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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 183 146
Rank change year-on-year +108 -37 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 112 60 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.31% 0.89% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 1.05% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16 24 80
10th Percentile £51,750 £47,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,250 £59,375 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £67,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% +10.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £91,875 £88,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,625 £97,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -

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 3,181 5,690 5,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.92% 84.77% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 3,912 3,101
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £73,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,837 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.67% -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 13 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 13 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 +122 101 £72,250 +3.21% 37
Buckinghamshire 0 9 £74,500 +10.37% 8
Oxfordshire +21 2 £72,500 -18.31% 17
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 (23.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.79%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (58.93%) Azure
2 30 (26.79%) Power Platform
3 28 (25.00%) AWS
4 26 (23.21%) GCP
4 26 (23.21%) Power Automate
4 26 (23.21%) PowerApps
5 25 (22.32%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.46%) Collibra
8 4 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.79%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.79%) PaaS
9 2 (1.79%) SaaS
10 1 (0.89%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.89%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (47.32%) Data Lake
2 30 (26.79%) Big Data
2 30 (26.79%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (26.79%) Power BI
3 29 (25.89%) Tableau
4 24 (21.43%) Metadata
5 4 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.89%) Impala
7 1 (0.89%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.89%) ERwin
General
1 86 (76.79%) Law
2 29 (25.89%) Finance
3 18 (16.07%) Marketing
4 14 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.46%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.57%) Retail
8 2 (1.79%) Legal
8 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (62.50%) Lead
2 44 (39.29%) Senior
3 18 (16.07%) Data Analytics Director
4 10 (8.93%) Data Manager
5 5 (4.46%) Architect
5 5 (4.46%) Senior Manager
6 3 (2.68%) Data Science Leader
6 3 (2.68%) Senior Service Manager
6 3 (2.68%) Service Manager
7 2 (1.79%) Analyst
7 2 (1.79%) Applications Architect
7 2 (1.79%) Data Architect
7 2 (1.79%) Data Engineer
7 2 (1.79%) IT Architect
8 1 (0.89%) Business Architect
8 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 1 (0.89%) Developer
8 1 (0.89%) Lead Developer
8 1 (0.89%) Report Analyst
8 1 (0.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) FMCG
2 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.89%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (83.04%) Analytics
2 66 (58.93%) Data Management
3 57 (50.89%) Data Engineering
4 55 (49.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (47.32%) Data Strategy
6 52 (46.43%) Business Strategy
7 46 (41.07%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (37.50%) Data Analytics
8 42 (37.50%) Data Science
9 40 (35.71%) Data Integration
10 37 (33.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 36 (32.14%) Decision-Making
12 35 (31.25%) Computer Science
12 35 (31.25%) Data Architecture
13 33 (29.46%) Machine Learning
13 33 (29.46%) Mentoring
14 32 (28.57%) Data Stewardship
15 31 (27.68%) Data Transformation
15 31 (27.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 31 (27.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.00%) SQL
2 26 (23.21%) Python
3 1 (0.89%) Java
3 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (75.89%) Degree
2 9 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.46%) MBA
5 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (64.29%) Data Quality
2 46 (41.07%) Accessibility
3 25 (22.32%) QA
4 6 (5.36%) GDPR
5 2 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) HDFS
Vendors
1 30 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (23.21%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.36%) Informatica
4 4 (3.57%) Databricks
5 2 (1.79%) Google
6 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.89%) Workday