Data Design Job Trends in London

Data Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 425 428
Rank change year-on-year +66 +3 +180
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 18 14 19
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% 0.087% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.093% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 17
10th Percentile £77,500 - -
25th Percentile - £90,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +15.15% -5.17%
75th Percentile - £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - - £112,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,778 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -5.28% +5.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,060 15,127 16,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.26% 94.13% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,749 8,618 13,368
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £116,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in London

Data Design
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Design

Data Design
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Design in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Design in London

Data Design
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design within the London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Central London +38 1 - -
Data Design
England

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
1 9 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 9 (50.00%) SaaS
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) Lucidchart
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) ADSL
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 9 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 9 (50.00%) Data Vault
1 9 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (44.44%) Data Mining
3 3 (16.67%) Metadata
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI
5 1 (5.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.56%) ERwin
General
1 9 (50.00%) Retail
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Architect
2 10 (55.56%) Data Architect
2 10 (55.56%) Senior
3 9 (50.00%) Azure Architect
3 9 (50.00%) Senior Architect
4 8 (44.44%) Azure Data Architect
4 8 (44.44%) Senior Data Architect
5 5 (27.78%) Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Lead
6 4 (22.22%) Lead Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Principal Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Principal Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
7 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Report Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Flutter
1 5 (27.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 10 (55.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (50.00%) Data Strategy
4 8 (44.44%) Kimball Methodology
5 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
5 5 (27.78%) SDLC
5 5 (27.78%) Secure Coding
5 5 (27.78%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (27.78%) Test Strategy
6 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
6 3 (16.67%) Metadata Management
7 2 (11.11%) Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Architectural Design
7 2 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
7 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 2 (11.11%) Data Management
7 2 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Go
2 5 (27.78%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) Kotlin
2 5 (27.78%) Scala
3 1 (5.56%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Sparx
2 1 (5.56%) Teradata