Data Design Job Trends in the City of London

Data Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 147 172
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 +55
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.027% 0.095% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.099% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95,000 £49,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £51,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.08% - -
75th Percentile £105,000 £53,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £51,000 -
% change year-on-year +96.08% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Design 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 3,017 2,024 2,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 82.25% 95.97% 92.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,115 1,508 2,488
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Design
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Design

Data Design
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) IFRS
1 1 (100.00%) IFRS 17
1 1 (100.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft