Data Management Jobs

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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 162 165
Rank change year-on-year +55 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 2,600 2,132 4,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.44% 2.28% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.39% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,409 1,232 1,868
10th Percentile £31,000 £40,000 £37,130
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,846 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% +3.75% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £57,500 £53,325
% change year-on-year -9.57% +7.83% +6.65%

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 88,771 89,162 163,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.39% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,540 53,734 83,113
10th Percentile £29,375 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.10%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +53 2,338 £60,000 -7.69% 617
UK excluding London +93 1,584 £52,000 -9.57% 366
Work from Home +13 956 £60,000 -7.69% 286
London +45 897 £75,000 +7.14% 273
South East +47 476 £50,000 -20.00% 78
North of England +159 458 £50,000 -12.44% 80
Midlands +110 343 £55,000 -2.22% 79
North West +101 237 £52,500 -6.34% 46
West Midlands +67 217 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Yorkshire +124 145 £53,500 -14.40% 24
Scotland -2 133 £60,000 +0.80% 39
East Midlands +65 126 £45,000 -6.25% 33
South West -78 96 £52,500 -12.86% 51
North East +41 76 £24,960 -52.00% 10
East of England -55 54 £31,985 -44.37% 36
Wales +1 19 £46,604 -14.89% 7
Northern Ireland +22 3 £70,000 +86.67% 3
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 (12.15%) SAS
2 89 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.50%) Confluence
6 31 (1.19%) Apache
7 11 (0.42%) WordPress
8 7 (0.27%) CMS
8 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.19%) Kinematics
10 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 3 (0.12%) Orchard CMS
11 3 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 3 (0.12%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.077%) Luigi
Applications
1 454 (17.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 224 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.54%) Sketch
6 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.23%) SPSS
7 6 (0.23%) Stata
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.038%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.038%) InVision
9 1 (0.038%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 300 (11.54%) SAP ERP
2 31 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.12%) Primavera
4 22 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.54%) SAP BPC
6 10 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.19%) Odoo
8 5 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.15%) Finacle
9 4 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.15%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.15%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.12%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 398 (15.31%) Azure
2 335 (12.88%) Power Platform
3 223 (8.58%) AWS
4 131 (5.04%) GCP
5 75 (2.88%) Snowflake
6 69 (2.65%) SaaS
7 63 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 38 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 36 (1.38%) Collibra
14 33 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
15 30 (1.15%) IaaS
16 27 (1.04%) Power Automate
17 25 (0.96%) GitHub
17 25 (0.96%) PaaS
17 25 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 323 (12.42%) Broadband
2 39 (1.50%) 5G
3 37 (1.42%) Firewall
4 36 (1.38%) WAN
5 33 (1.27%) Wireless
6 31 (1.19%) Internet
7 22 (0.85%) Bluetooth
7 22 (0.85%) GSM
7 22 (0.85%) ISDN
7 22 (0.85%) LTE
7 22 (0.85%) PSTN
7 22 (0.85%) UMTS
7 22 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.77%) LAN
8 20 (0.77%) WPA
9 17 (0.65%) 4G
9 17 (0.65%) MPLS
10 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.46%) SAN
11 12 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (11.81%) Power BI
2 205 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
3 155 (5.96%) Metadata
4 140 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 109 (4.19%) Data Lake
6 97 (3.73%) Tableau
7 65 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 60 (2.31%) Big Data
9 58 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 49 (1.88%) BigQuery
11 48 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 43 (1.65%) Power Query
13 34 (1.31%) Data Vault
14 33 (1.27%) Relational Database
15 30 (1.15%) Data Mining
16 28 (1.08%) MongoDB
16 28 (1.08%) SAP BW
17 27 (1.04%) Looker
18 25 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
19 23 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 171 (6.58%) JIRA
2 68 (2.62%) Git
3 35 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.00%) GitLab
5 24 (0.92%) LabVIEW
6 12 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.42%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.38%) JUnit
9 9 (0.35%) Selenium
10 8 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.27%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.23%) RStudio
13 4 (0.15%) ERwin
14 3 (0.12%) Maven
14 3 (0.12%) MLflow
14 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.077%) ER Studio
15 2 (0.077%) Moq
General
1 1,185 (45.58%) Finance
2 1,114 (42.85%) Social Skills
3 584 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (12.08%) Retail
5 302 (11.62%) Legal
6 285 (10.96%) Banking
7 283 (10.88%) Marketing
8 190 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 101 (3.88%) Law
11 69 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 62 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 51 (1.96%) Billing
14 46 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 36 (1.38%) Public Sector
17 35 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (1.08%) Local Government
19 23 (0.88%) Back Office
20 20 (0.77%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 521 (20.04%) Architect
2 364 (14.00%) Solutions Architect
3 361 (13.88%) Analyst
4 339 (13.04%) Senior
5 195 (7.50%) Data Manager
6 188 (7.23%) Data Analyst
7 150 (5.77%) Lead
8 147 (5.65%) Developer
9 140 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 124 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
11 120 (4.62%) Data Architect
12 98 (3.77%) Development Manager
13 74 (2.85%) Consultant
14 55 (2.12%) Administrator
15 54 (2.08%) Coordinator
16 49 (1.88%) Senior Manager
17 48 (1.85%) Quantity Surveyor
17 48 (1.85%) Senior Architect
18 45 (1.73%) Software Engineer
19 44 (1.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.23%) .NET
2 31 (1.19%) Kafka
3 25 (0.96%) React
4 22 (0.85%) Node.js
4 22 (0.85%) Web Services
5 20 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 20 (0.77%) Apache Beam
6 19 (0.73%) Middleware
7 18 (0.69%) RESTful
8 17 (0.65%) HTML
9 15 (0.58%) PySpark
10 12 (0.46%) CSS
11 11 (0.42%) Laravel
12 10 (0.38%) EDI
13 9 (0.35%) Spring
13 9 (0.35%) Vue
14 8 (0.31%) LDAP
14 8 (0.31%) Pandas
14 8 (0.31%) XML
14 8 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 277 (10.65%) Management Information System
2 140 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
3 113 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 103 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 77 (2.96%) Algorithms
6 58 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 47 (1.81%) Reference Data
8 45 (1.73%) Cloud Native
8 45 (1.73%) IoT
9 43 (1.65%) Reinsurance
10 42 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 41 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.23%) Life Science
14 28 (1.08%) Driving Licence
15 23 (0.88%) Acoustics
15 23 (0.88%) Blog
15 23 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 22 (0.85%) Data Centre
16 22 (0.85%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.08%) Linux
2 76 (2.92%) Windows
3 32 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.65%) Unix
5 12 (0.46%) zOS
6 9 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.19%) Android
7 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.077%) AIX
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (35.50%) Agile
2 544 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
3 509 (19.58%) Analytics
4 486 (18.69%) Data Governance
5 481 (18.50%) Roadmaps
6 403 (15.50%) Business Intelligence
7 381 (14.65%) ERP
8 374 (14.38%) Change Management
9 364 (14.00%) Data Modelling
10 338 (13.00%) Performance Management
11 335 (12.88%) Data Analysis
12 330 (12.69%) Enterprise Architecture
13 329 (12.65%) TOGAF
14 328 (12.62%) Strategic Roadmap
15 285 (10.96%) Decision-Making
16 277 (10.65%) ETL
17 269 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 262 (10.08%) Visualisation
19 252 (9.69%) Data Strategy
20 243 (9.35%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 508 (19.54%) SQL
2 247 (9.50%) Python
3 86 (3.31%) Java
4 70 (2.69%) C#
5 64 (2.46%) T-SQL
6 45 (1.73%) R
7 41 (1.58%) JavaScript
8 37 (1.42%) C
9 36 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 24 (0.92%) C++
11 21 (0.81%) Rust
12 16 (0.62%) Go
12 16 (0.62%) PHP
12 16 (0.62%) Scala
13 14 (0.54%) Bash
14 13 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.50%) VBA
15 12 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.42%) TypeScript
17 8 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 537 (20.65%) Degree
2 143 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 79 (3.04%) Security Cleared
5 47 (1.81%) Numerate Degree
6 43 (1.65%) ACCA
6 43 (1.65%) CIMA
7 37 (1.42%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.00%) SC Cleared
10 25 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.85%) MBA
12 19 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.69%) PhD
14 17 (0.65%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.54%) CISSP
16 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
18 8 (0.31%) A+ Certification
18 8 (0.31%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 466 (17.92%) Data Quality
2 272 (10.46%) GDPR
3 116 (4.46%) QA
4 64 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.73%) SLA
6 19 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 18 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
9 10 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 10 (0.38%) CDISC
9 10 (0.38%) PSD2
10 9 (0.35%) COSHH
10 9 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.35%) PMO
11 7 (0.27%) GRC
12 6 (0.23%) GAAP
12 6 (0.23%) IFRS
13 5 (0.19%) COBIT
13 5 (0.19%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 40 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 28 (1.08%) Docker
4 22 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.19%) DFS Replication
5 5 (0.19%) Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) NFS
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.038%) HDFS
7 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (1.54%) Terraform
2 36 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.65%) Ansible
3 17 (0.65%) FortiGate
4 9 (0.35%) Grafana
4 9 (0.35%) Puppet
5 7 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
6 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.19%) SCOM
6 5 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 4 (0.15%) Nagios
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.077%) SQL Sentry
10 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.038%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.038%) Packer
10 1 (0.038%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 537 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 413 (15.88%) Oracle
3 406 (15.62%) SAP
4 301 (11.58%) Hyperion
5 299 (11.50%) Anaplan
6 119 (4.58%) Databricks
7 87 (3.35%) Salesforce
8 73 (2.81%) NEC
9 61 (2.35%) Google
10 57 (2.19%) Informatica
11 41 (1.58%) Virgin Media
12 31 (1.19%) Cisco
13 29 (1.12%) VMware
14 21 (0.81%) HP
15 19 (0.73%) ServiceNow
16 18 (0.69%) Openreach
17 17 (0.65%) Darktrace
18 14 (0.54%) Alteryx
19 12 (0.46%) F5
20 11 (0.42%) Teradata