Data Lineage Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Lineage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Lineage 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 502 540 505
Rank change year-on-year +38 -35 +193
Permanent jobs citing Data Lineage 20 18 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.050% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.056% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 19
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,450 £42,439
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £66,367 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% +2.00% -21.13%
75th Percentile £81,210 £74,057 £95,624
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £155,665
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Lineage 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 33,410 32,047 30,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.40% 89.07% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19,288 14,407 22,672
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Lineage
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Lineage
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lineage in the UK excluding London

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +13 10 £85,000 +28.08% 5
Yorkshire -2 10 £85,000 +82.80%
South West +2 4 £45,000 -
South East - 4 £69,840 - 14
Midlands +21 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Data Lineage
UK

Data Lineage
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 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) dbt
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.00%) Collibra
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Metadata
2 9 (45.00%) DynamoDB
2 9 (45.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (40.00%) Power BI
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
6 1 (5.00%) Looker
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 13 (65.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Games
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Architect
1 11 (55.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 16 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 14 (70.00%) Data Architecture
3 11 (55.00%) Data Integration
3 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (45.00%) Logical Data Model
5 9 (45.00%) Physical Data Model
6 8 (40.00%) Agile
6 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (35.00%) Data Design
7 7 (35.00%) Impact Analysis
8 6 (30.00%) Data Management
8 6 (30.00%) ETL
9 5 (25.00%) Validation
10 4 (20.00%) Analytics
10 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
10 4 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
10 4 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle