Data Strategy Jobs in the North of England

Data Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 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 291 256 318
Rank change year-on-year -35 +62 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 55 134 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.48% 0.74% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.90% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 45 111 59
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.77% +4.56%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,389 £110,000 £84,056
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
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +64 33 £66,367 +15.42% 82
North West -68 23 £70,000 -22.22% 105
North East +40 3 £61,000 -18.67% 27
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (3.64%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) Azure
2 19 (34.55%) AWS
3 12 (21.82%) Power Platform
4 11 (20.00%) GCP
5 6 (10.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.91%) Serverless
6 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 5 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Functions
7 4 (7.27%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.45%) Datadog
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.82%) dbt
10 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.82%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (21.82%) Power BI
2 10 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 8 (14.55%) BigQuery
4 6 (10.91%) Looker
5 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.27%) Tableau
6 3 (5.45%) Power Query
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.64%) Flink
8 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.82%) Metadata
8 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 23 (41.82%) Finance
2 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
3 17 (30.91%) Banking
4 12 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.09%) Advertising
6 4 (7.27%) Retail
7 3 (5.45%) Law
7 3 (5.45%) Marketing
8 2 (3.64%) Legal
8 2 (3.64%) Private Banking
8 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.82%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Data Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Lead
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Head of Analytics
6 4 (7.27%) Head of Data Analytics
6 4 (7.27%) Head of Engineering
6 4 (7.27%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Principal Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Principal Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.82%) New Media
3 1 (1.82%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Analytics
2 24 (43.64%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 20 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 19 (34.55%) Data Engineering
5 19 (34.55%) Mentoring
6 17 (30.91%) ETL
7 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (23.64%) Agile
8 13 (23.64%) Data Management
8 13 (23.64%) Data Modelling
9 12 (21.82%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (20.00%) Data Extraction
10 11 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (16.36%) Data Analytics
13 7 (12.73%) DevOps
13 7 (12.73%) Risk Management
13 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
13 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) SQL
2 11 (20.00%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) R
4 3 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.64%) Scala
6 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Google
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Databricks
3 1 (1.82%) IBM
3 1 (1.82%) SAP