85%) Big Data
5 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.85%) Looker
6 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.92%) Power BI
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (63.46%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) ERwin
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing
4 2 (3.85%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Architect
3 6 (11.54%) Data Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (5.77%) Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Data Governance Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Data Governance Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Data Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Governance Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Data Quality Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Fraud Manager
6 2 (3.85%) QA Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Quality Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (88.46%) Data Management
2 41 (78.85%) Data Modelling
3 40 (76.92%) Analytics
4 33 (63.46%) Data Analytics
5 10 (19.23%) Data Architecture
6 5 (9.62%) Agile
6 5 (9.62%) Architectural Design
6 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.69%) Data Strategy
8 3 (5.77%) Business Strategy
8 3 (5.77%) CI/CD
8 3 (5.77%) Design Patterns
8 3 (5.77%) IT Strategy
8 3 (5.77%) Metadata Management
8 3 (5.77%) Roadmaps
8 3 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (5.77%) TOGAF
9 2 (3.85%) Customer Service
9 2 (3.85%) Product Backlog
9 2 (3.85%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) SQL
2 3 (5.77%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) C#
3 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (76.92%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (71.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) Databricks
2 2 (3.85%) Informatica