Data Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Design over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 776 862 881
Rank change year-on-year +86 +19 -103
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 114 115 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 81 51 211
10th Percentile £52,325 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £53,236
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £47,500 £57,732
% change year-on-year +33.68% -17.72% -3.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Design 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Design over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
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 Design within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +110 105 £64,250 -8.21% 21
UK excluding London +19 97 £63,500 +33.68% 10
Work from Home +73 47 £61,206 -15.58% 10
Midlands +20 34 £55,000 +74.60%
West Midlands - 32 £55,000 -
South East +16 29 £85,000 +23.64% 5
London +83 16 £77,500 - 14
North of England +53 14 £61,206 +28.85% 2
South West -19 10 £68,937 - 1
North West +7 7 £61,206 +36.01% 1
Yorkshire +82 6 £61,206 -10.24% 1
Wales +9 3 £52,956 - 1
East of England +4 2 £77,500 +22.05% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £65,000 +106.35%
Scotland -63 2 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland +16 1 - -
North East -6 1 £61,206 -

Data Design
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 12 (10.53%) JBoss
1 12 (10.53%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.63%) SAS
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.09%) Azure
2 23 (20.18%) Matillion
2 23 (20.18%) Power Platform
2 23 (20.18%) Snowflake
3 17 (14.91%) Serverless
4 9 (7.89%) AWS
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (3.51%) GCP
6 3 (2.63%) Collibra
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (58.77%) Metadata
2 33 (28.95%) Data Lake
3 25 (21.93%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (20.18%) Power BI
5 14 (12.28%) Relational Database
6 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.14%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.26%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (4.39%) Data Mining
9 5 (4.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (4.39%) Tableau
10 4 (3.51%) Big Data
11 3 (2.63%) MySQL
11 3 (2.63%) SAS EBI
12 2 (1.75%) Ataccama
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
13 1 (0.88%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) IntelliJ
2 1 (0.88%) ERwin
2 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 37 (32.46%) Finance
2 35 (30.70%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.02%) Retail
6 6 (5.26%) Billing
7 4 (3.51%) Wearables
8 3 (2.63%) Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Legal
9 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Police
9 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (68.42%) Architect
2 72 (63.16%) Data Architect
3 37 (32.46%) Senior
4 15 (13.16%) Enterprise Architect
5 14 (12.28%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 13 (11.40%) Senior Architect
6 13 (11.40%) Senior Data Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Java Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Java Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
8 10 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.02%) Lead
10 6 (5.26%) Data Manager
10 6 (5.26%) Domain Architect
11 5 (4.39%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Lead Architect
12 4 (3.51%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.40%) AngularJS
1 13 (11.40%) JSON
1 13 (11.40%) REST
2 12 (10.53%) Hibernate
2 12 (10.53%) Java EE
2 12 (10.53%) JPA
2 12 (10.53%) RESTful
2 12 (10.53%) SOAP
2 12 (10.53%) Spring
2 12 (10.53%) Web Services
2 12 (10.53%) XML
2 12 (10.53%) XSD
3 5 (4.39%) ATL
3 5 (4.39%) Shiny
4 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.88%) EDI
4 1 (0.88%) Kafka
4 1 (0.88%) React
4 1 (0.88%) Vue
4 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.68%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.14%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.63%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (64.91%) Data Modelling
2 65 (57.02%) Analytics
3 64 (56.14%) Data Architecture
4 46 (40.35%) Data Management
5 41 (35.96%) Data Strategy
6 40 (35.09%) Agile
7 37 (32.46%) Metadata Management
8 36 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (27.19%) ETL
10 28 (24.56%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (24.56%) Data Science
10 28 (24.56%) Logical Data Model
11 26 (22.81%) Data Analysis
12 24 (21.05%) Information Management
13 23 (20.18%) Machine Learning
13 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (20.18%) TOGAF
14 22 (19.30%) Event-Driven
15 21 (18.42%) Architectural Patterns
15 21 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.46%) SQL
2 28 (24.56%) T-SQL
3 12 (10.53%) Java
4 7 (6.14%) Python
5 5 (4.39%) R
6 1 (0.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.88%) CCNA
4 1 (0.88%) CCNP
4 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.88%) CISSP
4 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.30%) GDPR
2 19 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (23.68%) Databricks
2 12 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.63%) Oracle
4 2 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (0.88%) Ab Initio
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco
5 1 (0.88%) Confluent
5 1 (0.88%) Denodo
5 1 (0.88%) Google
5 1 (0.88%) Informatica