Data Strategy Jobs in England

Data Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 269 374
Rank change year-on-year -58 +105 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 447 906 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.91% 1.01% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.20% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 272 553 461
10th Percentile £52,152 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,938 £62,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £71,998
% change year-on-year +12.50% +11.11% -0.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in England.

Salary trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
London -10 225 £105,000 +12.00% 236
South East -4 100 £82,500 -2.94% 392
North of England -26 54 £70,000 -6.67% 225
Midlands +56 36 £65,000 - 179
Yorkshire +62 33 £66,367 +15.42% 92
North West -63 22 £70,000 -22.22% 103
West Midlands +28 20 £67,500 +3.21% 100
East Midlands +46 16 £57,500 +49.35% 67
South West +68 15 £80,000 +23.08% 112
East of England +45 11 £95,000 +58.33% 126
North East +39 3 £61,000 -18.67% 30
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.34%) Apache
4 3 (0.67%) Luigi
5 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.89%) Maya
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.67%) SPSS
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 189 (42.28%) Azure
2 106 (23.71%) AWS
3 84 (18.79%) Power Platform
4 69 (15.44%) GCP
5 52 (11.63%) Snowflake
6 23 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (3.13%) SaaS
9 10 (2.24%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.24%) dbt
9 10 (2.24%) Serverless
10 9 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.79%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.12%) Google Tag Manager
14 5 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.89%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (22.60%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (19.69%) Data Lake
3 84 (18.79%) Power BI
4 62 (13.87%) Metadata
5 40 (8.95%) Tableau
6 22 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.58%) BigQuery
8 14 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (2.91%) Looker
10 12 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (2.46%) Big Data
12 10 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.57%) Neo4j
14 7 (1.57%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.34%) Power Query
16 5 (1.12%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.12%) Parquet
16 5 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.58%) Git
2 5 (1.12%) JIRA
3 3 (0.67%) GitLab
4 2 (0.45%) ERwin
5 1 (0.22%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.22%) MLflow
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 167 (37.36%) Finance
2 112 (25.06%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (24.83%) Social Skills
4 90 (20.13%) Law
5 51 (11.41%) Banking
6 44 (9.84%) Marketing
7 40 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (8.95%) Retail
8 25 (5.59%) Financial Institution
9 24 (5.37%) Legal
10 21 (4.70%) Retail Banking
11 14 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.24%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.79%) Advertising
15 6 (1.34%) Back Office
16 5 (1.12%) Games
16 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.89%) Dutch Language
17 4 (0.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (26.85%) Lead
2 95 (21.25%) Architect
3 89 (19.91%) Data Architect
4 68 (15.21%) Senior
5 49 (10.96%) Data Engineer
6 31 (6.94%) Analyst
7 30 (6.71%) Data Manager
8 19 (4.25%) Associate Director
8 19 (4.25%) Data Analytics Director
9 18 (4.03%) Data Analyst
9 18 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (2.24%) Senior Manager
11 9 (2.01%) Product Lead
11 9 (2.01%) Project Manager
12 8 (1.79%) Head of Analytics
12 8 (1.79%) Head of Data Analytics
12 8 (1.79%) Head of Engineering
12 8 (1.79%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (1.79%) Principal Architect
12 8 (1.79%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.34%) PySpark
1 6 (1.34%) React
2 5 (1.12%) Kafka
2 5 (1.12%) REST
3 4 (0.89%) Middleware
4 3 (0.67%) JSON
4 3 (0.67%) Pandas
4 3 (0.67%) XGBoost
4 3 (0.67%) XML
5 2 (0.45%) .NET
5 2 (0.45%) EDI
5 2 (0.45%) HTML
5 2 (0.45%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.22%) CSS
6 1 (0.22%) Django
6 1 (0.22%) jQuery
6 1 (0.22%) Node.js
6 1 (0.22%) NumPy
6 1 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.61%) FMCG
3 18 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.01%) Taxonomies
6 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.34%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.12%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.89%) Blockchain
9 4 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.67%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.45%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.45%) Life Science
11 2 (0.45%) NHS
11 2 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (59.06%) Analytics
2 183 (40.94%) Data Architecture
3 172 (38.48%) Data Governance
4 140 (31.32%) Data Modelling
4 140 (31.32%) Decision-Making
5 135 (30.20%) Data Management
6 133 (29.75%) Business Intelligence
7 123 (27.52%) Roadmaps
8 96 (21.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 94 (21.03%) Data Engineering
10 87 (19.46%) ETL
11 80 (17.90%) Agile
12 79 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 75 (16.78%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 71 (15.88%) Data Pipeline
15 66 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
16 65 (14.54%) Mentoring
17 63 (14.09%) Machine Learning
18 57 (12.75%) Business Strategy
18 57 (12.75%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 133 (29.75%) SQL
2 92 (20.58%) Python
3 15 (3.36%) R
4 10 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (1.79%) Scala
6 5 (1.12%) Java
6 5 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.89%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.67%) SPARQL
9 2 (0.45%) Bash
9 2 (0.45%) C#
9 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) Bicep
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (24.83%) Degree
2 24 (5.37%) Azure Certification
3 21 (4.70%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.24%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.01%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.79%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.79%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.45%) CITP
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
10 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (23.49%) Data Quality
2 52 (11.63%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.26%) QA
4 24 (5.37%) GDPR
5 6 (1.34%) PMO
6 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.45%) GLP
6 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (0.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (2.01%) Terraform
2 4 (0.89%) Matomo
3 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 95 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 63 (14.09%) Databricks
3 25 (5.59%) SAP
4 21 (4.70%) Google
4 21 (4.70%) Informatica
5 17 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.57%) Talend
7 4 (0.89%) Avaloq
8 3 (0.67%) Amplitude
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle
9 2 (0.45%) IBM
9 2 (0.45%) IFS
10 1 (0.22%) Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.22%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow