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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 228 221
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 +118
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 889 1,313 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.27% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.51% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 546 777 914
10th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,958 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +4.65%
75th Percentile £108,750 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.89% +9.54%

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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 May 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 30 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
England +11 780 £85,000 +18.06% 2,309
UK excluding London -1 431 £57,500 -11.54% 2,280
London +70 391 £100,000 +33.33% 362
Work from Home +15 284 £85,000 +21.43% 1,179
South East +142 195 £64,500 -4.44% 725
Midlands -9 71 £60,000 +9.09% 419
North of England -134 62 £60,743 -19.01% 489
West Midlands -4 56 £60,000 +9.09% 215
Scotland +107 50 £52,000 -14.39% 108
North West -90 35 £55,000 -26.67% 219
South West +49 29 £60,000 -2.04% 241
Yorkshire -30 25 £60,743 -24.01% 208
East of England +42 18 £57,000 -12.31% 300
East Midlands +8 14 £42,000 -30.00% 174
Wales +38 4 £80,000 -17.95% 52
North East +3 2 £62,500 -21.81% 63
Northern Ireland +43 1 - - 31
Isle of Man +13 1 - - 1

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 69 (7.76%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.04%) Apache
4 25 (2.81%) CMS
5 17 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.67%) Confluence
7 5 (0.56%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.45%) SAS
9 2 (0.22%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 70 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.34%) Maya
5 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.34%) Shopify
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.11%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 308 (34.65%) Azure
2 225 (25.31%) Power Platform
3 142 (15.97%) AWS
4 102 (11.47%) GCP
5 73 (8.21%) Snowflake
6 60 (6.75%) Microsoft Purview
7 49 (5.51%) Power Automate
7 49 (5.51%) PowerApps
8 47 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 40 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (4.39%) SaaS
11 34 (3.82%) Collibra
12 31 (3.49%) PaaS
13 25 (2.81%) Serverless
14 24 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.14%) Amazon S3
16 19 (2.14%) iPaaS
17 16 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
18 12 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) HTTP
2 3 (0.34%) SMS
3 2 (0.22%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) DHCP
4 1 (0.11%) DNS
4 1 (0.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.11%) Network Security
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (24.18%) Power BI
2 200 (22.50%) Data Lake
3 152 (17.10%) Data Warehouse
4 131 (14.74%) Tableau
5 114 (12.82%) Metadata
6 86 (9.67%) Big Data
7 48 (5.40%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.95%) Hadoop
9 38 (4.27%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 28 (3.15%) BigQuery
12 21 (2.36%) Relational Database
13 17 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 16 (1.80%) MySQL
14 16 (1.80%) Power Query
15 14 (1.57%) Metadata Repository
16 13 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.46%) Delta Lake
17 11 (1.24%) Looker
Development Applications
1 52 (5.85%) JIRA
2 13 (1.46%) Git
3 11 (1.24%) PowerBuilder
4 10 (1.12%) ERwin
5 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.34%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.22%) MLflow
7 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.11%) GitLab
General
1 337 (37.91%) Finance
2 237 (26.66%) Social Skills
3 180 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (17.10%) Law
5 88 (9.90%) Front Office
6 74 (8.32%) Legal
7 73 (8.21%) Marketing
8 55 (6.19%) Banking
9 40 (4.50%) Public Sector
10 36 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (2.59%) Retail
14 21 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.36%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.46%) Advertising
16 12 (1.35%) Health Technology
17 11 (1.24%) Local Government
18 10 (1.12%) Investment Banking
19 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 242 (27.22%) Lead
2 146 (16.42%) Architect
3 106 (11.92%) Senior
4 84 (9.45%) Data Architect
5 79 (8.89%) Analyst
5 79 (8.89%) Data Engineer
6 70 (7.87%) Data Manager
7 42 (4.72%) Data Analyst
8 40 (4.50%) Governance Manager
9 39 (4.39%) Data Governance Analyst
9 39 (4.39%) Data Governance Manager
9 39 (4.39%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (3.37%) Head of Finance
11 29 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
12 26 (2.92%) Developer
12 26 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (2.81%) Data Analytics Director
14 23 (2.59%) IT Architect
15 22 (2.47%) Lead Architect
16 21 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.61%) Kafka
2 33 (3.71%) REST
3 31 (3.49%) PySpark
4 22 (2.47%) SOAP
5 17 (1.91%) Middleware
5 17 (1.91%) React
6 16 (1.80%) GraphQL
7 15 (1.69%) .NET
8 10 (1.12%) ADO
9 9 (1.01%) XML
10 8 (0.90%) MERN Stack
10 8 (0.90%) WebSockets
11 6 (0.67%) JSON
11 6 (0.67%) PyArrow
12 5 (0.56%) Dask
13 4 (0.45%) Great Expectations
13 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (0.45%) Polars
13 4 (0.45%) pytest
14 3 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 83 (9.34%) Hedge funds
2 82 (9.22%) Derivative
2 82 (9.22%) Equities
2 82 (9.22%) Fixed Income
3 48 (5.40%) Management Information System
4 46 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.71%) Cloud Native
6 31 (3.49%) Data Structures
7 30 (3.37%) FMCG
8 19 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.24%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.24%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.12%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.90%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
16 6 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.69%) Windows
2 7 (0.79%) Unix
3 6 (0.67%) Linux
3 6 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (41.96%) Data Management
2 359 (40.38%) Analytics
3 263 (29.58%) Business Intelligence
4 258 (29.02%) Data Modelling
5 251 (28.23%) Agile
6 214 (24.07%) Decision-Making
7 195 (21.93%) Roadmaps
8 193 (21.71%) Data Architecture
9 187 (21.03%) Data Engineering
10 186 (20.92%) Data Strategy
11 179 (20.13%) Migration
12 168 (18.90%) ETL
13 151 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
14 146 (16.42%) Regulatory Compliance
15 145 (16.31%) Data Analytics
16 144 (16.20%) Data Pipeline
17 137 (15.41%) Data Science
18 130 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
19 127 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
20 125 (14.06%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 285 (32.06%) SQL
2 159 (17.89%) Python
3 27 (3.04%) Java
4 21 (2.36%) C#
4 21 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (2.36%) PL/SQL
5 20 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 20 (2.25%) Scala
6 13 (1.46%) R
7 12 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.35%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.56%) SPARQL
9 3 (0.34%) Bash
10 2 (0.22%) Bicep
10 2 (0.22%) C
10 2 (0.22%) Ruby
10 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.22%) VB
11 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 231 (25.98%) Degree
2 47 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 47 (5.29%) Master's Degree
3 37 (4.16%) Azure Certification
4 23 (2.59%) Security Cleared
5 20 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.14%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.67%) MBA
10 6 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.56%) ACCA
11 5 (0.56%) CIMA
11 5 (0.56%) PhD
12 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.45%) PMP
12 4 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.34%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (39.71%) Data Quality
2 104 (11.70%) GDPR
3 92 (10.35%) Accessibility
4 64 (7.20%) QA
5 39 (4.39%) MiFID
6 24 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
11 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.22%) COBIT
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.22%) Dublin Core
12 2 (0.22%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (2.81%) Docker
2 13 (1.46%) HDFS
3 5 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.92%) Terraform
3 5 (0.56%) SCCM
4 2 (0.22%) Ansible
4 2 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 216 (24.30%) Microsoft
2 89 (10.01%) Databricks
3 58 (6.52%) Informatica
4 54 (6.07%) Google
5 32 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 30 (3.37%) Oracle
7 29 (3.26%) SAP
8 13 (1.46%) IBM
8 13 (1.46%) Talend
9 10 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.79%) Sage
11 6 (0.67%) iManage
11 6 (0.67%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.56%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.56%) Remedy
13 4 (0.45%) Intapp
13 4 (0.45%) Teradata
13 4 (0.45%) Workday
14 3 (0.34%) Nintex
14 3 (0.34%) Snowplow