Data Discovery Job Trends in Manchester

Data Discovery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Discovery 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.079% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Discovery 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 4,603 2,265 4,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.17% 93.75% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,647 1,309 3,509
10th Percentile £32,950 £29,950 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -9.09%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Discovery job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Discovery
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (60.00%) Data Design
2 3 (60.00%) Data Mapping
2 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Storytelling
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) T-SQL