Data Design Job Trends in Manchester

Data Design
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 146 144
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 +99
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 5 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.17% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - - £57,180
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,809 £57,736
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,206 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% +1.59% -7.31%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,552 £63,719
90th Percentile - £67,121 £64,849
North West median annual salary £65,000 £61,206 £60,728
% change year-on-year +6.20% +0.79% +0.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,287 2,496 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.63% 93.83% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,167 1,854
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Design
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Design

Data Design
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Design in Manchester

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior .NET Web Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Web Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Physical Data Model
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks