Data Strategy Job Trends in Bristol

Data Strategy
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 100 109
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 16 7 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.78% 0.50% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.56% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 18
10th Percentile - £38,125 £42,439
25th Percentile £20,000 £65,000 £54,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £69,350
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +2.74% -2.75%
75th Percentile £85,938 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,375 £81,250 £155,665
South West median annual salary £72,500 £73,750 £66,250
% change year-on-year -1.69% +11.32% -29.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Data Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,316 1,244 1,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.23% 88.79% 92.98%
Number of salaries quoted 993 676 1,352
10th Percentile £28,550 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £88,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Bristol

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Bristol over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in Bristol

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Power Platform
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Stack
3 3 (18.75%) Matillion
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Looker
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
General
1 9 (56.25%) Marketing
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Advertising
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Data Integration Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Data Quality Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Head of IT
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Data Visualisation
1 9 (56.25%) Visualisation
2 8 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (43.75%) Data Management
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) AI
5 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
5 5 (31.25%) Digital Strategy
5 5 (31.25%) GTM Strategy
6 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (18.75%) Business Development
7 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Project Planning
7 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
8 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks