Data Governance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Governance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Governance over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 226 345
Rank change year-on-year -1 +119 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 1,266 1,756 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.64% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.72% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 762 953 918
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,409 £60,249 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% +9.54% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Governance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,908 102,297 145,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 95.66% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59,730 59,825 83,628
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024. 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 +3 1,136 £70,000 +3.70% 257
UK excluding London +59 760 £61,409 +1.93% 117
Work from Home -12 445 £70,000 +7.69% 112
London -27 432 £75,000 - 151
North of England +81 303 £70,500 +13.41% 32
Midlands +77 155 £55,000 -18.52% 27
North West +104 132 £70,500 +8.46% 17
Yorkshire +32 128 £67,533 +12.55% 12
South East -37 125 £70,000 +16.67% 22
West Midlands +78 108 £55,000 -18.52% 18
South West +42 79 £59,556 -1.15% 14
Scotland -38 58 £60,000 - 12
North East +32 43 £79,932 +33.22% 3
East Midlands +18 43 £60,000 +20.00% 9
East of England +9 23 £65,000 +9.70% 6
Wales +6 15 £97,500 +68.10% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland +25 1 £35,000 -30.00% 2

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 91 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 56 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (1.82%) Confluence
4 22 (1.74%) SAS
5 18 (1.42%) Apache
6 9 (0.71%) WordPress
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.079%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.079%) Luigi
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 127 (10.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.47%) SPSS
3 6 (0.47%) Trello
4 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.079%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 10 (0.79%) SAP MDG
2 9 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.32%) Finacle
3 4 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.32%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.079%) FastStats
6 1 (0.079%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.079%) Shopify
6 1 (0.079%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 420 (33.18%) Azure
2 329 (25.99%) Power Platform
3 253 (19.98%) AWS
4 237 (18.72%) GCP
5 83 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 45 (3.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 40 (3.16%) Collibra
8 40 (3.16%) Snowflake
9 38 (3.00%) SaaS
10 30 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 28 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (2.05%) Power Automate
12 26 (2.05%) Serverless
13 25 (1.97%) PowerApps
14 20 (1.58%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.34%) dbt
16 13 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
18 9 (0.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.34%) Intranet
2 4 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
2 4 (0.32%) VPN
3 3 (0.24%) Firewall
4 2 (0.16%) Network Security
4 2 (0.16%) WebEx
5 1 (0.079%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.079%) 5G
5 1 (0.079%) RIP
5 1 (0.079%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (25.67%) Power BI
2 302 (23.85%) Data Warehouse
3 146 (11.53%) BigQuery
4 138 (10.90%) Looker
5 115 (9.08%) Tableau
6 111 (8.77%) Data Lake
7 106 (8.37%) Metadata
8 65 (5.13%) Big Data
9 49 (3.87%) SQL Server
10 46 (3.63%) Hadoop
11 41 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
12 38 (3.00%) Data Mining
13 29 (2.29%) Apache Ignite
14 28 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 25 (1.97%) Data Hub
17 22 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
18 17 (1.34%) NoSQL
18 17 (1.34%) Relational Database
19 14 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 98 (7.74%) JIRA
2 43 (3.40%) Git
3 13 (1.03%) ERwin
4 10 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.55%) GitLab
6 6 (0.47%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.47%) RStudio
7 3 (0.24%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.079%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.079%) Selenium
9 1 (0.079%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.079%) TestRail
9 1 (0.079%) Toad
9 1 (0.079%) WebDriver
General
1 448 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 416 (32.86%) Finance
3 407 (32.15%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (15.24%) Banking
5 175 (13.82%) Legal
6 75 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 51 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (3.87%) Retail
9 34 (2.69%) Marketing
10 31 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.29%) Law
12 14 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.03%) Advertising
13 13 (1.03%) Games
14 12 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.71%) Back Office
16 8 (0.63%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.55%) Billing
Job Titles
1 286 (22.59%) Architect
