Data Collection Job Trends

Data Collection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Collection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 425 409
Rank change year-on-year -151 -16 +57
Permanent jobs citing Data Collection 140 224 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.58% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 77 83 307
10th Percentile £28,125 £31,400 £29,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,460 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.03% -21.31%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,194 £100,000 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,914 £45,500 £45,249
% change year-on-year -18.87% +0.56% -5.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Data Collection 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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Collection job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Collection
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Collection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Collection over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Collection in the UK

Data Collection
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -129 119 £45,000 -18.18% 93
UK excluding London -76 98 £36,914 -18.87% 65
South East -37 44 £35,000 -10.83% 22
Work from Home -29 40 £60,000 +17.51% 30
London -64 24 £60,000 -14.29% 44
Midlands -51 20 £32,500 -38.10% 10
North of England -66 16 £48,750 +5.98% 22
West Midlands -43 11 £70,000 +33.33% 6
East Midlands -49 9 £28,750 - 4
North West -20 7 £38,164 -17.04% 12
Yorkshire -56 7 £76,919 +70.93% 10
East of England -32 5 £27,500 -72.50% 4
South West -61 5 £57,500 +12.62% 5
Wales -32 4 £39,511 +3.72% 1
Scotland -30 2 - - 2
North East -32 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

Data Collection
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 7 (5.00%) CMS
2 4 (2.86%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (29.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.57%) Trello
4 3 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.71%) Notion
6 1 (0.71%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.43%) Azure
2 29 (20.71%) Power Platform
3 13 (9.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (7.86%) GCP
5 11 (7.86%) Google Data Studio
5 11 (7.86%) Google Tag Manager
6 7 (5.00%) AWS
7 6 (4.29%) Google Analytics
8 5 (3.57%) GitHub
8 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.86%) Google Sheets
9 4 (2.86%) PaaS
10 3 (2.14%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.14%) SaaS
11 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) LTE
2 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.71%) Power BI
2 16 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (9.29%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (7.14%) Spotfire
5 8 (5.71%) Power Query
6 7 (5.00%) Looker
7 5 (3.57%) Metadata
8 4 (2.86%) GIS
9 3 (2.14%) Big Data
9 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.14%) Tableau
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.71%) QGIS
10 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.71%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (5.00%) JIRA
2 5 (3.57%) Git
3 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.14%) Selenium
5 2 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 65 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 42 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (25.00%) Finance
4 15 (10.71%) Marketing
5 12 (8.57%) Billing
6 11 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (5.71%) Legal
9 7 (5.00%) Advertising
9 7 (5.00%) Local Government
9 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.86%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.86%) Law
11 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.43%) French Language
13 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.43%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 48 (34.29%) Analyst
2 19 (13.57%) Data Analyst
3 17 (12.14%) Lead
4 15 (10.71%) Data Manager
4 15 (10.71%) Senior
5 14 (10.00%) Junior
6 12 (8.57%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (8.57%) Insight Analyst
7 9 (6.43%) Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Administrator
8 5 (3.57%) Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Lead Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) PHP Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Senior PHP Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.57%) Support Technician
9 4 (2.86%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.14%) HTML
2 7 (5.00%) CSS
2 7 (5.00%) JSON
3 6 (4.29%) RESTful
4 5 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.57%) XBRL
4 5 (3.57%) XML
5 3 (2.14%) DOM
5 3 (2.14%) Playwright
5 3 (2.14%) Puppeteer
5 3 (2.14%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.43%) NumPy
6 2 (1.43%) SciPy
7 1 (0.71%) .NET
7 1 (0.71%) EDI
7 1 (0.71%) Kafka
7 1 (0.71%) Pandas
7 1 (0.71%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.71%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.71%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.86%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (9.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (9.29%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (4.29%) Social Media
5 5 (3.57%) Mobile Computing
5 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.14%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.43%) Life Science
7 2 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.71%) Blog
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.71%) FPGA
8 1 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.29%) Windows
2 4 (2.86%) Linux
3 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (30.00%) Analytics
3 41 (29.29%) Visualisation
4 36 (25.71%) Data Analysis
5 34 (24.29%) Decision-Making
6 33 (23.57%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (18.57%) Validation
8 23 (16.43%) Data Visualisation
9 22 (15.71%) Agile
9 22 (15.71%) Data Analytics
10 20 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
10 20 (14.29%) Data Management
11 18 (12.86%) Time Management
12 16 (11.43%) Budgeting
12 16 (11.43%) Mentoring
12 16 (11.43%) Roadmaps
13 15 (10.71%) CRM
13 15 (10.71%) Process Improvement
14 14 (10.00%) Data Science
14 14 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.71%) SQL
2 25 (17.86%) Python
3 14 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.29%) VBA
6 5 (3.57%) PHP
7 4 (2.86%) Bash
7 4 (2.86%) Go
7 4 (2.86%) R
8 3 (2.14%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.14%) Java
8 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.43%) Ada
10 1 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 46 (32.86%) Degree
2 5 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.86%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.14%) CISM
4 3 (2.14%) CISSP
4 3 (2.14%) CRISC
4 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.71%) IIBA
5 1 (0.71%) ISEB
5 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.71%) MAPM
5 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.71%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.29%) GDPR
3 10 (7.14%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.43%) QA
7 1 (0.71%) NIST
7 1 (0.71%) P3O
7 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
1 1 (0.71%) Firmware
1 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) Kubeflow
1 2 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) Ansible
2 1 (0.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.86%) Google
3 7 (5.00%) Braze
4 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.43%) Databricks
5 2 (1.43%) ESRI
5 2 (1.43%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.43%) Mercator
5 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.71%) Adobe
6 1 (0.71%) Apple
6 1 (0.71%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.71%) LexisNexis
6 1 (0.71%) Sage
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) Spotify
6 1 (0.71%) Tenable
6 1 (0.71%) TOWER Software