Data Governance Jobs

Data Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 225 245
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 +81
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 861 1,279 1,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 1.24% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.50% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 491 806 845
10th Percentile £45,750 £38,750 £46,570
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £100,625 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £107,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £64,800 £62,250
% change year-on-year -7.41% +4.10% +8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,906 85,087 81,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 82.48% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,389 58,040 52,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 July 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
England +13 794 £75,500 +7.09% 1,018
UK excluding London -17 426 £60,000 -7.41% 560
London +80 371 £95,000 +18.75% 661
Work from Home -43 228 £69,840 -0.23% 472
South East +129 215 £65,000 +8.33% 266
North of England -110 72 £62,372 -16.84% 132
Midlands -27 66 £60,000 +4.35% 64
West Midlands +1 50 £58,718 -2.14% 37
North West -88 41 £54,143 -27.81% 70
South West +36 32 £58,750 +6.82% 42
Yorkshire -21 30 £67,500 -15.55% 53
East of England +41 24 £57,000 -26.45% 19
Scotland +42 12 £52,500 -13.57% 19
East Midlands -3 12 £42,000 -23.64% 27
Wales +17 4 £61,545 +7.04% 11
Northern Ireland +39 1 - - 11
Isle of Man +12 1 - -
North East +4 1 £48,000 -36.00% 11

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 70 (8.13%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.99%) SharePoint
3 39 (4.53%) CMS
4 26 (3.02%) Apache
5 15 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.05%) Confluence
7 5 (0.58%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 38 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Maya
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 14 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.58%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.35%) Shopify
6 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG-S
6 2 (0.23%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) FastStats
7 1 (0.12%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 361 (41.93%) Azure
2 245 (28.46%) Power Platform
3 168 (19.51%) AWS
4 118 (13.70%) GCP
5 80 (9.29%) Snowflake
6 60 (6.97%) Microsoft Purview
7 56 (6.50%) SaaS
8 53 (6.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 51 (5.92%) Power Automate
10 49 (5.69%) PowerApps
11 43 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 42 (4.88%) PaaS
13 35 (4.07%) iPaaS
14 34 (3.95%) Collibra
15 27 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
17 22 (2.56%) Serverless
18 17 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
19 15 (1.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.28%) HTTP
2 2 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) DHCP
3 1 (0.12%) DNS
3 1 (0.12%) Intranet
3 1 (0.12%) SAN
3 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (27.41%) Power BI
2 164 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (15.21%) Data Lake
4 127 (14.75%) Metadata
5 105 (12.20%) Tableau
6 84 (9.76%) Big Data
7 52 (6.04%) NoSQL
8 47 (5.46%) Hadoop
9 41 (4.76%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (3.14%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.67%) Relational Database
13 20 (2.32%) Power Query
14 19 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (1.86%) MySQL
15 16 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (1.28%) IBM InfoSphere
17 11 (1.28%) Looker
18 9 (1.05%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 24 (2.79%) JIRA
2 12 (1.39%) Git
3 11 (1.28%) PowerBuilder
4 9 (1.05%) ERwin
5 6 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.12%) GitLab
9 1 (0.12%) JUnit
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) TestComplete
General
1 310 (36.00%) Finance
2 280 (32.52%) Social Skills
3 216 (25.09%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (20.67%) Law
5 102 (11.85%) Marketing
6 89 (10.34%) Legal
7 58 (6.74%) Banking
8 48 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (4.76%) Public Sector
11 38 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (3.02%) Retail
13 23 (2.67%) Front Office
13 23 (2.67%) Manufacturing
14 22 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.28%) Back Office
15 11 (1.28%) Health Technology
15 11 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.16%) Advertising
17 9 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (25.44%) Lead
2 177 (20.56%) Architect
3 116 (13.47%) Senior
4 104 (12.08%) Data Architect
5 84 (9.76%) Analyst
6 78 (9.06%) Data Engineer
7 75 (8.71%) Data Manager
8 41 (4.76%) Data Analyst
9 31 (3.60%) IT Architect
10 29 (3.37%) Applications Architect
10 29 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
11 25 (2.90%) Data Analytics Director
12 24 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
13 23 (2.67%) Consultant
14 22 (2.56%) Developer
14 22 (2.56%) Governance Manager
15 21 (2.44%) Data Governance Analyst
15 21 (2.44%) Data Governance Manager
15 21 (2.44%) Lead Architect
16 17 (1.97%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.23%) Kafka
2 29 (3.37%) REST
3 26 (3.02%) PySpark
4 19 (2.21%) SOAP
5 17 (1.97%) .NET
5 17 (1.97%) React
6 16 (1.86%) Middleware
7 14 (1.63%) GraphQL
8 10 (1.16%) XML
9 8 (0.93%) JSON
10 7 (0.81%) ADO
11 6 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.70%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.70%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.58%) MERN Stack
12 5 (0.58%) WebSockets
13 4 (0.46%) Great Expectations
13 4 (0.46%) PyArrow
13 4 (0.46%) pytest
14 3 (0.35%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.69%) Management Information System
1 49 (5.69%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.53%) FMCG
3 35 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (3.72%) Cloud Native
5 30 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.44%) Derivative
7 19 (2.21%) Hedge funds
8 18 (2.09%) Equities
8 18 (2.09%) Fixed Income
8 18 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.39%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.93%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.81%) Data Centre
16 6 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.16%) Windows
2 5 (0.58%) Unix
3 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.23%) Linux
4 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (41.46%) Analytics
2 292 (33.91%) Business Intelligence
3 286 (33.22%) Data Management
4 279 (32.40%) Data Modelling
5 230 (26.71%) Decision-Making
6 223 (25.90%) Data Engineering
7 212 (24.62%) Agile
8 211 (24.51%) Data Strategy
9 208 (24.16%) Data Architecture
10 199 (23.11%) ETL
11 175 (20.33%) Data Pipeline
12 159 (18.47%) Mentoring
13 155 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 154 (17.89%) Data Integration
15 152 (17.65%) Roadmaps
16 151 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
17 147 (17.07%) Machine Learning
18 142 (16.49%) Data Science
19 134 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 131 (15.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 304 (35.31%) SQL
2 175 (20.33%) Python
3 26 (3.02%) Java
4 22 (2.56%) C#
5 21 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (2.32%) JavaScript
6 20 (2.32%) PL/SQL
6 20 (2.32%) Scala
7 19 (2.21%) R
8 13 (1.51%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.70%) Bash
10 6 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.58%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.23%) ABAP
12 2 (0.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.23%) C
12 2 (0.23%) Ruby
12 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 225 (26.13%) Degree
2 47 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (5.23%) Master's Degree
4 37 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 25 (2.90%) Security Cleared
6 20 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.32%) SC Cleared
7 14 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.70%) MBA
11 5 (0.58%) ACCA
11 5 (0.58%) CIMA
11 5 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.58%) PhD
12 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.46%) PMP
13 3 (0.35%) CFA
13 3 (0.35%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (39.72%) Data Quality
2 121 (14.05%) GDPR
3 94 (10.92%) Accessibility
4 65 (7.55%) QA
5 20 (2.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.16%) MiFID
8 7 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.58%) NIST
10 4 (0.46%) GRC
10 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.35%) COBIT
11 3 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
11 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.23%) Dublin Core
12 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (2.67%) Docker
2 11 (1.28%) HDFS
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (3.25%) Kubernetes
1 28 (3.25%) Terraform
2 2 (0.23%) Ansible
2 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (0.23%) SCCM
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 199 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 105 (12.20%) Databricks
3 56 (6.50%) Informatica
4 54 (6.27%) Google
5 43 (4.99%) Oracle
6 42 (4.88%) SAP
7 36 (4.18%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.86%) Talend
9 15 (1.74%) IBM
10 12 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 6 (0.70%) Sage
12 4 (0.46%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.46%) Teradata
13 3 (0.35%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.35%) Dell
13 3 (0.35%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.35%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.35%) Snowplow
13 3 (0.35%) Workday