Data/Survey Programmer - UK

Data/Survey Programmer - UK

MHM Closing date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026

Artform: Combined arts
Role: Marketing & Digital
Contract: Permanent
UK-wide

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 "> published -

Job Summary

As a Data/Survey Programmer at MHM, you’ll join our team in a brand-new role designed to streamline our operations. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced agency environment, taking ownership of essential, day-to-day data and scripting tasks.

Job Description

Join us
We're MHM, global leaders in audience strategy, and you'll join us as a Data/Survey Programmer to help clients turn insight into action and transform audience connection.

You'll join a sharp, supportive team of brilliant minds, brave ideas, and big hearts working with clients that stretch from Manchester to Melbourne, Riyadh to New York.

What you'll get
To support projects that shape culture around the world. That means working internally with brilliant colleagues with no client facing required.

Hybrid-First (Manchester) or Remote working, outcome-focused. 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays (the opportunity to buy/sell holidays too).

Free Museums Association pass, Climate perks and Working from Abroad. Summer and Christmas parties.

Annual pay reviews, uncapped profit-related bonus, and referral rewards when you help us find brilliant new people.

The role
You will use your technical skills to ensure our data foundation is sound, handling multiple fast-turnaround projects concurrently. This is an internal, technical role for someone with excellent team working skills and with data technician or relevant industry work experience or qualifications desirable.

Job Requirements

You're naturally curious, highly analytical, and eager to learn how complex datasets are transformed into powerful, actionable insights from the ground up. With good communication skills, you love collaborating with different teams and supporting those around you by ensuring our data foundation is sound in a fast-paced agency environment. You balance a structured, rigorous approach to your technical tasks with a proactive problem-solving mindset, and you are the kind of person who notices the tiny anomalies others might miss and enjoys connecting the dots in data.

You'll do well here if you:
Have an appetite to turn data into direction and insight into impact.
Have previous experience in data processing, scripting or programming.
Can take the initiative and work at pace independently.
Communicate simply and persuasively and love collaborating.
Have a growth mindset
Skills in Snap,Crunch, Python, R, Microsoft PowerPoint (or similar) are a bonus

Job Responsibilities

Survey Scripting & Logic Programming:
Acting as a survey scripter, transforming questionnaires from our research team into face-to-face or online surveys. You will program complex routing, skip logic and quotas, to deliver user-optimised surveys that are engaging and visually appealing.

Quality Assurance & Survey Testing:
Lead the testing phases for surveys pre-launch. In a fast-paced environment, you will rigorously test logic, links, and translations to ensure they are error-free before going live to field.

Live Fieldwork data updates:
Monitor live data collection to ensure quotas are filling correctly and data is captured cleanly, spotting any technical glitches or data anomalies early.

Data Cleansing & Verification:
Apply a high level of attention to detail to check, clean, and validate raw survey data. You will format datasets into clean, analysis-ready files.
Internal Team Collaboration:
Work closely with project teams to hit tight deadlines, acting as the vital backbone.

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Job Overview

  • Job Title: Data/Survey Programmer - UK
  • Salary: £20k-£25k
  • Hours: Full time
  • Artform: Combined arts
  • Role: Marketing & Digital
  • Contract: Permanent
  • Closing date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026
  • Location: UK-wide

How to Apply

To apply, follow the link to our company website by 11.59 on the vacancy deadline.