Data Strategy Jobs in the City of London

Data Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 132 182
Rank change year-on-year +14 +50 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 21 45 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.10% 1.35% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.47% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15 38 47
10th Percentile £53,500 - £47,750
25th Percentile £86,250 £62,500 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +3.03% +13.79%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £140,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £110,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,838 3,064 4,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.23% 91.65% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,383 2,397 3,613
10th Percentile £42,100 £41,315 £42,800
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (19.05%) SaaS
2 4 (19.05%) Snowflake
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) dbt
4 2 (9.52%) PaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (14.29%) Big Data
3 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 3 (14.29%) Tableau
4 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
4 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
4 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 2 (9.52%) Looker
4 2 (9.52%) Power BI
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.76%) Metabase
5 1 (4.76%) Mixpanel
5 1 (4.76%) Parquet
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Power Query
5 1 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (14.29%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.52%) Law
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Games
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Data Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Manager
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Tableau Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics Director
5 1 (4.76%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Avro
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 3 (14.29%) Reinsurance
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.76%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Online Games
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Analytics
1 10 (47.62%) Data Modelling
2 9 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 9 (42.86%) Data Management
2 9 (42.86%) ETL
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) Data Science
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Project Management
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) Data Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
4 4 (19.05%) Data Lineage
4 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (28.57%) GDPR
3 3 (14.29%) PMO
4 2 (9.52%) HIPAA
5 1 (4.76%) GLP
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Databricks
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (9.52%) Informatica
4 2 (9.52%) Talend
5 1 (4.76%) Amplitude
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce