Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 168 164
Rank change year-on-year +58 -4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 2,455 2,183 4,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.39% 2.24% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.35% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 1,253 1,868
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,406
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £99,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £53,325
% change year-on-year -6.96% +7.83% +6.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Management.

Salary trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England +51 2,199 £60,000 -7.69% 629
UK excluding London +84 1,454 £53,500 -6.96% 387
Work from Home +22 947 £60,000 -7.69% 246
London +41 884 £75,000 +7.14% 276
South East +48 448 £50,000 -20.00% 65
North of England +159 413 £52,500 -8.70% 104
Midlands +96 298 £55,000 - 79
North West +118 233 £52,500 -8.70% 59
West Midlands +76 197 £55,000 -8.33% 55
Yorkshire +136 139 £52,500 -16.00% 27
Scotland +8 130 £60,000 +0.80% 42
East Midlands +47 101 £45,000 -6.25% 24
South West -83 90 £55,000 -8.71% 53
East of England -45 52 £37,500 -34.78% 27
North East +21 41 £60,000 +15.38% 18
Wales +3 19 £46,604 -18.42% 13
Northern Ireland +21 3 £70,000 +86.67% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 316 (12.87%) SAS
2 85 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.71%) Confluence
5 41 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (1.18%) Apache
7 12 (0.49%) WordPress
8 7 (0.29%) CMS
8 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.20%) Kinematics
10 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 3 (0.12%) Orchard CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.081%) Luigi
12 2 (0.081%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 384 (15.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.57%) Sketch
6 9 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.24%) SPSS
7 6 (0.24%) Stata
8 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.041%) InVision
9 1 (0.041%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 300 (12.22%) SAP ERP
2 32 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.18%) Primavera
4 20 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.57%) SAP BPC
6 10 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.20%) Odoo
8 5 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.16%) Finacle
9 4 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.16%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.16%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
10 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 392 (15.97%) Azure
2 327 (13.32%) Power Platform
3 217 (8.84%) AWS
4 135 (5.50%) GCP
5 73 (2.97%) Snowflake
6 63 (2.57%) SaaS
7 59 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 49 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 47 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
10 45 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 37 (1.51%) Collibra
12 36 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 36 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 35 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
14 29 (1.18%) IaaS
15 27 (1.10%) GitHub
16 26 (1.06%) Power Automate
16 26 (1.06%) Serverless
17 25 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 323 (13.16%) Broadband
2 39 (1.59%) 5G
3 38 (1.55%) Firewall
4 36 (1.47%) WAN
5 33 (1.34%) Wireless
6 31 (1.26%) Internet
7 22 (0.90%) Bluetooth
7 22 (0.90%) GSM
7 22 (0.90%) ISDN
7 22 (0.90%) LTE
7 22 (0.90%) PSTN
7 22 (0.90%) UMTS
7 22 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.81%) LAN
8 20 (0.81%) WPA
9 17 (0.69%) 4G
9 17 (0.69%) MPLS
10 13 (0.53%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.49%) SAN
12 11 (0.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (12.14%) Power BI
2 199 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (6.23%) Metadata
4 138 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 106 (4.32%) Data Lake
6 93 (3.79%) Tableau
7 60 (2.44%) Big Data
7 60 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 58 (2.36%) NoSQL
9 49 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 47 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 45 (1.83%) Power Query
12 35 (1.43%) Data Vault
13 31 (1.26%) Relational Database
14 28 (1.14%) SAP BW
15 27 (1.10%) Looker
16 26 (1.06%) Data Mining
17 24 (0.98%) MongoDB
18 21 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
18 21 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 174 (7.09%) JIRA
2 69 (2.81%) Git
3 37 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.10%) GitLab
5 22 (0.90%) LabVIEW
6 12 (0.49%) CircleCI
7 11 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.41%) JUnit
8 10 (0.41%) Selenium
8 10 (0.41%) Spinnaker
9 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.24%) RStudio
12 4 (0.16%) ERwin
13 3 (0.12%) Maven
13 3 (0.12%) MLflow
13 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.081%) ER Studio
14 2 (0.081%) Moq
General
1 1,115 (45.42%) Finance
2 1,079 (43.95%) Social Skills
3 512 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (12.30%) Legal
5 286 (11.65%) Banking
6 221 (9.00%) Marketing
7 214 (8.72%) Retail
8 184 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (4.20%) Telecoms
10 99 (4.03%) Law
11 74 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
12 62 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 51 (2.08%) Billing
14 46 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.55%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.55%) Public Sector
16 35 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (1.14%) Local Government
18 24 (0.98%) Back Office
19 20 (0.81%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 517 (21.06%) Architect
2 366 (14.91%) Solutions Architect
3 335 (13.65%) Analyst
4 325 (13.24%) Senior
5 191 (7.78%) Data Manager
6 162 (6.60%) Data Analyst
7 154 (6.27%) Lead
8 143 (5.82%) Data Engineer
8 143 (5.82%) Developer
9 118 (4.81%) Senior Analyst
10 116 (4.73%) Data Architect
11 72 (2.93%) Consultant
12 50 (2.04%) Senior Manager
13 48 (1.96%) Quantity Surveyor
14 46 (1.87%) Administrator
14 46 (1.87%) Coordinator
15 45 (1.83%) Senior Architect
15 45 (1.83%) Software Engineer
16 40 (1.63%) Senior Data Engineer
17 36 (1.47%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.28%) .NET
2 30 (1.22%) Kafka
3 25 (1.02%) React
4 23 (0.94%) Node.js
4 23 (0.94%) Web Services
5 21 (0.86%) AngularJS
5 21 (0.86%) RESTful
6 20 (0.81%) Middleware
7 18 (0.73%) Apache Beam
8 16 (0.65%) HTML
9 13 (0.53%) PySpark
10 12 (0.49%) CSS
10 12 (0.49%) Laravel
11 9 (0.37%) Spring
11 9 (0.37%) Vue
12 8 (0.33%) ADO
12 8 (0.33%) ASP.NET
12 8 (0.33%) EDI
12 8 (0.33%) LDAP
12 8 (0.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 274 (11.16%) Management Information System
2 144 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (4.52%) Data Structures
4 101 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 77 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 55 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 47 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 45 (1.83%) IoT
9 43 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 42 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 42 (1.71%) Reference Data
11 41 (1.67%) Reinsurance
12 39 (1.59%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.30%) Life Science
14 27 (1.10%) Driving Licence
15 23 (0.94%) Blog
15 23 (0.94%) Virtual Team
16 22 (0.90%) Acoustics
16 22 (0.90%) Data Centre
16 22 (0.90%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.89%) Linux
2 70 (2.85%) Windows
3 30 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.65%) Unix
5 12 (0.49%) zOS
6 5 (0.20%) Android
6 5 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.041%) AIX
8 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (34.75%) Agile
2 508 (20.69%) Analytics
3 498 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
4 483 (19.67%) Roadmaps
5 478 (19.47%) Data Governance
6 399 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
7 382 (15.56%) ERP
8 371 (15.11%) Change Management
9 349 (14.22%) Data Modelling
10 337 (13.73%) Performance Management
11 331 (13.48%) TOGAF
12 330 (13.44%) Enterprise Architecture
13 327 (13.32%) Data Analysis
13 327 (13.32%) Strategic Roadmap
14 277 (11.28%) Decision-Making
15 276 (11.24%) ETL
16 270 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 257 (10.47%) Visualisation
18 246 (10.02%) Data Protection
18 246 (10.02%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 483 (19.67%) SQL
2 240 (9.78%) Python
3 83 (3.38%) Java
4 66 (2.69%) C#
5 63 (2.57%) T-SQL
6 45 (1.83%) R
7 40 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 36 (1.47%) C
9 34 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 21 (0.86%) Rust
11 20 (0.81%) C++
12 17 (0.69%) PHP
13 16 (0.65%) Go
13 16 (0.65%) Scala
14 14 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.57%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.53%) VBA
16 12 (0.49%) Bash
16 12 (0.49%) TypeScript
17 8 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 532 (21.67%) Degree
2 142 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 87 (3.54%) Master's Degree
4 80 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 47 (1.91%) Numerate Degree
6 42 (1.71%) ACCA
6 42 (1.71%) CIMA
7 36 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.10%) SC Cleared
10 26 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.90%) MBA
12 18 (0.73%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.73%) PhD
13 17 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 16 (0.65%) CISSP
15 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.41%) CISM
17 9 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
18 8 (0.33%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 449 (18.29%) Data Quality
2 272 (11.08%) GDPR
3 115 (4.68%) QA
4 61 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 19 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 18 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
7 11 (0.45%) PSD2
8 10 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 10 (0.41%) CDISC
8 10 (0.41%) PMO
9 9 (0.37%) COSHH
10 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.33%) SLA
11 7 (0.29%) GRC
12 6 (0.24%) GAAP
12 6 (0.24%) IFRS
13 5 (0.20%) COBIT
13 5 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 35 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.22%) Docker
3 28 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 21 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.20%) DFS Replication
5 5 (0.20%) Firmware
5 5 (0.20%) NFS
5 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.041%) HDFS
7 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (1.55%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.34%) Terraform
3 17 (0.69%) FortiGate
4 16 (0.65%) Ansible
5 9 (0.37%) Grafana
6 8 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (0.33%) Puppet
7 5 (0.20%) NetBackup
7 5 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.20%) SCOM
7 5 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (0.16%) Nagios
8 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.081%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.041%) Consul
11 1 (0.041%) FTK
11 1 (0.041%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.041%) Packer
11 1 (0.041%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 469 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 417 (16.99%) Oracle
3 411 (16.74%) SAP
4 301 (12.26%) Hyperion
5 299 (12.18%) Anaplan
6 118 (4.81%) Databricks
7 89 (3.63%) Salesforce
8 73 (2.97%) NEC
9 64 (2.61%) Google
10 53 (2.16%) Informatica
11 41 (1.67%) Virgin Media
12 30 (1.22%) Cisco
13 27 (1.10%) VMware
14 20 (0.81%) HP
15 18 (0.73%) Openreach
15 18 (0.73%) ServiceNow
16 17 (0.69%) Darktrace
17 14 (0.57%) Alteryx
18 12 (0.49%) F5
19 11 (0.45%) Facebook