Data Governance Job Trends in Southampton

Data Governance
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 1 13 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.19% 2.37% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 2.81% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £37,250 £65,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £51,063 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +37.93% +21.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £76,875
90th Percentile - £103,750 £77,250
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -28.57% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 415 462 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 77.57% 84.15% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 292 332 352
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Southampton

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Insight Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP