Change Data Capture Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Change Data Capture (CDC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Change Data Capture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 552 556
Rank change year-on-year +33 +4 +196
Permanent jobs citing Change Data Capture 5 9 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.025% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.028% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile - £43,700 £38,925
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,688 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £46,875
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +21.60% -21.88%
75th Percentile £69,063 £68,688 £54,875
90th Percentile £76,375 £73,750 £56,450
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -8.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Change Data Capture 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,259 31,841 36,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.78% 89.53% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 19,837 14,228 27,331
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

Change Data Capture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Change Data Capture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Change Data Capture job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Change Data Capture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Change Data Capture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Change Data Capture

Change Data Capture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Data Capture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Data Capture in the UK excluding London

Change Data Capture
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Data Capture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Midlands +23 3 £60,000 +11.76%
West Midlands +23 3 £60,000 +11.76%
North of England +9 2 £77,500 +33.05% 1
North East -2 2 £77,500 +29.17% 1
Change Data Capture
UK

Change Data Capture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (60.00%) Parquet
4 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
2 3 (60.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Nimble Storage