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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 133 110
Rank change year-on-year +28 -23 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 99 26 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.47% 0.88% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 0.96% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73 23 67
10th Percentile £53,000 £52,114 £31,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £64,000 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -19.93% +4.65%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £88,829
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% +5.43%

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 4,557 2,721 5,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.57% 92.46% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,207 1,293 3,888
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +14 68 £75,000 +17.19% 11
South Yorkshire -25 19 £75,000 +30.43% 3
North Yorkshire - 5 £67,500 - 1
East Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 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 5 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.04%) Apache
2 4 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (14.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (13.13%) SAP MDG
3 7 (7.07%) SAP MDG-BP
4 3 (3.03%) SAP ERP
4 3 (3.03%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 44 (44.44%) Azure
2 32 (32.32%) AWS
3 18 (18.18%) GCP
3 18 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 17 (17.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (10.10%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (10.10%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (10.10%) Serverless
6 9 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 9 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.06%) dbt
8 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.04%) SaaS
8 4 (4.04%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.01%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.28%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (26.26%) Metadata
3 18 (18.18%) Power BI
4 12 (12.12%) Data Lake
5 10 (10.10%) Spark SQL
6 9 (9.09%) DynamoDB
6 9 (9.09%) NoSQL
7 8 (8.08%) Tableau
8 5 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.05%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.03%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.02%) Big Data
10 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.01%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Git
1 1 (1.01%) JIRA
1 1 (1.01%) MLflow
General
1 37 (37.37%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (35.35%) Social Skills
3 28 (28.28%) Finance
4 12 (12.12%) Retail
5 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 10 (10.10%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Legal
8 3 (3.03%) Local Government
9 2 (2.02%) Advertising
10 1 (1.01%) Automotive
10 1 (1.01%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (32.32%) Architect
2 25 (25.25%) Data Engineer
3 24 (24.24%) Data Architect
4 20 (20.20%) Lead
5 18 (18.18%) Senior
6 13 (13.13%) Analyst
7 12 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (12.12%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (11.11%) Data Manager
8 11 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (10.10%) Consultant
9 10 (10.10%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (10.10%) SAP MDG Consultant
10 9 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (8.08%) Lead Architect
11 8 (8.08%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 7 (7.07%) Data Governance Analyst
12 7 (7.07%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) PySpark
2 10 (10.10%) ARM Templates
3 9 (9.09%) REST
4 5 (5.05%) XBRL
4 5 (5.05%) XML
5 4 (4.04%) Middleware
5 4 (4.04%) SAP ALE
5 4 (4.04%) Web Dynpro
6 3 (3.03%) JSON
7 1 (1.01%) FHIR
7 1 (1.01%) Kafka
7 1 (1.01%) LangChain
7 1 (1.01%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (1.01%) Node.js
7 1 (1.01%) pgvector
7 1 (1.01%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.01%) React
7 1 (1.01%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.08%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.08%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.04%) Replication
6 3 (3.03%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.02%) NHS
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.01%) Clustering
8 1 (1.01%) IoT
8 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.01%) PMI
8 1 (1.01%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.61%) Data Modelling
2 35 (35.35%) Data Architecture
3 34 (34.34%) Analytics
4 29 (29.29%) ETL
4 29 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (28.28%) Data Engineering
6 26 (26.26%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 22 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 22 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 19 (19.19%) Agile
9 17 (17.17%) Data Management
9 17 (17.17%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (17.17%) Validation
10 16 (16.16%) Computer Science
10 16 (16.16%) Data Strategy
10 16 (16.16%) DevOps
10 16 (16.16%) Logical Data Model
10 16 (16.16%) Physical Data Model
10 16 (16.16%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.37%) SQL
2 27 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) ABAP
4 3 (3.03%) Java
4 3 (3.03%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.01%) Bicep
6 1 (1.01%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (18.18%) Degree
2 12 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) SAP Certification
4 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.01%) CBAP
7 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (48.48%) Data Quality
2 20 (20.20%) GDPR
3 5 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) QA
5 1 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.01%) GRC
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.23%) Databricks
3 19 (19.19%) SAP
4 12 (12.12%) Google
5 4 (4.04%) Ariba
6 2 (2.02%) Planon
6 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.01%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.01%) Dell
7 1 (1.01%) Foundry
7 1 (1.01%) Palantir
7 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow