Data Governance Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Governance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 244 207
Rank change year-on-year +73 -37 +199
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 320 450 722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 1.33% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.46% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 258 372 501
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,570
25th Percentile £64,621 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £122,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £103,750 £96,857
UK median annual salary £83,840 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.77% +7.69% +4.00%

All Process and 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 15,406 30,912 40,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.78% 91.49% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,748 23,470 28,078
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,767 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Data Governance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Governance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Governance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Governance.

Data Governance salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Governance
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Governance over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Data Governance salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 26 (8.13%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.38%) Apache
3 11 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.94%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.63%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 54 (16.88%) Azure
2 53 (16.56%) Power Platform
3 30 (9.38%) AWS
4 20 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 17 (5.31%) GCP
6 15 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (2.50%) dbt
10 8 (2.50%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.56%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.56%) Collibra
12 5 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.25%) Alation
13 4 (1.25%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (40.63%) Data Lake
2 53 (16.56%) Power BI
3 43 (13.44%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (8.13%) Tableau
5 22 (6.88%) Big Data
5 22 (6.88%) Metadata
6 19 (5.94%) Hadoop
7 17 (5.31%) NoSQL
8 14 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.38%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.81%) Delta Lake
10 8 (2.50%) Apache Hudi
10 8 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (2.50%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (1.88%) Data Hub
11 6 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.56%) SAP BW
13 4 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.94%) Git
2 3 (0.94%) JIRA
3 2 (0.63%) ERwin
3 2 (0.63%) LSMW
4 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
General
1 166 (51.88%) Finance
2 112 (35.00%) Front Office
3 73 (22.81%) Social Skills
4 41 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.25%) Banking
6 18 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.38%) Law
8 13 (4.06%) Legal
9 12 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.81%) Retail
11 8 (2.50%) Local Government
12 7 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.25%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.94%) Automotive
16 3 (0.94%) Marketing
17 2 (0.63%) Advertising
17 2 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (22.50%) Lead
2 43 (13.44%) Governance Manager
3 41 (12.81%) Data Governance Analyst
3 41 (12.81%) Data Governance Manager
4 35 (10.94%) Data Manager
5 34 (10.63%) Data Engineer
6 31 (9.69%) Analyst
6 31 (9.69%) Senior
7 30 (9.38%) Head of Finance
8 27 (8.44%) Programme Manager
9 26 (8.13%) Finance Manager
10 24 (7.50%) Architect
11 23 (7.19%) Data Architect
12 16 (5.00%) Head of Data Management
13 14 (4.38%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (3.44%) Business Analyst
15 11 (3.44%) Consultant
15 11 (3.44%) Data Business Analyst
15 11 (3.44%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.69%) Kafka
1 15 (4.69%) PySpark
2 8 (2.50%) PyArrow
2 8 (2.50%) REST
3 5 (1.56%) Dask
4 4 (1.25%) Middleware
4 4 (1.25%) Polars
5 3 (0.94%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.94%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.94%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Jena
6 2 (0.63%) EDI
6 2 (0.63%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.63%) Pyramid
6 2 (0.63%) RESTful
6 2 (0.63%) XML
7 1 (0.31%) .NET
7 1 (0.31%) JSON
7 1 (0.31%) MACH
7 1 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 112 (35.00%) Derivative
1 112 (35.00%) Equities
1 112 (35.00%) Fixed Income
1 112 (35.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 112 (35.00%) Hedge funds
2 37 (11.56%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.63%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.63%) IoT
8 2 (0.63%) Replication
8 2 (0.63%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.50%) Unix
1 8 (2.50%) Windows
2 5 (1.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (47.19%) Migration
2 150 (46.88%) Agile
3 148 (46.25%) Data Management
4 126 (39.38%) Roadmaps
5 114 (35.63%) Regulatory Compliance
6 112 (35.00%) Investment Management
7 87 (27.19%) Analytics
8 68 (21.25%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (18.44%) Decision-Making
10 56 (17.50%) Data Modelling
11 51 (15.94%) Data Architecture
11 51 (15.94%) Data Strategy
11 51 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (15.31%) Data Engineering
13 44 (13.75%) ETL
14 38 (11.88%) Visualisation
15 35 (10.94%) Data Integration
16 34 (10.63%) Data Science
17 32 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
18 31 (9.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.06%) SQL
2 51 (15.94%) Python
3 10 (3.13%) Java
4 7 (2.19%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.19%) Scala
5 5 (1.56%) C#
5 5 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.25%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.94%) R
8 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.63%) SPARQL
8 2 (0.63%) VB
9 1 (0.31%) Bash
9 1 (0.31%) Bicep
9 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (6.25%) Degree
2 10 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.50%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.88%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.94%) PMP
8 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.63%) HNC
8 2 (0.63%) HND
8 2 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.31%) MBA
9 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (33.44%) Data Quality
2 55 (17.19%) MiFID
3 28 (8.75%) GDPR
4 22 (6.88%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.38%) QA
6 7 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.63%) Dublin Core
9 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (3.75%) HDFS
2 7 (2.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.19%) Terraform
3 2 (0.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.63%) Databricks
3 17 (5.31%) SAP
4 15 (4.69%) Informatica
5 12 (3.75%) Google
6 8 (2.50%) Oracle
6 8 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.19%) Talend
8 4 (1.25%) iManage
8 4 (1.25%) Intapp
8 4 (1.25%) Teradata
9 3 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.63%) IBM
10 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.63%) Zoho
11 1 (0.31%) Cognos
11 1 (0.31%) Confluent
11 1 (0.31%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.31%) Palantir
11 1 (0.31%) Sage