Data Strategy Job Trends in Surrey

Data Strategy
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 89 83
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +77
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 3 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.18% 1.58% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 1.72% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 0
10th Percentile £53,125 £81,250 -
25th Percentile £54,063 £82,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £88,750 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.80% - -
75th Percentile £64,063 £96,250 -
90th Percentile £65,375 £116,500 -
South East median annual salary £58,750 £90,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year -34.72% +14.65% +11.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,324 1,105 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.83% 91.63% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 751 488 670
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,910
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,625 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Woking +5 1 £62,500 -32.43% 2
Epsom - 1 - -
Redhill - 1 £55,000 -
Data Strategy
South East

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft