Data Strategy Job Trends in London

Data Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 244 211
Rank change year-on-year +72 -33 +103
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 248 187 253
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.81% 1.18% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.25% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 148 100 171
10th Percentile £51,510 £59,910 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £115,313 £105,625 £111,875
90th Percentile £132,500 £131,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £84,335 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.18% +12.45% -3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in London

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Central London +66 59 £82,500 -23.26% 21
West London +4 11 £47,000 - 1
North London - 2 £102,250 -
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 15 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.24%) Maya
2 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 101 (40.73%) Azure
2 68 (27.42%) AWS
3 45 (18.15%) Power Platform
4 40 (16.13%) GCP
5 25 (10.08%) Snowflake
6 19 (7.66%) SaaS
7 16 (6.45%) dbt
8 14 (5.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (5.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (5.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (5.24%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (4.03%) Serverless
12 6 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.42%) Matillion
13 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.61%) Alation
14 4 (1.61%) Dagster
14 4 (1.61%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (28.23%) Data Lake
2 53 (21.37%) Metadata
3 47 (18.95%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (17.74%) Power BI
5 16 (6.45%) Tableau
6 12 (4.84%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.03%) Data Vault
7 10 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 10 (4.03%) Oracle Database
7 10 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.23%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.02%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.61%) DataStage
11 4 (1.61%) QlikView
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.21%) Big Data
12 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (6.05%) ERwin
2 4 (1.61%) ER Studio
2 4 (1.61%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.81%) Git
4 1 (0.40%) JIRA
4 1 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 112 (45.16%) Finance
2 80 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 46 (18.55%) Banking
4 40 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (15.73%) Law
6 30 (12.10%) Retail Banking
7 28 (11.29%) Financial Institution
8 19 (7.66%) Retail
9 14 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (5.24%) Dutch Language
10 13 (5.24%) French Language
10 13 (5.24%) Games
10 13 (5.24%) Marketing
11 12 (4.84%) Legal
12 5 (2.02%) Front Office
13 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 112 (45.16%) Architect
2 98 (39.52%) Data Architect
3 37 (14.92%) Lead
4 26 (10.48%) Data Engineer
5 20 (8.06%) Lead Architect
5 20 (8.06%) Senior
6 15 (6.05%) Azure Architect
7 14 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.24%) Azure Data Architect
8 13 (5.24%) Lead Data Architect
9 12 (4.84%) Analyst
9 12 (4.84%) Consultant
10 11 (4.44%) IT Manager
11 10 (4.03%) IT Services Manager
12 9 (3.63%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.23%) Senior Data Architect
14 7 (2.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.82%) Senior Consultant
15 6 (2.42%) Data Consultant
16 5 (2.02%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.82%) AngularJS
1 7 (2.82%) React
1 7 (2.82%) REST
1 7 (2.82%) Vue
2 5 (2.02%) Kafka
3 3 (1.21%) PySpark
4 2 (0.81%) Middleware
5 1 (0.40%) .NET
5 1 (0.40%) CSS
5 1 (0.40%) HTML
5 1 (0.40%) JDBC
5 1 (0.40%) LDAP
5 1 (0.40%) OAuth
5 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.40%) ODBC
5 1 (0.40%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.40%) Pandas
5 1 (0.40%) Plotly
5 1 (0.40%) RESTful
5 1 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.85%) Data Structures
2 15 (6.05%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.65%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.24%) Blockchain
4 13 (5.24%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.82%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.42%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.61%) Equities
10 3 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.21%) FMCG
11 2 (0.81%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.40%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.40%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.40%) Linux
1 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (50.81%) Data Architecture
2 120 (48.39%) Analytics
3 116 (46.77%) Data Governance
4 105 (42.34%) Data Modelling
5 98 (39.52%) Roadmaps
6 76 (30.65%) AI
7 73 (29.44%) Agile
8 72 (29.03%) Data Management
9 68 (27.42%) Decision-Making
10 59 (23.79%) Business Intelligence
11 50 (20.16%) Business Strategy
12 47 (18.95%) Machine Learning
13 46 (18.55%) Data Engineering
13 46 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (16.53%) Data Science
14 41 (16.53%) ETL
14 41 (16.53%) Thought Leadership
15 39 (15.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 38 (15.32%) Metadata Management
16 38 (15.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.56%) SQL
2 26 (10.48%) Python
3 8 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.21%) Java
4 3 (1.21%) R
5 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (29.03%) Degree
2 30 (12.10%) Azure Certification
3 28 (11.29%) AWS Certification
4 18 (7.26%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (4.44%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (4.03%) CISSP
6 10 (4.03%) MCSE
6 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.03%) OCP
7 9 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.63%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.63%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.82%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.61%) ACCA
9 4 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.61%) MBA
10 3 (1.21%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (21.77%) Data Quality
2 40 (16.13%) GDPR
3 8 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.82%) SLA
5 6 (2.42%) QA
6 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.21%) IFRS
7 3 (1.21%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (5.65%) Terraform
2 4 (1.61%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.32%) Databricks
3 14 (5.65%) Oracle
4 12 (4.84%) SAP
5 6 (2.42%) Google
6 4 (1.61%) IBM
6 4 (1.61%) Informatica
7 3 (1.21%) Duck Creek
7 3 (1.21%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.81%) Ariba
9 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.40%) Dell
9 1 (0.40%) Foundry
9 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.40%) LexisNexis
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.40%) Teradata
9 1 (0.40%) Workday