Data Design Jobs

Data Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Design 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 673 807 836
Rank change year-on-year +134 +29 +57
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 29 100 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.096% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 79 51
10th Percentile - £52,281 £46,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% -5.93% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £106,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,353 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.24% +3.92% +3.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Design 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%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Design.

Salary trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design 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
UK excluding London +117 19 £62,500 +0.24% 21
England +93 18 £80,000 +24.51% 42
Scotland - 11 - - 1
London +99 9 £80,000 +3.23% 22
Work from Home +80 5 £70,000 +14.37% 15
Midlands +37 4 £60,000 +9.09% 2
West Midlands +29 4 £60,000 +9.44% 2
North of England +30 3 £83,750 +36.83% 5
Yorkshire +53 2 £80,000 +30.71% 3
South East +52 1 £65,000 -23.53% 7
North East +50 1 £87,500 +42.96%

Data Design
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 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.45%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) dbt
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Metadata
2 6 (20.69%) Relational Database
3 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
3 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (13.79%) KDB
4 4 (13.79%) Kdb+
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.90%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.90%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (6.90%) Big Data
5 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.90%) Impala
5 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Redshift Spectrum
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.45%) Data Mart
6 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI
6 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) ER Studio
1 1 (3.45%) ERwin
1 1 (3.45%) LSMW
General
1 14 (48.28%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
3 6 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (20.69%) Law
4 3 (10.34%) Music Industry
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Publishing
6 1 (3.45%) Advertising
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Senior
2 9 (31.03%) Architect
3 8 (27.59%) Data Architect
3 8 (27.59%) Data Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Senior Data Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Software Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Lead
5 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Java Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
1 6 (20.69%) React
2 4 (13.79%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 3 (10.34%) Pandas
4 2 (6.90%) .NET
4 2 (6.90%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) Data Architecture
2 10 (34.48%) ETL
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 9 (31.03%) Data Engineering
4 8 (27.59%) Analytics
4 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (27.59%) Data Management
4 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) ArchiMate
5 7 (24.14%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
5 7 (24.14%) Metadata Management
5 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
5 7 (24.14%) Systems Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) TOGAF
6 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.69%) Operational Stability
6 6 (20.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Go
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Sparx