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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 110 103
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 71 28 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.40% 1.26% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.33% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 46 25 77
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,511 £52,114 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £60,743 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.77% -6.55% +7.44%
75th Percentile £83,438 £68,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,493 £88,829
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,250
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.00% +4.07%

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 3,697 2,105 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.88% 94.91% 84.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,336 1,227 3,609
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -9 49 £80,000 +31.70% 18
South Yorkshire -17 17 £67,500 +26.76% 3
North Yorkshire - 3 £65,000 - 5
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 (7.04%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.23%) Apache
4 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.41%) CMS
5 1 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Maximo
2 2 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.41%) SAP MDG-BP
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.21%) AWS
2 24 (33.80%) Azure
3 16 (22.54%) Power Platform
4 11 (15.49%) GCP
5 6 (8.45%) dbt
6 5 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (7.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.63%) SaaS
7 4 (5.63%) Serverless
8 3 (4.23%) Azure App Service
8 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.82%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.62%) Metadata
2 16 (22.54%) Power BI
3 10 (14.08%) Tableau
4 9 (12.68%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (12.68%) DynamoDB
4 9 (12.68%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
6 5 (7.04%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.63%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.23%) Spark SQL
8 3 (4.23%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.82%) Ataccama
9 2 (2.82%) Big Data
9 2 (2.82%) Looker
9 2 (2.82%) Power Query
9 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Git
1 1 (1.41%) JIRA
1 1 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 28 (39.44%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
3 20 (28.17%) Finance
4 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.45%) Legal
6 4 (5.63%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Automotive
8 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Data Manager
2 18 (25.35%) Architect
3 14 (19.72%) Data Architect
3 14 (19.72%) Data Engineer
4 12 (16.90%) Senior
5 11 (15.49%) Lead
6 10 (14.08%) Analyst
7 8 (11.27%) Data Analyst
7 8 (11.27%) Lead Data Engineer
8 7 (9.86%) Data Governance Analyst
8 7 (9.86%) Data Governance Manager
8 7 (9.86%) Governance Manager
9 5 (7.04%) HR Analyst
9 5 (7.04%) HR Data Analyst
10 4 (5.63%) Senior Architect
10 4 (5.63%) Senior Data Architect
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) PySpark
2 3 (4.23%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.23%) REST
3 2 (2.82%) Node.js
3 2 (2.82%) React
3 2 (2.82%) XBRL
3 2 (2.82%) XML
4 1 (1.41%) FHIR
4 1 (1.41%) JSON
4 1 (1.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.41%) LangChain
4 1 (1.41%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (1.41%) Middleware
4 1 (1.41%) pgvector
4 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.41%) SAP ALE
4 1 (1.41%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.41%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.41%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Management Information System
2 10 (14.08%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.63%) Taxonomies
5 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.82%) IoT
6 2 (2.82%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.82%) NHS
6 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.82%) Robotics
7 1 (1.41%) Clustering
7 1 (1.41%) PMI
7 1 (1.41%) Replication
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) Analytics
2 33 (46.48%) Data Modelling
3 23 (32.39%) Data Management
4 22 (30.99%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (28.17%) Decision-Making
6 18 (25.35%) Data Engineering
6 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (23.94%) Data Architecture
8 16 (22.54%) Agile
8 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (22.54%) Data Integration
9 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
9 15 (21.13%) ETL
9 15 (21.13%) Visualisation
10 14 (19.72%) Validation
11 13 (18.31%) Data Strategy
12 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (15.49%) Data Visualisation
13 11 (15.49%) Mentoring
13 11 (15.49%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 25 (35.21%) SQL
2 14 (19.72%) Python
3 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.82%) Java
5 1 (1.41%) ABAP
5 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) CBAP
5 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (63.38%) Data Quality
2 14 (19.72%) GDPR
3 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.82%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.90%) Databricks
3 5 (7.04%) Google
4 3 (4.23%) IFS
4 3 (4.23%) Informatica
4 3 (4.23%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.82%) Planon
5 2 (2.82%) SAP
5 2 (2.82%) Talend
6 1 (1.41%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.41%) Ariba
6 1 (1.41%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.41%) Dell
6 1 (1.41%) Foundry
6 1 (1.41%) Palantir