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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 109 108
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Governance 56 36 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.31% 1.49% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.57% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 30 24 67
10th Percentile £56,125 £45,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,563 £50,648 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.77% +1.24% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,875 £71,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £89,825 £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +1.80%

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 3,226 2,290 4,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 75.69% 94.63% 86.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 1,033 3,237
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,716 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 2 March 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 March 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 -14 45 £80,000 +31.70% 15
South Yorkshire -13 10 £67,500 +50.00% 7
North Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 6
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 4 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.36%) Apache
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Maximo
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) AWS
2 17 (30.36%) Azure
3 15 (26.79%) Power Platform
4 9 (16.07%) GCP
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.36%) Azure App Service
6 3 (5.36%) dbt
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.57%) Collibra
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.86%) Metadata
2 15 (26.79%) Power BI
3 10 (17.86%) Tableau
4 9 (16.07%) DynamoDB
4 9 (16.07%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.36%) BigQuery
6 3 (5.36%) Data Vault
6 3 (5.36%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.57%) Ataccama
7 2 (3.57%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.57%) Looker
7 2 (3.57%) Power Query
7 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 26 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (28.57%) Finance
4 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.93%) Legal
6 4 (7.14%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Automotive
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Architect
2 15 (26.79%) Data Architect
3 14 (25.00%) Data Manager
4 11 (19.64%) Senior
5 8 (14.29%) Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Data Analyst
7 6 (10.71%) Lead
8 5 (8.93%) HR Analyst
8 5 (8.93%) HR Data Analyst
9 4 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Senior Architect
9 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
10 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Data Governance Analyst
10 3 (5.36%) Data Governance Manager
10 3 (5.36%) Governance Manager
10 3 (5.36%) Senior Manager
11 2 (3.57%) Quality Manager
11 2 (3.57%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) PySpark
2 2 (3.57%) Node.js
2 2 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Management Information System
2 10 (17.86%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.57%) IoT
4 2 (3.57%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.57%) Robotics
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Analytics
2 25 (44.64%) Data Modelling
3 21 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (33.93%) Data Management
5 18 (32.14%) Data Architecture
5 18 (32.14%) Decision-Making
6 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (28.57%) Agile
8 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (25.00%) Visualisation
9 13 (23.21%) Data Integration
9 13 (23.21%) Data Strategy
10 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
10 11 (19.64%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (19.64%) ETL
10 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (17.86%) Data Engineering
11 10 (17.86%) Data Lineage
12 9 (16.07%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.57%) Java
3 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (64.29%) Data Quality
2 9 (16.07%) GDPR
3 7 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Databricks
3 5 (8.93%) Google
4 3 (5.36%) IFS
4 3 (5.36%) Informatica
4 3 (5.36%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.57%) Talend
6 1 (1.79%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) Planon