Data Governance Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Governance
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 42 44 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 5 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 1.23% 2.16% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.46% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £59,250 £45,125 £37,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £49,063 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £53,750 £59,375
90th Percentile - - £64,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% +5.00% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 406 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 77.64% 87.50% 85.10%
Number of salaries quoted 237 157 327
10th Percentile - £35,250 £25,200
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,000 £75,000 £63,625
90th Percentile £78,833 £85,000 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% +5.56%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (40.00%) Collibra
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Ataccama
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Quality Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) DAMA DMBOK
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) DAMA
2 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (40.00%) Internal Audit
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Talend