Data Management Job Trends in London

Data Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 68 75
Rank change year-on-year -88 +7 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 300 546 871
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.48% 4.35% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 4.53% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 141 353 446
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £35,941
25th Percentile £51,425 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,500 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £152,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +25.00% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,535 12,058 21,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.71% 96.07% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,114 7,346 16,001
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,357 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in London

Data Management
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in London

Data Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London -25 78 £68,961 -13.80% 21
West London -15 18 - - 3
South London +24 16 £54,150 +5.15% 1
East London -10 6 £92,500 +86.87% 5
Data Management
England

Data Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.33%) WordPress
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.67%) Confluence
6 2 (0.67%) Moodle
6 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) CICS
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (6.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (6.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.00%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (1.00%) Misys Opics
4 2 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Endur
5 1 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.33%) Relativity
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG-M
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG-S
5 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (32.00%) Azure
2 76 (25.33%) Power Platform
3 63 (21.00%) AWS
4 53 (17.67%) GCP
5 50 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 31 (10.33%) dbt
7 18 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 9 (3.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (2.33%) Google Analytics
11 6 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.67%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.33%) Collibra
13 4 (1.33%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.33%) MailChimp
13 4 (1.33%) SaaS
14 3 (1.00%) H2O.ai
14 3 (1.00%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.00%) Broadband
2 2 (0.67%) BGP
2 2 (0.67%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.67%) DNS
2 2 (0.67%) Firewall
2 2 (0.67%) Internet
2 2 (0.67%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.33%) CTI
3 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.33%) LAN
3 1 (0.33%) MPLS
3 1 (0.33%) OSPF
3 1 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.33%) VLAN
3 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (24.33%) Power BI
2 67 (22.33%) Data Lake
2 67 (22.33%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (15.33%) Metadata
4 29 (9.67%) Tableau
5 25 (8.33%) BigQuery
6 19 (6.33%) SQL Server
7 17 (5.67%) Looker
8 16 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (5.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 14 (4.67%) Metabase
10 7 (2.33%) GIS
10 7 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.00%) Data Mart
12 3 (1.00%) Oracle BI EE
12 3 (1.00%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.33%) MLflow
2 14 (4.67%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.67%) Git
4 4 (1.33%) JIRA
5 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.67%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 128 (42.67%) Finance
2 97 (32.33%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (29.67%) Social Skills
4 39 (13.00%) Marketing
5 32 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (9.33%) Banking
7 25 (8.33%) Law
7 25 (8.33%) Legal
8 23 (7.67%) Financial Institution
9 18 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (5.00%) Retail Banking
11 14 (4.67%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (3.67%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.33%) Agriculture
13 7 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.00%) Retail
15 5 (1.67%) Front Office
15 5 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 3 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 62 (20.67%) Senior
2 50 (16.67%) Architect
3 42 (14.00%) Analyst
4 38 (12.67%) Data Architect
5 27 (9.00%) IT Analyst
6 26 (8.67%) IT Support
6 26 (8.67%) IT Support Analyst
6 26 (8.67%) Support Analyst
7 22 (7.33%) Lead
8 18 (6.00%) Campaign Manager
8 18 (6.00%) Data Management Specialist
8 18 (6.00%) Product Specialist
9 17 (5.67%) Financial Analyst
10 16 (5.33%) Consultant
10 16 (5.33%) Data Consultant
10 16 (5.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 16 (5.33%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (5.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 15 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
12 14 (4.67%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.67%) Kafka
2 19 (6.33%) PyTorch
2 19 (6.33%) TensorFlow
3 16 (5.33%) LangChain
3 16 (5.33%) LlamaIndex
3 16 (5.33%) pgvector
3 16 (5.33%) scikit-learn
4 7 (2.33%) Matplotlib
4 7 (2.33%) Seaborn
5 4 (1.33%) React
5 4 (1.33%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.00%) Keras
6 3 (1.00%) REST
7 2 (0.67%) .NET
7 2 (0.67%) EDI
7 2 (0.67%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.67%) OAuth
7 2 (0.67%) Playwright
7 2 (0.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.33%) Marketing Technology
3 21 (7.00%) Social Media
4 19 (6.33%) Product Ownership
5 18 (6.00%) Over-the-Top Content
6 16 (5.33%) Clustering
6 16 (5.33%) Public Cloud
7 14 (4.67%) Reference Data
8 13 (4.33%) Management Information System
9 12 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (3.67%) Video Conferencing
11 10 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (3.00%) Algorithms
12 9 (3.00%) e-Learning
13 8 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
14 6 (2.00%) Data Structures
14 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.67%) Data Centre
16 4 (1.33%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.67%) Windows
2 4 (1.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.33%) MVS
3 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (46.00%) Analytics
2 87 (29.00%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (29.00%) Data Governance
3 85 (28.33%) Decision-Making
4 74 (24.67%) Data Modelling
5 72 (24.00%) AI
6 57 (19.00%) Data Engineering
7 55 (18.33%) Data Science
8 51 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 48 (16.00%) ETL
11 45 (15.00%) Machine Learning
11 45 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 44 (14.67%) Data Strategy
13 42 (14.00%) Agile
14 41 (13.67%) Data Architecture
15 40 (13.33%) Use Case
16 38 (12.67%) Migration
17 37 (12.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 35 (11.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.33%) SQL
2 60 (20.00%) Python
3 8 (2.67%) Java
4 4 (1.33%) C#
4 4 (1.33%) C++
4 4 (1.33%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.33%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.33%) Bash
6 1 (0.33%) REXX
6 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (19.33%) Degree
2 24 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 21 (7.00%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.67%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.67%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.67%) A+ Certification
7 8 (2.67%) CISA
7 8 (2.67%) CISM
7 8 (2.67%) CISSP
7 8 (2.67%) ISACA
7 8 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.67%) SANS
8 7 (2.33%) Postgraduate
9 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.67%) CRISC
10 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.00%) GDPR
3 20 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.00%) NIST
5 9 (3.00%) QA
6 8 (2.67%) GRC
6 8 (2.67%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.33%) IFRS
9 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.00%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.67%) EMIR
10 2 (0.67%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.67%) GAAP
10 2 (0.67%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.67%) PMO
11 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.33%) PERC
11 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) ACF2
3 1 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.33%) RACF
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (2.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 8 (2.67%) RSA Archer
1 8 (2.67%) Terraform
2 6 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.67%) Ansible
3 2 (0.67%) Grafana
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.67%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 48 (16.00%) Databricks
3 37 (12.33%) Dell
4 24 (8.00%) Informatica
5 18 (6.00%) Adobe
5 18 (6.00%) Denodo
5 18 (6.00%) Teradata
6 17 (5.67%) Cloudera
7 13 (4.33%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.67%) Google
9 5 (1.67%) Oracle
9 5 (1.67%) SAP
10 3 (1.00%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.00%) Palantir
11 2 (0.67%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.67%) Cisco
11 2 (0.67%) Freshdesk
11 2 (0.67%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.67%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.67%) Workday