Data Governance Job Trends in Manchester

Data Governance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 98 124 126
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +89
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 32 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.11% 1.05% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.12% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 30 11 18
10th Percentile £47,425 £38,500 £45,625
25th Percentile £56,563 £43,375 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £52,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -11.85% -8.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 - £66,864
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
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,287 2,496 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.63% 93.83% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,167 1,854
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,750 £84,056
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 Manchester

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Manchester

Data Governance
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Manchester 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
Bolton - 1 £52,500 - 2
Data Governance
North West

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (9.38%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Snowflake
4 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.38%) Boomi
5 3 (9.38%) Collibra
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.25%) AWS
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.13%) dbt
7 1 (3.13%) iPaaS
7 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.88%) Power BI
3 6 (18.75%) Data Vault
3 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (15.63%) Data Lake
5 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (9.38%) Metadata
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (6.25%) Neo4j
7 2 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (3.13%) Big Data
8 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) GitLab
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Investment Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Advertising
6 2 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Data Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Developer
1 6 (18.75%) Snowflake Developer
2 3 (9.38%) Integration Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Lead
2 3 (9.38%) Ontologist
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Finance Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Data Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (3.13%) Master Data Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
4 1 (3.13%) Senior
4 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Snowpark
2 3 (9.38%) PyTorch
2 3 (9.38%) TensorFlow
3 2 (6.25%) PySpark
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Low-Code
3 3 (9.38%) Semantic Web
4 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Analytics
2 14 (43.75%) Data Management
3 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
4 10 (31.25%) AI
4 10 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (31.25%) Machine Learning
5 9 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (25.00%) Agile
6 8 (25.00%) Data Science
6 8 (25.00%) Ontologies
6 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
8 5 (15.63%) Statistics
9 4 (12.50%) Data Integration
9 4 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (3.13%) SHACL
4 1 (3.13%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (40.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Oracle
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) Software AG
3 3 (9.38%) webMethods