Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 163 162
Rank change year-on-year +46 -1 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 2,318 2,334 3,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 2.26% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.36% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 1,335 1,872
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,439 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.22% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Management 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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +48 2,075 £60,000 -7.69% 683
UK excluding London +72 1,349 £54,500 -5.22% 425
Work from Home +27 954 £60,000 -10.14% 289
London +44 864 £75,000 +7.14% 297
South East +46 407 £50,000 -9.09% 113
North of England +160 402 £52,500 -12.50% 94
Midlands +70 242 £55,000 -4.35% 82
North West +119 223 £52,500 -16.00% 53
West Midlands +54 160 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Yorkshire +136 139 £52,500 -25.00% 32
Scotland +1 129 £60,000 +9.09% 33
South West -90 89 £65,000 +7.89% 50
East Midlands +32 82 £44,550 +1.25% 50
East of England -31 56 £34,742 -39.58% 40
North East +17 40 £57,500 +10.58% 10
Wales +17 20 £46,060 -23.23% 15
Northern Ireland +26 3 £70,000 +86.67% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Management
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
1 315 (13.59%) SAS
2 87 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.77%) Confluence
5 27 (1.16%) Apache
6 14 (0.60%) WordPress
7 9 (0.39%) CMS
7 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.13%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 3 (0.13%) Orchard CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.13%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.086%) Luigi
10 2 (0.086%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 306 (13.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.56%) Sketch
6 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.26%) SPSS
8 6 (0.26%) Stata
9 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.22%) InDesign
9 5 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.043%) InVision
11 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 299 (12.90%) SAP ERP
2 38 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.25%) Primavera
4 15 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.60%) SAP BPC
6 8 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.22%) Odoo
8 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.22%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.17%) Finacle
9 4 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.17%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.17%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.13%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.13%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 386 (16.65%) Azure
2 319 (13.76%) Power Platform
3 222 (9.58%) AWS
4 147 (6.34%) GCP
5 72 (3.11%) Snowflake
6 63 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (2.59%) SaaS
8 59 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 53 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 45 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
12 41 (1.77%) PowerApps
13 33 (1.42%) Collibra
14 32 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (1.38%) GitHub
15 31 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
16 28 (1.21%) IaaS
17 27 (1.16%) Serverless
18 26 (1.12%) Power Automate
19 25 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 323 (13.93%) Broadband
2 35 (1.51%) 5G
2 35 (1.51%) Firewall
3 34 (1.47%) Wireless
4 32 (1.38%) WAN
5 31 (1.34%) Internet
6 23 (0.99%) LAN
7 22 (0.95%) Bluetooth
7 22 (0.95%) GSM
7 22 (0.95%) ISDN
7 22 (0.95%) LTE
7 22 (0.95%) PSTN
7 22 (0.95%) UMTS
7 22 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.86%) WPA
9 15 (0.65%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.60%) DHCP
10 14 (0.60%) DNS
11 13 (0.56%) MPLS
11 13 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (12.42%) Power BI
2 194 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
3 152 (6.56%) Metadata
4 146 (6.30%) SQL Server
5 106 (4.57%) Data Lake
6 90 (3.88%) Tableau
7 58 (2.50%) Big Data
8 56 (2.42%) NoSQL
9 54 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 52 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 47 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 47 (2.03%) Power Query
12 36 (1.55%) Data Vault
13 33 (1.42%) Relational Database
14 29 (1.25%) Looker
15 27 (1.16%) SAP BW
16 23 (0.99%) Data Mining
16 23 (0.99%) Delta Lake
16 23 (0.99%) MongoDB
17 20 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 178 (7.68%) JIRA
2 78 (3.36%) Git
3 41 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.08%) GitLab
5 22 (0.95%) LabVIEW
6 13 (0.56%) Spinnaker
7 12 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.39%) JUnit
9 9 (0.39%) Selenium
10 8 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.26%) RStudio
12 4 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.13%) ERwin
13 3 (0.13%) Maven
13 3 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.13%) Xcode
General
1 1,079 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 1,016 (43.83%) Finance
3 422 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (11.86%) Legal
5 269 (11.60%) Banking
6 170 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (6.00%) Marketing
8 118 (5.09%) Retail
9 108 (4.66%) Law
10 99 (4.27%) Telecoms
11 74 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
12 61 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 51 (2.20%) Billing
14 44 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
15 40 (1.73%) Public Sector
16 37 (1.60%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (1.34%) Local Government
19 23 (0.99%) General Ledger
20 22 (0.95%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 494 (21.31%) Architect
2 344 (14.84%) Solutions Architect
3 299 (12.90%) Analyst
4 276 (11.91%) Senior
5 185 (7.98%) Data Manager
6 147 (6.34%) Lead
7 143 (6.17%) Data Engineer
8 137 (5.91%) Developer
9 132 (5.69%) Data Analyst
10 118 (5.09%) Data Architect
11 91 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
12 63 (2.72%) Consultant
13 48 (2.07%) Quantity Surveyor
13 48 (2.07%) Software Engineer
14 45 (1.94%) Coordinator
14 45 (1.94%) Senior Manager
15 41 (1.77%) Administrator
16 37 (1.60%) Senior Architect
16 37 (1.60%) Senior Data Engineer
17 35 (1.51%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.33%) .NET
2 30 (1.29%) Kafka
3 26 (1.12%) RESTful
4 25 (1.08%) React
5 24 (1.04%) Web Services
6 23 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 22 (0.95%) Middleware
7 22 (0.95%) Node.js
8 18 (0.78%) Apache Beam
9 16 (0.69%) HTML
10 14 (0.60%) Laravel
11 13 (0.56%) PySpark
12 12 (0.52%) CSS
13 10 (0.43%) EDI
13 10 (0.43%) Pandas
14 9 (0.39%) ASP.NET
14 9 (0.39%) Spring
14 9 (0.39%) Vue
15 8 (0.35%) ADO
15 8 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 286 (12.34%) Management Information System
2 164 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (4.53%) Data Structures
4 102 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 76 (3.28%) Algorithms
6 53 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 48 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 48 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 40 (1.73%) IoT
8 40 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 39 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.68%) Reinsurance
10 38 (1.64%) Reference Data
11 32 (1.38%) Life Science
12 30 (1.29%) Taxonomies
13 23 (0.99%) Blog
14 22 (0.95%) Acoustics
14 22 (0.95%) Driving Licence
14 22 (0.95%) Satnav
15 19 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.02%) Linux
2 68 (2.93%) Windows
3 31 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.69%) Unix
5 12 (0.52%) zOS
6 9 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.26%) Android
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.043%) AIX
10 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (33.43%) Agile
2 492 (21.23%) Analytics
3 490 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
4 486 (20.97%) Roadmaps
5 433 (18.68%) Data Governance
6 385 (16.61%) Business Intelligence
7 380 (16.39%) ERP
8 360 (15.53%) Change Management
9 346 (14.93%) Data Modelling
10 341 (14.71%) Performance Management
11 332 (14.32%) TOGAF
12 330 (14.24%) Strategic Roadmap
13 327 (14.11%) Enterprise Architecture
14 313 (13.50%) Data Analysis
15 281 (12.12%) Decision-Making
16 278 (11.99%) ETL
17 261 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 255 (11.00%) Visualisation
19 246 (10.61%) Data Strategy
20 228 (9.84%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 456 (19.67%) SQL
2 232 (10.01%) Python
3 84 (3.62%) Java
4 64 (2.76%) C#
5 59 (2.55%) T-SQL
6 48 (2.07%) R
7 43 (1.86%) JavaScript
8 35 (1.51%) C
9 31 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 23 (0.99%) C++
11 21 (0.91%) Rust
12 20 (0.86%) PHP
13 18 (0.78%) Go
14 16 (0.69%) Scala
15 14 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.56%) TypeScript
17 12 (0.52%) VBA
18 10 (0.43%) Bash
19 9 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 508 (21.92%) Degree
2 135 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (3.71%) Master's Degree
4 85 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 47 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
6 42 (1.81%) ACCA
6 42 (1.81%) CIMA
7 39 (1.68%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.34%) SC Cleared
10 27 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.95%) MBA
12 18 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.78%) PhD
13 15 (0.65%) CISSP
14 14 (0.60%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.56%) AWS Certification
16 12 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
17 9 (0.39%) CISM
17 9 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (18.29%) Data Quality
2 251 (10.83%) GDPR
3 111 (4.79%) QA
4 55 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 16 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
6 11 (0.47%) PSD2
7 10 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 10 (0.43%) CDISC
7 10 (0.43%) PMO
8 9 (0.39%) COSHH
8 9 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.26%) GAAP
9 6 (0.26%) IFRS
9 6 (0.26%) SLA
10 5 (0.22%) COBIT
10 5 (0.22%) GRC
10 5 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.29%) Docker
3 23 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 20 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.26%) DFS Replication
6 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) NFS
7 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.29%) Terraform
3 13 (0.56%) Ansible
3 13 (0.56%) FortiGate
4 12 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (0.35%) Grafana
6 7 (0.30%) Puppet
7 6 (0.26%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 5 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.22%) SCOM
9 3 (0.13%) Nagios
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.086%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.043%) Consul
11 1 (0.043%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.043%) Packer
11 1 (0.043%) SCCM
11 1 (0.043%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 421 (18.16%) Oracle
2 408 (17.60%) SAP
3 396 (17.08%) Microsoft
4 301 (12.99%) Hyperion
5 299 (12.90%) Anaplan
6 120 (5.18%) Databricks
7 87 (3.75%) Salesforce
8 70 (3.02%) Google
9 67 (2.89%) NEC
10 53 (2.29%) Informatica
11 41 (1.77%) Virgin Media
12 25 (1.08%) VMware
13 24 (1.04%) Cisco
14 18 (0.78%) Openreach
14 18 (0.78%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.69%) HP
16 14 (0.60%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.56%) Darktrace
17 13 (0.56%) Facebook
18 12 (0.52%) F5