Data Development Job Trends in the North of England

Data Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 265 271
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +121
Permanent jobs citing Data Development 4 9 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.037% 0.099% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.11% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £55,750 £36,750 -
25th Percentile £56,875 £41,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.34% -18.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,410 £58,750
90th Percentile - £60,885 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,629 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.28% +4.04% +6.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Development 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,588 8,260 7,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.47% 90.41% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,575 3,682 5,707
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -1.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Development job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Development
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Development

Data Development
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Development within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire -4 4 £60,000 +1.89% 1
Data Development
England

Data Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (75.00%) dbt
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (75.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (75.00%) People Management
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Release Management
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Debt
1 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft