Data Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 849 749 919
Rank change year-on-year -100 +170 -165
Permanent jobs citing Data Development 65 203 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 58 93 155
10th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £44,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £51,625 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £85,625
90th Percentile £105,125 £87,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Development 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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Development within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -27 55 £60,000 - 23
Work from Home -28 34 £55,000 -15.38% 13
London +136 29 £65,000 - 11
UK excluding London -135 28 £57,500 - 13
North of England +22 8 £41,500 -36.15% 5
South East -20 8 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Yorkshire +69 6 £41,500 -40.24% 4
West Midlands -13 5 £60,000 +14.29%
Midlands -36 5 £60,000 +14.29%
South West -30 3 £65,000 +85.71% 1
Scotland -73 3 £80,000 +19.40% 1
East of England -4 1 £55,000 -12.00% 1
North West -11 1 £48,000 -7.69%
North East - 1 £40,000 - 1

Data Development
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 11 (16.92%) IIS
2 5 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) Azure
1 17 (26.15%) Power Platform
2 6 (9.23%) AWS
3 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 5 (7.69%) IaaS
3 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.15%) GCP
4 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.54%) Boomi
6 1 (1.54%) Datadog
6 1 (1.54%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.54%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Firewall
2 5 (7.69%) DHCP
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) LAN
2 5 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 5 (7.69%) WAN
2 5 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (26.15%) Power BI
2 17 (26.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
4 11 (16.92%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.15%) Metadata
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.54%) Flink
8 1 (1.54%) GIS
8 1 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.54%) Parquet
8 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.54%) Tableau
8 1 (1.54%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.08%) JUnit
1 2 (3.08%) Mockito
2 1 (1.54%) GitLab
2 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 23 (35.38%) Finance
3 18 (27.69%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (16.92%) Marketing
5 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Automotive
6 1 (1.54%) German Language
6 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Data Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Database Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Analyst
4 9 (13.85%) Lead
5 7 (10.77%) Actuarial Analyst
5 7 (10.77%) Data Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Technical Leader
7 5 (7.69%) Senior
7 5 (7.69%) Technical Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (4.62%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Python Data Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Security Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) .NET
1 12 (18.46%) ASP.NET
2 9 (13.85%) Kafka
3 8 (12.31%) AngularJS
3 8 (12.31%) React
3 8 (12.31%) Spring
3 8 (12.31%) Spring Boot
4 6 (9.23%) REST
5 3 (4.62%) Anaconda
5 3 (4.62%) Flask
5 3 (4.62%) Pandas
5 3 (4.62%) Plotly
5 3 (4.62%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (3.08%) RESTful
7 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.54%) JSON
7 1 (1.54%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.54%) Swagger
7 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.77%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
1 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) ETL
2 25 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (30.77%) Analytics
4 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 12 (18.46%) Business Analysis
6 12 (18.46%) Data Analysis
6 12 (18.46%) Data Analytics
6 12 (18.46%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (18.46%) Data Protection
7 11 (16.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (16.92%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (16.92%) Email Marketing
7 11 (16.92%) Information Security
7 11 (16.92%) Open Source
7 11 (16.92%) Project Management
8 10 (15.38%) Data Engineering
8 10 (15.38%) Scrum
8 10 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) SQL
2 16 (24.62%) Python
3 12 (18.46%) T-SQL
4 11 (16.92%) PowerShell
5 9 (13.85%) Java
6 1 (1.54%) C#
6 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Degree
2 11 (16.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) ISEB
3 1 (1.54%) MCSE
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Alteryx
3 5 (7.69%) Informatica
3 5 (7.69%) Meraki
3 5 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.54%) Remedy
4 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.54%) SnapLogic
4 1 (1.54%) TIBCO