Data Management Job Trends in England

Data Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 70 106
Rank change year-on-year -139 +36 +46
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 762 1,589 2,121
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 4.06% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 4.34% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 412 731 1,176
10th Percentile £31,515 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% +25.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £125,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.67% +25.00% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,033 36,575 71,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.81% 93.39% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 39,422 20,210 53,694
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in England

Data Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in England

Data Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 -90 296 £75,000 -16.67% 131
North of England -90 108 £62,500 +4.17% 60
South East -154 104 £50,001 -30.47% 80
Midlands -53 88 £62,000 +10.29% 42
East of England -30 78 £53,500 -29.61% 15
South West -94 67 £42,500 -32.00% 29
North West -58 60 £50,000 -28.57% 36
West Midlands -54 58 £62,000 -4.62% 25
Yorkshire -61 41 £63,076 +129.37% 20
East Midlands -42 30 £65,000 +54.76% 17
North East -41 7 £70,932 +18.22% 4
Data Management
UK

Data Management
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 33 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.31%) SAS
5 5 (0.66%) WordPress
6 4 (0.52%) Moodle
7 3 (0.39%) Confluence
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.26%) Apache
8 2 (0.26%) Totara
8 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 95 (12.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.26%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.26%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (4.46%) Adobe Campaign
2 18 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (1.18%) Magento
3 9 (1.18%) Shopify
4 8 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.66%) Raiser’s Edge
6 3 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.39%) Maximo
6 3 (0.39%) Misys Opics
7 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.26%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.13%) Relativity
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG-M
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 193 (25.33%) Azure
2 181 (23.75%) Power Platform
3 135 (17.72%) AWS
4 84 (11.02%) GCP
5 71 (9.32%) Snowflake
6 46 (6.04%) dbt
7 39 (5.12%) Power Automate
8 26 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.36%) SaaS
11 16 (2.10%) Serverless
12 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (1.71%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.57%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
16 9 (1.18%) Veeva
17 8 (1.05%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.72%) Broadband
2 19 (2.49%) Firewall
3 14 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (1.71%) LAN
4 13 (1.71%) WAN
5 10 (1.31%) VLAN
6 9 (1.18%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.18%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.18%) WebEx
7 6 (0.79%) BGP
8 5 (0.66%) DNS
9 3 (0.39%) DHCP
9 3 (0.39%) Internet
9 3 (0.39%) NAS
9 3 (0.39%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.39%) SAN
9 3 (0.39%) VPN
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.26%) MQTT
10 2 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (22.18%) Power BI
2 104 (13.65%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (12.60%) Metadata
4 88 (11.55%) Data Lake
5 58 (7.61%) Tableau
6 41 (5.38%) BigQuery
6 41 (5.38%) SQL Server
7 33 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.15%) Looker
10 23 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.97%) Power Query
12 14 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (1.71%) Metabase
14 12 (1.57%) Big Data
14 12 (1.57%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.31%) Spotfire
16 9 (1.18%) NoSQL
16 9 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (1.05%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (3.02%) JIRA
1 23 (3.02%) MLflow
2 15 (1.97%) Visual Studio
3 13 (1.71%) Git
4 9 (1.18%) GitLab
5 8 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.39%) Maven
6 3 (0.39%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) Mocha
8 1 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 250 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 232 (30.45%) Finance
3 198 (25.98%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (12.47%) Marketing
5 74 (9.71%) Public Sector
6 72 (9.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (6.82%) Retail
8 49 (6.43%) Banking
9 40 (5.25%) Telecoms
10 37 (4.86%) Legal
11 35 (4.59%) Law
12 28 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (3.28%) Manufacturing
14 24 (3.15%) Financial Institution
15 16 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (1.84%) Back Office
17 14 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (1.84%) Retail Banking
18 8 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 145 (19.03%) Senior
2 107 (14.04%) Analyst
3 90 (11.81%) Data Manager
4 88 (11.55%) Architect
5 68 (8.92%) Data Architect
6 60 (7.87%) Lead
7 44 (5.77%) Senior Manager
8 43 (5.64%) IT Support
9 42 (5.51%) Administrator
10 37 (4.86%) Support Analyst
11 36 (4.72%) Campaign Manager
12 35 (4.59%) Data Analyst
13 29 (3.81%) Data Engineer
14 28 (3.67%) Product Specialist
15 27 (3.54%) Governance Manager
16 26 (3.41%) Consultant
16 26 (3.41%) Data Governance Analyst
16 26 (3.41%) Data Governance Manager
16 26 (3.41%) IT Analyst
16 26 (3.41%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.94%) Kafka
2 27 (3.54%) PyTorch
2 27 (3.54%) TensorFlow
3 23 (3.02%) LangChain
3 23 (3.02%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (3.02%) pgvector
3 23 (3.02%) scikit-learn
4 18 (2.36%) REST
5 16 (2.10%) Middleware
6 15 (1.97%) EDI
6 15 (1.97%) SOAP
7 12 (1.57%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.18%) XMPP
9 8 (1.05%) .NET
9 8 (1.05%) Node.js
9 8 (1.05%) React
10 7 (0.92%) Matplotlib
10 7 (0.92%) Seaborn
11 6 (0.79%) OAuth
11 6 (0.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.17%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 46 (6.04%) Social Media
4 44 (5.77%) Marketing Technology
5 34 (4.46%) Over-the-Top Content
5 34 (4.46%) Public Cloud
6 25 (3.28%) Life Science
7 23 (3.02%) Clustering
7 23 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 20 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
9 19 (2.49%) Reference Data
10 17 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.10%) e-Learning
11 16 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.71%) Replication
13 12 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.57%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.44%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.02%) Windows
2 14 (1.84%) Linux
3 10 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) MVS
4 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (34.78%) Analytics
2 215 (28.22%) Data Governance
3 211 (27.69%) Business Intelligence
4 178 (23.36%) Decision-Making
5 164 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (19.16%) Data Modelling
7 126 (16.54%) AI
8 116 (15.22%) Agile
9 108 (14.17%) Data Strategy
10 101 (13.25%) Data Engineering
11 98 (12.86%) Data Science
12 96 (12.60%) ETL
13 95 (12.47%) CRM
14 91 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 89 (11.68%) Visualisation
16 84 (11.02%) Data Architecture
17 82 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
18 81 (10.63%) DevOps
19 72 (9.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 181 (23.75%) SQL
2 114 (14.96%) Python
3 19 (2.49%) Java
4 15 (1.97%) TypeScript
5 13 (1.71%) C#
5 13 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.71%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.31%) VBA
7 7 (0.92%) C++
8 6 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.79%) Scala
9 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.26%) PHP
11 2 (0.26%) R
12 1 (0.13%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) SHACL
12 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 168 (22.05%) Degree
2 43 (5.64%) Master's Degree
3 41 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 28 (3.67%) SC Cleared
5 25 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 23 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.10%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.44%) A+ Certification
10 10 (1.31%) CITP
11 9 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.18%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.18%) PMP
12 8 (1.05%) CISA
12 8 (1.05%) CISM
12 8 (1.05%) CISSP
12 8 (1.05%) ISACA
12 8 (1.05%) SANS
13 7 (0.92%) Postgraduate
14 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (24.93%) Data Quality
2 90 (11.81%) GDPR
3 40 (5.25%) QA
4 35 (4.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 23 (3.02%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.31%) Good Clinical Practice
8 9 (1.18%) NIST
9 8 (1.05%) GRC
9 8 (1.05%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.79%) PERC
12 4 (0.52%) IFRS
13 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.39%) PMO
13 3 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (1.97%) Docker
2 13 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.79%) vSphere
5 5 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) ACF2
6 1 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 29 (3.81%) Terraform
2 19 (2.49%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.71%) Ansible
3 13 (1.71%) Grafana
4 9 (1.18%) Cisco CUCM
5 8 (1.05%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 8 (1.05%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 187 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.71%) Databricks
3 51 (6.69%) Dell
4 39 (5.12%) Adobe
5 36 (4.72%) SAP
6 33 (4.33%) Informatica
7 32 (4.20%) Salesforce
8 24 (3.15%) Cloudera
8 24 (3.15%) Denodo
8 24 (3.15%) Google
8 24 (3.15%) Teradata
9 22 (2.89%) Oracle
10 15 (1.97%) Cisco
11 14 (1.84%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.44%) Splunk
12 11 (1.44%) VMware
13 9 (1.18%) ConnectWise
13 9 (1.18%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.18%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.18%) WooCommerce