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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 118 101
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 98 27 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.61% 1.11% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.18% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 68 24 74
10th Percentile £51,375 £46,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £59,758 £52,114 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,919 £60,743 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year +26.63% -24.01% +27.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,825 £89,825
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 4,276 2,297 4,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 70.17% 94.29% 83.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,756 1,269 3,715
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,645 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 70 £80,000 +28.26% 16
South Yorkshire -21 17 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North Yorkshire - 5 £67,500 - 4
East Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 -
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 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.06%) Apache
4 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) CMS
5 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (13.27%) SAP MDG
3 7 (7.14%) SAP MDG-BP
4 3 (3.06%) Maximo
4 3 (3.06%) SAP ERP
4 3 (3.06%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.78%) Azure
2 27 (27.55%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) Power Platform
4 14 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (14.29%) GCP
5 10 (10.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (9.18%) Serverless
7 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (8.16%) Azure Functions
7 8 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (6.12%) dbt
9 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (5.10%) SaaS
11 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.04%) Azure App Service
12 2 (2.04%) GitHub
12 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) Metadata
2 22 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (20.41%) Power BI
4 9 (9.18%) Data Lake
4 9 (9.18%) DynamoDB
4 9 (9.18%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.18%) Spark SQL
4 9 (9.18%) Tableau
5 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.04%) Big Data
8 2 (2.04%) Looker
8 2 (2.04%) Power Query
8 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Git
1 1 (1.02%) JIRA
1 1 (1.02%) MLflow
General
1 36 (36.73%) Analytical Skills
1 36 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.55%) Finance
3 11 (11.22%) Retail
4 10 (10.20%) Manufacturing
4 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Legal
6 4 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.02%) Automotive
8 1 (1.02%) Local Government
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (26.53%) Architect
2 23 (23.47%) Data Engineer
3 20 (20.41%) Data Architect
4 19 (19.39%) Lead
5 16 (16.33%) Data Manager
6 14 (14.29%) Analyst
6 14 (14.29%) Senior
7 13 (13.27%) Lead Data Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) Consultant
8 10 (10.20%) SAP Consultant
8 10 (10.20%) SAP MDG Consultant
9 8 (8.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (7.14%) Data Governance Analyst
10 7 (7.14%) Data Governance Manager
10 7 (7.14%) Governance Manager
10 7 (7.14%) SAP Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.27%) PySpark
2 8 (8.16%) ARM Templates
2 8 (8.16%) REST
3 5 (5.10%) XBRL
3 5 (5.10%) XML
4 4 (4.08%) Middleware
4 4 (4.08%) SAP ALE
4 4 (4.08%) Web Dynpro
5 3 (3.06%) JSON
6 1 (1.02%) FHIR
6 1 (1.02%) Kafka
6 1 (1.02%) LangChain
6 1 (1.02%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.02%) Node.js
6 1 (1.02%) pgvector
6 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.02%) React
6 1 (1.02%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Management Information System
2 10 (10.20%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.16%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.08%) Replication
6 4 (4.08%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) IoT
7 2 (2.04%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.04%) NHS
8 1 (1.02%) Clustering
8 1 (1.02%) PMI
8 1 (1.02%) Robotics
8 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (58.16%) Data Modelling
2 35 (35.71%) Analytics
3 29 (29.59%) Data Architecture
4 27 (27.55%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (25.51%) Data Engineering
5 25 (25.51%) ETL
6 24 (24.49%) Decision-Making
7 22 (22.45%) Data Management
8 21 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 21 (21.43%) Data Integration
8 21 (21.43%) Validation
9 18 (18.37%) Data Strategy
10 17 (17.35%) Migration
10 17 (17.35%) Regulatory Compliance
11 16 (16.33%) Agile
11 16 (16.33%) Logical Data Model
11 16 (16.33%) Physical Data Model
12 15 (15.31%) Computer Science
12 15 (15.31%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.76%) SQL
2 24 (24.49%) Python
3 4 (4.08%) ABAP
4 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.04%) Java
5 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.02%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.10%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) SAP Certification
4 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CBAP
7 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (56.12%) Data Quality
2 20 (20.41%) GDPR
3 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.39%) Databricks
2 19 (19.39%) SAP
3 6 (6.12%) Google
4 4 (4.08%) Ariba
5 3 (3.06%) IFS
6 2 (2.04%) Planon
6 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.02%) Dell
7 1 (1.02%) Foundry
7 1 (1.02%) Informatica
7 1 (1.02%) Palantir
7 1 (1.02%) TIBCO