Data Governance Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 188 152
Rank change year-on-year +106 -36 +52
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 117 58 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.41% 0.86% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 1.02% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 78
10th Percentile £54,750 £46,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,500 £53,125 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,920 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £91,875 £87,875 £74,375
90th Percentile £105,625 £99,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -4.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,223 5,686 5,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.97% 84.53% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,875 3,040
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Governance in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire +114 106 £74,920 +7.03% 32
Buckinghamshire +3 9 £74,500 +10.37% 9
Oxfordshire +28 2 £72,500 -19.44% 14
Data Governance
South East

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 71 (60.68%) Azure
2 32 (27.35%) AWS
3 31 (26.50%) Power Platform
4 30 (25.64%) GCP
5 26 (22.22%) Power Automate
5 26 (22.22%) PowerApps
6 25 (21.37%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (4.27%) Collibra
9 4 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.56%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.56%) PaaS
10 3 (2.56%) SaaS
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (48.72%) Data Lake
2 34 (29.06%) Big Data
2 34 (29.06%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (26.50%) Power BI
4 29 (24.79%) Tableau
5 24 (20.51%) Metadata
6 8 (6.84%) Hadoop
7 6 (5.13%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.85%) Impala
9 1 (0.85%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.85%) ERwin
General
1 90 (76.92%) Law
2 31 (26.50%) Finance
3 19 (16.24%) Marketing
4 15 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.97%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.27%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.42%) Retail
8 3 (2.56%) Legal
8 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Back Office
9 1 (0.85%) Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (60.68%) Lead
2 44 (37.61%) Senior
3 22 (18.80%) Data Analytics Director
4 10 (8.55%) Data Manager
5 5 (4.27%) Architect
5 5 (4.27%) Senior Manager
6 3 (2.56%) Applications Architect
6 3 (2.56%) Data Science Leader
6 3 (2.56%) IT Architect
6 3 (2.56%) Senior Service Manager
6 3 (2.56%) Service Manager
7 2 (1.71%) Analyst
8 1 (0.85%) Business Architect
8 1 (0.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (0.85%) Data Architect
8 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 1 (0.85%) Developer
8 1 (0.85%) Lead Architect
8 1 (0.85%) Lead Developer
8 1 (0.85%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.53%) FMCG
2 6 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (82.05%) Analytics
2 67 (57.26%) Data Management
3 61 (52.14%) Data Engineering
4 59 (50.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (45.30%) Data Strategy
6 52 (44.44%) Business Strategy
7 50 (42.74%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (39.32%) Data Analytics
8 46 (39.32%) Data Science
9 40 (34.19%) Artificial Intelligence
9 40 (34.19%) Data Integration
9 40 (34.19%) Decision-Making
10 39 (33.33%) Computer Science
10 39 (33.33%) Data Architecture
11 36 (30.77%) Machine Learning
12 34 (29.06%) Mentoring
13 32 (27.35%) Data Modelling
13 32 (27.35%) Data Stewardship
13 32 (27.35%) ETL
14 31 (26.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.35%) SQL
2 25 (21.37%) Python
3 1 (0.85%) Java
3 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (76.07%) Degree
2 13 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (10.26%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (61.54%) Data Quality
2 46 (39.32%) Accessibility
3 25 (21.37%) QA
4 10 (8.55%) GDPR
5 6 (5.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Vendors
1 30 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 26 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.13%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Informatica
4 4 (3.42%) Databricks
5 1 (0.85%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.85%) Workday