Data Lineage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Lineage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lineage over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 793 768 1018
Rank change year-on-year -25 +250 -234
Permanent jobs citing Data Lineage 114 192 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 80 134 138
10th Percentile £41,250 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £48,818 £56,219 £54,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,245 £73,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -8.13% +23.08%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £122,861 £108,365 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £59,526 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.70% +10.23% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Lineage 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 85,150 95,114 154,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 95.57% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59,851 56,202 82,517
10th Percentile £29,079 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.43%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 -30 72 £70,000 -17.65% 42
UK excluding London +11 57 £53,750 -9.70% 15
Work from Home +15 42 £65,000 +9.20% 17
London +7 37 £77,500 -8.82% 32
Scotland -52 26 £45,000 -24.40% 2
North of England +49 21 £49,875 -16.21% 2
North West +7 10 £68,490 +15.06% 1
Yorkshire +77 7 £44,750 -18.64% 1
South West -7 7 £149,601 +151.32% 2
North East - 4 £42,500 -
West Midlands +11 1 £60,000 -29.41% 2
East of England -1 1 £52,500 -40.00% 1
Midlands -3 1 £60,000 -29.41% 2
South East -9 1 - - 6

Data Lineage
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 26 (22.81%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.93%) AWS
2 21 (18.42%) Azure
3 19 (16.67%) Collibra
4 18 (15.79%) GCP
5 16 (14.04%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.89%) PowerApps
7 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.39%) IaaS
8 5 (4.39%) PaaS
8 5 (4.39%) Serverless
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.51%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.79%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.07%) Big Data
2 28 (24.56%) Metadata
3 26 (22.81%) Data Lake
3 26 (22.81%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (17.54%) Tableau
5 18 (15.79%) DB2
5 18 (15.79%) MongoDB
6 14 (12.28%) Relational Database
7 11 (9.65%) Power BI
7 11 (9.65%) SQL Server
8 10 (8.77%) NoSQL
9 9 (7.89%) Ataccama
10 8 (7.02%) Hadoop
11 6 (5.26%) BigQuery
11 6 (5.26%) Flink
12 5 (4.39%) Oracle Database
13 4 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (1.75%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.88%) ERwin
2 1 (0.88%) JMeter
2 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 53 (46.49%) Finance
2 49 (42.98%) Banking
3 46 (40.35%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (24.56%) Social Skills
5 22 (19.30%) Marketing
6 20 (17.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (15.79%) Financial Institution
7 18 (15.79%) Investment Banking
7 18 (15.79%) Law
8 9 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.39%) Legal
10 4 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.75%) Retail
12 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.88%) Publishing
12 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (23.68%) Data Engineer
2 24 (21.05%) Analyst
3 21 (18.42%) Data Analyst
4 18 (15.79%) Software Engineering Director
5 14 (12.28%) Senior
6 13 (11.40%) Data Manager
7 12 (10.53%) Lead
8 10 (8.77%) Business Data Analyst
9 9 (7.89%) Architect
10 8 (7.02%) Resilience Manager
11 7 (6.14%) Consultant
12 6 (5.26%) Data Architect
12 6 (5.26%) Data Consultant
12 6 (5.26%) Head of Engineering
13 5 (4.39%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (4.39%) Governance Analyst
13 5 (4.39%) Management Consultant
13 5 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
14 4 (3.51%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.18%) Kafka
2 8 (7.02%) Middleware
3 6 (5.26%) Apache Beam
4 5 (4.39%) .NET
4 5 (4.39%) J2EE
5 2 (1.75%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (31.58%) Management Information System
2 25 (21.93%) Cloud Native
3 21 (18.42%) Product Ownership
4 18 (15.79%) Public Cloud
5 9 (7.89%) Data Structures
5 9 (7.89%) Taxonomies
6 8 (7.02%) Algorithms
6 8 (7.02%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (4.39%) Blog
8 5 (4.39%) Reference Data
8 5 (4.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (3.51%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.75%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.88%) Data Governance
2 57 (50.00%) Analytics
3 49 (42.98%) Data Management
4 48 (42.11%) Data Modelling
5 43 (37.72%) Agile
5 43 (37.72%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (28.95%) Data Strategy
7 32 (28.07%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (28.07%) Decision-Making
8 30 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 30 (26.32%) CI/CD
9 29 (25.44%) Data Analytics
10 26 (22.81%) Software Engineering
11 24 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
11 24 (21.05%) Data Analysis
11 24 (21.05%) Data Reconciliation
11 24 (21.05%) Operational Stability
12 21 (18.42%) Metadata Management
13 19 (16.67%) Machine Learning
13 19 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (52.63%) SQL
2 33 (28.95%) Python
3 29 (25.44%) Java
4 24 (21.05%) Scala
5 23 (20.18%) PL/SQL
6 9 (7.89%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.51%) Go
7 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.75%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (54.39%) Data Quality
2 18 (15.79%) SLA
3 8 (7.02%) QA
4 4 (3.51%) GRC
5 2 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (21.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (32.46%) Oracle
2 26 (22.81%) Microsoft
3 22 (19.30%) Databricks
4 18 (15.79%) Alteryx
4 18 (15.79%) Cognos
4 18 (15.79%) Sybase
5 8 (7.02%) SAP
5 8 (7.02%) ServiceNow
6 6 (5.26%) Teradata
7 5 (4.39%) Talend
8 3 (2.63%) Informatica
9 1 (0.88%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.88%) Marketo
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) SnapLogic