Data Governance Job Trends

Data Governance
UK

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 173 224
Rank change year-on-year +49 +51 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 1,373 865 1,324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.96% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.11% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 912 521 788
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £41,144
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £88,188
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +4.84%

All Process & 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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Governance
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

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 11 June 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
England +48 1,261 £75,000 -9.09% 421
UK excluding London +53 703 £67,500 +12.50% 305
London +20 566 £82,500 -17.50% 197
Work from Home +66 420 £75,000 -9.09% 204
North of England +111 243 £62,500 +2.89% 92
South East -37 167 £72,500 +11.97% 90
Midlands +46 154 £64,038 +16.43% 42
North West +85 119 £54,500 -0.91% 56
West Midlands +32 116 £66,000 +10.00% 33
Yorkshire +27 99 £70,932 +16.77% 24
East of England +23 58 £72,500 +27.19% 16
Scotland +37 38 £71,500 +2.14% 20
East Midlands +2 37 £47,500 +13.10% 9
South West -46 34 £70,752 +17.92% 32
North East -21 25 £67,500 +8.00% 13
Northern Ireland -30 5 £45,000 - 6
Wales -41 4 £39,511 -50.61% 12

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 129 (9.40%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (6.41%) Apache Spark
3 58 (4.22%) Apache
4 36 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.66%) Confluence
6 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.36%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 59 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 48 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.68%) SAP MDG
3 15 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.09%) SAP PM
4 9 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.58%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.51%) SAP MDG-BP
7 4 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
7 4 (0.29%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.22%) iTrent
8 3 (0.22%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.15%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.15%) SAP Travel Management
9 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 462 (33.65%) Azure
2 295 (21.49%) AWS
3 287 (20.90%) Power Platform
4 182 (13.26%) GCP
5 172 (12.53%) Snowflake
6 140 (10.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 91 (6.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 75 (5.46%) dbt
9 73 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
10 70 (5.10%) Azure Machine Learning
11 65 (4.73%) Amazon S3
11 65 (4.73%) Azure AI
12 54 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (3.50%) SaaS
14 36 (2.62%) Serverless
15 29 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (2.11%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.68%) Entra ID
17 22 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.87%) Firewall
2 11 (0.80%) CHAP
3 10 (0.73%) Broadband
4 9 (0.66%) DHCP
4 9 (0.66%) DNS
5 5 (0.36%) 5G
5 5 (0.36%) SMS
5 5 (0.36%) WAN
6 4 (0.29%) Network Security
7 3 (0.22%) NGN
7 3 (0.22%) VPN
7 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.15%) 4G
8 2 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.15%) Tactical Data Link
9 1 (0.073%) HTTP
9 1 (0.073%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (18.06%) Power BI
2 192 (13.98%) Metadata
3 182 (13.26%) Data Warehouse
4 165 (12.02%) Tableau
5 156 (11.36%) Data Lake
6 77 (5.61%) SQL Server
7 72 (5.24%) BigQuery
8 62 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 47 (3.42%) NoSQL
11 43 (3.13%) Spark SQL
12 37 (2.69%) Delta Lake
13 35 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (2.55%) Looker
14 31 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
15 27 (1.97%) Oracle Database
16 26 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
17 25 (1.82%) Apache Hive
17 25 (1.82%) Impala
17 25 (1.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 69 (5.03%) Git
2 32 (2.33%) MLflow
3 25 (1.82%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (1.60%) JIRA
5 15 (1.09%) ERwin
6 9 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.36%) Toad
8 4 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.15%) GitLab
10 2 (0.15%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.15%) rollup.js
10 2 (0.15%) TestDirector
11 1 (0.073%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.073%) JUnit
11 1 (0.073%) RStudio
11 1 (0.073%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 496 (36.13%) Finance
2 453 (32.99%) Social Skills
3 395 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.68%) Law
7 74 (5.39%) Legal
8 71 (5.17%) Banking
9 61 (4.44%) Retail
10 58 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (3.71%) Manufacturing
12 43 (3.13%) Financial Institution
13 41 (2.99%) Marketing
14 37 (2.69%) Telecoms
15 31 (2.26%) Investment Banking
16 30 (2.18%) Military
17 27 (1.97%) Back Office
18 20 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (1.31%) Advertising
20 16 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (20.17%) Architect
2 229 (16.68%) Senior
3 221 (16.10%) Data Architect
4 203 (14.79%) Analyst
5 177 (12.89%) Data Engineer
6 161 (11.73%) Data Manager
7 149 (10.85%) Lead
8 83 (6.05%) Data Analyst
9 70 (5.10%) Governance Manager
10 69 (5.03%) Data Governance Analyst
