Data Strategy Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 345 426
Rank change year-on-year -18 +81 +76
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 237 524 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.69% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.84% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 129 347 205
10th Percentile £50,480 £42,999 £40,500
25th Percentile £55,790 £54,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,235 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +5.70% +0.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £105,500 £107,500 £95,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £72,249
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.73% -0.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,805 62,205 53,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.51% 81.88% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,600 42,597 28,533
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South East 0 100 £82,500 -2.94% 623
North of England -30 55 £70,000 -6.67% 499
Midlands +39 36 £65,000 - 429
Yorkshire +57 33 £66,367 +15.42% 215
North West -57 23 £70,000 -22.22% 222
West Midlands +32 20 £67,500 +3.21% 237
East Midlands +39 16 £57,500 +49.35% 163
South West +84 15 £80,000 +23.08% 262
Scotland +84 15 £77,500 +19.11% 109
East of England +40 11 £95,000 +58.33% 322
Wales +42 4 £80,000 -38.46% 54
North East +39 3 £61,000 -18.67% 62
Northern Ireland +41 1 - - 30
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (2.95%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.84%) Luigi
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 115 (48.52%) Azure
2 64 (27.00%) AWS
3 50 (21.10%) Power Platform
4 43 (18.14%) Snowflake
5 40 (16.88%) GCP
6 17 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (3.80%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.80%) Serverless
9 7 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.69%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.69%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (1.69%) Datadog
12 4 (1.69%) Matillion
12 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (1.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (31.65%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (22.78%) Data Lake
3 50 (21.10%) Power BI
4 28 (11.81%) Metadata
5 26 (10.97%) Tableau
6 18 (7.59%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (4.64%) BigQuery
9 10 (4.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.53%) Big Data
11 6 (2.53%) Looker
12 5 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.11%) Power Query
12 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.27%) Parquet
13 3 (1.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (6.33%) Git
2 5 (2.11%) JIRA
3 3 (1.27%) GitLab
3 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.84%) ERwin
4 2 (0.84%) Maven
4 2 (0.84%) Subversion
5 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 73 (30.80%) Finance
2 67 (28.27%) Law
3 58 (24.47%) Social Skills
4 47 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.97%) Marketing
6 25 (10.55%) Banking
7 21 (8.86%) Retail
8 11 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.53%) Advertising
9 6 (2.53%) Private Banking
10 4 (1.69%) Automotive
10 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (30.80%) Lead
2 48 (20.25%) Senior
3 31 (13.08%) Data Engineer
4 23 (9.70%) Architect
5 22 (9.28%) Data Manager
6 21 (8.86%) Analyst
7 20 (8.44%) Data Architect
8 16 (6.75%) Data Analytics Director
9 13 (5.49%) Data Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Head of Analytics
11 9 (3.80%) Head of Data Analytics
12 7 (2.95%) Senior Manager
13 6 (2.53%) Developer
13 6 (2.53%) Head of Engineering
14 5 (2.11%) Consultant
14 5 (2.11%) Lead Data Engineer
15 4 (1.69%) Cost Analyst
15 4 (1.69%) Financial Analyst
15 4 (1.69%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.53%) React
2 5 (2.11%) PySpark
3 3 (1.27%) REST
3 3 (1.27%) XGBoost
4 2 (0.84%) EDI
4 2 (0.84%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.84%) Kafka
4 2 (0.84%) Pandas
4 2 (0.84%) Spring
5 1 (0.42%) CSS
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) jQuery
5 1 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.59%) FMCG
2 17 (7.17%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.11%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.84%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.84%) Equities
7 2 (0.84%) NHS
8 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.42%) IoT
8 1 (0.42%) Life Science
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.42%) New Media
8 1 (0.42%) PropTech
8 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.42%) Social Media
8 1 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (65.82%) Analytics
2 104 (43.88%) Data Architecture
3 93 (39.24%) Data Governance
4 88 (37.13%) Business Intelligence
5 85 (35.86%) Data Modelling
6 84 (35.44%) Decision-Making
7 78 (32.91%) Data Management
8 68 (28.69%) Data Engineering
9 63 (26.58%) ETL
10 53 (22.36%) Roadmaps
11 51 (21.52%) Artificial Intelligence
11 51 (21.52%) Data Pipeline
11 51 (21.52%) Data Transformation
12 46 (19.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (18.99%) Mentoring
14 41 (17.30%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 36 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (13.08%) Agile
17 30 (12.66%) Machine Learning
17 30 (12.66%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 82 (34.60%) SQL
2 57 (24.05%) Python
3 11 (4.64%) R
4 7 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.27%) Java
5 3 (1.27%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.84%) Bash
6 2 (0.84%) Scala
6 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (29.54%) Degree
2 8 (3.38%) DBS Check
3 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.53%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 5 (2.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.84%) CITP
5 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.42%) MBA
6 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (30.38%) Data Quality
2 50 (21.10%) Accessibility
3 26 (10.97%) QA
4 10 (4.22%) GDPR
5 3 (1.27%) PMO
6 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.69%) Terraform
2 3 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.50%) Databricks
3 22 (9.28%) SAP
4 11 (4.64%) Google
5 10 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.95%) Informatica
7 6 (2.53%) Oracle
8 2 (0.84%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.84%) IBM
8 2 (0.84%) IFS
9 1 (0.42%) Optimizely