Information Governance Job Trends in the Midlands

Information Governance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Information Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 234 218
Rank change year-on-year +24 -16 +105
Permanent jobs citing Information Governance 13 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.17% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.18% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 2
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £56,400
25th Percentile £45,029 £43,750 £57,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -5.17% +21.78%
75th Percentile £84,375 £77,500 £59,000
90th Percentile - £87,500 £59,600
England median annual salary £55,999 £77,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.74% +29.17% +12.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Information 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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,376 5,946 4,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.62% 89.75% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,520 2,615 3,711
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Information Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Information Governance job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Information Governance
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Information Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Information Governance

Information Governance
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Governance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Governance in the Midlands

Information Governance
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Governance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands +24 8 £81,250 +47.73% 8
East Midlands - 5 £80,000 - 1
Information Governance
England

Information Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Broadband
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) VLAN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Health Technology
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Head of Information
1 4 (30.77%) Head of Information Security
1 4 (30.77%) Head of Security
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Compliance Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Governance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Information Governance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Information Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Director
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Security Posture
2 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (7.69%) NHS
4 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Information Security
2 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (46.15%) Data Protection
4 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
5 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
5 4 (30.77%) Information Security Management
5 4 (30.77%) Security Management
5 4 (30.77%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (23.08%) ITIL
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
7 2 (15.38%) Due Diligence
7 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
7 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Change
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) CISM
2 2 (15.38%) CISMP
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (53.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (30.77%) COBIT
3 4 (30.77%) GDPR
3 4 (30.77%) NIST
4 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (15.38%) GRC
5 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (7.69%) ISO 9001
6 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Meraki
2 1 (7.69%) VMware