Data Governance Job Trends in the North of England

Data Governance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 151 172 209
Rank change year-on-year +21 +37 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 113 105 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.06% 1.16% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.27% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 81 51 64
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,394
25th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -7.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +5.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,531 8,241 7,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.17% 90.66% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 3,667 5,961
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,040 £82,500
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 of England

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the North of England

Data Governance
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire +3 56 £68,000 +29.52% 43
North West +39 53 £59,000 +12.38% 44
North East -5 4 £53,750 -14.00% 21
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.65%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Magnolia
3 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Maximo
1 3 (2.65%) ResourceLink
1 3 (2.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.32%) Azure
1 32 (28.32%) Power Platform
2 23 (20.35%) AWS
3 8 (7.08%) Snowflake
4 6 (5.31%) Collibra
5 5 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.42%) GCP
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.65%) Azure App Service
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.65%) Boomi
7 3 (2.65%) GitHub
7 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.65%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Broadband
1 1 (0.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (26.55%) Metadata
2 27 (23.89%) Power BI
3 13 (11.50%) SQL Server
4 12 (10.62%) Data Vault
5 11 (9.73%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (7.96%) DynamoDB
7 7 (6.19%) Tableau
8 6 (5.31%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.42%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.54%) Power Query
10 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.65%) Big Data
11 3 (2.65%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.65%) TIBCO EBX
12 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (4.42%) GitLab
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) LSMW
General
1 47 (41.59%) Social Skills
2 31 (27.43%) Finance
3 26 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.73%) Banking
5 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.54%) Advertising
7 3 (2.65%) Law
7 3 (2.65%) Legal
7 3 (2.65%) Marketing
7 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (16.81%) Architect
1 19 (16.81%) Data Manager
2 16 (14.16%) Data Architect
3 15 (13.27%) Analyst
3 15 (13.27%) Data Analyst
3 15 (13.27%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Lead
5 8 (7.08%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (5.31%) Developer
6 6 (5.31%) Lead Data Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Snowflake Developer
7 5 (4.42%) MIS Manager
7 5 (4.42%) Senior
8 3 (2.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) CRM Executive
8 3 (2.65%) Data Quality Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) HR Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) HR Data Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) Quality Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) Salesforce Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) PySpark
2 4 (3.54%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.54%) Snowpark
2 4 (3.54%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.77%) Middleware
4 1 (0.88%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.88%) Kafka
4 1 (0.88%) Node.js
4 1 (0.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.16%) Management Information System
2 11 (9.73%) Taxonomies
3 10 (8.85%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.08%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.42%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.54%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.65%) Semantic Web
9 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.77%) IoT
9 2 (1.77%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.88%) Life Science
10 1 (0.88%) Robotics
10 1 (0.88%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.05%) Data Modelling
2 41 (36.28%) Analytics
3 37 (32.74%) Data Management
4 35 (30.97%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (24.78%) Data Architecture
6 27 (23.89%) Decision-Making
7 26 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (21.24%) AI
8 24 (21.24%) Data Engineering
9 22 (19.47%) Agile
9 22 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (18.58%) CI/CD
10 21 (18.58%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (17.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (16.81%) Roadmaps
13 18 (15.93%) Data Integration
13 18 (15.93%) Data Strategy
13 18 (15.93%) Machine Learning
14 16 (14.16%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.82%) SQL
2 32 (28.32%) Python
3 6 (5.31%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.88%) SHACL
5 1 (0.88%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.96%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.08%) Degree
2 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.65%) CIPD
4 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (47.79%) Data Quality
2 17 (15.04%) GDPR
3 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.77%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.77%) QA
6 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Databricks
2 20 (17.70%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.73%) Oracle
4 4 (3.54%) Informatica
5 3 (2.65%) IFS
5 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.65%) Software AG
5 3 (2.65%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.65%) webMethods
6 2 (1.77%) SAP
6 2 (1.77%) Talend
7 1 (0.88%) Google