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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

data governance

377 live US technical postings name data governance in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 377 postings naming data governance that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer47.2%
  2. 2Software Engineer19.4%
  3. 3Data Analyst12.7%
  4. 4Data Scientist9.8%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.7%
  6. 6AI Engineer3.2%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.6%
  8. 8Security Engineer1.6%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where data governance is named
n = 211
10th
$115k
25th
$143k
Median
$180k
75th
$216k
90th
$268k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.6%
  2. 2Remote12.5%
  3. 3Washington, DC9%
  4. 4New York, NY8.5%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA2.7%
  6. 6Silicon Valley, CA2.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.1%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.