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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 112 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 102 27 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.70% 1.14% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.21% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 70 24 79
10th Percentile £52,125 £46,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,511 £52,114 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,716 £60,743 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -13.22% +15.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,825 £88,164
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +3.70%

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 4,261 2,230 4,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 71.21% 94.09% 83.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,718 1,265 3,693
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,834 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +6 71 £80,000 +31.70% 16
South Yorkshire -22 20 £69,216 +15.36% 1
North Yorkshire - 5 £67,500 - 4
East Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 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 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.98%) CMS
5 1 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (13.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (12.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (10.78%) SAP MDG
3 7 (6.86%) SAP MDG-BP
4 3 (2.94%) Maximo
4 3 (2.94%) SAP MDG-F
5 2 (1.96%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.24%) Azure
2 30 (29.41%) AWS
3 21 (20.59%) Power Platform
4 16 (15.69%) GCP
5 12 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (6.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (6.86%) Serverless
8 6 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.88%) Azure Functions
8 6 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (5.88%) dbt
9 5 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.90%) SaaS
10 3 (2.94%) Azure App Service
10 3 (2.94%) GitHub
10 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.94%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.96%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (30.39%) Metadata
2 21 (20.59%) Power BI
3 20 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (9.80%) Tableau
5 9 (8.82%) Data Lake
5 9 (8.82%) DynamoDB
5 9 (8.82%) NoSQL
6 7 (6.86%) Spark SQL
7 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.92%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.94%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.94%) TIBCO EBX
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.96%) Ataccama
10 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.96%) Looker
10 2 (1.96%) Power Query
10 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Git
1 1 (0.98%) JIRA
1 1 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 35 (34.31%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (30.39%) Finance
4 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.80%) Retail
5 9 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.88%) Legal
7 4 (3.92%) Banking
8 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Automotive
10 1 (0.98%) Local Government
10 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (26.47%) Architect
2 22 (21.57%) Data Engineer
3 20 (19.61%) Data Architect
3 20 (19.61%) Data Manager
4 18 (17.65%) Lead
5 14 (13.73%) Analyst
5 14 (13.73%) Senior
6 12 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) Consultant
7 9 (8.82%) SAP Consultant
7 9 (8.82%) SAP MDG Consultant
8 8 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Data Analyst
9 7 (6.86%) Data Governance Analyst
9 7 (6.86%) Data Governance Manager
9 7 (6.86%) Governance Manager
9 7 (6.86%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.88%) Lead Architect
10 6 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.76%) PySpark
2 6 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 6 (5.88%) REST
3 5 (4.90%) XBRL
3 5 (4.90%) XML
4 4 (3.92%) Middleware
4 4 (3.92%) SAP ALE
4 4 (3.92%) Web Dynpro
5 3 (2.94%) JSON
6 2 (1.96%) Node.js
6 2 (1.96%) React
7 1 (0.98%) FHIR
7 1 (0.98%) Kafka
7 1 (0.98%) LangChain
7 1 (0.98%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (0.98%) pgvector
7 1 (0.98%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.98%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.80%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.88%) Taxonomies
6 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.92%) Replication
8 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.96%) IoT
9 2 (1.96%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.96%) NHS
9 2 (1.96%) Robotics
10 1 (0.98%) Clustering
10 1 (0.98%) PMI
10 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.90%) Data Modelling
2 41 (40.20%) Analytics
3 28 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (27.45%) Data Architecture
4 26 (25.49%) Data Management
4 26 (25.49%) Decision-Making
4 26 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (24.51%) ETL
6 24 (23.53%) Data Engineering
7 22 (21.57%) Validation
8 21 (20.59%) CI/CD
9 19 (18.63%) Data Integration
10 18 (17.65%) Data Strategy
11 17 (16.67%) Migration
12 16 (15.69%) Agile
12 16 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (15.69%) Regulatory Compliance
13 15 (14.71%) Logical Data Model
13 15 (14.71%) Physical Data Model
13 15 (14.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (36.27%) SQL
2 23 (22.55%) Python
3 4 (3.92%) ABAP
4 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.96%) Java
5 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.98%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) SAP Certification
4 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.98%) CBAP
7 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (59.80%) Data Quality
2 21 (20.59%) GDPR
3 7 (6.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.96%) QA
5 1 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 6 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.65%) Databricks
3 17 (16.67%) SAP
4 6 (5.88%) Google
5 4 (3.92%) Ariba
6 3 (2.94%) IFS
6 3 (2.94%) Informatica
6 3 (2.94%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.96%) Planon
7 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.96%) Talend
8 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.98%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.98%) Dell
8 1 (0.98%) Foundry
8 1 (0.98%) Palantir