DAMA Job Trends in the City of London

DAMA International
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring DAMA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 164 178
Rank change year-on-year +40 +14 +104
Permanent jobs citing DAMA 2 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £81,375 - -
25th Percentile £81,563 £77,500 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £80,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +31.15% -32.22%
75th Percentile £86,563 £82,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £85,500 £67,100
Central London median annual salary £83,750 £80,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.69% +31.15% -32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

DAMA 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,528 2,583 3,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.92% 93.76% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,240 1,696 2,699
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DAMA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

DAMA job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DAMA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DAMA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle