Data Strategy Jobs in the South West

Data Strategy
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 249 241
Rank change year-on-year +80 -8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 15 52 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.43% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.66% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 9 44 18
10th Percentile £62,750 £42,750 £58,201
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,438 £61,868
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -6.77% +16.21%
75th Percentile £105,000 £77,500 £108,130
90th Percentile £117,050 £93,750 £126,750
England median annual salary £94,637 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +18.30% +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,242 7,925 6,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.08% 81.59% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,822 5,692 3,503
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the South West

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the South West

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the South West

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +31 8 £92,500 +37.04% 12
Somerset +10 4 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Wiltshire +49 3 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) ArcGIS
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 10 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Matillion
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Collibra
6 1 (6.67%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (66.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (13.33%) GIS
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Automotive
4 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Driving Licence
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.67%) FMCG
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (60.00%) Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) Data Architecture
3 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 5 (33.33%) Data Science
5 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (26.67%) Data Management
6 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 4 (26.67%) IT Strategy
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
7 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) MBA
2 1 (6.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) GDPR
3 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Databricks
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Avaloq
2 2 (13.33%) IFS
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica