Data Management Job Trends in the North of England

Data Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 110 122
Rank change year-on-year -59 +12 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 92 205 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.87% 2.19% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 2.43% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 61 101 125
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £37,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -2.49%
75th Percentile £71,250 £64,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,822 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% +7.41% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,586 8,432 6,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.52% 89.96% 90.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,540 3,812 5,440
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,225 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Data Management
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the North of England

Data Management
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 Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
North West -24 63 £52,500 +5.00% 23
Yorkshire -44 24 £60,000 - 15
North East 0 5 £77,500 +71.27% 7
Data Management
England

Data Management
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 (3.26%) Apache
1 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.17%) CMS
2 2 (2.17%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.17%) Magnolia
2 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) WordPress
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.26%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Maximo
2 2 (2.17%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.09%) Primavera
3 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 19 (20.65%) Azure
3 10 (10.87%) AWS
4 9 (9.78%) SaaS
5 7 (7.61%) Snowflake
6 5 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.43%) Collibra
7 4 (4.35%) dbt
7 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (3.26%) GCP
8 3 (3.26%) GitHub
8 3 (3.26%) iPaaS
8 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.26%) OCI
8 3 (3.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.83%) Power BI
2 13 (14.13%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.78%) Data Vault
5 8 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.70%) Metadata
6 5 (5.43%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (5.43%) GIS
7 4 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (4.35%) Data Mining
7 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.26%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (3.26%) QGIS
8 3 (3.26%) Spatial Data
8 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.17%) Ataccama
9 2 (2.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) GitLab
2 4 (4.35%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.09%) LSMW
General
1 43 (46.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (36.96%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (35.87%) Finance
4 12 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (10.87%) Banking
6 9 (9.78%) Law
6 9 (9.78%) Legal
7 8 (8.70%) Marketing
8 7 (7.61%) Retail
9 6 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (5.43%) Advertising
10 5 (5.43%) Investment Banking
11 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
12 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (20.65%) Analyst
2 11 (11.96%) Data Manager
3 10 (10.87%) Architect
3 10 (10.87%) Data Analyst
3 10 (10.87%) Developer
3 10 (10.87%) Senior
4 7 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.52%) Snowflake Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle Architect
8 3 (3.26%) GIS Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) GIS Technician
8 3 (3.26%) Lead
8 3 (3.26%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Operations Technician
8 3 (3.26%) Oracle Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Finance Manager
9 2 (2.17%) Salesforce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) Middleware
1 3 (3.26%) Pandas
1 3 (3.26%) Snowpark
2 2 (2.17%) .NET
2 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.17%) Grails
2 2 (2.17%) Hibernate
2 2 (2.17%) Spring
2 2 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.43%) Blog
4 5 (5.43%) Taxonomies
5 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.17%) IoT
7 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.09%) Life Science
8 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.09%) SCADA
8 1 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.30%) Data Governance
2 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (22.83%) Decision-Making
5 17 (18.48%) Data Modelling
6 16 (17.39%) Analytics
7 15 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (16.30%) Visualisation
8 14 (15.22%) Agile
9 13 (14.13%) AI
9 13 (14.13%) Data Science
9 13 (14.13%) ETL
10 12 (13.04%) Data Strategy
10 12 (13.04%) DevOps
10 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (11.96%) Business Strategy
11 11 (11.96%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (10.87%) Actionable Insight
12 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
12 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.13%) SQL
2 20 (21.74%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) ANSI SQL
4 4 (4.35%) Java
4 4 (4.35%) VBA
5 3 (3.26%) R
6 2 (2.17%) C#
6 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.09%) SHACL
7 1 (1.09%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Degree
2 5 (5.43%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) CISSP
5 1 (1.09%) HNC
5 1 (1.09%) HND
5 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (33.70%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.96%) GDPR
3 6 (6.52%) QA
4 5 (5.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (5.43%) GLBA
5 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.17%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.17%) NIST
7 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.04%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) iManage
3 5 (5.43%) SAP
4 4 (4.35%) Facebook
4 4 (4.35%) Google
4 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.26%) ESRI
5 3 (3.26%) IFS
6 2 (2.17%) Databricks
6 2 (2.17%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.17%) SnapLogic
6 2 (2.17%) Talend
6 2 (2.17%) Workday
6 2 (2.17%) Zoho
7 1 (1.09%) Informatica
7 1 (1.09%) Software AG
7 1 (1.09%) webMethods