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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 127 143
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 49 41 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.42% 1.07% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.26% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 36 20 31
10th Percentile £55,117 £42,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £53,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -28.33% +44.77%
75th Percentile £74,563 £81,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,614 £93,750
England median annual salary £71,028 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.30% +3.45% +7.41%

All Process and 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 2,940 3,249 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.49% 84.54% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 1,358 2,120
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -2.55%
75th Percentile £68,938 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 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
West Yorkshire +21 44 £70,000 +16.67% 17
South Yorkshire +3 5 £67,500 +28.57% 2
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 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Maximo
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) Azure
2 15 (30.61%) AWS
3 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (8.16%) GCP
5 3 (6.12%) Azure App Service
5 3 (6.12%) Collibra
5 3 (6.12%) GitHub
5 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.04%) Alation
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.04%) dbt
7 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.61%) Metadata
2 6 (12.24%) Data Vault
3 5 (10.20%) Delta Lake
3 5 (10.20%) Power BI
4 4 (8.16%) Tableau
5 3 (6.12%) TIBCO EBX
6 2 (4.08%) Ataccama
6 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.08%) Looker
6 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (38.78%) Data Manager
2 12 (24.49%) Engineering Manager
3 10 (20.41%) Data Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Architect
4 9 (18.37%) Lead
5 7 (14.29%) Data Architect
5 7 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Data Quality Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Quality Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Risk Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Cloud Architect
9 1 (2.04%) Data Quality Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Governance Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Head of Business Intelligence
9 1 (2.04%) HR Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) PySpark
2 1 (2.04%) Node.js
2 1 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Virtual Team
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.12%) Taxonomies
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 20 (40.82%) Analytics
2 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
3 19 (38.78%) Data Engineering
4 15 (30.61%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (28.57%) Data Strategy
6 13 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (26.53%) Mentoring
6 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
7 11 (22.45%) Cost Optimisation
8 10 (20.41%) Data Architecture
8 10 (20.41%) ETL
9 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (16.33%) Data Management
10 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
10 8 (16.33%) DevOps
10 8 (16.33%) Migration
11 7 (14.29%) Coaching
11 7 (14.29%) Logistics
11 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.94%) SQL
2 20 (40.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
1 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.20%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Databricks
2 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) Informatica
4 3 (6.12%) TIBCO
5 2 (4.08%) IFS
5 2 (4.08%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle