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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 229 223
Rank change year-on-year +53 -6 +115
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 904 1,279 1,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 1.30% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.51% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 576 771 973
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,688 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the UK

Data Governance
Top 17 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 30 April 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 +43 798 £85,000 +21.43% 599
UK excluding London +30 425 £60,000 -7.69% 301
London +70 419 £100,000 +33.33% 328
Work from Home +82 321 £90,000 +28.57% 375
South East +151 183 £65,000 -7.14% 89
Midlands -13 76 £60,000 +9.09% 46
West Midlands +4 65 £60,000 +9.09% 33
North of England -100 65 £60,743 -19.01% 79
Scotland +120 52 £52,000 -13.87% 20
North West -61 34 £57,500 -18.44% 54
South West +62 30 £60,000 +0.75% 39
Yorkshire -14 27 £60,743 -19.01% 23
East of England +49 13 £56,250 +7.14% 11
East Midlands +16 10 £58,750 -2.08% 11
Wales +31 5 £80,000 -17.95% 12
North East +12 4 £62,500 -21.81% 2
Northern Ireland +36 1 - - 10

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 64 (7.08%) Apache Spark
2 39 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 33 (3.65%) Apache
4 21 (2.32%) CMS
5 20 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.66%) SAS
7 4 (0.44%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) SugarCRM
9 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 72 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.33%) Maya
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.11%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 284 (31.42%) Azure
2 205 (22.68%) Power Platform
3 134 (14.82%) AWS
4 83 (9.18%) GCP
5 62 (6.86%) Snowflake
6 57 (6.31%) Microsoft Purview
7 56 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 47 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (5.09%) PowerApps
10 45 (4.98%) Power Automate
11 33 (3.65%) SaaS
12 31 (3.43%) Collibra
13 27 (2.99%) PaaS
14 25 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (2.54%) Serverless
16 19 (2.10%) Amazon S3
17 15 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (1.66%) iPaaS
18 12 (1.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.11%) HTTP
2 4 (0.44%) Intranet
3 3 (0.33%) 5G
3 3 (0.33%) SMS
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
4 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 1 (0.11%) DHCP
5 1 (0.11%) DNS
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (24.34%) Data Lake
2 198 (21.90%) Power BI
3 142 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (15.27%) Tableau
5 114 (12.61%) Metadata
6 78 (8.63%) Big Data
7 61 (6.75%) NoSQL
8 40 (4.42%) Hadoop
9 37 (4.09%) SQL Server
10 32 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 28 (3.10%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (2.10%) Relational Database
14 18 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (1.77%) Metadata Repository
16 15 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (1.66%) Delta Lake
17 14 (1.55%) MySQL
18 13 (1.44%) Data Vault
19 11 (1.22%) Looker
Development Applications
1 53 (5.86%) JIRA
2 12 (1.33%) Git
3 10 (1.11%) ERwin
3 10 (1.11%) PowerBuilder
4 9 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.44%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.33%) LSMW
8 2 (0.22%) GitLab
8 2 (0.22%) MagicDraw
8 2 (0.22%) MLflow
8 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
General
1 377 (41.70%) Finance
2 255 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 164 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (14.05%) Law
5 119 (13.16%) Front Office
6 68 (7.52%) Legal
6 68 (7.52%) Marketing
7 47 (5.20%) Banking
8 45 (4.98%) Public Sector
9 37 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.32%) Retail
13 20 (2.21%) Advertising
14 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.11%) Local Government
16 9 (1.00%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 243 (26.88%) Lead
2 144 (15.93%) Architect
3 99 (10.95%) Senior
4 87 (9.62%) Data Architect
5 80 (8.85%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.30%) Analyst
7 65 (7.19%) Data Manager
8 55 (6.08%) Governance Manager
9 53 (5.86%) Data Governance Analyst
9 53 (5.86%) Data Governance Manager
10 39 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
11 36 (3.98%) Consultant
11 36 (3.98%) Data Analyst
12 31 (3.43%) Lead Architect
12 31 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (3.32%) Head of Finance
14 27 (2.99%) Data Consultant
14 27 (2.99%) Finance Manager
14 27 (2.99%) Programme Manager
15 25 (2.77%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.65%) Kafka
1 33 (3.65%) REST
2 30 (3.32%) PySpark
3 23 (2.54%) SOAP
4 17 (1.88%) Middleware
5 16 (1.77%) React
6 15 (1.66%) .NET
7 14 (1.55%) GraphQL
8 10 (1.11%) ADO
9 9 (1.00%) PyArrow
10 8 (0.88%) MERN Stack
10 8 (0.88%) WebSockets
10 8 (0.88%) XML
11 6 (0.66%) JSON
12 5 (0.55%) Dask
12 5 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (0.44%) Polars
14 3 (0.33%) PyTorch
14 3 (0.33%) scikit-learn
14 3 (0.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 114 (12.61%) Hedge funds
2 112 (12.39%) Derivative
2 112 (12.39%) Equities
2 112 (12.39%) Fixed Income
3 67 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.76%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.54%) FMCG
7 21 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 20 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.33%) Reference Data
13 11 (1.22%) Reinsurance
14 9 (1.00%) Taxonomies
15 8 (0.88%) Onboarding
15 8 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.66%) Windows
2 12 (1.33%) Unix
3 6 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.55%) Linux
4 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (42.26%) Data Management
2 332 (36.73%) Analytics
3 280 (30.97%) Agile
4 254 (28.10%) Data Modelling
5 251 (27.77%) Business Intelligence
6 239 (26.44%) Roadmaps
7 211 (23.34%) Migration
8 206 (22.79%) Data Architecture
9 199 (22.01%) Data Strategy
10 190 (21.02%) Decision-Making
11 166 (18.36%) Data Engineering
12 163 (18.03%) Regulatory Compliance
13 160 (17.70%) ETL
14 152 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (14.16%) Data Analytics
16 127 (14.05%) Data Science
17 123 (13.61%) Mentoring
17 123 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
18 122 (13.50%) Artificial Intelligence
18 122 (13.50%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 261 (28.87%) SQL
2 149 (16.48%) Python
3 27 (2.99%) Java
4 21 (2.32%) C#
5 19 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.10%) PL/SQL
5 19 (2.10%) Scala
6 16 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (1.66%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.33%) R
9 10 (1.11%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.77%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.55%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.44%) Bash
13 2 (0.22%) Bicep
13 2 (0.22%) Ruby
13 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.22%) VB
14 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (24.00%) Degree
2 39 (4.31%) Master's Degree
3 38 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (3.54%) Security Cleared
5 28 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.32%) SC Cleared
7 18 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.88%) DBS Check
9 14 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.66%) MBA
12 6 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.55%) ACCA
13 5 (0.55%) CIMA
13 5 (0.55%) PMP
14 4 (0.44%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.44%) PhD
14 4 (0.44%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (40.60%) Data Quality
2 100 (11.06%) GDPR
3 85 (9.40%) Accessibility
4 57 (6.31%) MiFID
5 52 (5.75%) QA
6 26 (2.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 14 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.33%) COBIT
12 3 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.33%) NIST
13 2 (0.22%) Dublin Core
13 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
14 1 (0.11%) EMIR
System Software
1 23 (2.54%) Docker
2 16 (1.77%) HDFS
3 5 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.54%) Terraform
3 5 (0.55%) SCCM
4 3 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 201 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 92 (10.18%) Databricks
3 61 (6.75%) Informatica
4 44 (4.87%) Google
5 33 (3.65%) SAP
6 30 (3.32%) Oracle
6 30 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.33%) IBM
7 12 (1.33%) Talend
8 9 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.66%) iManage
10 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.55%) Remedy
11 4 (0.44%) Duck Creek
11 4 (0.44%) Intapp
11 4 (0.44%) Sage
11 4 (0.44%) Teradata
12 3 (0.33%) Snowplow
12 3 (0.33%) Workday