Data Strategy Jobs in the Midlands

Data Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 258 258
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 +57
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 35 64 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.51% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.63% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 25 61 44
10th Percentile £46,000 £27,500 £40,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £47,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £102,500 £71,082 £95,875
England median annual salary £94,637 £80,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +18.30% +8.47% -1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,225 10,156 8,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.57% 80.56% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 7,358 4,443
10th Percentile £26,974 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the Midlands

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the Midlands

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the Midlands

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +35 20 £70,000 +7.36% 99
East Midlands +39 15 £57,500 +49.35% 65
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.71%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub
5 3 (8.57%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.71%) dbt
6 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.71%) Pulumi
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.86%) Datadog
7 1 (2.86%) Firebase
7 1 (2.86%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (28.57%) Tableau
2 6 (17.14%) Power BI
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (8.57%) Parquet
4 3 (8.57%) Spark SQL
5 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.71%) Big Data
5 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.86%) ERwin
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Retail
3 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (22.86%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (14.29%) Marketing
6 4 (11.43%) Finance
7 2 (5.71%) Law
8 1 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Data Manager
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Data Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Data Governance Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Data Governance Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Governance Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Platform Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Data Science Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) DBA
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) PySpark
1 3 (8.57%) XGBoost
2 2 (5.71%) EDI
3 1 (2.86%) CSS
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) Analytics
2 13 (37.14%) Roadmaps
3 11 (31.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (31.43%) Data Architecture
3 11 (31.43%) Data Transformation
3 11 (31.43%) Decision-Making
3 11 (31.43%) Mentoring
4 9 (25.71%) ETL
5 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (22.86%) Data Governance
5 8 (22.86%) Data Management
5 8 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 7 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 7 (20.00%) Migration
7 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.14%) Data Migration
7 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (17.14%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 8 (22.86%) DBS Check
3 5 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.71%) CITP
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Databricks
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Informatica
4 2 (5.71%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Optimizely