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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 105 116
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 59 41 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.48% 1.65% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.79% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 32 30 65
10th Percentile £60,511 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £63,438 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £59,122 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -1.46% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,625 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,822 £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% -

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 3,046 2,291 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 76.55% 92.34% 87.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,833 1,042 3,135
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,825 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,330 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,945 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £67,035
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,950 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +1 49 £75,466 +24.24% 5
South Yorkshire -11 9 £67,500 +38.46% 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 3
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 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.08%) Apache
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Maximo
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) AWS
2 20 (33.90%) Azure
3 13 (22.03%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.25%) GCP
5 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.08%) Azure App Service
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.08%) dbt
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.39%) Collibra
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.39%) SaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (44.07%) Metadata
2 13 (22.03%) Power BI
3 9 (15.25%) DynamoDB
3 9 (15.25%) NoSQL
3 9 (15.25%) Tableau
4 5 (8.47%) Data Vault
5 4 (6.78%) Delta Lake
5 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
6 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.08%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.39%) Ataccama
7 2 (3.39%) Looker
7 2 (3.39%) Power Query
7 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 27 (45.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (33.90%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (23.73%) Finance
4 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Banking
5 4 (6.78%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Architect
2 17 (28.81%) Data Architect
2 17 (28.81%) Data Manager
3 10 (16.95%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Analyst
5 7 (11.86%) Lead
6 6 (10.17%) Data Analyst
7 5 (8.47%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) HR Analyst
8 4 (6.78%) HR Data Analyst
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Architect
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Data Governance Analyst
9 3 (5.08%) Data Governance Manager
9 3 (5.08%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (5.08%) Governance Manager
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) PySpark
2 2 (3.39%) Node.js
2 2 (3.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Data Structures
1 10 (16.95%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.08%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.39%) Robotics
3 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.69%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Data Modelling
2 26 (44.07%) Analytics
3 20 (33.90%) Data Architecture
4 19 (32.20%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (30.51%) Data Management
6 17 (28.81%) Data Strategy
7 16 (27.12%) Agile
7 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (25.42%) Decision-Making
9 14 (23.73%) CI/CD
10 13 (22.03%) Data Engineering
10 13 (22.03%) Data Integration
10 13 (22.03%) Visualisation
11 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (20.34%) ETL
11 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
12 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (16.95%) Data Lineage
13 10 (16.95%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) SQL
2 12 (20.34%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.39%) Java
3 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (59.32%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.56%) GDPR
3 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Databricks
2 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Google
4 3 (5.08%) IFS
4 3 (5.08%) Informatica
4 3 (5.08%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.39%) Talend
6 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) Planon