Data Development Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Development over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 245 235
Rank change year-on-year +57 -10 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Development 6 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.065% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.080% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 25
10th Percentile - £56,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,243 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,629 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.71% +14.29% -25.00%
75th Percentile £74,014 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile - - £61,250
England median annual salary £56,675 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.54% - -17.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Development 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,761 6,284 5,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.22% 81.95% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,511 4,626 3,154
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the West Midlands

Data Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Development in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Development in the West Midlands

Data Development
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Birmingham +42 5 £67,629 +12.71%
Coventry - 1 £62,500 - 1
Data Development
England

Data Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Digital Identity
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (16.67%) SFIA
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks