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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 136 111
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 89 29 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.31% 0.88% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 0.97% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 71 26 66
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,307 £31,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £59,036 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,750 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -17.74% +1.18%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £104,125 £89,161
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +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 4,627 2,986 4,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.87% 91.12% 79.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 1,406 3,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £83,750 £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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +5 59 £72,966 +8.10% 16
South Yorkshire -18 19 £75,000 +30.43% 6
North Yorkshire - 4 £76,250 - 4
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 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.49%) Apache
2 4 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (15.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (14.61%) SAP MDG
3 7 (7.87%) SAP MDG-BP
4 3 (3.37%) SAP ERP
4 3 (3.37%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 43 (48.31%) Azure
2 23 (25.84%) AWS
3 18 (20.22%) GCP
4 17 (19.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (19.10%) Power Platform
5 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (11.24%) Serverless
6 9 (10.11%) Azure Functions
6 9 (10.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (10.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.74%) dbt
8 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.49%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.37%) SaaS
10 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.12%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.46%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (19.10%) Power BI
3 16 (17.98%) Metadata
4 12 (13.48%) Data Lake
5 10 (11.24%) Spark SQL
6 8 (8.99%) Tableau
7 5 (5.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.62%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (3.37%) Star Schema
9 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.25%) Big Data
9 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.12%) Data Hub
10 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.12%) Looker
10 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Git
1 1 (1.12%) JIRA
1 1 (1.12%) MLflow
General
1 32 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 29 (32.58%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (30.34%) Finance
4 12 (13.48%) Retail
5 10 (11.24%) Manufacturing
6 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.37%) Legal
8 3 (3.37%) Local Government
9 2 (2.25%) Advertising
10 1 (1.12%) Automotive
10 1 (1.12%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (26.97%) Data Engineer
2 23 (25.84%) Architect
3 20 (22.47%) Lead
4 17 (19.10%) Senior
5 15 (16.85%) Data Architect
6 13 (14.61%) Analyst
7 12 (13.48%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (13.48%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (12.36%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (11.24%) Consultant
9 10 (11.24%) Data Manager
9 10 (11.24%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (11.24%) SAP MDG Consultant
10 9 (10.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (10.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (10.11%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (8.99%) Lead Architect
11 8 (8.99%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 7 (7.87%) Data Governance Analyst
12 7 (7.87%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.48%) PySpark
2 10 (11.24%) ARM Templates
3 9 (10.11%) REST
4 5 (5.62%) XBRL
4 5 (5.62%) XML
5 4 (4.49%) Middleware
5 4 (4.49%) SAP ALE
5 4 (4.49%) Web Dynpro
6 3 (3.37%) JSON
7 1 (1.12%) FHIR
7 1 (1.12%) Kafka
7 1 (1.12%) LangChain
7 1 (1.12%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (1.12%) Node.js
7 1 (1.12%) pgvector
7 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.12%) React
7 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.74%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.49%) Replication
5 3 (3.37%) NHS
5 3 (3.37%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.12%) Clustering
7 1 (1.12%) IoT
7 1 (1.12%) PMI
7 1 (1.12%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (55.06%) Data Modelling
2 32 (35.96%) Analytics
3 27 (30.34%) ETL
4 26 (29.21%) Data Engineering
5 25 (28.09%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (26.97%) Data Architecture
7 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (23.60%) CI/CD
8 21 (23.60%) Decision-Making
9 17 (19.10%) Validation
10 16 (17.98%) Data Management
10 16 (17.98%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (17.98%) DevOps
11 15 (16.85%) Data Strategy
11 15 (16.85%) Mentoring
12 14 (15.73%) Computer Science
12 14 (15.73%) Master Data Management
13 13 (14.61%) Migration
14 12 (13.48%) Agile
14 12 (13.48%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.33%) SQL
2 26 (29.21%) Python
3 4 (4.49%) ABAP
4 3 (3.37%) Java
5 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.12%) Bicep
6 1 (1.12%) C#
6 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Degree
2 10 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.49%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) CBAP
4 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (43.82%) Data Quality
2 20 (22.47%) GDPR
3 5 (5.62%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.25%) QA
5 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.12%) GRC
Systems Management
1 10 (11.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (25.84%) Databricks
1 23 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.35%) SAP
3 12 (13.48%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) Ariba
5 2 (2.25%) Planon
5 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.12%) Dell
6 1 (1.12%) Foundry
6 1 (1.12%) Palantir
6 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow