Data Strategy Jobs in the North West

Data Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 202 256
Rank change year-on-year -67 +54 +29
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 23 89 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.87% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.07% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16 75 14
10th Percentile £47,250 £44,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,750 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £57,166
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +57.44% -4.30%
75th Percentile £98,438 £100,000 £72,080
90th Percentile £141,151 £110,750 £76,375
England median annual salary £94,637 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +18.30% +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,460 8,297 7,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.91% 81.47% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,278 3,870
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,238
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +26 16 £82,500 -8.33% 54
Merseyside +28 6 £54,000 -40.00% 15
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Functions
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 4 (17.39%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) BigQuery
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Looker
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 15 (65.22%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Banking
3 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Private Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Head of Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Head of Analytics
3 3 (13.04%) Head of Data Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Finance Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Delivery
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Report Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.35%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Decision-Making
2 12 (52.17%) Analytics
2 12 (52.17%) Data Modelling
3 11 (47.83%) Data Management
4 9 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (34.78%) Data Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Data Analytics
6 6 (26.09%) Data Architecture
6 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
6 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (21.74%) Agile
7 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (21.74%) Thought Leadership
8 4 (17.39%) Business Strategy
8 4 (17.39%) Data Extraction
8 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
8 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (17.39%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (21.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.70%) GDPR
4 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) SAP