Data Governance Job Trends in the North East

Data Governance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 72 56
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 4 14 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.39% 1.43% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.61% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £51,375 £40,750 £71,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £41,250 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -21.88% +14.29%
75th Percentile £56,563 £73,750 £91,875
90th Percentile £57,125 £86,250 £99,000
England median annual salary £70,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.03% +6.90% +7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 823 868 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.21% 88.39% 90.79%
Number of salaries quoted 538 386 469
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,875 £28,950
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,436 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in the North East

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear -2 4 £53,750 +26.47% 9
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Power Query
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft