Data Governance Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 155 177
Rank change year-on-year +81 +22 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 102 28 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.44% 0.83% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 0.90% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 45 11 17
10th Percentile - £51,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £69,840 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £89,875 £90,000 £101,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -3.57%

All Process & 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 3,332 3,126 4,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 79.83% 92.13% 87.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,840 1,354 2,949
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,151 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,009 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

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 24 January 2026. 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 +54 75 £45,000 -20.35% 35
Buckinghamshire +17 23 £61,250 -31.94% 16
Oxfordshire +11 4 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Data Governance
South East

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (34.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (58.82%) Azure
2 56 (54.90%) Power Platform
3 14 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (10.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.90%) Collibra
6 4 (3.92%) GCP
6 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.94%) AWS
7 3 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.96%) dbt
8 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.98%) Fivetran
9 1 (0.98%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.98%) SaaS
9 1 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (44.12%) Data Lake
2 43 (42.16%) Power BI
3 32 (31.37%) SAP BW
4 26 (25.49%) Metadata
5 14 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (6.86%) Tableau
7 5 (4.90%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.94%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.94%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.96%) Big Data
10 2 (1.96%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.98%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.98%) Data Hub
11 1 (0.98%) SAS EBI
11 1 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) ERwin
2 3 (2.94%) MLflow
2 3 (2.94%) PowerDesigner
General
1 66 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 39 (38.24%) Finance
3 25 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (6.86%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.94%) Publishing
6 2 (1.96%) Automotive
6 2 (1.96%) Games
6 2 (1.96%) Marketing
6 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.98%) Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.98%) Law
7 1 (0.98%) Legal
7 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (51.96%) Lead
2 29 (28.43%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 11 (10.78%) Data Manager
3 11 (10.78%) Developer
3 11 (10.78%) Power Platform Developer
4 9 (8.82%) Analyst
4 9 (8.82%) Senior
5 6 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 6 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 5 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 5 (4.90%) Business Manager
6 5 (4.90%) Senior Business Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (2.94%) Architect
8 3 (2.94%) Data Model Manager
8 3 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.94%) SAP Data Manager
8 3 (2.94%) SAP Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.80%) FHIR
2 3 (2.94%) Keras
2 3 (2.94%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.94%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.98%) PySpark
3 1 (0.98%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Life Science
2 12 (11.76%) Low-Code
3 10 (9.80%) Algorithms
3 10 (9.80%) Omics
4 9 (8.82%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.98%) PropTech
8 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.67%) Analytics
2 50 (49.02%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (42.16%) Data Modelling
5 33 (32.35%) Decision-Making
6 32 (31.37%) Data Cleansing
7 30 (29.41%) Actionable Insight
7 30 (29.41%) ERP
8 25 (24.51%) Data Science
9 23 (22.55%) AI
9 23 (22.55%) Data Strategy
10 22 (21.57%) Data Management
11 20 (19.61%) Data Architecture
12 19 (18.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (17.65%) Machine Learning
14 17 (16.67%) Computer Science
14 17 (16.67%) ETL
15 15 (14.71%) CI/CD
15 15 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (13.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.49%) Python
2 18 (17.65%) SQL
3 11 (10.78%) C#
3 11 (10.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 59 (57.84%) Degree
2 10 (9.80%) PhD
3 6 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.94%) PMP
4 3 (2.94%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.96%) CISSP
5 2 (1.96%) MCSE
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.96%) OCP
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (15.69%) Accessibility
3 10 (9.80%) CDISC
3 10 (9.80%) GxP
3 10 (9.80%) HL7
4 8 (7.84%) GDPR
5 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.92%) QA
6 2 (1.96%) SLA
7 1 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (39.22%) SAP
2 14 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) Databricks
3 4 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.96%) Cognos
4 2 (1.96%) Google
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) Foundry
5 1 (0.98%) Informatica
5 1 (0.98%) Palantir
5 1 (0.98%) Talend