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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 127 123
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 92 34 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.20% 1.01% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.15% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 70 29 21
10th Percentile £40,000 £54,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £66,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +4.62% -27.78%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,150 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 5,173 2,958 3,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.56% 87.49% 79.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 1,379 1,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,202 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,367 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -11 56 £68,724 +1.06% 81
South Yorkshire -7 23 £75,000 +36.36% 17
North Yorkshire - 4 £83,750 - 9
East Yorkshire - 4 £57,500 - 4
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 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (16.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (15.22%) SAP MDG
3 7 (7.61%) SAP MDG-BP
4 3 (3.26%) SAP ERP
4 3 (3.26%) SAP MDG-F
4 3 (3.26%) SystmOne
5 1 (1.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.13%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) AWS
3 17 (18.48%) GCP
4 12 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (11.96%) Power Platform
6 10 (10.87%) dbt
7 7 (7.61%) Azure Databricks
7 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.52%) Serverless
9 5 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.35%) Alation
11 3 (3.26%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.17%) n8n
13 1 (1.09%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.26%) Metadata
2 21 (22.83%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (11.96%) Power BI
4 8 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.70%) Spark SQL
5 6 (6.52%) Delta Lake
5 6 (6.52%) Metadata Repository
5 6 (6.52%) Semantic Layer
5 6 (6.52%) Star Schema
6 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.35%) Tableau
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Git
1 2 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 35 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (22.83%) Finance
4 12 (13.04%) Retail
5 10 (10.87%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.52%) Legal
7 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.26%) Local Government
8 3 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Advertising
10 1 (1.09%) Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (30.43%) Architect
2 25 (27.17%) Senior
3 22 (23.91%) Data Architect
3 22 (23.91%) Data Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) Lead
5 12 (13.04%) Analyst
5 12 (13.04%) Databricks Engineer
6 11 (11.96%) Consultant
6 11 (11.96%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 10 (10.87%) SAP Consultant
7 10 (10.87%) SAP MDG Consultant
7 10 (10.87%) Senior Architect
7 10 (10.87%) Senior Data Architect
7 10 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (8.70%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (7.61%) SAP Architect
10 7 (7.61%) SAP Data Architect
11 6 (6.52%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) PySpark
2 8 (8.70%) REST
3 7 (7.61%) ARM Templates
3 7 (7.61%) Terraform
4 4 (4.35%) Middleware
4 4 (4.35%) SAP ALE
4 4 (4.35%) Web Dynpro
5 3 (3.26%) XBRL
5 3 (3.26%) XML
6 2 (2.17%) CrewAI
6 2 (2.17%) JSON
6 2 (2.17%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.09%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.52%) Taxonomies
3 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.35%) Replication
5 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.26%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.17%) NHS
6 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) PMI
7 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.09%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.78%) Data Modelling
2 33 (35.87%) Analytics
3 29 (31.52%) Data Architecture
4 27 (29.35%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 23 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (23.91%) Data Engineering
7 21 (22.83%) CI/CD
7 21 (22.83%) ETL
8 20 (21.74%) Mentoring
9 19 (20.65%) Decision-Making
10 16 (17.39%) Lakehouse
11 15 (16.30%) Migration
12 14 (15.22%) Validation
13 13 (14.13%) Data Strategy
13 13 (14.13%) Logical Data Model
13 13 (14.13%) Observability
13 13 (14.13%) Physical Data Model
13 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (14.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) SQL
2 21 (22.83%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) ABAP
4 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.09%) Bicep
5 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.09%) Java
5 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (11.96%) Degree
2 8 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.35%) SAP Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.09%) CBAP
5 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (45.65%) Data Quality
2 18 (19.57%) GDPR
3 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.26%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Databricks
2 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 20 (21.74%) SAP
4 9 (9.78%) Google
5 4 (4.35%) Ariba
6 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.17%) Dataiku
7 2 (2.17%) Foundry
7 2 (2.17%) Palantir
8 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.09%) Workday