Data Management Job Trends in the South East

Data Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 102 124
Rank change year-on-year -11 +22 +52
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 180 238 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.60% 2.85% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 3.18% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 50 75 142
10th Percentile £20,000 £42,200 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £51,750 £40,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £73,833 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.73% +52.23% -14.54%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £69,125 £100,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +22.95% -12.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,852 7,482 10,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 78.73% 89.45% 86.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,433 3,422 7,778
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the South East over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the South East

Data Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Thames Valley -5 116 £47,000 -37.75% 21
Berkshire +54 66 £50,000 -4.70% 10
Buckinghamshire -39 41 £33,000 -56.58% 5
Kent -19 20 - - 3
Surrey -11 17 £37,500 -31.19% 9
Hampshire +3 14 £20,000 -73.33% 8
Middlesex +18 10 - - 2
Oxfordshire +14 9 £67,500 -8.47% 6
East Sussex -4 2 £44,250 -10.57%
West Sussex -11 1 £70,000 +12.00% 1
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (2.78%) IIS
2 2 (1.11%) SugarCRM
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (23.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.44%) Azure
2 22 (12.22%) Snowflake
3 20 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.00%) Veeva
6 8 (4.44%) AWS
6 8 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.78%) GCP
8 4 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.22%) Collibra
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.67%) Serverless
10 2 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.11%) GitHub
10 2 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) BGP
1 4 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (2.22%) Firewall
2 3 (1.67%) MQTT
2 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.67%) Metadata
2 29 (16.11%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (11.11%) Power BI
4 10 (5.56%) Spotfire
5 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.22%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.67%) SAP BW
9 3 (1.67%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.67%) Tableau
10 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.56%) Big Data
11 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.56%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.67%) ERwin
1 3 (1.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.67%) MLflow
1 3 (1.67%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (1.11%) Git
2 2 (1.11%) GitLab
2 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (59.44%) Social Skills
2 74 (41.11%) Finance
3 58 (32.22%) Marketing
4 50 (27.78%) Manufacturing
5 23 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 12 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.00%) Retail
9 8 (4.44%) Banking
10 7 (3.89%) Telecoms
11 6 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.67%) Publishing
14 2 (1.11%) Automotive
14 2 (1.11%) Legal
14 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.11%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.56%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 55 (30.56%) Analyst
2 52 (28.89%) Senior
3 41 (22.78%) Senior Analyst
4 39 (21.67%) SAP Analyst
5 28 (15.56%) Data Manager
6 22 (12.22%) Architect
6 22 (12.22%) Data Architect
7 12 (6.67%) Junior
7 12 (6.67%) Lead
8 11 (6.11%) Coordinator
9 9 (5.00%) Data Coordinator
9 9 (5.00%) Data Steward
9 9 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) IT Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) IT Governance Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) Product Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) Project Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) Project Governance Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.00%) .NET
2 5 (2.78%) .NET Framework
2 5 (2.78%) Entity Framework
2 5 (2.78%) WinForms
3 4 (2.22%) Middleware
3 4 (2.22%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.67%) REST
4 3 (1.67%) SOAP
5 2 (1.11%) Blazor
6 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.56%) HEVC
6 1 (0.56%) Keras
6 1 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.56%) React
6 1 (0.56%) SAP TM
6 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.78%) Management Information System
2 29 (16.11%) Life Science
3 10 (5.56%) Blog
4 9 (5.00%) Biopharmaceutical
5 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.67%) Animation
8 3 (1.67%) LIMS
8 3 (1.67%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Social Media
9 1 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Windows
2 3 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (28.89%) Data Collection
3 48 (26.67%) Analytics
4 44 (24.44%) User Acceptance Testing
5 41 (22.78%) Logistics
5 41 (22.78%) Technical Leadership
6 40 (22.22%) Quality Management
6 40 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
7 39 (21.67%) Architectural Design
7 39 (21.67%) Decision Quality
7 39 (21.67%) Impact Analysis
7 39 (21.67%) Incident Management
7 39 (21.67%) SAP Implementation
8 35 (19.44%) Data Governance
8 35 (19.44%) Data Modelling
9 32 (17.78%) Data Integration
10 29 (16.11%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (15.56%) Agile
11 28 (15.56%) Data Architecture
11 28 (15.56%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.33%) SQL
2 15 (8.33%) Python
3 10 (5.56%) C#
4 7 (3.89%) C++
5 5 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.11%) Java
6 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.11%) R
6 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 76 (42.22%) Degree
2 28 (15.56%) Master's Degree
3 15 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.22%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.67%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.67%) PMP
5 3 (1.67%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.11%) CISSP
6 2 (1.11%) HNC
6 2 (1.11%) MCSE
6 2 (1.11%) OCP
6 2 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.89%) Data Quality
2 27 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 13 (7.22%) QA
4 10 (5.56%) Good Clinical Practice
5 8 (4.44%) PMO
6 4 (2.22%) GDPR
7 3 (1.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (1.67%) GxP
8 2 (1.11%) ECSS
8 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.11%) SLA
9 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.56%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.22%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.67%) Ansible
2 3 (1.67%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 48 (26.67%) SAP
3 5 (2.78%) Google
3 5 (2.78%) Sage
3 5 (2.78%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.78%) Zoho
4 4 (2.22%) CheckPoint
4 4 (2.22%) Cisco
4 4 (2.22%) Databricks
4 4 (2.22%) Oracle
4 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.22%) VMware
5 3 (1.67%) Agilent
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe
6 1 (0.56%) Dell
6 1 (0.56%) Informatica
6 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) Talend