Data Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 67 142
Rank change year-on-year -154 +75 +67
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 501 1,142 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 4.01% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 4.35% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 298 378 788
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,250 £30,781
25th Percentile £37,763 £40,063 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,075 £62,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% +14.68% -5.22%
75th Percentile £66,098 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £59,450 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +25.00% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,819 26,226 57,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.41% 91.98% 83.53%
Number of salaries quoted 29,493 13,943 41,043
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,550 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 -108 112 £62,500 +4.17% 54
South East -154 111 £50,000 -32.28% 73
Midlands -80 83 £62,000 +7.83% 44
East of England -22 81 £54,500 -28.29% 16
South West -92 68 £42,500 -32.00% 18
North West -72 64 £51,772 -26.04% 37
West Midlands -71 55 £62,000 -4.62% 28
Yorkshire -60 41 £63,076 +50.18% 11
Scotland -53 33 £36,000 -37.39% 14
East Midlands -38 28 £65,000 +52.94% 16
Wales -29 11 £65,000 -17.46% 7
North East -47 7 £70,932 +18.22% 6
Northern Ireland -41 2 £50,000 -13.04%
Data Management
UK

Data Management
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 12 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.80%) SAS
4 2 (0.40%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) Moodle
5 1 (0.20%) Totara
Applications
1 67 (13.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (3.99%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.40%) Oracle Smart View
5 7 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.40%) Weka
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (3.19%) Adobe Campaign
2 14 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (2.79%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (2.79%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (2.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (2.79%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (2.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (1.80%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (1.80%) Magento
3 9 (1.80%) Shopify
4 8 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (1.40%) Hyperion Planning
5 7 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (1.20%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.60%) Maximo
7 3 (0.60%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
9 1 (0.20%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.20%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 106 (21.16%) Power Platform
2 105 (20.96%) Azure
3 69 (13.77%) AWS
4 30 (5.99%) GCP
5 29 (5.79%) Snowflake
6 25 (4.99%) Power Automate
7 17 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.19%) dbt
9 14 (2.79%) Serverless
10 13 (2.59%) SaaS
11 10 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (1.80%) Veeva
13 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.60%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.40%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.39%) Broadband
1 17 (3.39%) Firewall
2 13 (2.59%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (2.40%) LAN
3 12 (2.40%) WAN
4 9 (1.80%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (1.80%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.80%) VLAN
4 9 (1.80%) WebEx
5 4 (0.80%) BGP
6 3 (0.60%) DHCP
6 3 (0.60%) DNS
6 3 (0.60%) NAS
6 3 (0.60%) SAN
6 3 (0.60%) VPN
7 2 (0.40%) MQTT
7 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) Intranet
8 1 (0.20%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.16%) Power BI
2 56 (11.18%) Metadata
3 48 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (5.59%) Data Lake
5 25 (4.99%) Tableau
6 23 (4.59%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.19%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.79%) Power Query
10 11 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.00%) Big Data
11 10 (2.00%) Spotfire
12 9 (1.80%) MySQL
13 8 (1.60%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.40%) Essbase
14 7 (1.40%) Looker
14 7 (1.40%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (3.79%) JIRA
2 14 (2.79%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (1.80%) GitLab
4 7 (1.40%) MLflow
5 3 (0.60%) Git
5 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) LSMW
7 1 (0.20%) Maven
7 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.20%) Toad
General
1 171 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 126 (25.15%) Finance
3 106 (21.16%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.58%) Marketing
5 56 (11.18%) Public Sector
6 47 (9.38%) Retail
7 40 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (4.99%) Telecoms
9 24 (4.79%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.59%) Banking
11 16 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (2.79%) Back Office
13 12 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.80%) Legal
15 7 (1.40%) Advertising
15 7 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.20%) General Ledger
16 6 (1.20%) Law
17 5 (1.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 89 (17.76%) Senior
2 82 (16.37%) Analyst
3 70 (13.97%) Data Manager
4 44 (8.78%) Architect
5 39 (7.78%) Lead
6 38 (7.58%) Data Architect
7 32 (6.39%) Administrator
8 31 (6.19%) Senior Analyst
9 29 (5.79%) Senior Manager
10 27 (5.39%) Data Analyst
11 18 (3.59%) IT Manager
11 18 (3.59%) IT Support
12 17 (3.39%) Campaign Manager
12 17 (3.39%) Consultant
12 17 (3.39%) Governance Manager
13 16 (3.19%) Applications Support
13 16 (3.19%) Data Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) Data Governance Analyst
13 16 (3.19%) Data Governance Manager
13 16 (3.19%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.19%) Middleware
2 13 (2.59%) EDI
2 13 (2.59%) REST
3 12 (2.40%) SOAP
4 9 (1.80%) XMPP
5 8 (1.60%) Kafka
5 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.60%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.40%) LangChain
6 7 (1.40%) LlamaIndex
6 7 (1.40%) pgvector
6 7 (1.40%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.20%) .NET
7 6 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.00%) PySpark
9 4 (0.80%) Node.js
9 4 (0.80%) OAuth
9 4 (0.80%) OpenID
9 4 (0.80%) Playwright
10 3 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 98 (19.56%) Management Information System
2 29 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.19%) Life Science
4 24 (4.79%) Social Media
5 21 (4.19%) Marketing Technology
6 18 (3.59%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.39%) Public Cloud
8 16 (3.19%) Over-the-Top Content
9 15 (2.99%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.59%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.59%) Replication
11 11 (2.20%) Blog
12 10 (2.00%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.80%) Biopharmaceutical
13 9 (1.80%) FlexPod
13 9 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
14 7 (1.40%) Clustering
14 7 (1.40%) Reference Data
15 6 (1.20%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.79%) Windows
2 10 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (27.74%) Analytics
2 137 (27.35%) Business Intelligence
3 136 (27.15%) Data Governance
4 122 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (18.96%) Decision-Making
6 81 (16.17%) Data Modelling
7 79 (15.77%) Agile
8 70 (13.97%) Data Strategy
9 67 (13.37%) CRM
10 61 (12.18%) Visualisation
11 59 (11.78%) ERP
12 57 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (11.18%) AI
14 55 (10.98%) Data Engineering
14 55 (10.98%) ETL
15 50 (9.98%) Data Architecture
15 50 (9.98%) Project Management
16 49 (9.78%) Data Science
17 48 (9.58%) Roadmaps
18 47 (9.38%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 115 (22.95%) SQL
2 56 (11.18%) Python
3 13 (2.59%) T-SQL
4 9 (1.80%) VBA
5 8 (1.60%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.40%) Groovy
6 7 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.20%) C#
7 6 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.20%) Java
8 4 (0.80%) R
8 4 (0.80%) Scala
9 3 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (0.60%) C++
9 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.20%) C
10 1 (0.20%) SHACL
10 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 116 (23.15%) Degree
2 35 (6.99%) Master's Degree
3 23 (4.59%) Security Cleared
4 19 (3.79%) DBS Check
5 17 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.79%) SC Cleared
7 10 (2.00%) CITP
8 9 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.40%) PMP
11 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.80%) AAT
12 4 (0.80%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.60%) ACCA
13 3 (0.60%) CIMA
13 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.60%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (22.75%) Data Quality
2 46 (9.18%) GDPR
3 30 (5.99%) QA
4 21 (4.19%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (2.00%) Good Clinical Practice
7 7 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.00%) PERC
9 4 (0.80%) GxP
10 2 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.20%) PMO
11 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.20%) Docker
2 10 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.60%) vSphere
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.19%) Terraform
2 11 (2.20%) Grafana
2 11 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.80%) Ansible
3 9 (1.80%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 124 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.19%) Databricks
3 30 (5.99%) SAP
4 28 (5.59%) Oracle
5 21 (4.19%) Adobe
6 19 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.79%) Dell
8 13 (2.59%) Cisco
8 13 (2.59%) Google
8 13 (2.59%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.00%) VMware
10 9 (1.80%) ConnectWise
10 9 (1.80%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.80%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.80%) Planon
10 9 (1.80%) Splunk
10 9 (1.80%) WooCommerce
11 7 (1.40%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.40%) Hyperion
11 7 (1.40%) Informatica