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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 172 163
Rank change year-on-year +57 -9 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 2,311 2,348 3,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 2.24% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.34% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,308 1,344 1,845
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,750 £37,312
25th Percentile £42,439 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,050
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.24% +4.43%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +11.65% +3.00%

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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
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 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 26 April 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 26 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 +50 2,074 £60,000 -7.69% 473
UK excluding London +64 1,349 £52,500 -8.70% 301
Work from Home +23 954 £60,000 -10.37% 219
London +48 861 £75,000 +7.14% 200
North of England +156 406 £52,500 -12.50% 71
South East +55 406 £50,000 -11.11% 79
Midlands +53 239 £55,000 -4.35% 45
North West +113 226 £52,500 -16.00% 44
West Midlands +49 156 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Yorkshire +136 141 £52,500 -14.29% 18
Scotland -1 126 £60,000 +9.09% 23
South West -88 88 £65,000 +7.89% 43
East Midlands +27 83 £44,550 -3.15% 19
East of England -19 59 £37,500 -34.78% 35
North East +25 39 £55,000 +5.77% 11
Wales +12 21 £46,060 -23.23% 18
Northern Ireland +27 3 £70,000 +86.67% 4
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 (13.67%) SAS
2 89 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (1.73%) Confluence
6 28 (1.21%) Apache
7 14 (0.61%) WordPress
8 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.39%) CMS
10 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 3 (0.13%) Orchard CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.087%) Kinematics
12 2 (0.087%) Luigi
12 2 (0.087%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 307 (13.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.56%) Sketch
6 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.30%) InDesign
8 7 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.30%) SPSS
9 6 (0.26%) Stata
10 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.043%) InVision
12 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 299 (12.94%) SAP ERP
2 39 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.25%) Primavera
4 14 (0.61%) SAP BPC
4 14 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.22%) Odoo
6 5 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.22%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.17%) Finacle
7 4 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
7 4 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
7 4 (0.17%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.17%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.13%) Endur
8 3 (0.13%) Maximo
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 385 (16.66%) Azure
2 323 (13.98%) Power Platform
3 220 (9.52%) AWS
4 145 (6.27%) GCP
5 72 (3.12%) Snowflake
6 61 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (2.42%) SaaS
9 55 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 50 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 44 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
12 42 (1.82%) PowerApps
13 33 (1.43%) Collibra
14 32 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (1.38%) GitHub
15 30 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
16 27 (1.17%) IaaS
17 26 (1.13%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.13%) Serverless
18 24 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 323 (13.98%) Broadband
2 35 (1.51%) Firewall
3 34 (1.47%) 5G
3 34 (1.47%) Wireless
4 31 (1.34%) WAN
5 29 (1.25%) Internet
6 23 (1.00%) LAN
7 22 (0.95%) Bluetooth
7 22 (0.95%) GSM
7 22 (0.95%) ISDN
7 22 (0.95%) LTE
7 22 (0.95%) PSTN
7 22 (0.95%) UMTS
7 22 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.87%) WPA
9 15 (0.65%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.61%) DHCP
10 14 (0.61%) DNS
11 13 (0.56%) SAN
12 12 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (12.64%) Power BI
2 193 (8.35%) Data Warehouse
3 152 (6.58%) Metadata
3 152 (6.58%) SQL Server
4 106 (4.59%) Data Lake
5 91 (3.94%) Tableau
6 58 (2.51%) Big Data
7 55 (2.38%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 47 (2.03%) BigQuery
10 45 (1.95%) Power Query
11 37 (1.60%) Data Vault
12 33 (1.43%) Relational Database
13 29 (1.25%) Looker
14 26 (1.13%) SAP BW
15 23 (1.00%) Data Mining
15 23 (1.00%) Delta Lake
16 22 (0.95%) MongoDB
17 20 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 178 (7.70%) JIRA
2 78 (3.38%) Git
3 43 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.08%) GitLab
5 22 (0.95%) LabVIEW
6 13 (0.56%) Spinnaker
7 12 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.48%) Selenium
9 9 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.39%) JUnit
10 8 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.26%) RStudio
12 4 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.17%) Xcode
13 3 (0.13%) ERwin
13 3 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.087%) MSTest
General
1 1,076 (46.56%) Social Skills
2 1,013 (43.83%) Finance
3 419 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (11.94%) Legal
5 266 (11.51%) Banking
6 165 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 138 (5.97%) Marketing
8 116 (5.02%) Retail
9 110 (4.76%) Law
10 99 (4.28%) Telecoms
11 74 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (2.60%) Manufacturing
13 51 (2.21%) Billing
14 44 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
15 41 (1.77%) Public Sector
16 35 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 32 (1.38%) Local Government
18 25 (1.08%) General Ledger
19 22 (0.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 496 (21.46%) Architect
2 343 (14.84%) Solutions Architect
3 300 (12.98%) Analyst
4 269 (11.64%) Senior
5 186 (8.05%) Data Manager
6 145 (6.27%) Data Engineer
7 143 (6.19%) Lead
8 137 (5.93%) Developer
9 131 (5.67%) Data Analyst
10 119 (5.15%) Data Architect
11 92 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
12 65 (2.81%) Consultant
13 48 (2.08%) Quantity Surveyor
14 46 (1.99%) Software Engineer
15 45 (1.95%) Senior Manager
16 44 (1.90%) Coordinator
17 38 (1.64%) Administrator
18 36 (1.56%) Senior Architect
18 36 (1.56%) Senior Data Engineer
19 35 (1.51%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.38%) .NET
2 29 (1.25%) Kafka
3 26 (1.13%) React
4 25 (1.08%) RESTful
5 24 (1.04%) Web Services
6 23 (1.00%) AngularJS
6 23 (1.00%) Middleware
7 22 (0.95%) Node.js
8 18 (0.78%) Apache Beam
9 15 (0.65%) HTML
10 14 (0.61%) Laravel
11 13 (0.56%) PySpark
12 12 (0.52%) CSS
13 11 (0.48%) EDI
14 10 (0.43%) ASP.NET
14 10 (0.43%) Pandas
15 9 (0.39%) Vue
16 8 (0.35%) ADO
16 8 (0.35%) LDAP
16 8 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 286 (12.38%) Management Information System
2 165 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (4.54%) Data Structures
4 102 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 76 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 52 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 46 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 46 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 41 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 39 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.60%) IoT
10 37 (1.60%) Reinsurance
11 36 (1.56%) Reference Data
12 33 (1.43%) Life Science
13 29 (1.25%) Taxonomies
14 23 (1.00%) Blog
15 22 (0.95%) Acoustics
15 22 (0.95%) Satnav
16 21 (0.91%) Driving Licence
17 19 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.99%) Linux
1 69 (2.99%) Windows
2 31 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 17 (0.74%) Unix
4 12 (0.52%) zOS
5 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.30%) Android
7 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.043%) AIX
9 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (33.36%) Agile
2 487 (21.07%) Analytics
3 486 (21.03%) Roadmaps
4 483 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
5 429 (18.56%) Data Governance
6 383 (16.57%) Business Intelligence
6 383 (16.57%) ERP
7 359 (15.53%) Change Management
8 344 (14.89%) Data Modelling
9 340 (14.71%) Performance Management
10 333 (14.41%) TOGAF
11 331 (14.32%) Strategic Roadmap
12 329 (14.24%) Enterprise Architecture
13 310 (13.41%) Data Analysis
14 280 (12.12%) ETL
15 270 (11.68%) Decision-Making
16 255 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 253 (10.95%) Visualisation
18 241 (10.43%) Data Strategy
19 228 (9.87%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 458 (19.82%) SQL
2 231 (10.00%) Python
3 81 (3.50%) Java
4 63 (2.73%) C#
5 57 (2.47%) T-SQL
6 49 (2.12%) R
7 44 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 33 (1.43%) C
9 29 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 22 (0.95%) C++
10 22 (0.95%) PHP
11 21 (0.91%) Rust
12 18 (0.78%) Go
13 17 (0.74%) Scala
14 14 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.56%) VBA
16 9 (0.39%) Bash
16 9 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 504 (21.81%) Degree
2 132 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 88 (3.81%) Master's Degree
4 85 (3.68%) Security Cleared
5 47 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
6 42 (1.82%) ACCA
6 42 (1.82%) CIMA
7 39 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.34%) SC Cleared
9 30 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.95%) MBA
12 19 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.78%) PhD
14 15 (0.65%) CISSP
15 12 (0.52%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.52%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
17 9 (0.39%) CISM
17 9 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (18.35%) Data Quality
2 252 (10.90%) GDPR
3 108 (4.67%) QA
4 54 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 15 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
7 11 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.48%) PSD2
8 10 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 10 (0.43%) CDISC
8 10 (0.43%) PMO
9 9 (0.39%) COSHH
10 6 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.26%) SLA
11 5 (0.22%) COBIT
11 5 (0.22%) GAAP
11 5 (0.22%) GRC
11 5 (0.22%) IFRS
11 5 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 39 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.34%) Docker
3 22 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.26%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.087%) Firmware
8 2 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.30%) Terraform
3 12 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (0.52%) Ansible
3 12 (0.52%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.30%) Grafana
4 7 (0.30%) Puppet
5 6 (0.26%) NetBackup
5 6 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 5 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.22%) SCOM
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.087%) Nagios
8 2 (0.087%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.043%) Consul
9 1 (0.043%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.043%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 417 (18.04%) Oracle
2 406 (17.57%) SAP
3 397 (17.18%) Microsoft
4 301 (13.02%) Hyperion
5 299 (12.94%) Anaplan
6 122 (5.28%) Databricks
7 84 (3.63%) Salesforce
8 69 (2.99%) Google
9 65 (2.81%) NEC
10 56 (2.42%) Informatica
11 41 (1.77%) Virgin Media
12 24 (1.04%) VMware
13 23 (1.00%) Cisco
14 19 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 18 (0.78%) Openreach
16 15 (0.65%) HP
17 14 (0.61%) Alteryx
18 13 (0.56%) Facebook
19 12 (0.52%) Darktrace
19 12 (0.52%) F5