Data Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 821 889
Rank change year-on-year +64 +68 -124
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 139 149 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 91 68 218
10th Percentile £52,325 £40,566 £42,350
25th Percentile £56,809 £53,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -
75th Percentile £90,625 £92,813 £80,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £47,375 £57,301
% change year-on-year +34.04% -17.32% -5.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Design 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
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 Design within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +124 124 £65,000 -11.86% 24
UK excluding London +77 119 £63,500 +34.04% 13
Work from Home +89 52 £61,206 -9.32% 6
South East +44 36 £85,000 +42.89% 1
Midlands +37 35 £55,000 +74.60% 2
West Midlands +57 32 £55,000 +29.41% 2
North of England +59 21 £61,206 +28.85% 1
London +86 18 £80,000 -7.25% 10
North West +18 12 £61,206 +32.34%
South West +8 12 £68,937 - 2
Yorkshire +95 8 £61,206 +2.01% 1
Wales +16 4 £52,956 -
Scotland -64 4 - -
Northern Ireland +31 3 - -
East Midlands -16 3 £65,000 +106.35%
East of England +13 2 £77,500 +22.05% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
North East -2 1 £61,206 -

Data Design
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 28 (20.14%) JBoss
1 28 (20.14%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.16%) SAS
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.37%) Azure
2 25 (17.99%) Matillion
2 25 (17.99%) Power Platform
2 25 (17.99%) Snowflake
3 19 (13.67%) Serverless
4 10 (7.19%) AWS
5 6 (4.32%) GCP
6 5 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.16%) Collibra
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.44%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (51.80%) Metadata
2 37 (26.62%) Data Lake
3 27 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (17.99%) Power BI
5 16 (11.51%) Relational Database
6 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.32%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.32%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.60%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (3.60%) Data Mining
8 5 (3.60%) Tableau
9 4 (2.88%) Big Data
9 4 (2.88%) MySQL
10 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.16%) Data Hub
10 3 (2.16%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.16%) SAS EBI
11 2 (1.44%) Ataccama
12 1 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 28 (20.14%) IntelliJ
2 1 (0.72%) ERwin
2 1 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 43 (30.94%) Finance
2 36 (25.90%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (21.58%) Public Sector
4 29 (20.86%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.76%) Retail
6 6 (4.32%) Billing
7 5 (3.60%) Banking
7 5 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.88%) Wearables
9 3 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Legal
10 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Police
11 1 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
11 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (58.99%) Architect
2 75 (53.96%) Data Architect
3 55 (39.57%) Senior
4 28 (20.14%) Java Engineer
4 28 (20.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 28 (20.14%) Senior Java Engineer
4 28 (20.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 28 (20.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 28 (20.14%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) Enterprise Architect
6 14 (10.07%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 13 (9.35%) Senior Architect
7 13 (9.35%) Senior Data Architect
8 11 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.76%) Lead
10 6 (4.32%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Data Manager
10 6 (4.32%) Domain Architect
11 4 (2.88%) Lead Data Architect
11 4 (2.88%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.86%) JSON
1 29 (20.86%) REST
2 28 (20.14%) AngularJS
2 28 (20.14%) Hibernate
2 28 (20.14%) Java EE
2 28 (20.14%) JPA
2 28 (20.14%) RESTful
2 28 (20.14%) SOAP
2 28 (20.14%) Spring
2 28 (20.14%) Web Services
2 28 (20.14%) XML
2 28 (20.14%) XSD
3 5 (3.60%) ATL
3 5 (3.60%) Shiny
4 2 (1.44%) .NET
4 2 (1.44%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.72%) EDI
5 1 (0.72%) Kafka
5 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.42%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.04%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.04%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.16%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.72%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.72%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (56.83%) Data Modelling
2 68 (48.92%) Analytics
3 66 (47.48%) Data Architecture
4 59 (42.45%) Agile
5 46 (33.09%) Data Management
6 43 (30.94%) Data Strategy
7 40 (28.78%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (28.06%) Metadata Management
9 38 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (26.62%) Mentoring
11 35 (25.18%) ETL
12 34 (24.46%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (22.30%) Data Analysis
14 30 (21.58%) Data Science
15 29 (20.86%) Collaborative Working
16 28 (20.14%) Actionable Insight
16 28 (20.14%) Front End Development
16 28 (20.14%) Logical Data Model
16 28 (20.14%) Software Engineering
16 28 (20.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.94%) SQL
2 32 (23.02%) T-SQL
3 28 (20.14%) Java
4 7 (5.04%) Python
5 5 (3.60%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (20.86%) SC Cleared
1 29 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.32%) Degree
3 2 (1.44%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.72%) CCNA
4 1 (0.72%) CCNP
4 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.72%) CISSP
4 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.27%) GDPR
2 22 (15.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (21.58%) Databricks
2 14 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.88%) SAP
4 3 (2.16%) Google
4 3 (2.16%) Oracle
5 1 (0.72%) Ab Initio
5 1 (0.72%) Cisco
5 1 (0.72%) Confluent
5 1 (0.72%) Denodo
5 1 (0.72%) Informatica
5 1 (0.72%) Peregrine