Data Lineage Job Trends in England

Data Lineage
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 623 564
Rank change year-on-year +87 -59 +172
Permanent jobs citing Data Lineage 70 50 111
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42 30 56
10th Percentile - £45,175 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -12.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,250 £93,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Lineage 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 42,678 44,368 42,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.92% 90.27% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,472 22,014 32,621
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lineage relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in England

Data Lineage
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Lineage.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Lineage

Data Lineage
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lineage in England

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London +86 50 £73,750 -14.49% 15
North of England +25 10 £85,000 +28.08% 6
Yorkshire +6 10 £85,000 +82.80% 3
South East - 5 £69,840 - 5
South West +12 3 £45,000 -
Midlands +20 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Data Lineage
UK

Data Lineage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 11 (15.71%) Apache Spark
2 7 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (8.57%) Apache
4 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (12.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) Azure
2 25 (35.71%) AWS
3 21 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 15 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (11.43%) Fivetran
7 7 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (10.00%) dbt
8 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.14%) Collibra
9 5 (7.14%) Snowflake
10 4 (5.71%) Matillion
11 3 (4.29%) GCP
12 2 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
13 1 (1.43%) SaaS
13 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (54.29%) Metadata
2 24 (34.29%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (28.57%) Power BI
4 19 (27.14%) NoSQL
5 15 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
7 9 (12.86%) Big Data
7 9 (12.86%) DynamoDB
7 9 (12.86%) Hadoop
8 8 (11.43%) Tableau
9 7 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (8.57%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (5.71%) Data Vault
12 4 (5.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.43%) ERwin
2 1 (1.43%) Postman
General
1 35 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (48.57%) Social Skills
3 16 (22.86%) Finance
4 13 (18.57%) Public Sector
5 9 (12.86%) Law
6 4 (5.71%) Games
6 4 (5.71%) Legal
7 3 (4.29%) Banking
7 3 (4.29%) Marketing
8 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.86%) Retail
9 1 (1.43%) Automotive
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Electronics
9 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Lead
2 18 (25.71%) Data Engineer
3 17 (24.29%) Architect
4 16 (22.86%) Data Architect
5 10 (14.29%) Senior
6 9 (12.86%) Consultant
6 9 (12.86%) Product Lead
7 6 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Data Consultant
9 4 (5.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Snowflake Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Manager
11 2 (2.86%) Analyst
11 2 (2.86%) AWS Architect
11 2 (2.86%) Data Modeller
11 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (2.86%) Operations Manager
11 2 (2.86%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.29%) Kafka
2 3 (4.29%) PySpark
2 3 (4.29%) REST
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.43%) LangChain
4 1 (1.43%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.43%) RESTful
4 1 (1.43%) SOAP
4 1 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.43%) Data Structures
2 11 (15.71%) Product Ownership
3 9 (12.86%) FMCG
4 6 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 53 (75.71%) Data Modelling
3 43 (61.43%) Analytics
4 39 (55.71%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (45.71%) ETL
6 29 (41.43%) Data Engineering
6 29 (41.43%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (41.43%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (40.00%) Data Architecture
8 26 (37.14%) CI/CD
9 25 (35.71%) DevOps
10 24 (34.29%) Data Integration
11 23 (32.86%) Metadata Management
12 17 (24.29%) AI
12 17 (24.29%) Decision-Making
12 17 (24.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (21.43%) Data Analytics
14 14 (20.00%) Machine Learning
15 13 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (54.29%) SQL
2 27 (38.57%) Python
3 5 (7.14%) Bash
4 4 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.43%) Scala
6 1 (1.43%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.43%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) Degree
5 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.43%) MCSE
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (65.71%) Data Quality
2 15 (21.43%) Accessibility
3 9 (12.86%) GDPR
3 9 (12.86%) QA
4 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.86%) PERC
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.43%) FATCA
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) Databricks
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.29%) Foundry
3 10 (14.29%) SAP
4 9 (12.86%) Palantir
5 4 (5.71%) Dataiku
6 3 (4.29%) Oracle
7 1 (1.43%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.43%) Sparx
7 1 (1.43%) Teradata