Data Strategy Job Trends in Leeds

Data Strategy
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 70 84
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 +73
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 15 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.10% 1.38% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.55% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 13
10th Percentile £65,000 £40,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £42,500 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £58,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.68% -6.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £63,750 £66,778
90th Percentile £111,000 £79,250 £71,302
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,250 £62,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +20.40% +3.74% -13.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,081 905 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.19% 89.07% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 713 514 940
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,026 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Leeds

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in Leeds

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (13.33%) dbt
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 5 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 5 (33.33%) Metadata
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Power Query
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Insight Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Data Architecture
1 9 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
3 6 (40.00%) Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
5 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) AI
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft