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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 113 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 67 43 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.93% 1.38% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.52% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 40 22 46
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £47,279
25th Percentile £61,065 £46,250 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £52,500 £65,033
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% -19.27% +18.24%
75th Percentile £77,424 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,822 £92,500
England median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -11.25% +12.28% +1.79%

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 2,706 2,830 3,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.92% 90.88% 88.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,097 2,473
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,550 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,988 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £69,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +19 57 £69,000 +25.45% 13
South Yorkshire -2 9 £67,500 +28.57% 7
North Yorkshire -2 1 £65,000 - 11
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 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) Apache
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Maximo
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.81%) AWS
2 25 (37.31%) Azure
3 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
4 8 (11.94%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) Azure App Service
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (4.48%) Collibra
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.99%) dbt
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.99%) SaaS
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (41.79%) Metadata
2 12 (17.91%) Power BI
3 9 (13.43%) DynamoDB
3 9 (13.43%) NoSQL
4 8 (11.94%) Tableau
5 6 (8.96%) Data Vault
6 5 (7.46%) Delta Lake
7 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
8 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.48%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.99%) Ataccama
9 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.99%) Looker
9 2 (2.99%) Power Query
9 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Git
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (23.88%) Finance
4 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.46%) Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Data Manager
2 20 (29.85%) Architect
3 18 (26.87%) Data Architect
4 10 (14.93%) Data Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Senior
6 8 (11.94%) Analyst
6 8 (11.94%) Engineering Manager
6 8 (11.94%) Lead
7 7 (10.45%) Data Analyst
8 6 (8.96%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) HR Analyst
9 4 (5.97%) HR Data Analyst
9 4 (5.97%) Senior Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Senior Data Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) Data Governance Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Data Governance Manager
10 3 (4.48%) Governance Manager
10 3 (4.48%) Senior Manager
11 2 (2.99%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) PySpark
2 2 (2.99%) Node.js
2 2 (2.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Data Structures
1 10 (14.93%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.97%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.48%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Robotics
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (49.25%) Data Modelling
2 27 (40.30%) Analytics
3 22 (32.84%) Data Architecture
4 20 (29.85%) CI/CD
4 20 (29.85%) Data Strategy
5 19 (28.36%) Data Engineering
6 18 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (26.87%) Data Management
7 16 (23.88%) Agile
8 15 (22.39%) Decision-Making
8 15 (22.39%) Mentoring
9 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (19.40%) Data Integration
10 13 (19.40%) ETL
11 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (16.42%) Coaching
12 11 (16.42%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (16.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) SQL
2 18 (26.87%) Python
3 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (53.73%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.94%) GDPR
3 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.99%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Databricks
2 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) Google
3 4 (5.97%) Informatica
4 3 (4.48%) IFS
4 3 (4.48%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.99%) Talend
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Planon