Data Governance Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Governance
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Governance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 110 111
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 64 32 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.37% 1.42% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.49% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 37 26 68
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,511 £52,114 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.12% +1.24% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,000 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,161 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +1.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,481 2,152 4,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.67% 95.81% 85.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,121 1,170 3,476
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Governance job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Governance
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Governance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Governance

Data Governance
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Governance in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Governance in Yorkshire

Data Governance
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
West Yorkshire -16 47 £80,000 +31.70% 11
South Yorkshire -19 14 £67,500 +26.76% 3
North Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 4
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (7.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.69%) Apache
4 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Maximo
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) AWS
2 21 (32.81%) Azure
3 16 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 10 (15.63%) GCP
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (6.25%) dbt
6 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.69%) Azure App Service
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.69%) GitHub
7 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.13%) Collibra
8 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.13%) SaaS
8 2 (3.13%) Serverless
8 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) Metadata
2 16 (25.00%) Power BI
3 11 (17.19%) Tableau
4 9 (14.06%) DynamoDB
4 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
5 7 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.81%) Data Lake
6 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (6.25%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.69%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.69%) Looker
8 3 (4.69%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (3.13%) Ataccama
9 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.13%) Power Query
9 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.56%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
1 1 (1.56%) MLflow
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 23 (35.94%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Finance
4 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Legal
6 4 (6.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Police
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Data Manager
2 17 (26.56%) Architect
3 15 (23.44%) Data Architect
4 12 (18.75%) Senior
5 10 (15.63%) Data Engineer
6 8 (12.50%) Analyst
7 7 (10.94%) Data Analyst
7 7 (10.94%) Data Governance Analyst
7 7 (10.94%) Data Governance Manager
7 7 (10.94%) Governance Manager
7 7 (10.94%) Lead
8 5 (7.81%) HR Analyst
8 5 (7.81%) HR Data Analyst
8 5 (7.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Architect
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Data Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Manager
11 2 (3.13%) Insight Manager
11 2 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) PySpark
2 2 (3.13%) Node.js
2 2 (3.13%) React
3 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) LangChain
3 1 (1.56%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (1.56%) pgvector
3 1 (1.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.56%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Management Information System
2 10 (15.63%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.69%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.13%) IoT
5 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Robotics
6 1 (1.56%) Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) NHS
6 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Analytics
2 27 (42.19%) Data Modelling
3 23 (35.94%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (32.81%) Data Management
5 19 (29.69%) Decision-Making
6 18 (28.13%) Data Architecture
7 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (25.00%) Agile
9 15 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (21.88%) Data Integration
10 14 (21.88%) Data Strategy
10 14 (21.88%) Visualisation
11 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
11 13 (20.31%) Data Engineering
11 13 (20.31%) ETL
11 13 (20.31%) Mentoring
12 11 (17.19%) AI
12 11 (17.19%) Data Visualisation
12 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (15.63%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.38%) SQL
2 11 (17.19%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (59.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (17.19%) GDPR
3 7 (10.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) Databricks
3 5 (7.81%) Google
4 3 (4.69%) IFS
4 3 (4.69%) Informatica
4 3 (4.69%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.13%) Talend
6 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.56%) Dell
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) Planon