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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 130 160
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 +54
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 32 55 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.96% 1.11% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.41% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29 26 39
10th Percentile £54,500 £41,250 £72,140
25th Percentile £66,250 £51,250 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £79,932 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% -11.19% +80.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,964 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,150 £87,911 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

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 2,877 3,913 3,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.74% 79.16% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,972 2,557
10th Percentile £26,010 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Data Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Governance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Governance 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +31 31 £68,000 +13.33% 10
South Yorkshire -3 1 £55,000 -31.19% 5
Data Governance
England

Data Governance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Alation
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Collibra
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Metadata
2 3 (9.38%) Data Vault
2 3 (9.38%) Delta Lake
2 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.13%) Tableau
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Data Manager
2 16 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
3 8 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Data Quality Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Head of Business Systems
7 1 (3.13%) Quality Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 20 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
3 15 (46.88%) Cost Optimisation
3 15 (46.88%) Data Modelling
4 13 (40.63%) Mentoring
5 12 (37.50%) Roadmaps
6 10 (31.25%) Coaching
6 10 (31.25%) Data Strategy
6 10 (31.25%) People Management
6 10 (31.25%) SQL Optimisation
7 8 (25.00%) Analytics
7 8 (25.00%) Data Architecture
8 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (15.63%) DevOps
9 5 (15.63%) ETL
9 5 (15.63%) Logistics
9 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 5 (15.63%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) Python
1 20 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Informatica