Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 166 162
Rank change year-on-year +51 -4 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 2,342 2,277 3,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.36% 2.24% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.34% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 1,313 1,845
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.22% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Management 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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
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 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +44 2,096 £60,000 -7.69% 549
UK excluding London +72 1,365 £54,500 -5.22% 351
Work from Home +24 959 £60,000 -9.91% 241
London +48 869 £75,000 +7.14% 231
North of England +172 410 £52,500 -12.50% 85
South East +42 409 £50,000 -9.09% 82
Midlands +60 246 £55,000 -4.35% 57
North West +121 226 £52,500 -16.00% 49
West Midlands +52 163 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Yorkshire +144 143 £52,500 -25.00% 28
Scotland +4 130 £60,000 +9.09% 30
South West -83 91 £62,500 +3.74% 53
East Midlands +32 83 £44,550 -3.15% 25
East of England -34 55 £34,742 -39.58% 32
North East +24 41 £57,500 +10.58% 9
Wales +14 20 £46,060 -23.23% 14
Northern Ireland +28 3 £70,000 +86.67% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Management
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
1 315 (13.45%) SAS
2 86 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.79%) Confluence
5 41 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (1.15%) Apache
7 14 (0.60%) WordPress
8 9 (0.38%) CMS
9 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.21%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.13%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 3 (0.13%) Orchard CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 3 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.085%) Luigi
13 2 (0.085%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 313 (13.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.56%) Sketch
6 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.26%) SPSS
8 6 (0.26%) Stata
9 5 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.17%) InDesign
10 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.043%) InVision
11 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 300 (12.81%) SAP ERP
2 38 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.24%) Primavera
4 16 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.60%) SAP BPC
6 8 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.21%) Odoo
8 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.17%) Finacle
9 4 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.17%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.17%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.13%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.13%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 388 (16.57%) Azure
2 323 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 222 (9.48%) AWS
4 148 (6.32%) GCP
5 71 (3.03%) Snowflake
6 63 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (2.60%) SaaS
8 60 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 53 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 45 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
12 40 (1.71%) PowerApps
13 36 (1.54%) Collibra
14 34 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 33 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 33 (1.41%) GitHub
16 28 (1.20%) IaaS
17 27 (1.15%) Serverless
18 26 (1.11%) Power Automate
19 25 (1.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 323 (13.79%) Broadband
2 36 (1.54%) 5G
2 36 (1.54%) Firewall
3 34 (1.45%) Wireless
4 33 (1.41%) WAN
5 32 (1.37%) Internet
6 23 (0.98%) LAN
7 22 (0.94%) Bluetooth
7 22 (0.94%) GSM
7 22 (0.94%) ISDN
7 22 (0.94%) LTE
7 22 (0.94%) PSTN
7 22 (0.94%) UMTS
7 22 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.85%) WPA
9 15 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.60%) 4G
10 14 (0.60%) DHCP
10 14 (0.60%) DNS
10 14 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (12.47%) Power BI
2 196 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (6.53%) Metadata
4 144 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 105 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 92 (3.93%) Tableau
7 59 (2.52%) Big Data
8 56 (2.39%) NoSQL
9 54 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 51 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 48 (2.05%) Power Query
12 47 (2.01%) BigQuery
13 36 (1.54%) Data Vault
14 33 (1.41%) Relational Database
15 29 (1.24%) Looker
16 28 (1.20%) SAP BW
17 25 (1.07%) Data Mining
18 23 (0.98%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.98%) MongoDB
19 21 (0.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 180 (7.69%) JIRA
2 78 (3.33%) Git
3 42 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.07%) GitLab
5 22 (0.94%) LabVIEW
6 14 (0.60%) Spinnaker
7 12 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.38%) JUnit
9 9 (0.38%) Selenium
10 8 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.26%) RStudio
12 4 (0.17%) ERwin
12 4 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.13%) Maven
13 3 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.13%) Xcode
General
1 1,082 (46.20%) Social Skills
2 1,027 (43.85%) Finance
3 422 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (12.04%) Legal
5 280 (11.96%) Banking
6 169 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 144 (6.15%) Marketing
8 122 (5.21%) Retail
9 103 (4.40%) Law
10 96 (4.10%) Telecoms
11 74 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (2.56%) Manufacturing
13 51 (2.18%) Billing
14 44 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
15 41 (1.75%) Public Sector
16 37 (1.58%) Financial Institution
17 35 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 29 (1.24%) Local Government
