Master Data Management Job Trends in the North West

Master Data Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Master Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 188 180
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 +109
Permanent jobs citing Master Data Management 4 17 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.065% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile - £64,250 £57,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £75,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £90,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +14.29% -1.56%
75th Percentile £60,250 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £67,900 - £100,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.63% +6.67% +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Master 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 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £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%

Master Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Master Data Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Master Data Management
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Master Data Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master Data Management in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Master Data Management in the North West

Master 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 Master Data Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Lancashire +14 2 £73,000 -18.89% 1
Manchester +8 2 £45,000 -57.14% 4
Master Data Management
England

Master 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) LSMW
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Master Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DAMA
2 2 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 2 (50.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) SAP