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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

data governance

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 386 postings naming data governance that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer47.9%
  2. 2Software Engineer19.4%
  3. 3Data Analyst12.4%
  4. 4Data Scientist10.1%
  5. 5AI Engineer3.1%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.1%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.6%
  8. 8Security Engineer1%

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 = 213
10th
$116k
25th
$142k
Median
$183k
75th
$216k
90th
$264k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote16.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA15%
  3. 3New York, NY9.3%
  4. 4Washington, DC7.8%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA3.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.3%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.1%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.1%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.