Data Management Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 66 107
Rank change year-on-year -38 +41 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 15 39 36
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.82% 2.60% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.97% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 22
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,600 £46,750
25th Percentile £52,688 £44,706 £57,791
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £84,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -31.95% +44.44%
75th Percentile £62,500 £82,500 £97,125
90th Percentile £83,250 £95,496 £100,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,125
% change year-on-year - -0.21% -10.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,496 1,311 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 82.24% 87.52% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 875 659 1,381
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,028 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Management
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Management in West Yorkshire

Data Management
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Leeds -29 14 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Wakefield - 1 £80,000 -
Data Management
Yorkshire

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Maximo
2 2 (13.33%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (20.00%) dbt
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Collibra
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (20.00%) Data Vault
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) Power Query
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) ETL Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Insight Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Pandas
2 2 (13.33%) Grails
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (13.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) ETL
2 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) Data Science
3 5 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) AI
4 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (20.00%) People Management
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) R
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) IFS
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle