Data Governance Jobs in the North West

Data Governance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Governance over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 169 274
Rank change year-on-year -83 +105 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 35 139 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.45% 1.28% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.59% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25 77 18
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £46,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,964 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £100,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £72,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.19% +7.04% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,500 8,757 6,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.65% 80.61% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,819 6,412 3,828
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,525 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the North West

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Governance in the North West.

Salary trend for Data Governance in the North West

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the North West over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the North West

Data Governance
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 June 2025. 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
Manchester -16 21 £66,367 -16.97% 111
Cheshire +12 6 £43,628 - 60
Merseyside +20 5 £54,000 +66.15% 25
Lancashire -74 3 £67,500 -2.17% 29
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Power Platform
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) Collibra
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.86%) OCI
5 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) Power BI
2 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.57%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Tableau
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.86%) Data Mart
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (51.43%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (22.86%) Banking
5 6 (17.14%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.57%) Retail
7 2 (5.71%) Military
7 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Law
8 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Data Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Data Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Insight Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Governance Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Quality Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Fraud Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Governance Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) QA Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Resilience Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (40.00%) Data Management
3 12 (34.29%) Analytics
4 11 (31.43%) Decision-Making
4 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (25.71%) Visualisation
6 8 (22.86%) Actionable Insight
6 8 (22.86%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
7 7 (20.00%) Data Analysis
7 7 (20.00%) Data Privacy
7 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 7 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (17.14%) Data Strategy
8 6 (17.14%) Project Management
8 6 (17.14%) Validation
9 5 (14.29%) Business Strategy
9 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) HNC
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (48.57%) Data Quality
2 8 (22.86%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) SAP
3 4 (11.43%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.71%) Alteryx
4 2 (5.71%) Informatica
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.86%) MicroStrategy