Data Governance Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Governance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 140 206
Rank change year-on-year +4 +66 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 59 120 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.37% 1.60% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.94% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 39 72 46
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,806
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,686 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -20.00% +30.95%
75th Percentile £65,625 £71,238 £85,938
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £94,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.57% +4.44% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,935 6,173 6,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.21% 82.47% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 4,565 3,157
10th Percentile £28,911 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,525 £77,500 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance in the West Midlands

Data Governance
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Governance in the West Midlands

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in the West Midlands

Data Governance
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Governance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Birmingham -14 28 £60,000 +9.44% 19
Solihull +13 10 £62,500 +13.64% 9
Warwickshire -6 8 £52,500 -0.94% 7
Staffordshire +18 5 £42,500 -34.11% 11
Coventry -6 2 £62,500 +13.64% 7
Shropshire +12 1 £50,000 -29.33% 6
Dudley - 1 £35,000 -
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (1.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Azure
2 14 (23.73%) Power Platform
3 13 (22.03%) AWS
4 10 (16.95%) GCP
5 9 (15.25%) Snowflake
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.39%) Lucidchart
8 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.39%) SaaS
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.69%) Boomi
9 1 (1.69%) OCI
9 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.69%) Serverless
9 1 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) Power BI
2 11 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (15.25%) Metadata
4 8 (13.56%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (8.47%) Big Data
5 5 (8.47%) BigQuery
5 5 (8.47%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (8.47%) Tableau
6 4 (6.78%) Looker
7 3 (5.08%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.69%) DataStage
9 1 (1.69%) DB2
9 1 (1.69%) MySQL
9 1 (1.69%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) ERwin
2 2 (3.39%) ER Studio
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (1.69%) LSMW
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 20 (33.90%) Analytical Skills
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.81%) Finance
3 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.56%) Marketing
5 7 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.78%) Advertising
6 4 (6.78%) Tech for Good
7 3 (5.08%) Banking
7 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Law
9 1 (1.69%) Billing
9 1 (1.69%) Legal
9 1 (1.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Data Manager
2 11 (18.64%) Lead
3 9 (15.25%) Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Data Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Data Governance Analyst
4 7 (11.86%) Data Governance Manager
4 7 (11.86%) Governance Manager
5 6 (10.17%) Marketing Manager
5 6 (10.17%) Operations Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Data Modeller
6 5 (8.47%) Lead Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Lead Data Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Platform Manager
9 2 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Data Migration Manager
9 2 (3.39%) Product Analyst
9 2 (3.39%) Products Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) PySpark
2 2 (3.39%) NumPy
2 2 (3.39%) Pandas
3 1 (1.69%) .NET
3 1 (1.69%) EDI
3 1 (1.69%) REST
3 1 (1.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Data Structures
2 7 (11.86%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (10.17%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) Analytics
2 20 (33.90%) ETL
3 19 (32.20%) Data Modelling
3 19 (32.20%) Decision-Making
4 17 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (28.81%) Data Architecture
5 15 (25.42%) Data Management
5 15 (25.42%) Data Migration
5 15 (25.42%) Migration
5 15 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (23.73%) Data Integration
6 14 (23.73%) Data Security
7 12 (20.34%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
8 11 (18.64%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (18.64%) Intelligent Automation
9 10 (16.95%) Logical Data Model
10 9 (15.25%) Actionable Insight
10 9 (15.25%) Data Privacy
10 9 (15.25%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) SQL
2 9 (15.25%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) Java
4 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.69%) HND
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (49.15%) Data Quality
2 11 (18.64%) GDPR
3 10 (16.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (13.56%) QA
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
2 6 (10.17%) Google
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Informatica
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Zoho