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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 222 334
Rank change year-on-year -6 +112 +61
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 1,300 1,693 1,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 1.67% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.75% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 761 937 902
10th Percentile £39,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,325 £52,000 £50,000
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 £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,249 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.89% +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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +4 1,165 £70,000 +3.70% 249
UK excluding London +56 774 £65,000 +7.89% 102
London -28 451 £75,000 +7.14% 148
Work from Home -37 451 £70,000 +12.00% 145
North of England +87 299 £75,000 +15.38% 32
Midlands +73 170 £55,000 -18.52% 15
North West +115 131 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Yorkshire +36 122 £79,932 +27.89% 13
South East -62 122 £67,500 +22.73% 29
West Midlands +60 116 £55,000 -20.00% 13
South West +33 84 £65,000 +7.89% 15
Scotland -46 62 £60,743 +1.24% 5
East Midlands +24 50 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East +33 46 £79,932 +22.97% 2
East of England +4 22 £52,500 -17.32% 5
Wales 0 13 £97,500 +68.10% 3
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland +27 1 £35,000 -30.00% 1

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 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 54 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (1.62%) Confluence
4 21 (1.62%) SAS
5 17 (1.31%) Apache
6 9 (0.69%) WordPress
7 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.077%) CMS
8 1 (0.077%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 133 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.46%) Trello
6 5 (0.38%) SPSS
7 1 (0.077%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 9 (0.69%) SAP MDG
2 7 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.31%) Finacle
3 4 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.31%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.077%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.077%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.077%) FastStats
6 1 (0.077%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.077%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.077%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.077%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.077%) Shopify
6 1 (0.077%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 422 (32.46%) Azure
2 330 (25.38%) Power Platform
3 247 (19.00%) AWS
4 230 (17.69%) GCP
5 84 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 50 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 43 (3.31%) Collibra
9 38 (2.92%) SaaS
9 38 (2.92%) Snowflake
10 33 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.00%) Power Automate
12 25 (1.92%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.92%) Serverless
13 18 (1.38%) dbt
14 15 (1.15%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.31%) Intranet
2 8 (0.62%) Cisco IPT
3 4 (0.31%) VPN
4 3 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.15%) Network Security
5 2 (0.15%) WebEx
6 1 (0.077%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.077%) 5G
6 1 (0.077%) RIP
6 1 (0.077%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (25.08%) Power BI
2 318 (24.46%) Data Warehouse
3 150 (11.54%) BigQuery
4 138 (10.62%) Looker
5 121 (9.31%) Tableau
6 114 (8.77%) Metadata
7 109 (8.38%) Data Lake
8 67 (5.15%) Big Data
9 46 (3.54%) SQL Server
10 39 (3.00%) Hadoop
11 35 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
12 32 (2.46%) Data Mining
13 29 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 26 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 23 (1.77%) Apache Ignite
15 23 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.23%) NoSQL
17 15 (1.15%) Relational Database
18 14 (1.08%) MySQL
19 13 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 93 (7.15%) JIRA
2 42 (3.23%) Git
3 12 (0.92%) ERwin
4 10 (0.77%) GitLab
4 10 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.46%) ER Studio
5 6 (0.46%) MLflow
5 6 (0.46%) RStudio
6 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.077%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.077%) Selenium
7 1 (0.077%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.077%) Toad
7 1 (0.077%) WebDriver
General
1 440 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 422 (32.46%) Finance
3 383 (29.46%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (16.23%) Banking
5 203 (15.62%) Legal
6 73 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 65 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (3.77%) Retail
9 37 (2.85%) Marketing
10 35 (2.69%) Law
11 32 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.08%) Games
14 13 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.92%) Advertising
15 12 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.77%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.69%) Back Office
18 8 (0.62%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (20.77%) Architect
2 232 (17.85%) Senior
3 224 (17.23%) Analyst
4 213 (16.38%) Data Architect
5 170 (13.08%) Lead
6 139 (10.69%) Data Engineer
7 123 (9.46%) Data Manager
8 113 (8.69%) Data Analyst
9 106 (8.15%) Senior Analyst
10 59 (4.54%) Developer
11 52 (4.00%) Data Governance Analyst
11 52 (4.00%) Data Governance Manager
11 52 (4.00%) Governance Manager
12 38 (2.92%) Senior Architect
12 38 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
13 37 (2.85%) Consultant
14 36 (2.77%) IT Manager
15 31 (2.38%) Governance Analyst
16 28 (2.15%) Lead Data Engineer
17 27 (2.08%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.38%) Kafka
2 32 (2.46%) PySpark
3 17 (1.31%) Apache Beam
4 14 (1.08%) PyTorch
4 14 (1.08%) TensorFlow
5 9 (0.69%) Pandas
6 8 (0.62%) ModSecurity
7 7 (0.54%) JSON
7 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (0.46%) Anaconda
8 6 (0.46%) Flask
8 6 (0.46%) Plotly
8 6 (0.46%) SQLAlchemy
9 5 (0.38%) .NET
9 5 (0.38%) Middleware
10 4 (0.31%) D3.js
11 3 (0.23%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.23%) Google Chart
11 3 (0.23%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.85%) Self-Motivation
2 124 (9.54%) Management Information System
3 44 (3.38%) Algorithms
4 42 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 29 (2.23%) Reference Data
5 29 (2.23%) Taxonomies
6 28 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 23 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 22 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 22 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.08%) IoT
10 14 (1.08%) NHS
11 13 (1.00%) Freedom of Information
12 10 (0.77%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.69%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.62%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.08%) Linux
1 14 (1.08%) Windows
2 8 (0.62%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.46%) Unix
4 4 (0.31%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (35.31%) Data Management
2 438 (33.69%) Data Modelling
3 415 (31.92%) Business Intelligence
4 377 (29.00%) Analytics
5 364 (28.00%) Data Architecture
6 350 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
7 323 (24.85%) ETL
8 308 (23.69%) Data Engineering
9 261 (20.08%) Mentoring
10 256 (19.69%) Data Integration
11 230 (17.69%) Agile
12 224 (17.23%) Data Protection
13 214 (16.46%) Data Strategy
14 190 (14.62%) Visualisation
15 185 (14.23%) Data Security
16 184 (14.15%) Data Privacy
17 181 (13.92%) Data Analysis
18 178 (13.69%) Data Science
19 173 (13.31%) Process Improvement
20 156 (12.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 393 (30.23%) SQL
2 189 (14.54%) Python
3 38 (2.92%) T-SQL
4 36 (2.77%) Java
5 34 (2.62%) R
6 19 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (1.46%) Scala
7 13 (1.00%) C#
8 8 (0.62%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.62%) VBA
9 7 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.46%) Perl
11 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.23%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.23%) VB
13 2 (0.15%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.077%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 205 (15.77%) Degree
2 72 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 70 (5.38%) Master's Degree
4 37 (2.85%) Security Cleared
5 21 (1.62%) SC Cleared
6 20 (1.54%) CISM
6 20 (1.54%) CISSP
7 17 (1.31%) PhD
8 15 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.85%) CISA
11 9 (0.69%) MBA
12 7 (0.54%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.46%) IIBA
14 5 (0.38%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.23%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 569 (43.77%) Data Quality
2 361 (27.77%) GDPR
3 37 (2.85%) QA
4 32 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.85%) GRC
8 9 (0.69%) NCSC
9 8 (0.62%) COBIT
9 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.46%) NIST
11 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.23%) SLA
13 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) HL7
13 2 (0.15%) PMO
13 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.077%) COREP
System Software
1 13 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.77%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (1.77%) Kubernetes
1 23 (1.77%) Terraform
2 7 (0.54%) SysTrack
3 4 (0.31%) Ansible
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.077%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.077%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.077%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 205 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 171 (13.15%) Google
3 94 (7.23%) Databricks
4 35 (2.69%) SAP
5 32 (2.46%) Informatica
6 25 (1.92%) Oracle
7 17 (1.31%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.31%) Sophos
8 16 (1.23%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.15%) Aderant
9 15 (1.15%) iManage
10 12 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 12 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.77%) Teradata
12 8 (0.62%) Cognos
12 8 (0.62%) Northgate
13 7 (0.54%) Cisco
13 7 (0.54%) IBM
13 7 (0.54%) Snow
13 7 (0.54%) Talend