Data Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 384 403
Rank change year-on-year +83 +19 +93
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 974 824 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.85% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.89% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 591 521 609
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,660 £55,000 £55,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,998 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -0.69% +7.41%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,937 £65,956 £63,750
% change year-on-year +4.52% +3.46% +15.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Strategy 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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
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 Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +106 901 £80,000 +6.67% 183
UK excluding London +98 520 £68,937 +4.52% 93
Work from Home +106 517 £75,000 +7.14% 75
London +100 424 £93,750 +17.41% 90
South East +109 205 £85,000 - 22
North of England +67 136 £75,000 +14.77% 28
North West +59 94 £90,000 +57.44% 18
Midlands +2 64 £65,000 +4.00% 15
South West -8 52 £65,000 -6.77% 17
West Midlands +16 49 £65,200 +0.31% 9
Scotland -45 42 £65,066 -1.42% 5
Yorkshire +56 31 £57,500 -12.21% 6
East Midlands -14 15 £38,500 -30.00% 6
East of England -10 13 £60,000 -22.58% 4
North East -15 11 £75,000 +38.89% 4
Wales +6 5 £130,000 +179.57% 2
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +14 1 £70,000 +112.12% 1

Data Strategy
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 60 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.03%) Confluence
2 10 (1.03%) SAS
2 10 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.10%) Luigi
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 262 (26.90%) Azure
2 166 (17.04%) AWS
3 165 (16.94%) Power Platform
4 99 (10.16%) GCP
5 44 (4.52%) Snowflake
6 41 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (4.11%) SaaS
8 34 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (3.08%) Serverless
10 25 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (2.36%) Matillion
12 19 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (1.75%) Collibra
13 17 (1.75%) dbt
14 15 (1.54%) Azure Stack
15 12 (1.23%) PaaS
16 11 (1.13%) PowerApps
17 8 (0.82%) Amazon S3
18 7 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
18 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.89%) Broadband
2 17 (1.75%) DSL
3 4 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) PPP
4 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (16.63%) Power BI
2 139 (14.27%) Data Lake
3 128 (13.14%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (10.78%) Metadata
5 93 (9.55%) Tableau
6 50 (5.13%) Big Data
7 42 (4.31%) SQL Server
8 31 (3.18%) Data Vault
8 31 (3.18%) Hadoop
9 27 (2.77%) MongoDB
10 25 (2.57%) Data Mining
10 25 (2.57%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.26%) BigQuery
12 21 (2.16%) Relational Database
13 20 (2.05%) Delta Lake
14 18 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.75%) Apache Ignite
15 17 (1.75%) DB2
16 14 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
17 12 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (4.00%) JIRA
2 18 (1.85%) Git
3 5 (0.51%) ERwin
3 5 (0.51%) GitLab
3 5 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.21%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.10%) Maven
5 1 (0.10%) MLflow
5 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 229 (23.51%) Marketing
2 224 (23.00%) Finance
3 194 (19.92%) Advertising
3 194 (19.92%) Social Skills
4 169 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (10.88%) Legal
6 79 (8.11%) Banking
7 66 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (4.52%) Law
8 44 (4.52%) Retail
9 36 (3.70%) Financial Institution
10 32 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.16%) Public Sector
12 20 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.85%) Retail Banking
14 17 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.72%) Billing
16 7 (0.72%) Games
16 7 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 267 (27.41%) Lead
2 190 (19.51%) Architect
3 150 (15.40%) Data Architect
4 142 (14.58%) Senior
5 141 (14.48%) Data Engineer
6 76 (7.80%) Data Manager
7 62 (6.37%) Senior Architect
8 49 (5.03%) Senior Data Architect
9 41 (4.21%) Consultant
10 40 (4.11%) Analyst
11 33 (3.39%) Software Engineer
12 32 (3.29%) Data Consultant
12 32 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
13 28 (2.87%) Informatica Engineer
14 22 (2.26%) Developer
15 21 (2.16%) Strategy Manager
16 20 (2.05%) Cloud Architect
16 20 (2.05%) Product Manager
17 19 (1.95%) Head of Engineering
17 19 (1.95%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.24%) Kafka
2 30 (3.08%) React
3 12 (1.23%) Web Services
4 11 (1.13%) .NET
5 7 (0.72%) Pandas
6 6 (0.62%) Apache Beam
6 6 (0.62%) REST
7 4 (0.41%) ADO
7 4 (0.41%) JSON
7 4 (0.41%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.41%) Redux
7 4 (0.41%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.31%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.31%) HTML
8 3 (0.31%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.31%) PySpark
8 3 (0.31%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.31%) XML
9 2 (0.21%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.10%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.89%) Marketing Technology
2 94 (9.65%) Data Structures
3 81 (8.32%) Management Information System
4 77 (7.91%) Algorithms
5 57 (5.85%) Product Ownership
6 44 (4.52%) Public Cloud
7 41 (4.21%) Cloud Native
8 38 (3.90%) Reinsurance
9 21 (2.16%) Taxonomies
10 18 (1.85%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.82%) NHS
14 7 (0.72%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.72%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.62%) Blog
16 5 (0.51%) IoT
16 5 (0.51%) Mainframe
16 5 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.92%) Windows
2 6 (0.62%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.31%) Linux
4 2 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Android
5 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (56.16%) Analytics
2 277 (28.44%) Data Modelling
3 272 (27.93%) Agile
4 260 (26.69%) Business Intelligence
5 246 (25.26%) Data Management
6 222 (22.79%) ETL
7 220 (22.59%) Data Governance
8 215 (22.07%) Use Case
9 211 (21.66%) Roadmaps
10 200 (20.53%) Data Collection
11 199 (20.43%) Business Case
12 191 (19.61%) Process Improvement
13 188 (19.30%) Digital Marketing
13 188 (19.30%) Matrix Organization
14 184 (18.89%) Regulatory Change
15 171 (17.56%) Data Analysis
15 171 (17.56%) Visualisation
16 168 (17.25%) Data Architecture
17 160 (16.43%) Data Visualisation
18 155 (15.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 251 (25.77%) SQL
2 175 (17.97%) Python
3 45 (4.62%) Java
4 42 (4.31%) R
5 38 (3.90%) Kotlin
6 35 (3.59%) Scala
7 27 (2.77%) T-SQL
8 20 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.33%) C#
11 10 (1.03%) Go
11 10 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.82%) C
12 8 (0.82%) Clojure
13 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.51%) Perl
15 3 (0.31%) Bash
15 3 (0.31%) VB
16 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 155 (15.91%) Degree
2 51 (5.24%) Master's Degree
3 42 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (4.11%) Security Cleared
5 24 (2.46%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.05%) MBA
7 17 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.23%) PhD
10 11 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.41%) CISM
12 4 (0.41%) CISSP
12 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.31%) CRISC
14 2 (0.21%) PMP
14 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (18.17%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.41%) GDPR
3 38 (3.90%) QA
4 27 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.75%) SLA
6 10 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.31%) NIST
8 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (1.33%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.44%) Terraform
3 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) FTK
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.10%) Puppet
6 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 132 (13.55%) Databricks
2 118 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.95%) Oracle
4 56 (5.75%) Informatica
5 48 (4.93%) Google
6 24 (2.46%) Alteryx
7 18 (1.85%) SAP
8 17 (1.75%) Cognos
8 17 (1.75%) Sybase
9 15 (1.54%) Teradata
10 13 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.92%) Talend
12 8 (0.82%) Samsung
13 7 (0.72%) F5
14 6 (0.62%) IBM
15 4 (0.41%) Dell
15 4 (0.41%) ServiceNow
16 2 (0.21%) Facebook
16 2 (0.21%) Meraki
16 2 (0.21%) Twitter