Data Management Job Trends in the South West

Data Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 125 158
Rank change year-on-year -11 +33 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 46 57 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.90% 1.37% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.60% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 31 34 41
10th Percentile £20,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -3.70% +32.24%
75th Percentile £67,825 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £93,769 £96,539
England median annual salary £60,000 £73,833 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.74% +13.59% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,650 3,558 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.58% 85.65% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,781 3,194
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
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 South West

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Management
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the South West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the South West

Data Management
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol -8 14 £32,500 -54.39% 10
Gloucestershire +34 13 £42,500 -39.29% 7
Dorset +11 11 £62,925 - 11
Devon 0 4 £64,350 +2.96% 6
Wiltshire +3 1 £32,500 -46.85% 6
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (10.87%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (10.87%) Magento
1 5 (10.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.52%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) dbt
4 3 (6.52%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.17%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) VPN
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) LAN
2 2 (4.35%) NAS
2 2 (4.35%) SAN
2 2 (4.35%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Internet
3 1 (2.17%) Intranet
3 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Power BI
2 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (15.22%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (13.04%) Metadata
3 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 5 (10.87%) Metadata Repository
5 4 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.35%) Ataccama
6 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.35%) GIS
6 2 (4.35%) Spatial Data
7 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.17%) MySQL
7 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 8 (17.39%) Marketing
5 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
6 5 (10.87%) Back Office
6 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
7 3 (6.52%) Aerospace
8 2 (4.35%) Banking
8 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.35%) Electronics
8 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (4.35%) Publishing
8 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.17%) Advertising
9 1 (2.17%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Analyst
1 8 (17.39%) Senior
2 5 (10.87%) Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Data Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Data Manager
2 5 (10.87%) Software Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Senior Support Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Software Support Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) Support Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (4.35%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Governance Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) Middleware
1 5 (10.87%) PySpark
1 5 (10.87%) REST
1 5 (10.87%) SOAP
2 2 (4.35%) Playwright
2 2 (4.35%) RESTful
2 2 (4.35%) XML
3 1 (2.17%) NumPy
3 1 (2.17%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) Spring
3 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Blog
1 6 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.87%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.52%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Social Media
5 1 (2.17%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
1 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (26.09%) Data Modelling
3 10 (21.74%) AI
4 9 (19.57%) Data Governance
5 8 (17.39%) Change Management
5 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (17.39%) Data Architecture
5 8 (17.39%) DevOps
5 8 (17.39%) Information Management
6 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
6 7 (15.22%) Data Strategy
6 7 (15.22%) Impact Assessments
6 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
7 6 (13.04%) Data Transformation
7 6 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (13.04%) ETL
7 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
8 5 (10.87%) E-Commerce
8 5 (10.87%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) SQL
2 6 (13.04%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) HNC
5 3 (6.52%) HND
6 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Databricks
3 5 (10.87%) ConnectWise
3 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.87%) WooCommerce
4 2 (4.35%) Guidewire
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Adobe
5 1 (2.17%) Palantir
5 1 (2.17%) VMware