19 22 (0.94%) Back Office
19 22 (0.94%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 492 (21.01%) Architect
2 344 (14.69%) Solutions Architect
3 313 (13.36%) Analyst
4 292 (12.47%) Senior
5 185 (7.90%) Data Manager
6 149 (6.36%) Lead
7 146 (6.23%) Data Engineer
8 143 (6.11%) Data Analyst
9 138 (5.89%) Developer
10 116 (4.95%) Data Architect
11 103 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
12 67 (2.86%) Consultant
13 48 (2.05%) Quantity Surveyor
13 48 (2.05%) Software Engineer
14 45 (1.92%) Coordinator
14 45 (1.92%) Senior Manager
15 42 (1.79%) Administrator
16 38 (1.62%) Senior Data Engineer
17 37 (1.58%) Senior Architect
18 35 (1.49%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.35%) .NET
2 30 (1.28%) Kafka
3 26 (1.11%) RESTful
4 24 (1.02%) React
4 24 (1.02%) Web Services
5 23 (0.98%) AngularJS
6 22 (0.94%) Middleware
6 22 (0.94%) Node.js
7 18 (0.77%) Apache Beam
8 16 (0.68%) HTML
9 14 (0.60%) Laravel
9 14 (0.60%) PySpark
10 12 (0.51%) CSS
11 10 (0.43%) Pandas
12 9 (0.38%) ASP.NET
12 9 (0.38%) Spring
12 9 (0.38%) Vue
13 8 (0.34%) EDI
13 8 (0.34%) LDAP
13 8 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 285 (12.17%) Management Information System
2 164 (7.00%) Self-Motivation
3 106 (4.53%) Data Structures
4 104 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 75 (3.20%) Algorithms
6 54 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 49 (2.09%) Cloud Native
8 48 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 42 (1.79%) IoT
10 40 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 39 (1.67%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.67%) Reference Data
11 39 (1.67%) Reinsurance
12 32 (1.37%) Life Science
13 31 (1.32%) Taxonomies
14 23 (0.98%) Blog
14 23 (0.98%) Driving Licence
15 22 (0.94%) Acoustics
15 22 (0.94%) Satnav
16 19 (0.81%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.07%) Linux
2 69 (2.95%) Windows
3 31 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.68%) Unix
5 12 (0.51%) zOS
6 8 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.21%) Android
7 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.043%) AIX
9 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (33.30%) Agile
2 496 (21.18%) Analytics
3 494 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
4 485 (20.71%) Roadmaps
5 446 (19.04%) Data Governance
6 391 (16.70%) Business Intelligence
7 381 (16.27%) ERP
8 361 (15.41%) Change Management
9 348 (14.86%) Data Modelling
10 339 (14.47%) Performance Management
11 333 (14.22%) TOGAF
12 329 (14.05%) Strategic Roadmap
13 327 (13.96%) Enterprise Architecture
14 317 (13.54%) Data Analysis
15 283 (12.08%) ETL
16 278 (11.87%) Decision-Making
17 261 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 259 (11.06%) Visualisation
19 245 (10.46%) Data Strategy
20 238 (10.16%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 460 (19.64%) SQL
2 236 (10.08%) Python
3 84 (3.59%) Java
4 66 (2.82%) C#
5 59 (2.52%) T-SQL
6 48 (2.05%) R
7 42 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 36 (1.54%) C
9 32 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 23 (0.98%) C++
11 21 (0.90%) Rust
12 19 (0.81%) PHP
13 18 (0.77%) Go
14 16 (0.68%) Scala
15 14 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.56%) TypeScript
17 12 (0.51%) VBA
18 11 (0.47%) Bash
19 9 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 510 (21.78%) Degree
2 136 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (3.67%) Master's Degree
4 85 (3.63%) Security Cleared
5 47 (2.01%) Numerate Degree
6 42 (1.79%) ACCA
6 42 (1.79%) CIMA
7 39 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.32%) SC Cleared
10 27 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.94%) MBA
12 18 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.77%) PhD
13 16 (0.68%) CISSP
14 14 (0.60%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.56%) AWS Certification
16 12 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
17 10 (0.43%) CISM
18 9 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (18.36%) Data Quality
2 260 (11.10%) GDPR
3 112 (4.78%) QA
4 55 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 17 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
7 11 (0.47%) PSD2
8 10 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 10 (0.43%) CDISC
8 10 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.43%) PMO
9 9 (0.38%) COSHH
10 6 (0.26%) GAAP
10 6 (0.26%) GRC
10 6 (0.26%) IFRS
10 6 (0.26%) SLA
11 5 (0.21%) COBIT
11 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.32%) Docker
3 24 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 21 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.26%) DFS Replication
6 5 (0.21%) Firmware
6 5 (0.21%) NFS
6 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.28%) Terraform
3 14 (0.60%) Ansible
3 14 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 12 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (0.38%) Grafana
6 7 (0.30%) Puppet
7 6 (0.26%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 5 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.21%) SCOM
9 4 (0.17%) Nagios
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.085%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.043%) Consul
12 1 (0.043%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.043%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.043%) SCCM
12 1 (0.043%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.043%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 421 (17.98%) Oracle
2 410 (17.51%) SAP
3 402 (17.16%) Microsoft
4 301 (12.85%) Hyperion
5 299 (12.77%) Anaplan
6 120 (5.12%) Databricks
7 89 (3.80%) Salesforce
8 71 (3.03%) Google
9 68 (2.90%) NEC
10 54 (2.31%) Informatica
11 41 (1.75%) Virgin Media
12 26 (1.11%) VMware
13 25 (1.07%) Cisco
14 19 (0.81%) ServiceNow
15 18 (0.77%) Openreach
16 17 (0.73%) HP
17 14 (0.60%) Darktrace
18 13 (0.56%) Alteryx
18 13 (0.56%) Facebook
19 12 (0.51%) F5