Data Governance Job Trends in Wales

Data Governance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 70 80
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 2 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.19% 0.90% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 1.08% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £49,148 £43,538
25th Percentile - £52,500 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £71,649
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -9.28% +33.30%
75th Percentile - £81,563 £74,923
90th Percentile - £82,500 £79,210
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £72,085
% change year-on-year -9.68% +7.51% +6.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 740 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.19% 83.05% 91.42%
Number of salaries quoted 551 362 607
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -0.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,348
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Dyfed -2 1 - -
South Wales -6 1 £60,000 -22.58% 14
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft