Data Strategy Job Trends in the City of London

Data Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 133 112
Rank change year-on-year +35 -21 +66
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 35 34 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.65% 1.26% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.32% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 49
10th Percentile £65,875 £47,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £118,750 £111,250 £103,975
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.26% +43.33% -

All Process & 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 1,855 2,576 2,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.42% 95.48% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,374 1,671 2,421
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Strategy

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 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Power Platform
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.71%) Alation
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (5.71%) dbt
5 2 (5.71%) Fivetran
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (34.29%) Power BI
2 10 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 4 (11.43%) Metadata
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (8.57%) Star Schema
4 3 (8.57%) Tableau
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.71%) DataStage
5 2 (5.71%) QlikView
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (2.86%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) ERwin
2 2 (5.71%) ER Studio
2 2 (5.71%) PowerDesigner
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Law
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Retail
5 4 (11.43%) Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.57%) Marketing
7 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Legal
7 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.86%) Front Office
8 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Architect
1 11 (31.43%) Data Architect
1 11 (31.43%) Lead
2 5 (14.29%) Lead Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Lead Data Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Head of Strategy
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) GCP Architect
5 2 (5.71%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Management Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
6 1 (2.86%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 5 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) FMCG
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Analytics
1 25 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 18 (51.43%) Data Modelling
3 15 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (42.86%) Data Science
4 13 (37.14%) Data Architecture
4 13 (37.14%) Decision-Making
4 13 (37.14%) Roadmaps
5 11 (31.43%) Agile
5 11 (31.43%) Coaching
5 11 (31.43%) ETL
5 11 (31.43%) Thought Leadership
6 10 (28.57%) AI
6 10 (28.57%) Data Analysis
6 10 (28.57%) Product Strategy
7 9 (25.71%) Data Engineering
7 9 (25.71%) Data Integration
7 9 (25.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 8 (22.86%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
1 3 (8.57%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) Data Quality
2 10 (28.57%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Databricks
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) IBM
2 2 (5.71%) Informatica
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud