Data Interpretation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Interpretation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Interpretation over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 719 1011
Rank change year-on-year -47 +292 -199
Permanent jobs citing Data Interpretation 130 261 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43 206 94
10th Percentile £31,000 - £25,500
25th Percentile £34,375 £30,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £31,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -27.06% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £31,500 £52,897
90th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,743 £31,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +41.11% -27.06% +8.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Interpretation 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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Interpretation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Interpretation in the UK

Data Interpretation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Interpretation in the UK

Data Interpretation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Interpretation over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Interpretation in the UK

Data Interpretation
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Interpretation within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -33 121 £42,500 +37.10% 58
UK excluding London -149 86 £43,743 +41.11% 42
Work from Home -25 72 £50,000 +61.29% 21
South East +13 56 £32,000 +3.23% 11
London +144 44 £50,000 +14.94% 19
North of England -14 16 £41,143 +32.72% 15
North West -20 10 £47,493 +53.20% 13
Scotland -57 8 £50,000 +61.29% 2
Yorkshire +72 5 £35,413 +14.24% 1
West Midlands -11 4 £65,000 +109.68% 3
Midlands -21 4 £65,000 +109.68% 5
North East -14 1 £27,500 -11.29% 1
East of England -39 1 £40,000 +29.03% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

Data Interpretation
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 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.54%) SAS
3 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (14.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.92%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.31%) SPSS
4 1 (0.77%) InVision
4 1 (0.77%) Sketch
4 1 (0.77%) Stata
4 1 (0.77%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) Data Workbench
2 1 (0.77%) Endur
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.77%) Power Platform
2 19 (14.62%) Azure
3 12 (9.23%) AWS
3 12 (9.23%) SaaS
4 4 (3.08%) Amazon Ads
4 4 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.08%) Google Ads
4 4 (3.08%) Google Analytics
4 4 (3.08%) Serverless
5 2 (1.54%) GCP
6 1 (0.77%) Asana
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.77%) Figma
6 1 (0.77%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (0.77%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.77%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) Firewall
2 4 (3.08%) Broadband
2 4 (3.08%) Internet
2 4 (3.08%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.08%) WPA
3 1 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.77%) Power BI
2 17 (13.08%) Tableau
3 7 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.85%) Big Data
5 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.08%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.08%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.31%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.31%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.77%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.77%) GIS
9 1 (0.77%) MS Access
9 1 (0.77%) Power Query
9 1 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.77%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Git
General
1 59 (45.38%) Legal
2 58 (44.62%) Social Skills
3 56 (43.08%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (21.54%) Marketing
5 26 (20.00%) Finance
6 14 (10.77%) Brand Awareness
6 14 (10.77%) Telecoms
7 10 (7.69%) Retail
8 8 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (5.38%) Publishing
10 4 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Military
11 3 (2.31%) Aviation
11 3 (2.31%) Banking
12 2 (1.54%) Back Office
12 2 (1.54%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) Analyst
2 16 (12.31%) Product Manager
3 14 (10.77%) Customer Experience Manager
4 13 (10.00%) Senior
5 11 (8.46%) Data Manager
6 8 (6.15%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.15%) Lead
7 6 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (3.85%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Applications Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Lead Product Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Mobile Product Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Operations Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) PPC Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Technical Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.23%) Web Services
2 4 (3.08%) ADO
2 4 (3.08%) React
2 4 (3.08%) Redux
3 1 (0.77%) CarPlay
3 1 (0.77%) CSS
3 1 (0.77%) D3.js
3 1 (0.77%) HTML
3 1 (0.77%) JSON
3 1 (0.77%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.77%) Middleware
3 1 (0.77%) Pandas
3 1 (0.77%) PySpark
3 1 (0.77%) pytest
3 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 48 (36.92%) Data Structures
3 29 (22.31%) Product Ownership
4 22 (16.92%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.85%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.08%) Cyberattack
8 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (3.08%) NHS
9 3 (2.31%) PMI
10 2 (1.54%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.54%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.54%) Robotics
10 2 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.77%) Blog
11 1 (0.77%) IoT
11 1 (0.77%) Life Science
11 1 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.46%) Windows
2 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.08%) Linux
4 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (64.62%) Data Analysis
2 75 (57.69%) Visualisation
3 71 (54.62%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (52.31%) Data Visualisation
5 60 (46.15%) Data Management
6 59 (45.38%) Agile
7 55 (42.31%) Analytics
8 54 (41.54%) Data Strategy
9 52 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
10 49 (37.69%) Decision-Making
10 49 (37.69%) ETL
11 47 (36.15%) Data Integration
12 42 (32.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (26.15%) Computer Science
13 34 (26.15%) Customer-Centricity
14 32 (24.62%) Customer Experience
14 32 (24.62%) Roadmaps
15 30 (23.08%) DevOps
15 30 (23.08%) User Experience
16 26 (20.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 40 (30.77%) SQL
2 36 (27.69%) Python
3 19 (14.62%) C
4 14 (10.77%) R
5 9 (6.92%) Java
6 5 (3.85%) Go
7 4 (3.08%) C#
7 4 (3.08%) VBA
8 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.31%) Scala
9 1 (0.77%) C++
9 1 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (53.85%) Degree
2 23 (17.69%) Master's Degree
3 13 (10.00%) MBA
3 13 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.54%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.54%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.54%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) ACCA
7 1 (0.77%) MCP
7 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.77%) QA
2 8 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.77%) GLP
5 1 (0.77%) GMP
5 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (0.77%) FTK
1 1 (0.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.38%) Google
2 7 (5.38%) SAP
3 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.31%) CA
4 3 (2.31%) Databricks
5 2 (1.54%) BT
5 2 (1.54%) IFS
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle
5 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.77%) Adobe
6 1 (0.77%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.77%) Apple
6 1 (0.77%) Ariba
6 1 (0.77%) Cellebrite
6 1 (0.77%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.77%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.77%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.77%) Teradata