Data Governance Job Trends in Wakefield

Data Governance
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wakefield requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wakefield 3.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £64,250 - -
25th Percentile £66,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £76,875 - -
90th Percentile £78,750 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +44.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wakefield

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 Wakefield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 32 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wakefield 88.71% 100.00% 86.15%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 39
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,875 £35,400
25th Percentile £40,188 £46,250 £37,898
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,750 £47,709
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +2.18% +12.26%
75th Percentile £74,063 £54,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £96,750 £58,750 £73,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,264 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -2.65% +2.73%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Wakefield

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Wakefield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Wakefield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Wakefield over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Wakefield

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wakefield 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality