Data Strategy Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 436 510
Rank change year-on-year +89 +74 -17
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 508 350 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.61% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 334 198 198
10th Percentile £44,863 £39,925 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,950 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £90,822 £83,980 £72,135
90th Percentile £101,750 £105,375 £85,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +95 199 £85,000 - 19
North of England +67 132 £75,000 +14.77% 18
North West +54 85 £90,000 +37.72% 11
Midlands +4 64 £65,000 +4.00% 12
South West -12 49 £65,000 -19.25% 11
West Midlands +22 48 £65,400 +0.62% 10
Scotland -51 45 £65,000 +8.25% 3
Yorkshire +73 36 £58,875 -10.12% 5
East Midlands -12 16 £35,500 -35.45% 2
East of England +12 11 £60,000 -22.58% 9
North East -13 11 £75,000 +38.89% 2
Wales +6 5 £130,000 +271.43% 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +21 1 £70,000 +112.12% 1
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 27 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.77%) Confluence
3 7 (1.38%) SAS
4 6 (1.18%) Apache
4 6 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.20%) Luigi
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 151 (29.72%) Azure
2 104 (20.47%) Power Platform
3 54 (10.63%) AWS
4 48 (9.45%) GCP
5 30 (5.91%) Snowflake
6 24 (4.72%) Matillion
7 21 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.13%) SaaS
8 19 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (3.35%) Serverless
10 14 (2.76%) Azure Stack
11 13 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (1.97%) dbt
13 8 (1.57%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.18%) Collibra
15 5 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (0.98%) Cloud Composer
15 5 (0.98%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (15.16%) Broadband
2 18 (3.54%) DSL
3 4 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (19.88%) Power BI
2 83 (16.34%) Data Lake
3 70 (13.78%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (12.40%) Metadata
5 50 (9.84%) Tableau
6 33 (6.50%) Big Data
7 30 (5.91%) SQL Server
8 20 (3.94%) Data Vault
9 19 (3.74%) MongoDB
10 18 (3.54%) DB2
11 17 (3.35%) BigQuery
12 15 (2.95%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.77%) Looker
13 9 (1.77%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.57%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.57%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 30 (5.91%) JIRA
2 14 (2.76%) Git
3 5 (0.98%) GitLab
4 4 (0.79%) ERwin
4 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.39%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.20%) Maven
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 130 (25.59%) Finance
2 113 (22.24%) Marketing
2 113 (22.24%) Social Skills
3 93 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (15.35%) Advertising
5 66 (12.99%) Legal
6 46 (9.06%) Law
7 45 (8.86%) Banking
8 39 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (4.13%) Retail
11 18 (3.54%) Financial Institution
11 18 (3.54%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.54%) Public Sector
12 13 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.18%) Billing
13 6 (1.18%) Local Government
13 6 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.79%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 124 (24.41%) Lead
2 105 (20.67%) Data Engineer
3 89 (17.52%) Architect
4 81 (15.94%) Data Architect
5 62 (12.20%) Senior
6 42 (8.27%) Data Manager
7 22 (4.33%) Informatica Engineer
8 19 (3.74%) Analyst
8 19 (3.74%) Senior Architect
8 19 (3.74%) Software Engineering Director
9 18 (3.54%) Senior Data Architect
10 17 (3.35%) Strategy Manager
11 15 (2.95%) Head of Engineering
12 14 (2.76%) Developer
12 14 (2.76%) Enterprise Architect
12 14 (2.76%) Enterprise Data Architect
13 13 (2.56%) Engineering Manager
14 12 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 11 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
15 11 (2.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.72%) Kafka
2 9 (1.77%) .NET
3 7 (1.38%) React
3 7 (1.38%) Web Services
4 5 (0.98%) Apache Beam
5 4 (0.79%) ADO
6 3 (0.59%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.39%) HTML
7 2 (0.39%) Pandas
8 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.20%) Middleware
8 1 (0.20%) NumPy
8 1 (0.20%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.20%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (15.16%) Marketing Technology
2 61 (12.01%) Management Information System
3 54 (10.63%) Data Structures
4 48 (9.45%) Algorithms
5 45 (8.86%) Product Ownership
6 41 (8.07%) Public Cloud
7 37 (7.28%) Cloud Native
8 16 (3.15%) Reinsurance
9 13 (2.56%) Taxonomies
10 11 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.38%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.18%) Blog
13 6 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
15 4 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
16 3 (0.59%) IoT
16 3 (0.59%) PMI
16 3 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.57%) Windows
2 6 (1.18%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (61.02%) Analytics
2 169 (33.27%) Data Modelling
3 159 (31.30%) Business Intelligence
4 158 (31.10%) Agile
5 145 (28.54%) Data Management
5 145 (28.54%) ETL
6 120 (23.62%) Data Analysis
7 115 (22.64%) Data Governance
8 110 (21.65%) Roadmaps
9 102 (20.08%) Data Architecture
9 102 (20.08%) Data Engineering
10 101 (19.88%) Decision-Making
11 91 (17.91%) Visualisation
12 85 (16.73%) Business Case
12 85 (16.73%) Data Collection
13 84 (16.54%) Use Case
14 82 (16.14%) Digital Marketing
15 80 (15.75%) DevOps
15 80 (15.75%) Process Improvement
16 79 (15.55%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 139 (27.36%) SQL
2 86 (16.93%) Python
3 29 (5.71%) Java
4 28 (5.51%) T-SQL
5 23 (4.53%) Scala
6 18 (3.54%) PL/SQL
7 14 (2.76%) R
8 9 (1.77%) C#
8 9 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.98%) Go
9 5 (0.98%) Perl
9 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.79%) C
11 3 (0.59%) Bash
11 3 (0.59%) VB
12 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 76 (14.96%) Degree
2 36 (7.09%) Master's Degree
3 33 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (6.30%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.94%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.35%) MBA
7 9 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.77%) PhD
8 8 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.18%) OCP
9 6 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.79%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.20%) MCP
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (20.08%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.86%) GDPR
3 28 (5.51%) QA
4 18 (3.54%) SLA
5 17 (3.35%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.20%) GMP
7 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 8 (1.57%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.57%) Terraform
3 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.59%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.20%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 94 (18.50%) Databricks
2 58 (11.42%) Microsoft
3 41 (8.07%) Oracle
4 35 (6.89%) Informatica
5 24 (4.72%) Google
6 18 (3.54%) Alteryx
6 18 (3.54%) Cognos
6 18 (3.54%) Sybase
7 13 (2.56%) Teradata
8 8 (1.57%) SAP
9 5 (0.98%) IBM
10 4 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.79%) Talend
11 2 (0.39%) Ariba
11 2 (0.39%) Meraki
11 2 (0.39%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.20%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.20%) Dataiku
12 1 (0.20%) Ivanti
12 1 (0.20%) Workday