Data Governance Strategy Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Governance Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 535 525
Rank change year-on-year +31 -10 +244
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance Strategy 6 24 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.066% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.075% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 12
10th Percentile - £56,000 £70,250
25th Percentile £69,840 £57,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,920 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £71,250 -
UK median annual salary £69,840 £63,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.55% -15.00% +27.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,001 32,118 30,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.62% 88.87% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 14,487 22,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Governance Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Governance Strategy job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Governance Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Governance Strategy

Data Governance Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Governance Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East - 3 £69,840 - 6
South West +6 2 £96,250 +20.31%
West Midlands +21 1 £70,000 +12.00%
Midlands +6 1 £70,000 +12.00%
Data Governance Strategy
UK

Data Governance Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Ataccama
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Governance Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (50.00%) Data Security
2 3 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Information Management
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Master Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR