Data Governance Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 219 340
Rank change year-on-year -9 +121 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 1,314 1,615 1,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.71% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.79% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 779 898 914
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £63,590
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +6.15% +5.98%
75th Percentile £88,375 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,625 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.22% +10.23% +6.02%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -3 1,182 £70,500 +4.44% 293
UK excluding London +61 791 £65,000 +7.22% 139
Work from Home -42 460 £70,000 +12.90% 130
London -43 450 £75,000 +5.64% 153
North of England +101 306 £75,000 +15.38% 38
Midlands +73 183 £55,000 -18.52% 27
North West +108 139 £72,500 +11.54% 20
West Midlands +39 125 £55,000 -18.52% 19
Yorkshire +35 122 £79,932 +22.31% 13
South East -66 117 £67,500 +22.73% 32
South West +21 85 £61,250 +1.66% 19
Scotland -51 61 £60,743 -3.58% 12
East Midlands +25 54 £59,500 -11.85% 8
North East +28 45 £77,466 +19.18% 5
East of England -10 23 £65,000 +2.36% 8
Wales +3 13 £97,500 +71.78% 3
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland +21 1 £35,000 -30.00% 2

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 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 53 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.83%) Confluence
4 21 (1.60%) SAS
5 19 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (1.37%) Apache
7 9 (0.68%) WordPress
8 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.076%) CMS
9 1 (0.076%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 135 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.46%) Trello
6 5 (0.38%) SPSS
7 1 (0.076%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 9 (0.68%) SAP MDG
2 7 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.30%) Finacle
3 4 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.30%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.076%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.076%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.076%) FastStats
6 1 (0.076%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.076%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 417 (31.74%) Azure
2 339 (25.80%) Power Platform
3 245 (18.65%) AWS
4 228 (17.35%) GCP
5 78 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 53 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 47 (3.58%) Collibra
9 38 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (2.89%) Snowflake
10 36 (2.74%) SaaS
11 25 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (1.83%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.75%) PowerApps
13 23 (1.75%) Serverless
14 18 (1.37%) dbt
15 14 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 13 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (0.99%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.29%) Intranet
2 9 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
3 4 (0.30%) VPN
4 3 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.15%) Network Security
5 2 (0.15%) WebEx
6 1 (0.076%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.076%) 5G
6 1 (0.076%) RIP
6 1 (0.076%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (25.42%) Power BI
2 326 (24.81%) Data Warehouse
3 150 (11.42%) BigQuery
4 137 (10.43%) Looker
5 123 (9.36%) Tableau
6 120 (9.13%) Metadata
7 114 (8.68%) Data Lake
8 69 (5.25%) Big Data
9 51 (3.88%) SQL Server
10 37 (2.82%) Hadoop
11 29 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (2.13%) Data Mining
13 22 (1.67%) NoSQL
14 19 (1.45%) Relational Database
15 17 (1.29%) Apache Ignite
16 13 (0.99%) MySQL
17 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 94 (7.15%) JIRA
2 43 (3.27%) Git
3 12 (0.91%) ERwin
4 11 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.76%) GitLab
6 8 (0.61%) MLflow
7 6 (0.46%) ER Studio
7 6 (0.46%) RStudio
8 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.076%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.076%) Selenium
9 1 (0.076%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.076%) Toad
9 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.076%) WebDriver
General
1 448 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 419 (31.89%) Finance
3 379 (28.84%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (16.36%) Banking
5 209 (15.91%) Legal
6 79 (6.01%) Public Sector
7 71 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (3.58%) Retail
9 35 (2.66%) Marketing
10 32 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (2.44%) Law
11 30 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (0.99%) Games
12 13 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 13 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (0.84%) Advertising
14 10 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.61%) Local Government
15 8 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 262 (19.94%) Architect
2 237 (18.04%) Senior
3 224 (17.05%) Analyst
4 213 (16.21%) Data Architect
5 171 (13.01%) Lead
6 147 (11.19%) Data Engineer
7 131 (9.97%) Data Manager
8 116 (8.83%) Data Analyst
9 109 (8.30%) Senior Analyst
10 57 (4.34%) Developer
11 56 (4.26%) Data Governance Analyst
11 56 (4.26%) Data Governance Manager
11 56 (4.26%) Governance Manager
12 45 (3.42%) Senior Data Engineer
13 39 (2.97%) Consultant
14 35 (2.66%) Governance Analyst
15 34 (2.59%) Senior Architect
16 33 (2.51%) IT Manager
17 30 (2.28%) Lead Data Engineer
18 28 (2.13%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.97%) Kafka
2 37 (2.82%) PySpark
3 17 (1.29%) Apache Beam
3 17 (1.29%) PyTorch
3 17 (1.29%) TensorFlow
4 9 (0.68%) JSON
4 9 (0.68%) ModSecurity
5 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (0.46%) Pandas
7 4 (0.30%) D3.js
7 4 (0.30%) Middleware
7 4 (0.30%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.23%) .NET
8 3 (0.23%) Anaconda
8 3 (0.23%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.23%) Flask
8 3 (0.23%) Google Chart
8 3 (0.23%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.23%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (0.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.20%) Management Information System
2 129 (9.82%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 44 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 34 (2.59%) Reference Data
6 32 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.36%) Taxonomies
8 24 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 21 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.52%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.07%) NHS
13 13 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
14 12 (0.91%) IoT
15 10 (0.76%) Mainframe
15 10 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.76%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.22%) Linux
2 8 (0.61%) Windows
3 7 (0.53%) Unix
4 4 (0.30%) Windows Vista
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (36.68%) Data Management
2 444 (33.79%) Data Modelling
3 421 (32.04%) Business Intelligence
4 396 (30.14%) Analytics
5 371 (28.23%) Data Architecture
6 352 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
7 319 (24.28%) ETL
8 316 (24.05%) Data Engineering
9 266 (20.24%) Mentoring
10 252 (19.18%) Data Integration
11 232 (17.66%) Agile
12 221 (16.82%) Data Strategy
13 218 (16.59%) Data Protection
14 191 (14.54%) Data Analysis
14 191 (14.54%) Data Privacy
15 189 (14.38%) Data Security
16 183 (13.93%) Visualisation
17 182 (13.85%) Data Science
18 177 (13.47%) Process Improvement
19 159 (12.10%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 412 (31.35%) SQL
2 191 (14.54%) Python
3 41 (3.12%) T-SQL
4 39 (2.97%) Java
5 35 (2.66%) R
6 23 (1.75%) Scala
7 16 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (0.84%) C#
9 8 (0.61%) VBA
10 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.46%) Perl
11 6 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.30%) VB
13 3 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.23%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.15%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 208 (15.83%) Degree
2 79 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 72 (5.48%) Master's Degree
4 36 (2.74%) Security Cleared
5 21 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 18 (1.37%) CISM
6 18 (1.37%) CISSP
6 18 (1.37%) DBS Check
7 17 (1.29%) PhD
8 12 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.91%) CISA
9 9 (0.68%) MBA
10 8 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.46%) IIBA
13 5 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.30%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 588 (44.75%) Data Quality
2 361 (27.47%) GDPR
3 38 (2.89%) QA
4 35 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 13 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.91%) GRC
9 10 (0.76%) NCSC
10 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.53%) COBIT
12 5 (0.38%) NIST
13 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.30%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.23%) SLA
15 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) HL7
15 2 (0.15%) PMO
15 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
16 1 (0.076%) COREP
System Software
1 8 (0.61%) Active Directory
1 8 (0.61%) Docker
2 3 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (1.83%) Kubernetes
1 24 (1.83%) Terraform
2 7 (0.53%) SysTrack
3 5 (0.38%) Ansible
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.076%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 202 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 168 (12.79%) Google
3 100 (7.61%) Databricks
4 34 (2.59%) Informatica
5 33 (2.51%) SAP
6 25 (1.90%) Oracle
7 18 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.29%) Alteryx
8 17 (1.29%) Sophos
9 13 (0.99%) Aderant
9 13 (0.99%) iManage
9 13 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.76%) Teradata
12 9 (0.68%) Talend
13 8 (0.61%) Cognos
13 8 (0.61%) Northgate
14 7 (0.53%) Snow
15 6 (0.46%) IBM
16 5 (0.38%) MuleSoft