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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 100 150
Rank change year-on-year -69 +50 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 105 270 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.07% 2.19% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.70% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 68 171 90
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,960 £37,872
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,307 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -10.48% -6.93%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,625 £72,137
90th Percentile £79,125 £87,500 £88,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -

All Process and 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 8,327 9,998 7,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.95% 80.94% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,608 4,668 5,392
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,450 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.50%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 -15 77 £48,500 -6.10% 50
Yorkshire -40 24 £49,000 -10.91% 33
North East -29 4 £48,000 +92.31% 4
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 (2.86%) Apache
1 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.86%) CMS
1 3 (2.86%) Headless CMS
1 3 (2.86%) Magnolia
1 3 (2.86%) WordPress
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.86%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.95%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.76%) Azure
2 20 (19.05%) AWS
3 19 (18.10%) Power Platform
4 12 (11.43%) GCP
5 7 (6.67%) SaaS
6 5 (4.76%) GitHub
6 5 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.81%) Collibra
7 4 (3.81%) dbt
7 4 (3.81%) OCI
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.86%) iPaaS
8 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.86%) Serverless
9 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) Power BI
2 12 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (8.57%) Metadata
4 8 (7.62%) Data Vault
4 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (4.76%) GIS
7 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (2.86%) QGIS
8 3 (2.86%) Spatial Data
8 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.90%) Ataccama
9 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Git
2 4 (3.81%) GitLab
3 2 (1.90%) JIRA
General
1 52 (49.52%) Social Skills
2 41 (39.05%) Finance
3 36 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.33%) Banking
5 13 (12.38%) Law
5 13 (12.38%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (10.48%) Marketing
7 10 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (8.57%) Legal
9 7 (6.67%) Retail
10 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
11 4 (3.81%) Advertising
11 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
12 3 (2.86%) Private Banking
12 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (19.05%) Analyst
2 15 (14.29%) Senior
3 14 (13.33%) Architect
4 12 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (10.48%) Administrator
5 11 (10.48%) Data Analyst
5 11 (10.48%) Developer
6 8 (7.62%) AWS Architect
6 8 (7.62%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (7.62%) AWS Solution Architect
6 8 (7.62%) DevOps Architect
6 8 (7.62%) Senior Architect
6 8 (7.62%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (7.62%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 8 (7.62%) TOGAF Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Data Manager
7 5 (4.76%) Oracle Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Snowflake Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) Middleware
2 3 (2.86%) Pandas
2 3 (2.86%) Snowpark
3 2 (1.90%) CSS
3 2 (1.90%) CSS3
3 2 (1.90%) Express.js
3 2 (1.90%) HTML
3 2 (1.90%) HTML5
3 2 (1.90%) Next.js
3 2 (1.90%) Node.js
3 2 (1.90%) React
3 2 (1.90%) RESTful
3 2 (1.90%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.95%) Grails
4 1 (0.95%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.95%) Spring
4 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Management Information System
2 11 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.62%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.81%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.86%) Blog
6 3 (2.86%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.90%) IoT
7 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.90%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.95%) SCADA
8 1 (0.95%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (27.62%) Data Governance
3 24 (22.86%) Agile
4 20 (19.05%) Decision-Making
5 18 (17.14%) Analytics
5 18 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (17.14%) DevOps
6 16 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (15.24%) ERP
7 15 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 15 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 15 (14.29%) Data Privacy
8 14 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (12.38%) Roadmaps
10 12 (11.43%) Business Strategy
10 12 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (11.43%) Data Science
11 11 (10.48%) AI
11 11 (10.48%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (10.48%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.14%) SQL
2 25 (23.81%) Python
3 10 (9.52%) Java
4 8 (7.62%) C#
5 5 (4.76%) ANSI SQL
5 5 (4.76%) VBA
6 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (21.90%) Degree
2 9 (8.57%) AWS Certification
2 9 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.76%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) CISSP
7 1 (0.95%) HNC
7 1 (0.95%) HND
7 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 24 (22.86%) GDPR
3 8 (7.62%) HIPAA
3 8 (7.62%) NIST
4 5 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (4.76%) GLBA
4 5 (4.76%) QA
5 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.95%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 13 (12.38%) Oracle
4 12 (11.43%) Google
5 11 (10.48%) SAP
6 5 (4.76%) Facebook
6 5 (4.76%) iManage
7 3 (2.86%) Databricks
7 3 (2.86%) ESRI
7 3 (2.86%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.90%) Talend
8 2 (1.90%) Workday
8 2 (1.90%) Zoho
9 1 (0.95%) Informatica
9 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.95%) Software AG
9 1 (0.95%) webMethods