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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 134 116
Rank change year-on-year +28 -18 +61
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 92 29 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.25% 0.83% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 0.94% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 70 27 27
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,100 £49,250
25th Percentile £55,875 £59,000 £68,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year - -15.55% -8.65%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,050 £87,329
England median annual salary £70,782 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.37% - +7.41%

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 4,912 3,069 4,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.57% 88.24% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,560 1,524 2,498
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,825 £29,694
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,932 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -5.00% -7.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,955 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -11.26%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 59 £67,500 - 21
South Yorkshire -11 18 £82,500 +43.48% 5
North Yorkshire - 5 £82,500 - 4
East Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 1
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 Airflow
1 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) CMS
2 1 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (15.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (14.13%) 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 38 (41.30%) Azure
2 18 (19.57%) AWS
3 15 (16.30%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (16.30%) GCP
4 14 (15.22%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (9.78%) Azure Functions
6 9 (9.78%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (9.78%) Serverless
7 7 (7.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (6.52%) dbt
8 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.52%) Snowflake
9 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (4.35%) Alation
11 3 (3.26%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (3.26%) SaaS
12 2 (2.17%) n8n
13 1 (1.09%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.35%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (18.48%) Metadata
3 14 (15.22%) Power BI
4 10 (10.87%) Data Lake
4 10 (10.87%) Spark SQL
5 5 (5.43%) Tableau
6 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.26%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.26%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.17%) Big Data
8 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.09%) Looker
9 1 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) Git
2 1 (1.09%) MLflow
General
1 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.35%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (26.09%) Finance
4 12 (13.04%) Retail
5 9 (9.78%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Legal
7 3 (3.26%) Local Government
7 3 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.17%) Advertising
9 1 (1.09%) Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Legal Technology
9 1 (1.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Architect
2 21 (22.83%) Data Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Lead
4 16 (17.39%) Data Architect
5 14 (15.22%) Senior
6 13 (14.13%) Analyst
7 12 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (11.96%) Consultant
8 11 (11.96%) Data Manager
8 11 (11.96%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (11.96%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (10.87%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (10.87%) SAP MDG Consultant
10 9 (9.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (9.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (9.78%) Data Governance Analyst
10 9 (9.78%) Data Governance Manager
10 9 (9.78%) Governance Manager
10 9 (9.78%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (8.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) PySpark
1 11 (11.96%) REST
2 10 (10.87%) ARM Templates
2 10 (10.87%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) XBRL
3 5 (5.43%) XML
4 4 (4.35%) Middleware
4 4 (4.35%) SAP ALE
4 4 (4.35%) Web Dynpro
5 3 (3.26%) JSON
6 2 (2.17%) CrewAI
6 2 (2.17%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.09%) FHIR
7 1 (1.09%) Kafka
7 1 (1.09%) LangChain
7 1 (1.09%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (1.09%) pgvector
7 1 (1.09%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.09%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.35%) Replication
5 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.26%) Taxonomies
5 3 (3.26%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.17%) NHS
6 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) PMI
7 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.09%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.26%) Data Modelling
2 29 (31.52%) Analytics
3 28 (30.43%) Data Engineering
4 24 (26.09%) ETL
5 22 (23.91%) Data Architecture
6 21 (22.83%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (20.65%) Decision-Making
8 17 (18.48%) CI/CD
8 17 (18.48%) Validation
9 15 (16.30%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (14.13%) DevOps
11 12 (13.04%) Computer Science
11 12 (13.04%) Data Integration
11 12 (13.04%) Migration
11 12 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
12 11 (11.96%) Data Management
12 11 (11.96%) Metadata Management
12 11 (11.96%) System Integration Testing
12 11 (11.96%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) SQL
2 25 (27.17%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) ABAP
4 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.09%) Bicep
5 1 (1.09%) C#
5 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.35%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.09%) CBAP
4 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (35.87%) Data Quality
2 22 (23.91%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (25.00%) Databricks
3 19 (20.65%) SAP
4 9 (9.78%) Google
5 4 (4.35%) Ariba
6 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.17%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.09%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.09%) Dell
8 1 (1.09%) Foundry
8 1 (1.09%) Palantir
8 1 (1.09%) Planon
8 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.09%) Workday