Master Data Management Job Trends

Master Data Management
UK

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 591 550
Rank change year-on-year +91 -41 +88
Permanent jobs citing Master Data Management 150 120 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.25% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 72 69 105
10th Percentile £43,750 £49,150 £41,300
25th Percentile £46,000 £62,500 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,925 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £76,250 £59,300
% change year-on-year -16.72% +28.58% -13.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Master Data Management 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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

Master Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Master Data Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Master Data Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Master Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Master Data Management

Master Data Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Master Data Management over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Master Data Management in the UK

Master Data Management
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Master Data Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 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 +101 146 £63,500 -20.63% 95
UK excluding London +74 105 £63,500 -16.72% 92
South East +93 77 £49,000 -24.62% 23
London +57 41 £71,028 -16.44% 11
Work from Home +51 28 £67,500 -18.18% 20
West Midlands +19 10 £65,500 +24.76% 5
Midlands +15 10 £65,500 +24.76% 16
North of England -3 8 £70,932 -11.34% 20
South West +3 7 £64,350 -14.20% 12
Yorkshire -13 4 £57,466 -11.59% 9
North West +10 3 £71,966 -20.04% 8
Scotland -2 2 £105,000 -4.55% 4
North East +10 1 £70,932 - 3
East of England - 1 £60,000 - 13

Master Data Management
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 4 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (25.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (10.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.00%) SAP CO
2 6 (4.00%) SAP FI
2 6 (4.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.33%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.67%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.67%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.67%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.67%) Azure
2 15 (10.00%) Collibra
3 13 (8.67%) AWS
4 11 (7.33%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.00%) Veeva
6 5 (3.33%) GCP
7 4 (2.67%) Azure AI
7 4 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.00%) SaaS
9 2 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.33%) dbt
10 1 (0.67%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Table
10 1 (0.67%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (48.00%) Metadata
2 37 (24.67%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (12.67%) SQL Server
4 14 (9.33%) Oracle Database
4 14 (9.33%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.00%) Data Lake
6 11 (7.33%) Power BI
7 8 (5.33%) Tableau
8 5 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (3.33%) Metadata Repository
8 5 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (2.67%) Data Vault
9 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.33%) GIS
11 2 (1.33%) Looker
11 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) MLflow
2 3 (2.00%) JIRA
3 2 (1.33%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.67%) ERwin
4 1 (0.67%) LSMW
4 1 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
General
1 96 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (34.67%) Finance
3 32 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.67%) Legal
6 4 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Law
7 3 (2.00%) Retail
8 2 (1.33%) Banking
8 2 (1.33%) Marketing
8 2 (1.33%) Music Industry
8 2 (1.33%) Publishing
9 1 (0.67%) Advertising
9 1 (0.67%) Billing
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (28.67%) Lead
2 39 (26.00%) Senior
3 27 (18.00%) Architect
4 26 (17.33%) Data Architect
5 24 (16.00%) Senior Manager
6 22 (14.67%) Data Manager
7 15 (10.00%) Data Model Manager
8 13 (8.67%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Analyst
9 9 (6.00%) Data Steward
10 8 (5.33%) Coordinator
10 8 (5.33%) Data Coordinator
11 7 (4.67%) Consultant
12 6 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (4.00%) Developer
12 6 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (4.00%) Team Leader
13 5 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
14 4 (2.67%) Administrator
14 4 (2.67%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.67%) CSS
1 4 (2.67%) LangChain
1 4 (2.67%) Pandas
1 4 (2.67%) PySpark
1 4 (2.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (2.67%) React
1 4 (2.67%) scikit-learn
1 4 (2.67%) TensorFlow
1 4 (2.67%) XGBoost
2 3 (2.00%) EDI
2 3 (2.00%) JSON
2 3 (2.00%) XML
3 1 (0.67%) Kafka
3 1 (0.67%) MDX
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.33%) Management Information System
2 17 (11.33%) Life Science
3 10 (6.67%) Reference Data
4 9 (6.00%) Biopharmaceutical
5 8 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.67%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.67%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.00%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.33%) SCADA
12 1 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 79 (52.67%) Data Governance
3 73 (48.67%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (45.33%) Data Architecture
5 62 (41.33%) Data Management
6 55 (36.67%) Data Strategy
7 49 (32.67%) ERP
8 47 (31.33%) Data Design
9 44 (29.33%) Analytics
10 43 (28.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 42 (28.00%) CRUD
11 42 (28.00%) SAP Implementation
12 39 (26.00%) Data Analysis
13 36 (24.00%) Decision-Making
14 32 (21.33%) Data Cleansing
14 32 (21.33%) ETL
15 27 (18.00%) Data Conversion
16 26 (17.33%) Roadmaps
17 25 (16.67%) Metadata Management
18 22 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.67%) SQL
2 14 (9.33%) Python
3 5 (3.33%) R
4 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.33%) Perl
5 2 (1.33%) VB
6 1 (0.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 83 (55.33%) Degree
2 18 (12.00%) Master's Degree
3 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (7.33%) CISSP
4 11 (7.33%) MCSE
4 11 (7.33%) OCP
4 11 (7.33%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (55.33%) Data Quality
2 17 (11.33%) GDPR
3 5 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.00%) QA
5 2 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.33%) IFRS
5 2 (1.33%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (30.67%) SAP
2 33 (22.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.33%) Oracle
4 10 (6.67%) Databricks
5 5 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.67%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.67%) Foundry
6 4 (2.67%) Google
6 4 (2.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.33%) Informatica
8 1 (0.67%) Cognos
8 1 (0.67%) IBM
8 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) Sparx