Data Strategy Jobs in Scotland

Data Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 246 181
Rank change year-on-year +94 -65 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 14 42 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.46% 0.62% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.67% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 19
10th Percentile £57,875 £59,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £53,458
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,066 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% -1.42% +5.60%
75th Percentile £88,125 £90,822 £77,715
90th Percentile £89,250 £94,139 £83,251
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £71,998
% change year-on-year +12.50% +11.11% -0.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,794 6,223 4,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.12% 91.17% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 2,465 2,077
10th Percentile £30,400 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Scotland

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in Scotland

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in Scotland

Data Strategy
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Edinburgh +22 6 £71,250 +9.51% 9
Glasgow +136 5 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Midlothian - 2 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £90,000 - 3
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
2 2 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Automotive
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (14.29%) Law
4 2 (14.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Head of Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Head of Data Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Head of Data Management
3 1 (7.14%) Head of IT
3 1 (7.14%) IT Director
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Analytics
2 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (35.71%) Data Management
4 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Data Science
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
7 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
7 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (14.29%) SDLC
7 2 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft