(Nearly) all the data jobs are in London

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Back in June 2022 I started collecting links to data vacancies in non profits. I wanted to show people that there are data roles in nonprofits and help anyone interested in the sector get a handle on what is going on.

I publish these links in a short email to subscribers roughly weekly. You can subscribe here.

Data jobs

What's a data job?

It's whatever I decide it is.

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about whether to include a job or not. To some extent I include jobs that I could see myself applying for or having applied for. I am looking for jobs that are working directly with quantitative data (or managing those who work directly with the data)

It's a curated and personal list. I almost never include vacancies in universities. I often do include vacancies in national galleries. I don't include MEL vacancies unless they are also what I regard as data jobs.

This constitutes quite an interesting dataset and over the next few weeks I'll be exploring some aspects of the data.

Insights

Fresh analysis

With my colleagues at Data Orchard CIC I have published a couple of analyses in the past. Like this in 2024 and this in 2025.

For this series I've started with a fresh look at the full dataset. There are a number of judgements I've made in preparing the data which may differ to those previous analyses. So there may be apparent disagreements between them.

Adverts

As of the end of July 2026 I had listed 2,192 unique vacancies (based on my judgement of what constitutes the same advert that I accidentally included twice) from 1,095 unique organisations. I have manually classified each vacancy into one of a series of job families.

As you can see the dataset is heavily skewed. The most popular job types are Manager, Analyst and Officer. There are also enough vacancies for Head, Senior Analyst and Admin to make for some interesting analysis.

I'll be focusing on each of those in turn over coming weeks.

Salaries

This really is very broad brush. But fun.

We probably expect that there was wage inflation over the past few years (I'll explore that in more detail for each job family in future weeks). So what you really want to know is what do people get paid right now.

Here's the data for the key job families (i.e. job familiesI have plenty of adverts for) just for 2026 (so, in fact, the first seven months of 2026).

Working style

One thing I'm very interested in is whether jobs are on-site, hybrid or remote. For simplicity, if a job is advertised with a range of styles I'll mark it as Remote if that's an option and Hybrid if Remote is not an option. I only use "Flexible" if that's what the advert says and I can't quickly discern what they mean in my terms.

Overall this is what the market looks like.

About half of all jobs (52%) are hybrid with the remainder split between remote (20%) and on-site (26%) work. Something to consider if you're advertising a new vacancy.

Location

Where jobs have a location given (for Hybrid or On-Site roles) I have generalised the location into the nations and regions of the UK.

London dominates.

It might be that this dataset is biased by the sources I use to find vacancies. I suspect that Northern Ireland vacancies are more likely to appear in island-of-Ireland media rather than the UK-centric media I'm looking in for example. It might be that organisations based outside London are more likely to allow Remote working as a recruitment incentive. It might just reflect the dominance of London in our economy.

What's next

Over coming weeks I'll have deeper dive into the Manager, Analyst, Officer, Head, Senior Analyst and Admin job families in turn.

Drop me a line with questions or suggestions for analysis.

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