Data Lineage Job Trends in the North of England

Data Lineage
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 268 280
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 +118
Permanent jobs citing Data Lineage 10 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.094% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £77,000 £51,411 £42,401
25th Percentile £80,000 £59,903 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £66,367 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% +2.00% -29.66%
75th Percentile - £74,835 £66,778
90th Percentile - £86,934 £100,960
England median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.79% +3.70% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Lineage 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 8,534 8,257 7,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.28% 90.52% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 3,687 5,939
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,850 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Lineage
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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 -6 10 £85,000 +82.80% 3
Data Lineage
England

Data Lineage
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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) dbt
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Metadata
2 9 (90.00%) DynamoDB
2 9 (90.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Looker
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 8 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
1 9 (90.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 10 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (90.00%) Data Architecture
2 9 (90.00%) Data Integration
2 9 (90.00%) Logical Data Model
2 9 (90.00%) Physical Data Model
3 8 (80.00%) Agile
4 7 (70.00%) Data Design
4 7 (70.00%) Impact Analysis
4 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (30.00%) Data Science
8 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
8 2 (20.00%) Quality Management
8 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR