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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 168 166
Rank change year-on-year +61 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 2,513 2,184 4,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.43% 2.25% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.35% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 1,255 1,861
10th Percentile £31,000 £39,949 £37,186
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.57% +8.49% +6.00%

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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 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 29 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 29 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 +57 2,257 £60,000 -7.69% 624
UK excluding London +87 1,507 £52,000 -9.57% 384
Work from Home +27 951 £60,000 -7.69% 245
London +42 889 £75,000 +7.14% 276
South East +49 455 £50,000 -20.00% 68
North of England +166 447 £50,000 -12.74% 99
Midlands +92 310 £55,000 - 78
North West +109 231 £52,500 -8.70% 56
West Midlands +73 202 £55,000 -8.33% 55
Yorkshire +132 140 £52,500 -14.29% 25
Scotland +4 130 £60,000 +0.80% 42
East Midlands +44 108 £45,000 -6.25% 23
South West -75 90 £55,000 -8.71% 51
North East +55 76 £24,960 -52.00% 18
East of England -40 52 £37,500 -34.78% 29
Wales +5 19 £46,604 -17.89% 13
Northern Ireland +26 3 £70,000 +86.67% 8
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
1 316 (12.57%) SAS
2 86 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.63%) Confluence
5 29 (1.15%) Apache
6 12 (0.48%) WordPress
7 7 (0.28%) CMS
7 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.20%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.12%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 3 (0.12%) Orchard CMS
10 3 (0.12%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.080%) Luigi
11 2 (0.080%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 400 (15.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.56%) Sketch
6 9 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.24%) SPSS
7 6 (0.24%) Stata
8 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.040%) InVision
9 1 (0.040%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 300 (11.94%) SAP ERP
2 32 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.15%) Primavera
4 21 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.56%) SAP BPC
6 10 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.20%) Odoo
8 5 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.16%) Finacle
9 4 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.16%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.16%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 393 (15.64%) Azure
2 330 (13.13%) Power Platform
3 219 (8.71%) AWS
4 131 (5.21%) GCP
5 73 (2.90%) Snowflake
6 64 (2.55%) SaaS
7 60 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
9 47 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
10 43 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 37 (1.47%) Collibra
11 37 (1.47%) PowerApps
12 36 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
14 29 (1.15%) IaaS
15 26 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.03%) Serverless
16 25 (0.99%) GitHub
16 25 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 323 (12.85%) Broadband
2 39 (1.55%) 5G
3 37 (1.47%) Firewall
4 36 (1.43%) WAN
5 33 (1.31%) Wireless
6 31 (1.23%) Internet
7 22 (0.88%) Bluetooth
7 22 (0.88%) GSM
7 22 (0.88%) ISDN
7 22 (0.88%) LTE
7 22 (0.88%) PSTN
7 22 (0.88%) UMTS
7 22 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.80%) LAN
8 20 (0.80%) WPA
9 17 (0.68%) 4G
9 17 (0.68%) MPLS
10 13 (0.52%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.48%) SAN
12 11 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (11.98%) Power BI
2 202 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
3 152 (6.05%) Metadata
4 140 (5.57%) SQL Server
5 106 (4.22%) Data Lake
6 95 (3.78%) Tableau
7 60 (2.39%) Big Data
7 60 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 59 (2.35%) NoSQL
9 49 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 47 (1.87%) BigQuery
11 45 (1.79%) Power Query
12 35 (1.39%) Data Vault
13 33 (1.31%) Relational Database
14 28 (1.11%) SAP BW
15 27 (1.07%) Looker
16 26 (1.03%) Data Mining
17 25 (0.99%) MongoDB
18 22 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
19 21 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 173 (6.88%) JIRA
2 69 (2.75%) Git
3 35 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.07%) GitLab
5 22 (0.88%) LabVIEW
6 12 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 11 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.40%) JUnit
8 10 (0.40%) Selenium
9 9 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.32%) Spinnaker
10 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.24%) RStudio
12 4 (0.16%) ERwin
13 3 (0.12%) Maven
13 3 (0.12%) MLflow
13 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.080%) ER Studio
14 2 (0.080%) Moq
General
1 1,129 (44.93%) Finance
2 1,112 (44.25%) Social Skills
3 532 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (12.02%) Legal
5 284 (11.30%) Banking
6 265 (10.55%) Retail
7 236 (9.39%) Marketing
8 186 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 100 (3.98%) Law
9 100 (3.98%) Telecoms
10 74 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (2.39%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.03%) Billing
13 46 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.51%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.47%) Public Sector
16 35 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (1.11%) Local Government
18 24 (0.96%) Back Office
19 20 (0.80%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 518 (20.61%) Architect
2 366 (14.56%) Solutions Architect
3 356 (14.17%) Analyst
4 326 (12.97%) Senior
5 191 (7.60%) Data Manager
6 183 (7.28%) Data Analyst
7 152 (6.05%) Lead
8 144 (5.73%) Developer
9 140 (5.57%) Data Engineer
10 119 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
11 116 (4.62%) Data Architect
12 74 (2.94%) Consultant
13 55 (2.19%) Administrator
14 54 (2.15%) Coordinator
15 50 (1.99%) Development Manager
15 50 (1.99%) Senior Manager
16 48 (1.91%) Quantity Surveyor
17 45 (1.79%) Senior Architect
18 44 (1.75%) Software Engineer
19 40 (1.59%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.23%) .NET
2 29 (1.15%) Kafka
3 25 (0.99%) React
4 23 (0.92%) Node.js
4 23 (0.92%) Web Services
5 21 (0.84%) AngularJS
6 20 (0.80%) Middleware
7 19 (0.76%) RESTful
8 18 (0.72%) Apache Beam
9 16 (0.64%) HTML
10 13 (0.52%) PySpark
11 12 (0.48%) CSS
11 12 (0.48%) Laravel
12 9 (0.36%) EDI
12 9 (0.36%) Spring
12 9 (0.36%) Vue
13 8 (0.32%) ADO
13 8 (0.32%) LDAP
13 8 (0.32%) Pandas
13 8 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 275 (10.94%) Management Information System
2 144 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 100 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 77 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 56 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 46 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 45 (1.79%) IoT
9 43 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 43 (1.71%) Reference Data
10 42 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 41 (1.63%) Reinsurance
12 39 (1.55%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.27%) Life Science
14 27 (1.07%) Driving Licence
15 23 (0.92%) Blog
15 23 (0.92%) Virtual Team
16 22 (0.88%) Acoustics
16 22 (0.88%) Data Centre
16 22 (0.88%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.90%) Linux
2 71 (2.83%) Windows
3 30 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.64%) Unix
5 12 (0.48%) zOS
6 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.20%) Android
7 5 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.040%) AIX
9 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (34.58%) Agile
2 536 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
3 506 (20.14%) Analytics
4 484 (19.26%) Roadmaps
5 481 (19.14%) Data Governance
6 399 (15.88%) Business Intelligence
7 382 (15.20%) ERP
8 372 (14.80%) Change Management
9 351 (13.97%) Data Modelling
10 337 (13.41%) Performance Management
11 332 (13.21%) TOGAF
12 331 (13.17%) Data Analysis
13 330 (13.13%) Enterprise Architecture
14 327 (13.01%) Strategic Roadmap
15 280 (11.14%) Decision-Making
16 275 (10.94%) ETL
17 270 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 258 (10.27%) Visualisation
19 248 (9.87%) Data Strategy
20 246 (9.79%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 489 (19.46%) SQL
2 238 (9.47%) Python
3 82 (3.26%) Java
4 66 (2.63%) C#
5 63 (2.51%) T-SQL
6 45 (1.79%) R
7 41 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 36 (1.43%) C
9 32 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 21 (0.84%) Rust
11 20 (0.80%) C++
12 17 (0.68%) PHP
13 16 (0.64%) Go
13 16 (0.64%) Scala
14 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.52%) VBA
16 12 (0.48%) Bash
16 12 (0.48%) TypeScript
17 8 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 533 (21.21%) Degree
2 142 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 87 (3.46%) Master's Degree
4 80 (3.18%) Security Cleared
5 47 (1.87%) Numerate Degree
6 42 (1.67%) ACCA
6 42 (1.67%) CIMA
7 37 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.07%) SC Cleared
10 26 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.88%) MBA
12 18 (0.72%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.72%) PhD
13 17 (0.68%) CISSP
13 17 (0.68%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.44%) CISM
14 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
16 8 (0.32%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (18.30%) Data Quality
2 272 (10.82%) GDPR
3 115 (4.58%) QA
4 62 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.71%) SLA
6 19 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 18 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
8 11 (0.44%) PSD2
9 10 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 10 (0.40%) CDISC
9 10 (0.40%) PMO
10 9 (0.36%) COSHH
10 9 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.28%) GRC
12 6 (0.24%) GAAP
12 6 (0.24%) IFRS
13 5 (0.20%) COBIT
13 5 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.19%) Docker
3 28 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 21 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.20%) DFS Replication
5 5 (0.20%) Firmware
5 5 (0.20%) NFS
5 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.040%) HDFS
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 34 (1.35%) Terraform
3 17 (0.68%) FortiGate
4 16 (0.64%) Ansible
5 9 (0.36%) Grafana
6 8 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (0.32%) Puppet
7 5 (0.20%) NetBackup
7 5 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.20%) SCOM
7 5 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (0.16%) Nagios
8 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.080%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.040%) FTK
11 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.040%) Packer
11 1 (0.040%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 485 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 417 (16.59%) Oracle
3 410 (16.32%) SAP
4 301 (11.98%) Hyperion
5 299 (11.90%) Anaplan
6 117 (4.66%) Databricks
7 89 (3.54%) Salesforce
8 73 (2.90%) NEC
9 63 (2.51%) Google
10 54 (2.15%) Informatica
11 41 (1.63%) Virgin Media
12 30 (1.19%) Cisco
13 27 (1.07%) VMware
14 20 (0.80%) HP
15 18 (0.72%) Openreach
15 18 (0.72%) ServiceNow
16 17 (0.68%) Darktrace
17 14 (0.56%) Alteryx
18 12 (0.48%) F5
19 11 (0.44%) Facebook