10 69 (5.03%) Data Governance Manager
11 63 (4.59%) Consultant
12 52 (3.79%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.20%) Senior Architect
14 43 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
15 41 (2.99%) Business Analyst
16 40 (2.91%) Azure Architect
16 40 (2.91%) Data Consultant
17 37 (2.69%) Engineering Manager
18 34 (2.48%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (5.75%) PySpark
2 71 (5.17%) Kafka
3 35 (2.55%) PyTorch
3 35 (2.55%) TensorFlow
4 32 (2.33%) LangChain
5 25 (1.82%) Middleware
5 25 (1.82%) scikit-learn
6 23 (1.68%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (1.68%) pgvector
6 23 (1.68%) REST
7 22 (1.60%) JSON
8 16 (1.17%) XML
9 14 (1.02%) Pandas
10 13 (0.95%) CSS
11 11 (0.80%) EDI
12 10 (0.73%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.73%) HTML
13 9 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
14 8 (0.58%) SOAP
15 7 (0.51%) FpML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 97 (7.06%) Management Information System
3 79 (5.75%) Data Structures
4 75 (5.46%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.62%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.04%) Low-Code
8 28 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.89%) Life Science
11 25 (1.82%) Clustering
12 22 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.53%) Reference Data
14 18 (1.31%) Reinsurance
15 16 (1.17%) NHS
16 15 (1.09%) Blockchain
16 15 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (1.02%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.31%) Windows
2 10 (0.73%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.51%) Linux
3 7 (0.51%) Unix
4 3 (0.22%) AIX
5 1 (0.073%) Android
5 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (39.55%) Analytics
2 505 (36.78%) Data Modelling
3 414 (30.15%) AI
4 395 (28.77%) Data Engineering
5 364 (26.51%) Data Architecture
6 345 (25.13%) Business Intelligence
7 339 (24.69%) Agile
8 296 (21.56%) Roadmaps
9 286 (20.83%) ETL
10 272 (19.81%) Decision-Making
11 268 (19.52%) Data Pipeline
12 266 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
13 245 (17.84%) Data Management
14 229 (16.68%) Data Strategy
15 224 (16.31%) Machine Learning
16 217 (15.80%) CI/CD
17 209 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 191 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
19 180 (13.11%) Migration
20 174 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 520 (37.87%) SQL
2 352 (25.64%) Python
3 30 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 30 (2.18%) Java
4 24 (1.75%) Scala
5 22 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.31%) R
7 15 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 14 (1.02%) C#
9 10 (0.73%) Bash
9 10 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.66%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.44%) C++
11 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) ABAP
13 4 (0.29%) Groovy
14 3 (0.22%) Bicep
14 3 (0.22%) Go
14 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.073%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 166 (12.09%) Degree
2 92 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 63 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 35 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 31 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.75%) DBS Check
8 19 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.38%) CISA
9 18 (1.31%) CISSP
10 17 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.17%) CISM
12 13 (0.95%) ACCA
12 13 (0.95%) CIMA
12 13 (0.95%) SANS
13 12 (0.87%) CGEIT
13 12 (0.87%) FFIEC
14 10 (0.73%) CITP
14 10 (0.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (37.80%) Data Quality
2 233 (16.97%) GDPR
3 53 (3.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 46 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 36 (2.62%) QA
6 27 (1.97%) NIST
7 25 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.38%) PERC
9 17 (1.24%) PMO
10 15 (1.09%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.95%) COBIT
11 13 (0.95%) GRC
12 9 (0.66%) Solvency II
13 8 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.51%) SLA
15 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.36%) TickIT
17 4 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 56 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
2 35 (2.55%) Docker
3 22 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) IAG
5 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.073%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 61 (4.44%) Terraform
2 30 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.58%) Grafana
4 7 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.36%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.29%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.073%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.073%) CASB
8 1 (0.073%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.073%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.073%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.073%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 277 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 274 (19.96%) Databricks
3 111 (8.08%) SAP
4 76 (5.54%) Salesforce
5 68 (4.95%) Oracle
6 64 (4.66%) Google
7 32 (2.33%) Informatica
8 27 (1.97%) Dell
9 25 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 24 (1.75%) Cloudera
11 15 (1.09%) Sage
12 14 (1.02%) Palantir
12 14 (1.02%) Talend
13 13 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 12 (0.87%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.87%) ServiceNow
14 12 (0.87%) VMware
15 9 (0.66%) Foundry
15 9 (0.66%) Planon
16 8 (0.58%) Workday