Data Governance Jobs in South Wales

Data Governance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 93 86
Rank change year-on-year +35 -7 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 5 13 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.65% 0.89% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.13% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 17
10th Percentile £61,000 £46,080 £40,600
25th Percentile £73,750 £56,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £97,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +68.10% +5.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £130,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,250 - £75,000
Wales median annual salary £80,000 £97,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -17.95% +68.10% +36.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 630 1,149 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.25% 78.43% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 402 746 569
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,546 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +5.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £67,406 £62,011 £62,988
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in South Wales

Data Governance
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Governance in South Wales

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in South Wales over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in South Wales

Data Governance
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 10 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
Cardiff +27 4 £80,000 -17.95% 11
Glamorgan - 1 £77,500 - 9
Data Governance
Wales

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Governance Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
1 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (60.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (60.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Data Stewardship
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft