Data Governance Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Governance
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.96% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £49,225 - -
25th Percentile £51,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 - -
75th Percentile £62,938 - -
90th Percentile £65,675 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +11.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 359 382 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 86.09% 78.93% 91.39%
Number of salaries quoted 145 188 231
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £67,438
90th Percentile £86,500 £95,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,285 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.53% - -

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Northern Ireland

Data Governance
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
County Antrim - 3 £56,750 - 4
County Armagh - 1 - - 1
Data Governance
UK

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) CRM Manager
1 1 (25.00%) CRM Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) EDI
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (25.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) BT
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI