DAMA Job Trends

DAMA International
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring DAMA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 670 706
Rank change year-on-year +39 +36 +281
Permanent jobs citing DAMA 22 29 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.054% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.060% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 15
10th Percentile £60,875 £56,197 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,028 £80,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.22% +29.03% -31.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -21.05% +5.56%

All Process & 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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

DAMA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DAMA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

DAMA job vacancy trend in the UK

DAMA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DAMA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DAMA

DAMA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DAMA over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DAMA in the UK

DAMA
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 14 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
England +60 22 £71,028 -11.22% 7
UK excluding London +52 11 £67,500 -10.00% 6
London +51 10 £82,500 - 4
Work from Home +65 5 £82,500 +10.00% 4
South East +39 4 £75,000 -18.92% 5
West Midlands - 4 £67,500 -
Midlands - 4 £67,500 -
North of England +4 3 £67,500 +28.57%
Yorkshire - 2 £67,500 -
North West +13 1 £65,000 +23.81%

DAMA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Collibra
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (50.00%) Metadata
2 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.64%) Data Mining
3 3 (13.64%) SAP BW
3 3 (13.64%) SAP HANA
4 2 (9.09%) Ataccama
4 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Power BI
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) ERwin
1 3 (13.64%) PowerDesigner
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Legal
4 3 (13.64%) Publishing
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Data Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Head of Architecture
2 4 (18.18%) Head of Data Architecture
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Senior Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Data Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Data Model Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Governance Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Risk Manager
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Data Manager
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Delivery Manager
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Risk Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Data Quality Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Data Governance
2 15 (68.18%) Analytics
2 15 (68.18%) Data Management
3 13 (59.09%) Data Architecture
4 12 (54.55%) Data Modelling
5 11 (50.00%) DAMA DMBOK
6 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
6 7 (31.82%) ETL
7 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
7 6 (27.27%) Metadata Management
7 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
7 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (27.27%) TOGAF
8 5 (22.73%) Data Security
8 5 (22.73%) Data Strategy
8 5 (22.73%) Master Data Management
8 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
8 5 (22.73%) Project Management
8 5 (22.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
2 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
2 3 (13.64%) PMP
2 3 (13.64%) SAP Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (77.27%) Data Quality
2 8 (36.36%) GDPR
3 6 (27.27%) Accessibility
4 3 (13.64%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Dell
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Talend
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft