Data Governance Job Trends in the South East

Data Governance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 204 238
Rank change year-on-year +97 +34 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 182 98 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.73% 1.09% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.23% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 84 47 42
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,744
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +4.48% -2.55%
75th Percentile £78,438 £97,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £97,250
England median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.25% +10.34% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,407 7,951 8,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.06% 88.32% 87.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,028 3,762 5,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,775 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,828 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the South East over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the South East

Data Governance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley +83 106 £57,500 -4.17% 50
Berkshire +60 80 £45,000 -20.35% 30
Kent +8 29 £57,000 -40.00% 10
Buckinghamshire +21 22 £60,000 -33.33% 16
East Sussex +16 16 £85,000 +16.44% 9
Hampshire +6 14 £60,000 +9.59% 7
Middlesex +6 9 - - 2
Oxfordshire +11 4 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Surrey +1 3 £50,000 -15.25% 11
West Sussex +2 2 £60,000 -22.58% 7
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (1.10%) SAS
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 41 (22.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 86 (47.25%) Azure
2 71 (39.01%) Power Platform
3 14 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.14%) Veeva
5 10 (5.49%) AWS
5 10 (5.49%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (5.49%) GCP
6 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.30%) SaaS
8 5 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.20%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.20%) Collibra
9 4 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.65%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.10%) dbt
11 2 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.10%) iPaaS
11 2 (1.10%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (31.32%) Power BI
2 46 (25.27%) Data Lake
3 45 (24.73%) Metadata
4 34 (18.68%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (17.58%) SAP BW
6 14 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.40%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.40%) Tableau
8 5 (2.75%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.65%) Big Data
9 3 (1.65%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.65%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.65%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.10%) Power Query
11 1 (0.55%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.55%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) ERwin
2 3 (1.65%) MLflow
2 3 (1.65%) PowerDesigner
General
1 102 (56.04%) Social Skills
2 65 (35.71%) Finance
3 40 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.69%) Law
5 10 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (5.49%) Marketing
6 9 (4.95%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.30%) Retail
8 5 (2.75%) Digital Health
9 3 (1.65%) Games
9 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Publishing
9 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Automotive
10 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Billing
10 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.10%) Legal
10 2 (1.10%) Local Government
11 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 68 (37.36%) Lead
2 30 (16.48%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 30 (16.48%) Data Manager
3 24 (13.19%) Senior
4 20 (10.99%) Architect
5 19 (10.44%) Data Architect
6 15 (8.24%) Analyst
7 13 (7.14%) Senior Manager
8 11 (6.04%) Azure Architect
8 11 (6.04%) Azure Data Architect
8 11 (6.04%) Developer
9 10 (5.49%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (4.95%) Data Steward
11 8 (4.40%) Coordinator
11 8 (4.40%) Data Coordinator
11 8 (4.40%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 7 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 6 (3.30%) Senior Architect
13 6 (3.30%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.49%) FHIR
2 4 (2.20%) JSON
2 4 (2.20%) Keras
2 4 (2.20%) TensorFlow
2 4 (2.20%) Web Services
2 4 (2.20%) XML
3 3 (1.65%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.10%) Middleware
5 1 (0.55%) PySpark
5 1 (0.55%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.55%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.13%) Management Information System
2 30 (16.48%) Life Science
3 11 (6.04%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.49%) Low-Code
4 10 (5.49%) Omics
5 9 (4.95%) Biopharmaceutical
6 6 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.55%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.55%) PropTech
10 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.55%) Replication
10 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.10%) Unix
1 2 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (50.00%) Analytics
2 78 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 73 (40.11%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
5 50 (27.47%) Decision-Making
6 42 (23.08%) ETL
7 41 (22.53%) Actionable Insight
7 41 (22.53%) AI
7 41 (22.53%) Data Management
8 39 (21.43%) Data Science
9 36 (19.78%) Data Strategy
10 35 (19.23%) ERP
11 32 (17.58%) Data Cleansing
11 32 (17.58%) Roadmaps
11 32 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (16.48%) Data Architecture
12 30 (16.48%) Master Data Management
13 28 (15.38%) Machine Learning
14 27 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.63%) Python
2 42 (23.08%) SQL
3 10 (5.49%) C#
3 10 (5.49%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (46.70%) Degree
2 24 (13.19%) Master's Degree
3 10 (5.49%) PhD
4 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.65%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.65%) PMP
5 3 (1.65%) SAP Certification
5 3 (1.65%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.10%) CISSP
6 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.10%) MCSE
6 2 (1.10%) OCP
6 2 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.55%) CISA
7 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (53.85%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.34%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.59%) GDPR
4 10 (5.49%) CDISC
4 10 (5.49%) GxP
4 10 (5.49%) HL7
5 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.20%) QA
6 2 (1.10%) GRC
6 2 (1.10%) SLA
7 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (2.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (23.08%) SAP
2 25 (13.74%) Microsoft
3 19 (10.44%) Databricks
4 3 (1.65%) Oracle
4 3 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.10%) Cognos
5 2 (1.10%) Google
6 1 (0.55%) Dell
6 1 (0.55%) Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.55%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.55%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.55%) Palantir
6 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow