Data Governance Job Trends in Lancashire

Data Governance
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 65 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 -22 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 6 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.53% 1.64% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.80% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile - £44,416 £38,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £49,722 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £54,793 £50,000
90th Percentile - £70,876 £51,500
North West median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year +12.38% -11.85% -8.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 964 723 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.78% 91.06% 77.75%
Number of salaries quoted 279 432 301
10th Percentile £25,087 £36,300 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +8.81% +2.22%
75th Percentile £54,797 £58,943 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,550 £66,714 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Governance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Preston +9 4 £40,000 -23.81% 3
Chorley - 1 £40,000 -
Ormskirk - 1 - -
Data Governance
North West

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Magnolia
1 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) LSMW
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Management
2 5 (83.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Business Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) Data Security
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Database Migration
5 1 (16.67%) ERP
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Master Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP