Data Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 786 848 875
Rank change year-on-year +62 +27 -96
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 116 124 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 84 55 213
10th Percentile £52,325 £41,750 £42,600
25th Percentile £54,480 £53,000 £53,236
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £47,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +34.39% -17.83% -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Top 18 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 9 May 2024. 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 +112 107 £63,500 -13.90% 16
UK excluding London +56 100 £63,500 +34.39% 9
Work from Home +71 49 £61,206 -21.02% 6
Midlands +18 34 £55,000 +74.60% 1
West Midlands +43 32 £55,000 +29.41% 1
South East +14 31 £85,000 +23.64% 1
London +69 15 £77,500 -6.06% 7
North of England +57 15 £61,206 +32.34% 2
South West -14 10 £68,937 -
North West +17 8 £61,206 +36.01% 2
Yorkshire +90 6 £61,206 +2.01%
Wales +6 3 £52,956 -
East of England +20 2 £77,500 +22.05% 5
East Midlands -19 2 £65,000 +106.35%
Scotland -65 2 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland +24 1 - -
North East -4 1 £61,206 -

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 12 (10.34%) JBoss
1 12 (10.34%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.59%) SAS
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (35.34%) Azure
2 24 (20.69%) Matillion
2 24 (20.69%) Power Platform
2 24 (20.69%) Snowflake
3 18 (15.52%) Serverless
4 8 (6.90%) AWS
5 5 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.45%) GCP
7 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.59%) Collibra
8 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (59.48%) Metadata
2 35 (30.17%) Data Lake
3 26 (22.41%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (20.69%) Power BI
5 15 (12.93%) Relational Database
6 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.17%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.31%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (4.31%) Data Mining
8 5 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (4.31%) Tableau
9 4 (3.45%) Big Data
10 3 (2.59%) MySQL
10 3 (2.59%) SAS EBI
11 2 (1.72%) Ataccama
12 1 (0.86%) Data Hub
12 1 (0.86%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
12 1 (0.86%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) IntelliJ
2 1 (0.86%) ERwin
2 1 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 39 (33.62%) Finance
2 35 (30.17%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.90%) Retail
6 6 (5.17%) Billing
7 4 (3.45%) Wearables
8 3 (2.59%) Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Legal
8 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Police
10 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Local Government
10 1 (0.86%) Marketing
10 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (67.24%) Architect
2 73 (62.93%) Data Architect
3 38 (32.76%) Senior
4 15 (12.93%) Enterprise Architect
5 14 (12.07%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 13 (11.21%) Senior Architect
6 13 (11.21%) Senior Data Architect
7 12 (10.34%) Java Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Senior Java Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 9 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.90%) Lead
10 6 (5.17%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Data Manager
10 6 (5.17%) Domain Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Lead Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.21%) JSON
1 13 (11.21%) REST
2 12 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 12 (10.34%) Hibernate
2 12 (10.34%) Java EE
2 12 (10.34%) JPA
2 12 (10.34%) RESTful
2 12 (10.34%) SOAP
2 12 (10.34%) Spring
2 12 (10.34%) Web Services
2 12 (10.34%) XML
2 12 (10.34%) XSD
3 5 (4.31%) ATL
3 5 (4.31%) Shiny
4 1 (0.86%) EDI
4 1 (0.86%) Kafka
4 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.28%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.03%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.59%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.86%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (65.52%) Data Modelling
2 66 (56.90%) Analytics
3 65 (56.03%) Data Architecture
4 46 (39.66%) Data Management
5 42 (36.21%) Data Strategy
6 40 (34.48%) Agile
7 38 (32.76%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (32.76%) Metadata Management
8 33 (28.45%) ETL
9 31 (26.72%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (25.00%) Data Science
11 28 (24.14%) Data Analysis
11 28 (24.14%) Logical Data Model
12 24 (20.69%) Information Management
12 24 (20.69%) Machine Learning
12 24 (20.69%) TOGAF
13 22 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (18.97%) Event-Driven
13 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (18.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.62%) SQL
2 30 (25.86%) T-SQL
3 12 (10.34%) Java
4 7 (6.03%) Python
5 5 (4.31%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.17%) Degree
3 2 (1.72%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.86%) CCNA
4 1 (0.86%) CCNP
4 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.86%) CISSP
4 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.83%) GDPR
2 20 (17.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (25.00%) Databricks
2 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle
4 2 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (0.86%) Ab Initio
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco
5 1 (0.86%) Confluent
5 1 (0.86%) Denodo
5 1 (0.86%) Google
5 1 (0.86%) Informatica