Data Discovery Job Trends in England

Data Discovery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 623 738 660
Rank change year-on-year +115 -78 +378
Permanent jobs citing Data Discovery 8 11 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.016% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.020% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 44
10th Percentile - £33,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £36,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £58,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -22.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £82,250 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £58,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +28.21% -22.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Discovery 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,365 55,907 49,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.78% 82.20% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 21,959 30,789 37,808
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,800 £62,325
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -5.66% +3.87%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in England

Data Discovery
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Discovery in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Discovery in England

Data Discovery
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Discovery within the England region over the 6 months to 26 September 2025. 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
London +101 7 £62,500 -23.08% 12
Midlands - 1 £80,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £80,000 - 1
Data Discovery
UK

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Law
3 3 (37.50%) Legal
3 3 (37.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Data Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Manager
2 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Manager
2 3 (37.50%) IT Security Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Security Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior IT Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior IT Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Product Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Team
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) Data Security
2 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) Key Management
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) SABSA
3 3 (37.50%) Secrets Management
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (37.50%) CCSK
2 3 (37.50%) CCSP
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) CASB
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Symantec
1 3 (37.50%) Zscaler
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Pega
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
19 Data Discovery jobs in England