DAMA International
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DAMA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DAMA over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 691 892 940
Rank change year-on-year +201 +48 +312
Permanent jobs citing DAMA 11 15 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.014% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.017% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 18
10th Percentile £73,375 £29,000 £50,177
25th Percentile £78,438 £55,000 £54,224
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £65,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% +7.88% -53.65%
75th Percentile £96,250 £67,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,500 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £86,250 £31,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +178.23% -65.56% +28.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DAMA 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

DAMA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DAMA in the UK

DAMA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DAMA in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DAMA over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DAMA in the UK

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Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DAMA within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +165 9 £86,250 +32.69% 18
UK excluding London +186 8 £86,250 +178.23% 6
London +98 3 - - 13
South East - 3 £90,000 - 3
North of England +37 2 - - 1
North West +1 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - - 2
Work from Home +113 1 £70,000 +7.69% 9
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
Midlands - 1 £70,000 -

DAMA
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 6 (54.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Maximo
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon EMR
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon SageMaker
2 6 (54.55%) Snowflake
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Alation
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Collibra
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Tableau
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (18.18%) Power BI
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Architect
2 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (54.55%) Data Science Leader
3 6 (54.55%) Lead
3 6 (54.55%) Lead Architect
3 6 (54.55%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 5 (45.45%) Data Architect
5 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Data Architecture
1 10 (90.91%) TOGAF
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Architecture Roadmap
2 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (63.64%) Data Science
2 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
2 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
3 6 (54.55%) Adaptive Web Design
3 6 (54.55%) ArchiMate
3 6 (54.55%) Architectural Design
3 6 (54.55%) Business Strategy
3 6 (54.55%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (54.55%) Customer Engagement
3 6 (54.55%) Deep Learning
3 6 (54.55%) LLM
3 6 (54.55%) MLOps
3 6 (54.55%) Personalization
3 6 (54.55%) Product Backlog
3 6 (54.55%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CFA
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) GDPR
2 6 (54.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (54.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) IBM
1 2 (18.18%) Informatica
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) ESRI
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Talend