Alation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Alation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Alation over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 723 893 953
Rank change year-on-year +170 +60 +277
Permanent jobs citing Alation 7 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.006% 0.017%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.045% 0.017% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 13
10th Percentile - £51,875 £36,950
25th Percentile - £62,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 - £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +22.73% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Alation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,558 35,401 42,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.87% 35.52% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,638 26,676 28,068
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Alation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Alation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Alation in the UK

Alation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Alation.

Salary trend for Alation in the UK

Alation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Alation over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Alation in the UK

Alation
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Alation within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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
England +138 5 £90,000 +33.33% 7
Work from Home +134 5 £65,000 - 9
UK excluding London +179 4 £90,000 +33.33% 4
South East +84 4 £90,000 +33.33% 1
London +111 1 - - 4

Alation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) dbt
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) Collibra
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Star Schema
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
1 5 (71.43%) Data Security
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
3 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
4 2 (28.57%) Data Stewardship
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Google