2 223 (17.61%) Data Architect
3 200 (15.80%) Analyst
4 199 (15.72%) Senior
5 166 (13.11%) Lead
6 124 (9.79%) Data Engineer
7 110 (8.69%) Data Manager
8 92 (7.27%) Data Analyst
9 85 (6.71%) Senior Analyst
10 61 (4.82%) Developer
11 51 (4.03%) Data Governance Analyst
11 51 (4.03%) Data Governance Manager
11 51 (4.03%) Governance Manager
12 44 (3.48%) Consultant
13 39 (3.08%) Senior Architect
14 36 (2.84%) IT Manager
15 32 (2.53%) IT Architect
16 31 (2.45%) Governance Analyst
17 30 (2.37%) Cloud Architect
18 28 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.03%) Kafka
2 22 (1.74%) PySpark
3 17 (1.34%) Apache Beam
4 13 (1.03%) PyTorch
4 13 (1.03%) TensorFlow
5 9 (0.71%) Pandas
6 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (0.47%) Anaconda
7 6 (0.47%) Flask
7 6 (0.47%) Plotly
7 6 (0.47%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (0.39%) .NET
8 5 (0.39%) JSON
8 5 (0.39%) Middleware
9 4 (0.32%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.32%) RAML
9 4 (0.32%) YAML
10 3 (0.24%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.24%) D3.js
11 2 (0.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 128 (10.11%) Self-Motivation
2 114 (9.00%) Management Information System
3 44 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 37 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 26 (2.05%) Taxonomies
6 25 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 25 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.90%) Reference Data
8 23 (1.82%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.26%) IoT
11 14 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.11%) NHS
12 13 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
13 10 (0.79%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.63%) Mobile App
16 7 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.11%) Windows
2 8 (0.63%) Linux
2 8 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.55%) Unix
4 4 (0.32%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (34.20%) Data Modelling
2 428 (33.81%) Data Management
3 399 (31.52%) Business Intelligence
4 373 (29.46%) Analytics
5 364 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
6 355 (28.04%) Data Architecture
7 326 (25.75%) ETL
8 284 (22.43%) Data Engineering
9 261 (20.62%) Data Integration
10 251 (19.83%) Mentoring
11 250 (19.75%) Agile
12 223 (17.61%) Visualisation
13 204 (16.11%) Data Strategy
14 195 (15.40%) Data Protection
15 175 (13.82%) Data Security
16 171 (13.51%) Data Analysis
17 169 (13.35%) Data Science
18 166 (13.11%) Decision-Making
19 163 (12.88%) Data Privacy
20 155 (12.24%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 377 (29.78%) SQL
2 176 (13.90%) Python
3 35 (2.76%) Java
3 35 (2.76%) R
4 33 (2.61%) T-SQL
5 19 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (1.50%) Scala
6 13 (1.03%) C#
7 8 (0.63%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.55%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.47%) Perl
9 6 (0.47%) VBA
10 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.24%) VB
12 2 (0.16%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.079%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.079%) XAML
Qualifications
1 202 (15.96%) Degree
2 73 (5.77%) Master's Degree
3 72 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (2.61%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.34%) SC Cleared
6 16 (1.26%) CISM
6 16 (1.26%) CISSP
6 16 (1.26%) PhD
7 12 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.71%) MBA
8 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.55%) CISA
11 6 (0.47%) IIBA
12 5 (0.39%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.24%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (43.05%) Data Quality
2 339 (26.78%) GDPR
3 38 (3.00%) QA
4 28 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 22 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (0.79%) GRC
9 9 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.63%) COBIT
10 8 (0.63%) NIST
11 5 (0.39%) NCSC
12 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.32%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.24%) SLA
14 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.079%) HL7
15 1 (0.079%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.079%) PMO
15 1 (0.079%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 13 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.79%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (1.50%) Terraform
2 17 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.55%) SysTrack
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (0.24%) WebSphere Cast Iron
5 1 (0.079%) Ansible
5 1 (0.079%) Puppet
5 1 (0.079%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.079%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.079%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 202 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 177 (13.98%) Google
3 81 (6.40%) Databricks
4 39 (3.08%) SAP
5 35 (2.76%) Informatica
6 23 (1.82%) Oracle
7 17 (1.34%) Sophos
8 16 (1.26%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.18%) Aderant
9 15 (1.18%) iManage
9 15 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 12 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.79%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.79%) Teradata
13 9 (0.71%) IBM
14 8 (0.63%) Cognos
14 8 (0.63%) Northgate
15 7 (0.55%) Cisco
15 7 (0.55%) Snow