Information Governance Jobs in the West Midlands

Information Governance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Information Governance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Governance over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 227 256
Rank change year-on-year +37 +29 -6
Permanent jobs citing Information Governance 9 26 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.43% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 14
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £37,500 £55,375
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -32.28% +3.50%
75th Percentile - £38,750 £80,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £44,403 £82,751
England median annual salary £60,000 £45,597 £60,750
% change year-on-year +31.59% -24.94% +10.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Information 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 3,916 6,106 6,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 82.86% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 4,548 3,220
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +5.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,108 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Information Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Governance in the West Midlands

Information Governance
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Information Governance in the West Midlands

Information Governance
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Governance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Governance in the West Midlands

Information 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 Information Governance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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 +31 8 £77,500 +106.67% 2
Staffordshire - 1 £100,000 - 1
Information Governance
England

Information 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Technology Director
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Security Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) IT Risk Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (55.56%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Cost Control
2 4 (44.44%) Critical Thinking
2 4 (44.44%) Data Management
2 4 (44.44%) Data Security
2 4 (44.44%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (44.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CIPFA
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) COBIT