Data Design Job Trends

Data Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 669 638
Rank change year-on-year +101 -31 +212
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 79 56 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 23 25 52
10th Percentile £59,125 - £55,500
25th Percentile £60,875 £56,809 £58,498
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -2.91% +10.36%
75th Percentile £110,000 £82,500 £89,063
90th Percentile - £91,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £75,000 £72,085
% change year-on-year -14.20% +4.04% +10.90%

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 48,586 50,789 45,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.08% 89.40% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28,463 25,691 35,102
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -2.78%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Design

Data Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Design over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Top 12 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 18 December 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 +111 77 £80,000 +5.57% 30
UK excluding London +98 58 £64,350 -14.20% 21
South East +70 42 - - 5
Work from Home +71 23 £95,000 +26.01% 8
London +68 18 £110,000 +15.79% 12
North of England +29 9 £70,000 +14.37% 10
South West +17 6 £64,350 +8.15% 2
Yorkshire -3 6 £70,000 +14.37% 6
North West +24 2 £52,500 -14.22% 3
West Midlands +33 1 £75,000 +22.54%
Midlands +16 1 £75,000 +22.54%
North East +4 1 £90,000 +47.04% 1

Data Design
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 1 (1.27%) Apache
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (34.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (20.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.59%) SAP CO
2 6 (7.59%) SAP FI
2 6 (7.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.27%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.27%) SAP WM
3 1 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.25%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) Collibra
3 12 (15.19%) AWS
4 9 (11.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (11.39%) SaaS
5 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (2.53%) Lucidchart
6 2 (2.53%) Serverless
7 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.27%) GCP
7 1 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) ADSL
1 1 (1.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (12.66%) Data Lake
3 9 (11.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 9 (11.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (11.39%) Data Vault
3 9 (11.39%) Metadata
4 8 (10.13%) Data Mining
5 5 (6.33%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (6.33%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.80%) Power BI
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) ER Studio
1 3 (3.80%) ERwin
2 2 (2.53%) Git
General
1 59 (74.68%) Social Skills
2 29 (36.71%) Finance
3 16 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Retail
5 7 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Advertising
6 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.53%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Front Office
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (44.30%) Lead
2 32 (40.51%) Senior
3 20 (25.32%) Architect
4 19 (24.05%) Data Architect
5 15 (18.99%) Data Model Manager
5 15 (18.99%) Senior Manager
6 12 (15.19%) Developer
7 9 (11.39%) Azure Architect
7 9 (11.39%) Senior Architect
8 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Architect
8 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
8 8 (10.13%) Senior Data Architect
9 6 (7.59%) Lead Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Principal Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Principal Java Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.80%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.80%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) Flutter
1 11 (13.92%) React
2 4 (5.06%) .NET
3 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (2.53%) CSS
3 2 (2.53%) HTML
3 2 (2.53%) Middleware
3 2 (2.53%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (2.53%) RESTful
3 2 (2.53%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Reference Data
2 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.27%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (78.48%) Data Modelling
2 50 (63.29%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (59.49%) Master Data Management
4 43 (54.43%) ERP
5 42 (53.16%) CRUD
5 42 (53.16%) SAP Implementation
6 32 (40.51%) Data Analysis
7 28 (35.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 27 (34.18%) Data Architecture
8 27 (34.18%) Data Cleansing
8 27 (34.18%) Data Conversion
9 26 (32.91%) Data Strategy
10 15 (18.99%) Roadmaps
11 13 (16.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (12.66%) SDLC
12 10 (12.66%) Secure Coding
12 10 (12.66%) Technology Roadmap
12 10 (12.66%) Test Strategy
13 8 (10.13%) Data Governance
13 8 (10.13%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.66%) Go
1 10 (12.66%) Java
1 10 (12.66%) SQL
2 9 (11.39%) Kotlin
2 9 (11.39%) Scala
3 4 (5.06%) C#
4 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.53%) Python
6 1 (1.27%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 45 (56.96%) Degree
2 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (36.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) NCSC
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (54.43%) SAP
2 12 (15.19%) Databricks
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.27%) Sparx
4 1 (1.27%) Teradata