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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 198 198
Rank change year-on-year +88 0 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 190 109 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.83% 1.17% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.34% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 76 56 41
10th Percentile £40,500 £37,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -12.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.03% +6.90% +7.41%

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 8,394 8,137 6,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.63% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 4,002 4,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,106 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,300
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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
Thames Valley +84 118 £59,500 +8.18% 18
Berkshire +75 92 £58,250 +9.91% 8
Kent +7 29 £60,000 -36.84% 8
Buckinghamshire +17 22 £60,000 -33.33% 9
Hampshire +18 14 £60,000 +20.00% 6
East Sussex +17 12 £85,000 +16.44% 4
Middlesex +2 9 - - 1
Oxfordshire +22 4 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Surrey +2 3 £50,000 -15.25% 4
West Sussex +3 2 £60,000 -22.58% 5
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 (1.05%) SAS
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 41 (21.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 92 (48.42%) Azure
2 68 (35.79%) Power Platform
3 23 (12.11%) AWS
3 23 (12.11%) GCP
4 13 (6.84%) Veeva
5 11 (5.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.16%) SaaS
9 5 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.11%) ChatGPT
10 4 (2.11%) Collibra
10 4 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (1.05%) dbt
12 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.05%) iPaaS
12 2 (1.05%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (30.53%) Power BI
2 47 (24.74%) Metadata
3 46 (24.21%) Data Lake
4 44 (23.16%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (16.84%) SAP BW
6 16 (8.42%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (4.74%) Tableau
8 6 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.58%) Big Data
10 3 (1.58%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.58%) SAP HANA
10 3 (1.58%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Git
2 3 (1.58%) ERwin
2 3 (1.58%) MLflow
2 3 (1.58%) PowerDesigner
General
1 98 (51.58%) Social Skills
2 61 (32.11%) Finance
3 38 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.26%) Law
5 23 (12.11%) Marketing
6 9 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.68%) Retail
8 5 (2.63%) Digital Health
9 4 (2.11%) Banking
9 4 (2.11%) Games
10 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.58%) Publishing
10 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.05%) Automotive
11 2 (1.05%) Billing
11 2 (1.05%) Legal
12 1 (0.53%) Back Office
12 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (35.79%) Lead
2 37 (19.47%) Senior
3 30 (15.79%) Architect
3 30 (15.79%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 29 (15.26%) Data Architect
4 29 (15.26%) Data Manager
5 19 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 19 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
6 14 (7.37%) Analyst
7 13 (6.84%) Senior Manager
8 9 (4.74%) Data Steward
9 8 (4.21%) Azure Architect
9 8 (4.21%) Azure Data Architect
9 8 (4.21%) Coordinator
9 8 (4.21%) Data Coordinator
9 8 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 7 (3.68%) Developer
11 6 (3.16%) Business Manager
11 6 (3.16%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.26%) FHIR
2 5 (2.63%) JSON
2 5 (2.63%) Web Services
2 5 (2.63%) XML
3 4 (2.11%) Keras
3 4 (2.11%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.58%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.05%) Middleware
6 1 (0.53%) PySpark
6 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.53%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.37%) Management Information System
2 30 (15.79%) Life Science
3 11 (5.79%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.26%) Omics
5 9 (4.74%) Biopharmaceutical
6 6 (3.16%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.58%) FMCG
10 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.53%) PropTech
11 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.53%) Replication
11 1 (0.53%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.05%) Unix
1 2 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (47.37%) Data Modelling
2 89 (46.84%) Analytics
3 70 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
4 66 (34.74%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (27.89%) AI
6 52 (27.37%) Data Science
6 52 (27.37%) ETL
7 51 (26.84%) Decision-Making
8 50 (26.32%) Data Strategy
9 46 (24.21%) Data Management
10 44 (23.16%) Roadmaps
11 43 (22.63%) Data Architecture
12 40 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
12 40 (21.05%) Machine Learning
13 39 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (20.00%) Data Engineering
15 36 (18.95%) Mentoring
16 34 (17.89%) Data Integration
16 34 (17.89%) ERP
17 33 (17.37%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.00%) SQL
2 37 (19.47%) Python
3 6 (3.16%) C#
3 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.53%) R
4 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (45.26%) Degree
2 24 (12.63%) Master's Degree
3 10 (5.26%) PhD
4 5 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.58%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.58%) PMP
5 3 (1.58%) SAP Certification
5 3 (1.58%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.05%) CISSP
6 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.05%) MCSE
6 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.05%) OCP
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (57.89%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.47%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.26%) CDISC
3 10 (5.26%) GDPR
3 10 (5.26%) GxP
3 10 (5.26%) HL7
4 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.11%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (2.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.05%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (21.58%) SAP
2 20 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.42%) Databricks
4 3 (1.58%) Oracle
4 3 (1.58%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.05%) Cognos
5 2 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) Dell
6 1 (0.53%) Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.53%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.53%) Palantir
6 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow