Data Strategy Job Trends in Manchester

Data Strategy
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 120 124 122
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +95
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 12 32 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.41% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.28% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 22
10th Percentile - £49,141 £42,439
25th Percentile - £59,168 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £20,000 £88,750 £63,017
Median % change year-on-year -77.46% +40.84% -21.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,938 £77,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £86,875
North West median annual salary £45,000 £67,639 £61,206
% change year-on-year -33.47% +10.51% -5.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,325 2,507 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.71% 94.00% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,181 1,840
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in Manchester

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Collibra
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Neo4j
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (41.67%) Marketing
4 3 (25.00%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
1 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Scientist
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) EDI
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Blog
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) AI
1 6 (50.00%) Data Management
1 6 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Experience
2 5 (41.67%) Digital Strategy
2 5 (41.67%) GTM Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Storytelling
5 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (8.33%) Natural Language Processing
6 1 (8.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SHACL
1 1 (8.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Informatica
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft