Data Design Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 537 488
Rank change year-on-year +78 -49 +217
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 58 42 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 30
10th Percentile £49,788 - £57,825
25th Percentile £59,125 £56,809 £59,435
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,350 £75,000 £72,085
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +4.04% +10.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,458 £82,500
90th Percentile - £82,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,250
% change year-on-year +6.67% -2.91% +10.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Design 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 33,827 33,684 26,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.72% 87.57% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 19,359 15,784 19,726
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £41,250 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Design
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Design
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Design in the UK excluding London

Data Design
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 Data Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +71 42 - - 23
North of England +25 9 £70,000 +14.37% 16
South West +16 6 £64,350 +8.15% 9
Yorkshire -11 6 £70,000 +14.37% 10
North West +24 2 £52,500 -14.22% 5
West Midlands +29 1 £75,000 +22.54% 7
Midlands +13 1 £75,000 +22.54% 12
North East +9 1 £90,000 +47.04% 1
Data Design
UK

Data Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.72%) Apache
1 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (46.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (25.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (10.34%) SAP CO
2 6 (10.34%) SAP FI
2 6 (10.34%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Collibra
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
2 5 (8.62%) Azure
3 1 (1.72%) GCP
3 1 (1.72%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (10.34%) Metadata
2 5 (8.62%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (8.62%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Git
General
1 48 (82.76%) Social Skills
2 25 (43.10%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Advertising
5 1 (1.72%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (50.00%) Lead
2 22 (37.93%) Senior
3 15 (25.86%) Data Model Manager
3 15 (25.86%) Senior Manager
4 7 (12.07%) Architect
4 7 (12.07%) Data Architect
4 7 (12.07%) Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Web Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Principal Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior .NET Web Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Web Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Flutter
1 6 (10.34%) React
2 4 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (3.45%) CSS
3 2 (3.45%) HTML
3 2 (3.45%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (3.45%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (84.48%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (82.76%) Data Modelling
3 47 (81.03%) Master Data Management
4 42 (72.41%) CRUD
4 42 (72.41%) ERP
4 42 (72.41%) SAP Implementation
5 32 (55.17%) Data Analysis
6 27 (46.55%) Data Cleansing
6 27 (46.55%) Data Conversion
6 27 (46.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 22 (37.93%) Data Architecture
8 15 (25.86%) Data Strategy
9 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.34%) Data Governance
10 6 (10.34%) Data Management
11 5 (8.62%) Impact Assessments
11 5 (8.62%) Secure Coding
11 5 (8.62%) Service Delivery
11 5 (8.62%) Technology Roadmap
11 5 (8.62%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) Go
1 5 (8.62%) Java
2 4 (6.90%) C#
2 4 (6.90%) Kotlin
2 4 (6.90%) Scala
3 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) Python
5 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (74.14%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (48.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (72.41%) SAP
2 1 (1.72%) Databricks
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft