Data Vault
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Vault skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 741 640 726
Rank change year-on-year -101 +86 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Vault 66 29 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.059% 0.080%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.75% 0.41% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 62 18 46
10th Percentile £63,375 £63,625 £60,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £67,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £76,250 £84,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.67% -9.76% +69.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £95,625 £100,938
90th Percentile £117,500 £101,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,500 £60,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +30.83% -45.45% +144.44%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Vault 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 8,816 7,151 11,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 14.55% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,974 4,471 7,165
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year - -4.40% +0.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%

Data Vault
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Vault job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Vault

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Vault over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Vault in the UK

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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 Vault within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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 -83 63 £92,500 +21.31% 61
London -24 45 £105,000 +23.53% 42
Work from Home -30 20 £105,000 +10.53% 24
UK excluding London -91 19 £78,500 +30.83% 22
North of England -51 11 £78,500 +23.14% 7
North West -16 6 £76,250 +12.96% 3
North East - 4 £78,000 -
South West -78 3 £42,500 -7.61% 4
Midlands - 2 £90,000 - 7
Scotland - 2 £102,500 -
Yorkshire -47 1 £90,000 +50.00% 4
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 -
Wales - 1 £90,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £90,000 - 7

Data Vault
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 12 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (7.58%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.03%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (72.73%) Azure
2 41 (62.12%) AWS
3 36 (54.55%) Snowflake
4 25 (37.88%) dbt
5 24 (36.36%) Microsoft Purview
6 20 (30.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (25.76%) Amazon S3
8 17 (25.76%) Azure Databricks
9 16 (24.24%) GCP
10 15 (22.73%) Power Platform
11 8 (12.12%) Dagster
11 8 (12.12%) GitHub
12 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (10.61%) Prefect
13 2 (3.03%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (45.45%) Delta Lake
2 23 (34.85%) Metadata
3 17 (25.76%) Data Lake
3 17 (25.76%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (22.73%) Power BI
5 14 (21.21%) Star Schema
5 14 (21.21%) Tableau
6 13 (19.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (10.61%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (7.58%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (6.06%) BigQuery
11 3 (4.55%) Big Data
11 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
12 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
12 1 (1.52%) OLAP
12 1 (1.52%) OLTP
12 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) MLflow
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Games
5 5 (7.58%) Retail
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (74.24%) Architect
2 47 (71.21%) Data Architect
3 13 (19.70%) Snowflake Architect
4 8 (12.12%) Senior
5 7 (10.61%) Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (7.58%) Databricks Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Principal Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Principal Data Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Consultant
9 3 (4.55%) Data Consultant
9 3 (4.55%) Principal Consultant
9 3 (4.55%) Report Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) SQL Reporting Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.33%) PySpark
2 21 (31.82%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Kafka
3 1 (1.52%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (34.85%) Cloud Native
2 16 (24.24%) Data Structures
3 6 (9.09%) Sports Betting
4 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) AS400
5 1 (1.52%) Clustering
5 1 (1.52%) iSeries
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.52%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (90.91%) Data Modelling
2 48 (72.73%) Analytics
2 48 (72.73%) Data Architecture
3 47 (71.21%) Kimball Methodology
4 45 (68.18%) AI
5 38 (57.58%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (56.06%) Machine Learning
7 35 (53.03%) Data Engineering
8 33 (50.00%) Lakehouse
9 31 (46.97%) CI/CD
10 28 (42.42%) Inmon Methodology
11 27 (40.91%) Data Strategy
12 24 (36.36%) Roadmaps
13 22 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (30.30%) Data Science
15 20 (30.30%) RBAC
15 20 (30.30%) Strategic Roadmap
16 19 (28.79%) Logical Data Model
16 19 (28.79%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 59 (89.39%) SQL
2 47 (71.21%) Python
3 23 (34.85%) Scala
4 17 (25.76%) Bicep
5 3 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (4.55%) R
6 1 (1.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Azure Certification
2 16 (24.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (24.24%) SnowPro
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (48.48%) Databricks
2 22 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) Cognos
3 3 (4.55%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.52%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.52%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.52%) Confluent
4 1 (1.52%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.52%) Google
4 1 (1.52%) Informatica
4 1 (1.52%) Refinitiv