Data Management Job Trends in the North West

Data Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 92 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 65 128 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.06% 2.45% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 2.72% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 41 59 77
10th Percentile £20,000 £37,000 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.49%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,846 £77,715
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £88,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £72,070 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.75% +6.77% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,122 4,712 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.23% 89.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,332 2,655
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 West

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Management
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Data Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the North West

Data Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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 -10 42 £65,383 +30.77% 14
Cheshire -14 11 £45,974 +2.16% 4
Lancashire -1 9 £40,000 -23.81% 5
Merseyside -8 3 £53,000 +17.78% 2
Data Management
England

Data Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.62%) CMS
1 3 (4.62%) Headless CMS
1 3 (4.62%) Magnolia
1 3 (4.62%) WordPress
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.54%) Primavera
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Power Platform
2 12 (18.46%) Azure
3 7 (10.77%) Snowflake
4 5 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.69%) SaaS
5 4 (6.15%) AWS
5 4 (6.15%) GCP
6 3 (4.62%) iPaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Collibra
7 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.08%) OCI
7 2 (3.08%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.54%) Boomi
8 1 (1.54%) dbt
8 1 (1.54%) IaaS
8 1 (1.54%) PaaS
8 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) Power BI
2 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.23%) Data Vault
5 4 (6.15%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.15%) Data Mining
6 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.08%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (3.08%) GIS
7 2 (3.08%) Metadata
7 2 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (3.08%) Tableau
8 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.54%) Big Data
8 1 (1.54%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.54%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.54%) LSMW
General
1 30 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 24 (36.92%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (35.38%) Finance
4 10 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (12.31%) Law
6 7 (10.77%) Marketing
7 6 (9.23%) Legal
8 5 (7.69%) Banking
8 5 (7.69%) Investment Banking
8 5 (7.69%) Retail
9 4 (6.15%) Advertising
9 4 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Analyst
2 8 (12.31%) Architect
2 8 (12.31%) Data Analyst
3 6 (9.23%) Developer
3 6 (9.23%) Snowflake Developer
4 5 (7.69%) Senior
4 5 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Architect
6 3 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Solution Architect
6 3 (4.62%) DevOps Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Lead
6 3 (4.62%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.62%) TOGAF Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Middleware
2 3 (4.62%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.69%) Blog
3 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.69%) Taxonomies
4 4 (6.15%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.08%) IoT
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.54%) Life Science
7 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.54%) SCADA
7 1 (1.54%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.08%) Data Governance
2 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (21.54%) Decision-Making
5 10 (15.38%) Agile
5 10 (15.38%) Business Strategy
6 9 (13.85%) Customer Experience
6 9 (13.85%) Data Strategy
6 9 (13.85%) ERP
6 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (12.31%) AI
7 8 (12.31%) Analytics
7 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.31%) Data Analysis
7 8 (12.31%) Data Modelling
7 8 (12.31%) Data Privacy
7 8 (12.31%) Data Science
7 8 (12.31%) Process Improvement
8 7 (10.77%) Statistics
8 7 (10.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) SQL
2 10 (15.38%) Python
3 6 (9.23%) ANSI SQL
4 4 (6.15%) VBA
5 3 (4.62%) C#
5 3 (4.62%) Java
6 1 (1.54%) SHACL
6 1 (1.54%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.08%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) CISSP
4 1 (1.54%) HNC
4 1 (1.54%) HND
4 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (15.38%) GDPR
3 5 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (7.69%) GLBA
4 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.62%) HIPAA
5 3 (4.62%) NIST
5 3 (4.62%) QA
6 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Oracle
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) iManage
3 5 (7.69%) SAP
4 4 (6.15%) Facebook
4 4 (6.15%) Google
4 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.08%) HubSpot
5 2 (3.08%) SnapLogic
5 2 (3.08%) Workday
5 2 (3.08%) Zoho
6 1 (1.54%) Databricks
6 1 (1.54%) Software AG
6 1 (1.54%) webMethods