Data Management Job Trends in Lancashire

Data Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 -16 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 7 23 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.61% 2.89% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 3.16% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 10
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,114 £27,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,432 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +87.50% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £56,868 -
90th Percentile - £63,750 £30,575
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -20.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 968 727 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.62% 91.22% 77.71%
Number of salaries quoted 282 435 300
10th Percentile £25,087 £36,450 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +8.81% +2.22%
75th Percentile £54,798 £58,943 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,606 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Data Management
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in Lancashire

Data Management
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Preston +6 4 £40,000 -23.81% 5
Blackburn - 1 £27,000 -
Chorley - 1 £40,000 -
Ormskirk - 1 - -
Data Management
North West

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Headless CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Magnolia
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) LSMW
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) HR Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Governance
1 6 (85.71%) Decision-Making
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Business Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Data Security
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Master Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft