Data Governance Jobs in the South East

Data Governance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 277 218
Rank change year-on-year +133 -59 +99
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 192 119 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.00% 0.71% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 0.84% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 52 59 120
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,095 £48,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -4.04%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.57% +4.44% +3.85%

All Process and 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 8,818 14,215 13,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.35% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,870 7,861
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the South East

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Governance in the South East

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 May 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 17 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
Thames Valley +104 117 £74,920 +10.99% 45
Berkshire +121 106 £74,920 +7.03% 33
Surrey +53 26 £55,790 +31.27% 12
Middlesex - 26 £90,000 - 2
Hampshire +66 17 £66,250 -14.52% 22
Buckinghamshire +1 9 £74,500 +10.37% 7
Kent +22 3 £95,000 +11.76% 7
West Sussex +34 2 £70,437 -4.17% 4
Oxfordshire +29 2 £72,500 -19.44% 12
East Sussex +20 1 £73,000 +29.78% 6
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (13.54%) SharePoint
2 21 (10.94%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.38%) CMS
4 13 (6.77%) Apache
5 7 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (53.13%) Azure
2 54 (28.13%) Power Platform
3 39 (20.31%) AWS
4 35 (18.23%) GCP
5 29 (15.10%) Power Automate
5 29 (15.10%) PowerApps
6 27 (14.06%) Snowflake
7 20 (10.42%) SaaS
8 19 (9.90%) PaaS
9 17 (8.85%) iPaaS
10 11 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (4.69%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.65%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.13%) Collibra
13 6 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.56%) Alation
15 2 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
15 2 (1.04%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (35.42%) Data Lake
2 52 (27.08%) Power BI
3 51 (26.56%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (23.44%) Big Data
5 32 (16.67%) Tableau
6 31 (16.15%) Metadata
7 18 (9.38%) Hadoop
8 15 (7.81%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (4.17%) Delta Lake
11 7 (3.65%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.60%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (2.08%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (2.08%) Parquet
14 3 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.56%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.56%) Impala
Development Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.52%) ERwin
2 1 (0.52%) JIRA
General
1 100 (52.08%) Law
2 56 (29.17%) Finance
3 54 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (27.08%) Social Skills
5 35 (18.23%) Marketing
6 21 (10.94%) Legal
7 20 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.69%) Manufacturing
10 8 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.08%) Retail
12 2 (1.04%) Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Back Office
13 1 (0.52%) Games
13 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (45.31%) Lead
2 47 (24.48%) Senior
3 23 (11.98%) Architect
4 22 (11.46%) Data Analytics Director
5 17 (8.85%) Applications Architect
5 17 (8.85%) IT Architect
6 15 (7.81%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.81%) Data Manager
7 6 (3.13%) Analyst
8 5 (2.60%) Data Architect
8 5 (2.60%) Developer
8 5 (2.60%) Python Data Engineer
8 5 (2.60%) Python Engineer
8 5 (2.60%) Senior Manager
9 4 (2.08%) Design Engineer
9 4 (2.08%) Development Engineer
9 4 (2.08%) Head of Analytics
9 4 (2.08%) Head of Data Analytics
9 4 (2.08%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (1.56%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.77%) Kafka
2 11 (5.73%) PySpark
3 7 (3.65%) PyArrow
3 7 (3.65%) REST
4 6 (3.13%) React
4 6 (3.13%) XML
5 2 (1.04%) Apache Jena
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.85%) FMCG
1 17 (8.85%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.60%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (56.77%) Analytics
2 80 (41.67%) Data Management
3 76 (39.58%) Data Engineering
4 67 (34.90%) Business Intelligence
4 67 (34.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 65 (33.85%) Data Strategy
6 63 (32.81%) Decision-Making
7 58 (30.21%) Data Architecture
7 58 (30.21%) Data Science
8 55 (28.65%) Data Modelling
8 55 (28.65%) Mentoring
9 52 (27.08%) Business Strategy
10 49 (25.52%) Data Analytics
11 48 (25.00%) ETL
12 45 (23.44%) Artificial Intelligence
13 44 (22.92%) Computer Science
13 44 (22.92%) Data Integration
14 43 (22.40%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 42 (21.88%) Agile
15 42 (21.88%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.33%) SQL
2 46 (23.96%) Python
3 7 (3.65%) Java
4 4 (2.08%) PL/SQL
4 4 (2.08%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.04%) Ruby
5 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.04%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 110 (57.29%) Degree
2 19 (9.90%) Master's Degree
3 18 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.29%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.60%) MBA
7 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.04%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.04%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.52%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (49.48%) Data Quality
2 57 (29.69%) Accessibility
3 27 (14.06%) QA
4 14 (7.29%) GDPR
5 6 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.04%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (5.21%) HDFS
2 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.04%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 40 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.54%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.25%) Informatica
4 10 (5.21%) Google
5 7 (3.65%) Databricks
5 7 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.13%) Oracle
7 3 (1.56%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.04%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.04%) MapR
8 2 (1.04%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.52%) Cognos
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) Workday