Data Mining
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Mining skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 557 669
Rank change year-on-year -33 +112 +71
Permanent jobs citing Data Mining 142 105 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.79% 1.45% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 125 38 113
10th Percentile - £40,975 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +6.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £78,125 £66,000
90th Percentile £47,884 £87,125 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -27.27% -2.22% -6.25%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,919 7,226 17,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 16.45% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,833 4,857 12,496
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,400 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Mining job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Mining
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Mining

Data Mining
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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 -27 128 £40,000 -31.91% 109
UK excluding London -11 117 £40,000 -27.27% 115
North of England +16 55 £40,000 -50.00% 27
North West +31 28 £40,000 - 9
London -34 24 £40,000 -46.67% 22
Midlands -16 20 £40,000 -30.43% 19
South East -33 20 £41,250 -13.16% 29
Yorkshire -23 18 £40,000 -50.00% 14
West Midlands -34 14 £40,000 -28.89% 6
Work from Home +1 13 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Scotland +3 9 £40,000 - 7
North East - 9 £40,000 - 5
East Midlands -17 6 £40,000 -50.00% 13
East of England -9 5 £46,250 - 16
South West -71 4 £40,000 -36.00% 12
Wales -31 2 £40,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £40,000 - 2

Data Mining
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 5 (3.52%) IIS
2 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 112 (78.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.27%) Power Platform
2 11 (7.75%) AWS
3 10 (7.04%) Azure
4 6 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (4.23%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.82%) SaaS
7 2 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.41%) dbt
7 2 (1.41%) GCP
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.70%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.70%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (82.39%) Tableau
2 16 (11.27%) Power BI
3 9 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.93%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.23%) Big Data
5 6 (4.23%) Hadoop
5 6 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.11%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.70%) Looker
8 1 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Git
2 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 127 (89.44%) Analytical Skills
2 122 (85.92%) Finance
3 12 (8.45%) Social Skills
4 10 (7.04%) Marketing
5 5 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.41%) Automotive
7 2 (1.41%) Banking
7 2 (1.41%) Digital Economy
7 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.41%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.70%) Billing
8 1 (0.70%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 108 (76.06%) Analyst
1 108 (76.06%) Data Analyst
2 106 (74.65%) Trainee
3 104 (73.24%) Trainee Analyst
3 104 (73.24%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 13 (9.15%) Senior
5 9 (6.34%) Data Engineer
6 7 (4.93%) Senior Manager
7 5 (3.52%) Data Science Manager
7 5 (3.52%) Sales Executive
8 4 (2.82%) Data Scientist
9 2 (1.41%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (1.41%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (1.41%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 2 (1.41%) Business Manager
9 2 (1.41%) Insight Manager
9 2 (1.41%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (1.41%) Senior Business Manager
9 2 (1.41%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (1.41%) Solutions Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.52%) Play Framework
2 2 (1.41%) REST
2 2 (1.41%) Streamlit
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.70%) JSON
3 1 (0.70%) Kafka
3 1 (0.70%) Pandas
3 1 (0.70%) React
3 1 (0.70%) XML
3 1 (0.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.23%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.41%) ASIC
3 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.41%) Derivative
3 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.41%) NHS
3 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.41%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (1.41%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.70%) DTCC
4 1 (0.70%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.70%) Semantic Web
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (89.44%) Analytics
2 109 (76.76%) Data Analysis
2 109 (76.76%) Data Analytics
2 109 (76.76%) Project Management
3 106 (74.65%) Business Analysis
4 17 (11.97%) AI
4 17 (11.97%) Data Science
4 17 (11.97%) Visualisation
5 15 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (9.86%) Machine Learning
7 13 (9.15%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (8.45%) Decision-Making
8 12 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (7.75%) Data Modelling
10 10 (7.04%) Mathematics
11 8 (5.63%) Agile
11 8 (5.63%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.63%) CRM
11 8 (5.63%) Economics
11 8 (5.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 135 (95.07%) SQL
2 122 (85.92%) Python
3 9 (6.34%) R
4 7 (4.93%) Java
5 5 (3.52%) Scala
6 2 (1.41%) Formula Language
6 2 (1.41%) VBA
7 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.15%) Degree
2 8 (5.63%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.23%) MBA
4 3 (2.11%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.41%) PhD
6 1 (0.70%) CFA
6 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.11%) QA
4 2 (1.41%) EMIR
4 2 (1.41%) GDPR
4 2 (1.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 112 (78.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.23%) Databricks
3 5 (3.52%) BT
4 3 (2.11%) Google
5 2 (1.41%) Adobe
5 2 (1.41%) Civica
5 2 (1.41%) Northgate
5 2 (1.41%) Oracle
5 2 (1.41%) Orchard
6 1 (0.70%) Foundry
6 1 (0.70%) Palantir