Data Design Job Trends in the North West

Data Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 201 181
Rank change year-on-year +24 -20 +119
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.033% 0.17% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.19% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £50,774 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,809 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,206 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +1.59% -7.31%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,603 £61,835
90th Percentile - £66,741 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,778 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.57% -5.28% +5.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Design 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,113 4,772 3,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.82% 89.68% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,452 2,396 2,488
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,114 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +0.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Design
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Design

Data Design
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Manchester +25 2 £52,500 -14.22% 3
Data Design
England

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior .NET Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker