Data Governance Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Governance
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 80 98
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +45
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 50 23 41
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.75% 1.58% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 1.80% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25 18 35
10th Percentile £55,000 £41,750 £56,945
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +44.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £93,200 £92,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £68,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.52% -25.00% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,464 1,277 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.57% 87.95% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 855 636 1,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £41,077 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Governance
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in West Yorkshire

Data Governance
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Leeds +3 44 £70,000 +27.27% 13
Wakefield - 2 £72,500 - 3
Data Governance
Yorkshire

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Maximo
2 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) Azure App Service
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.00%) dbt
7 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.00%) Metadata
2 9 (18.00%) DynamoDB
2 9 (18.00%) NoSQL
2 9 (18.00%) Power BI
3 6 (12.00%) Data Vault
3 6 (12.00%) Tableau
4 5 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.00%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.00%) Looker
7 2 (4.00%) Power Query
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 23 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Architect
2 15 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 14 (28.00%) Data Manager
4 8 (16.00%) Engineering Manager
4 8 (16.00%) Lead
5 7 (14.00%) Data Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Data Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) HR Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) HR Data Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Insight Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Senior
9 1 (2.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 1 (2.00%) Head of Business Systems
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Architect
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Taxonomies
5 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) Data Modelling
2 18 (36.00%) Data Architecture
3 16 (32.00%) Analytics
3 16 (32.00%) Data Engineering
4 15 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (28.00%) Data Strategy
6 13 (26.00%) Data Integration
7 12 (24.00%) Decision-Making
7 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (22.00%) Agile
8 11 (22.00%) Roadmaps
9 10 (20.00%) Data Lineage
9 10 (20.00%) ETL
10 9 (18.00%) Logical Data Model
10 9 (18.00%) Physical Data Model
10 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) SQL
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.00%) GDPR
3 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Databricks
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) Informatica
4 3 (6.00%) IFS
4 3 (6.00%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle