Data Governance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 248 316
Rank change year-on-year 0 +68 +72
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 419 781 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.08% 1.09% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.30% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 214 415 316
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,779 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% +9.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,964 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +17.86% +7.11% +3.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,992 59,900 56,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.40% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,023 41,311 28,974
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the UK excluding London

Data Governance
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +133 187 £64,500 -4.44% 621
Midlands -23 68 £60,000 +9.09% 351
North of England -127 64 £60,743 -21.59% 461
West Midlands +8 56 £60,000 +9.09% 188
Scotland +109 50 £52,000 -14.39% 96
North West -92 33 £57,500 -23.33% 217
South West +51 30 £60,000 -7.69% 215
Yorkshire -22 28 £60,743 -24.01% 185
East of England +31 15 £57,000 +8.57% 249
East Midlands -5 11 £47,500 -20.83% 139
Wales +26 4 £80,000 -17.95% 49
North East +4 3 £62,500 -21.81% 59
Northern Ireland +40 1 - - 29
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 27 (6.44%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.30%) CMS
4 14 (3.34%) Apache
5 7 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.72%) Confluence
6 3 (0.72%) SugarCRM
7 2 (0.48%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.24%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 54 (12.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 159 (37.95%) Azure
2 117 (27.92%) Power Platform
3 69 (16.47%) AWS
4 56 (13.37%) GCP
5 48 (11.46%) Snowflake
6 34 (8.11%) PowerApps
7 33 (7.88%) Power Automate
8 26 (6.21%) SaaS
9 21 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (4.53%) PaaS
11 18 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (4.06%) iPaaS
13 16 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (3.10%) Amazon S3
15 12 (2.86%) Collibra
16 9 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (1.43%) OpenShift
17 6 (1.43%) Serverless
18 5 (1.19%) Amazon Kinesis
18 5 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (26.97%) Power BI
2 91 (21.72%) Tableau
3 85 (20.29%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (19.33%) Data Lake
5 59 (14.08%) Big Data
6 52 (12.41%) Metadata
7 30 (7.16%) NoSQL
8 22 (5.25%) Hadoop
9 16 (3.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (3.58%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.10%) Metadata Repository
12 12 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (2.39%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.91%) Looker
14 8 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.67%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
16 6 (1.43%) Apache Hudi
16 6 (1.43%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 37 (8.83%) JIRA
2 8 (1.91%) ERwin
3 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.95%) Git
5 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
General
1 115 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 112 (26.73%) Finance
3 110 (26.25%) Law
4 108 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.74%) Marketing
6 32 (7.64%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (7.16%) Banking
8 25 (5.97%) Legal
9 23 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (4.30%) Public Sector
11 17 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (3.58%) Retail
13 14 (3.34%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.15%) Advertising
15 8 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.72%) Local Government
17 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
18 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 114 (27.21%) Lead
2 65 (15.51%) Senior
3 52 (12.41%) Data Manager
4 50 (11.93%) Architect
5 37 (8.83%) Principal Engineer
6 36 (8.59%) Data Engineer
7 30 (7.16%) Analyst
8 22 (5.25%) Data Analytics Director
9 21 (5.01%) Data Architect
10 17 (4.06%) Applications Architect
10 17 (4.06%) Data Governance Analyst
10 17 (4.06%) Data Governance Manager
10 17 (4.06%) Governance Manager
10 17 (4.06%) IT Architect
11 15 (3.58%) Data Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) Developer
13 11 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (2.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 8 (1.91%) Data Quality Manager
15 8 (1.91%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.53%) PySpark
2 16 (3.82%) Kafka
3 9 (2.15%) REST
4 6 (1.43%) PyArrow
4 6 (1.43%) React
4 6 (1.43%) XML
5 5 (1.19%) GraphQL
6 4 (0.95%) Dask
6 4 (0.95%) Polars
7 3 (0.72%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.72%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.72%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.48%) Apache Jena
8 2 (0.48%) EDI
8 2 (0.48%) Middleware
8 2 (0.48%) NumPy
8 2 (0.48%) Pandas
8 2 (0.48%) Pyramid
9 1 (0.24%) CSS
9 1 (0.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.30%) FMCG
2 17 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (4.06%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.91%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.95%) Life Science
10 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.72%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.48%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.48%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.43%) Unix
2 5 (1.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (52.74%) Analytics
2 183 (43.68%) Data Management
3 139 (33.17%) Business Intelligence
4 135 (32.22%) Data Modelling
5 118 (28.16%) Decision-Making
6 104 (24.82%) Data Engineering
7 100 (23.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 99 (23.63%) Data Analytics
9 97 (23.15%) Data Architecture
10 95 (22.67%) Data Strategy
11 88 (21.00%) ETL
12 77 (18.38%) Mentoring
13 74 (17.66%) Data Science
14 71 (16.95%) Data Pipeline
15 70 (16.71%) Agile
16 69 (16.47%) Business Strategy
17 68 (16.23%) Artificial Intelligence
17 68 (16.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 63 (15.04%) Data Integration
19 62 (14.80%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 138 (32.94%) SQL
2 85 (20.29%) Python
3 12 (2.86%) Java
4 7 (1.67%) C#
5 6 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (1.43%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.95%) R
7 4 (0.95%) Scala
8 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.48%) Ruby
8 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.48%) SPARQL
8 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.48%) VB
9 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 129 (30.79%) Degree
2 24 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.77%) Master's Degree
4 16 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.86%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.15%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.43%) MBA
9 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.95%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.48%) HNC
11 2 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.24%) CFA
12 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (53.22%) Data Quality
2 68 (16.23%) Accessibility
3 51 (12.17%) QA
4 44 (10.50%) GDPR
5 17 (4.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.72%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (0.72%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.48%) Dublin Core
8 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) COBIT
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (2.15%) HDFS
2 3 (0.72%) Docker
3 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.19%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 102 (24.34%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.16%) ServiceNow
3 27 (6.44%) Databricks
4 23 (5.49%) Google
5 20 (4.77%) Informatica
6 12 (2.86%) Oracle
7 9 (2.15%) SAP
8 7 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.43%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.19%) Talend
11 3 (0.72%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.72%) IBM
11 3 (0.72%) Sage
12 2 (0.48%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.48%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.48%) iManage
12 2 (0.48%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.48%) MapR
12 2 (0.48%) UiPath
13 1 (0.24%) Workday