Data Discovery Job Trends in the North West

Data Discovery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 - 287
Rank change year-on-year - - -27
Permanent jobs citing Data Discovery 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.045% - 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% - 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +40.91% -4.35% -21.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Data Discovery 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 7,888 4,629 8,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.97% 92.58% 78.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,064 2,225 6,326
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,125 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Data Discovery job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Discovery
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Data Discovery
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 Discovery within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Manchester - 5 £47,500 - 2
Data Discovery
England

Data Discovery
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (60.00%) Data Design
2 3 (60.00%) Data Mapping
2 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Storytelling
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) T-SQL