Data Management Job Trends in Central London

Data Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 65 73
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 68 130 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 2.66% 4.04% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 4.22% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 60 70 92
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,762 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -11.29% +10.71%
75th Percentile £104,375 £105,000 £99,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £180,000 £119,500
London median annual salary £71,028 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -21.08% +16.13% +3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Management 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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,233 3,083 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.26% 95.89% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,839 2,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Data Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Management
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in Central London

Data Management
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
City of London +15 66 £80,000 +23.08% 21
Southwark +8 1 £46,250 -
Data Management
London

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (2.94%) Apache
1 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (20.59%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (19.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.47%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Adaptiv
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.94%) Azure
2 16 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.29%) dbt
3 7 (10.29%) GCP
4 6 (8.82%) Snowflake
5 5 (7.35%) AWS
5 5 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (5.88%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.94%) Alation
7 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.94%) GitHub
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.94%) SaaS
7 2 (2.94%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.47%) Social Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (23.53%) Power BI
3 12 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 9 (13.24%) Metadata
5 8 (11.76%) Data Lake
6 7 (10.29%) Tableau
7 6 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (7.35%) Metabase
9 4 (5.88%) BigQuery
9 4 (5.88%) Data Mining
10 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (2.94%) DataStage
11 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.94%) QlikView
12 1 (1.47%) Big Data
12 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
12 1 (1.47%) MS Access
12 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
12 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.94%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.94%) ERwin
2 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) PowerDesigner
General
1 39 (57.35%) Finance
2 37 (54.41%) Social Skills
3 21 (30.88%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (22.06%) Law
4 15 (22.06%) Legal
5 12 (17.65%) Telecoms
6 10 (14.71%) Banking
6 10 (14.71%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (4.41%) Advertising
9 3 (4.41%) International Banking
9 3 (4.41%) Marketing
10 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.94%) Retail
10 2 (2.94%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (41.18%) Analyst
2 17 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 17 (25.00%) IT Support
2 17 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 17 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 12 (17.65%) IT Support Specialist
3 12 (17.65%) Support Specialist
4 11 (16.18%) Architect
4 11 (16.18%) Data Analyst
5 10 (14.71%) Data Architect
5 10 (14.71%) Lead
6 8 (11.76%) Business Analyst
6 8 (11.76%) Data Business Analyst
6 8 (11.76%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Systems Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Systems Support
7 5 (7.35%) Systems Support Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.47%) .NET
1 1 (1.47%) CSS
1 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.47%) HTML
1 1 (1.47%) Kafka
1 1 (1.47%) Keras
1 1 (1.47%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.47%) REST
1 1 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (7.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.35%) Credit Risk
2 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.41%) Market Risk
3 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.41%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) DTCC
5 1 (1.47%) FMCG
5 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Life Science
5 1 (1.47%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.12%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) Analytics
2 21 (30.88%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (29.41%) Data Governance
4 18 (26.47%) Data Modelling
5 17 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (25.00%) ITIL
6 14 (20.59%) Decision-Making
7 13 (19.12%) AI
8 12 (17.65%) Document Management
8 12 (17.65%) Migration
9 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (14.71%) ETL
10 10 (14.71%) Process Improvement
11 9 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (13.24%) Roadmaps
11 9 (13.24%) Validation
12 8 (11.76%) Business Analysis
12 8 (11.76%) Data Analysis
12 8 (11.76%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.00%) SQL
2 10 (14.71%) Python
3 3 (4.41%) Java
3 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Degree
2 12 (17.65%) A+ Certification
3 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (4.41%) CFA
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.41%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.41%) PMP
5 2 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) MCSE
6 1 (1.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.47%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.47%) EMIR
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.47%) MiFID
4 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (45.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Databricks
3 5 (7.35%) Informatica
4 4 (5.88%) Google
5 2 (2.94%) Dell
5 2 (2.94%) FIS
5 2 (2.94%) IBM
5 2 (2.94%) Murex
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.47%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.47%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Samsung
6 1 (1.47%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) VMware