Data Lineage Jobs

Data Lineage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Lineage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lineage 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 618 793 768
Rank change year-on-year +175 -25 +285
Permanent jobs citing Data Lineage 84 114 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 45 84 139
10th Percentile £45,300 £41,588 £55,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -2.78% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,861 £108,365
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +8.33% +0.80% +10.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Lineage 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 Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
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 Lineage 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
England +177 79 £67,500 -3.57% 82
London +116 49 £75,000 - 48
UK excluding London +157 30 £65,000 +8.33% 42
Work from Home +105 25 £66,367 +2.10% 46
South West +117 11 £55,414 -62.96% 2
South East +84 7 £67,420 - 18
Midlands +69 5 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North of England +21 5 £66,367 +2.00% 10
West Midlands +59 4 £63,750 +6.25%
North West -6 4 £66,367 -3.10% 5
Yorkshire +51 1 £46,500 -6.77% 4
East of England +50 1 £45,000 -14.29% 1
East Midlands - 1 £42,500 - 3
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Data Lineage
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 6 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.95%) SAS
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (44.05%) Power Platform
2 28 (33.33%) Azure
3 21 (25.00%) Collibra
3 21 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 15 (17.86%) AWS
5 11 (13.10%) GCP
6 9 (10.71%) Snowflake
7 7 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (5.95%) Serverless
9 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.38%) Lucidchart
10 2 (2.38%) SaaS
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.19%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (63.10%) Metadata
2 37 (44.05%) Power BI
3 26 (30.95%) Tableau
4 21 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (11.90%) Big Data
5 10 (11.90%) Metadata Repository
6 9 (10.71%) Data Lake
6 9 (10.71%) IBM InfoSphere
6 9 (10.71%) SQL Server
7 8 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 7 (8.33%) Ataccama
8 7 (8.33%) Hadoop
9 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
10 5 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (5.95%) BigQuery
11 4 (4.76%) Apache Hive
11 4 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.76%) SAP BW
12 3 (3.57%) Data Mining
12 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) ER Studio
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) ERwin
3 2 (2.38%) Git
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) PowerDesigner
General
1 43 (51.19%) Finance
2 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 22 (26.19%) Banking
4 19 (22.62%) Law
5 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (15.48%) Marketing
7 7 (8.33%) Retail
8 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.76%) General Ledger
10 3 (3.57%) Electronics
10 3 (3.57%) Games
10 3 (3.57%) Legal
10 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.57%) Retail Banking
10 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.38%) Advertising
11 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.19%) Automotive
12 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 27 (32.14%) Lead
2 12 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 12 (14.29%) Data Steward
3 11 (13.10%) Analyst
3 11 (13.10%) Data Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Architect
5 9 (10.71%) Senior
6 6 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Data Quality Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Product Lead
7 4 (4.76%) Quality Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Resilience Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Data Modeller
9 2 (2.38%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) Middleware
2 3 (3.57%) Kafka
3 2 (2.38%) PySpark
4 1 (1.19%) REST
4 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.14%) FMCG
2 6 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.86%) Data Governance
2 47 (55.95%) Analytics
3 41 (48.81%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (45.24%) Data Modelling
5 37 (44.05%) Data Management
6 36 (42.86%) Metadata Management
7 28 (33.33%) Data Security
8 21 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 20 (23.81%) Agile
9 20 (23.81%) Data Science
9 20 (23.81%) Visualisation
10 19 (22.62%) CI/CD
10 19 (22.62%) Data Analysis
10 19 (22.62%) Data Visualisation
10 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (21.43%) Data Integration
11 18 (21.43%) ETL
11 18 (21.43%) Quality Management
12 17 (20.24%) Data Analytics
13 16 (19.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.86%) SQL
2 9 (10.71%) Python
3 4 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.76%) R
3 4 (4.76%) Scala
4 3 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.19%) Java
6 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Degree
2 7 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.95%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.19%) MCSE
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (80.95%) Data Quality
2 19 (22.62%) GDPR
3 14 (16.67%) Accessibility
4 11 (13.10%) QA
5 2 (2.38%) NIST
5 2 (2.38%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) HDFS
2 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.86%) Databricks
3 14 (16.67%) Informatica
4 9 (10.71%) IBM
5 8 (9.52%) SAP
6 7 (8.33%) Google
6 7 (8.33%) Oracle
7 4 (4.76%) Guidewire
7 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.76%) Teradata
8 3 (3.57%) Alteryx