Hybrid/Remote Data Governance Job Trends

Data Governance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 222 212
Rank change year-on-year +95 -10 -25
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 451 230 486
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.11% 1.39% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 1.49% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 299 178 389
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,053 £37,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,813 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,840 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% -0.23% +12.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £120,500 £122,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,979 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Governance and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Governance job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Governance
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Data Governance salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 18 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.10%) Apache
3 13 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.44%) Confluence
5 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.11%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 151 (33.48%) Azure
2 97 (21.51%) Power Platform
3 67 (14.86%) Snowflake
4 65 (14.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 62 (13.75%) AWS
6 56 (12.42%) Azure AI
6 56 (12.42%) Azure Machine Learning
7 40 (8.87%) GCP
7 40 (8.87%) Microsoft Purview
8 18 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (3.55%) dbt
10 14 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.66%) SaaS
12 11 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.00%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.00%) Collibra
14 9 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.66%) Broadband
2 6 (1.33%) CHAP
3 4 (0.89%) NGN
3 4 (0.89%) SMS
4 1 (0.22%) 4G
4 1 (0.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (18.63%) Power BI
2 65 (14.41%) Metadata
2 65 (14.41%) SQL Server
3 39 (8.65%) Tableau
4 31 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (6.65%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.77%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.10%) BigQuery
8 14 (3.10%) MySQL
9 13 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.66%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.00%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.33%) Big Data
14 5 (1.11%) Power Query
14 5 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (3.10%) Git
2 3 (0.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.44%) GitLab
4 1 (0.22%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.22%) ERwin
General
1 140 (31.04%) Finance
2 131 (29.05%) Social Skills
3 103 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (13.75%) Legal
5 46 (10.20%) Law
6 44 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (8.65%) Public Sector
8 30 (6.65%) Legal Technology
9 23 (5.10%) Banking
10 16 (3.55%) Marketing
11 13 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.66%) Retail
13 7 (1.55%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.11%) Aeronautics
15 5 (1.11%) Automotive
15 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.89%) Billing
16 4 (0.89%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (25.50%) Senior
2 85 (18.85%) Data Manager
3 79 (17.52%) Architect
4 70 (15.52%) Data Architect
5 64 (14.19%) Data Engineer
6 55 (12.20%) Developer
7 49 (10.86%) Lead
8 46 (10.20%) Senior Developer
9 36 (7.98%) Governance Manager
10 35 (7.76%) Data Governance Analyst
10 35 (7.76%) Data Governance Manager
11 34 (7.54%) Engineering Manager
12 33 (7.32%) Finance Manager
13 26 (5.76%) Analyst
14 23 (5.10%) Data Analyst
14 23 (5.10%) Senior Architect
14 23 (5.10%) Senior Data Architect
15 22 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (3.10%) Head of AI
17 12 (2.66%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.42%) .NET
2 19 (4.21%) Kafka
3 11 (2.44%) PySpark
4 6 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (1.33%) JSON
4 6 (1.33%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.11%) REST
5 5 (1.11%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.89%) LangChain
6 4 (0.89%) LangGraph
6 4 (0.89%) XBRL
6 4 (0.89%) XML
7 3 (0.67%) Middleware
8 2 (0.44%) EDI
8 2 (0.44%) RESTful
9 1 (0.22%) CSS
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.22%) SciPy
9 1 (0.22%) SOAP
9 1 (0.22%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.21%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.76%) Data Structures
3 21 (4.66%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.88%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.66%) Low-Code
5 12 (2.66%) Social Media
6 10 (2.22%) Life Science
7 8 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.33%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (1.33%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.33%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.11%) NHS
11 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.67%) Linux
2 2 (0.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) AIX
3 1 (0.22%) Android
3 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (39.02%) Agile
2 156 (34.59%) Data Engineering
3 152 (33.70%) AI
4 145 (32.15%) Analytics
4 145 (32.15%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (30.60%) Data Architecture
6 123 (27.27%) Roadmaps
7 121 (26.83%) Data Modelling
8 101 (22.39%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (22.39%) Decision-Making
9 99 (21.95%) Data Strategy
10 95 (21.06%) CI/CD
10 95 (21.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (21.06%) Machine Learning
11 78 (17.29%) Data Management
11 78 (17.29%) ETL
11 78 (17.29%) Migration
12 73 (16.19%) Data Pipeline
12 73 (16.19%) Workflow
13 72 (15.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 170 (37.69%) SQL
2 93 (20.62%) Python
3 57 (12.64%) C#
4 15 (3.33%) Java
5 10 (2.22%) Scala
6 7 (1.55%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.33%) C++
7 6 (1.33%) Groovy
7 6 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.89%) Bash
8 4 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.89%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.89%) R
9 1 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 33 (7.32%) Degree
2 29 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.00%) CIPD
5 7 (1.55%) CISM
5 7 (1.55%) CISSP
6 6 (1.33%) CGEIT
6 6 (1.33%) CISA
6 6 (1.33%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.33%) FFIEC
6 6 (1.33%) SANS
7 5 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.44%) CITP
9 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.44%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.22%) CIMA
10 1 (0.22%) CRISC
10 1 (0.22%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (34.15%) Data Quality
2 73 (16.19%) GDPR
3 61 (13.53%) QA
4 18 (3.99%) Accessibility
5 14 (3.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (2.00%) PERC
7 7 (1.55%) NIST
8 6 (1.33%) COBIT
9 5 (1.11%) PMO
10 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.89%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.22%) GRC
12 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (12.20%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (2.88%) Terraform
2 6 (1.33%) Grafana
3 1 (0.22%) CASB
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 125 (27.72%) Microsoft
2 90 (19.96%) Databricks
3 22 (4.88%) Google
4 21 (4.66%) Salesforce
5 19 (4.21%) SAP
6 12 (2.66%) Informatica
7 11 (2.44%) Oracle
8 8 (1.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.89%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.67%) dotdigital
11 3 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.67%) Planon
12 2 (0.44%) Concur
12 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.44%) IBM
12 2 (0.44%) Sage
12 2 (0.44%) TIBCO