Data Governance Job Trends in Watford

Data Governance
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 1.27% - 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% - 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,000 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £52,500
75th Percentile £80,000 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £73,750 £73,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +40.48% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 251 141 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 79.43% 92.16% 81.56%
Number of salaries quoted 178 76 170
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £49,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -0.51% -17.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £63,938 £63,750
90th Percentile £96,500 £78,125 £77,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -6.09%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Watford

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 4 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (25.00%) Dagster
4 1 (25.00%) Datadog
4 1 (25.00%) dbt
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) Impala
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Parquet
1 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Banking Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Transformation Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Anti-Piracy
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat