Data Strategy Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 116 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 17 14 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 0.61% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.69% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 10
10th Percentile £42,500 - £27,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £62,500 £28,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £86,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.64% +124.68% -35.83%
75th Percentile £69,000 £103,750 £45,688
90th Percentile - £110,000 £57,175
England median annual salary £82,500 £84,335 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.18% +12.45% -3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 2,026 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.93% 88.09% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 860 1,110
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,708 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,188 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,688
90th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,550
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the East Midlands

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 7 £68,000 - 22
Nottinghamshire +10 5 £60,000 -40.00% 17
Northamptonshire +6 3 £45,000 -30.77% 10
Leicestershire - 2 £48,750 - 10
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP QM
2 1 (5.88%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Power Query
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Data Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Data Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Virtual Team
2 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Data Governance
2 9 (52.94%) Data Modelling
3 7 (41.18%) Data Management
3 7 (41.18%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (35.29%) Analytics
4 6 (35.29%) Data Architecture
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Logistics
5 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 5 (29.41%) Virtual Team Management
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) AI
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) CRM
7 3 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle