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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 352 447
Rank change year-on-year +1 +95 +75
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 235 517 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.70% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.85% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 132 339 197
10th Percentile £50,640 £42,999 £39,900
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,937 £65,956
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% +4.52% +3.46%
75th Percentile £91,563 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £98,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £71,499
% change year-on-year +12.50% +11.89% -1.38%

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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 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 28 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
South East -2 101 £82,500 -2.94% 388
North of England -35 55 £70,000 -6.67% 214
Midlands +31 35 £65,000 - 178
Yorkshire +64 33 £66,367 +15.42% 82
North West -68 23 £70,000 -22.22% 105
West Midlands +35 20 £70,000 +7.36% 99
South West +84 17 £75,000 +15.38% 118
East Midlands +39 15 £57,500 +49.35% 65
Scotland +93 12 £77,500 +19.11% 68
East of England +41 10 £97,500 +62.50% 119
Wales +46 4 £80,000 -38.46% 21
North East +40 3 £61,000 -18.67% 27
Northern Ireland +43 1 - - 15
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 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.70%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.85%) Luigi
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.85%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 112 (47.66%) Azure
2 61 (25.96%) AWS
3 49 (20.85%) Power Platform
4 44 (18.72%) Snowflake
5 40 (17.02%) GCP
6 17 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (3.83%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.83%) Serverless
9 6 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.70%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.70%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (1.70%) Datadog
11 4 (1.70%) Matillion
11 4 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (31.06%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (22.98%) Data Lake
3 49 (20.85%) Power BI
4 28 (11.91%) Metadata
5 26 (11.06%) Tableau
6 17 (7.23%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (4.68%) BigQuery
9 10 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.55%) Big Data
11 6 (2.55%) Looker
12 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (1.28%) Parquet
14 3 (1.28%) Power Query
14 3 (1.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.96%) Git
2 5 (2.13%) JIRA
3 3 (1.28%) GitLab
4 2 (0.85%) ERwin
4 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.43%) Maven
5 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 71 (30.21%) Finance
2 66 (28.09%) Law
3 57 (24.26%) Social Skills
4 46 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.06%) Marketing
6 21 (8.94%) Banking
6 21 (8.94%) Retail
7 13 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.55%) Advertising
10 5 (2.13%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.70%) Automotive
11 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.70%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Legal
12 3 (1.28%) Local Government
12 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (31.06%) Lead
2 46 (19.57%) Senior
3 31 (13.19%) Data Engineer
4 25 (10.64%) Architect
5 22 (9.36%) Data Architect
5 22 (9.36%) Data Manager
6 21 (8.94%) Analyst
7 16 (6.81%) Data Analytics Director
8 13 (5.53%) Data Analyst
9 12 (5.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (3.40%) Head of Analytics
10 8 (3.40%) Head of Data Analytics
11 7 (2.98%) Consultant
12 6 (2.55%) Head of Engineering
12 6 (2.55%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.13%) Lead Data Engineer
14 4 (1.70%) Azure Data Engineer
14 4 (1.70%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (1.70%) Developer
14 4 (1.70%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.55%) React
2 5 (2.13%) PySpark
3 3 (1.28%) REST
3 3 (1.28%) XGBoost
4 2 (0.85%) EDI
4 2 (0.85%) Pandas
5 1 (0.43%) CSS
5 1 (0.43%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.43%) HTML
5 1 (0.43%) jQuery
5 1 (0.43%) Kafka
5 1 (0.43%) Node.js
5 1 (0.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.66%) FMCG
2 17 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.70%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.85%) NHS
7 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.43%) IoT
8 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.43%) New Media
8 1 (0.43%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (66.38%) Analytics
2 104 (44.26%) Data Architecture
3 95 (40.43%) Data Governance
4 88 (37.45%) Business Intelligence
5 83 (35.32%) Decision-Making
6 82 (34.89%) Data Modelling
7 79 (33.62%) Data Management
8 66 (28.09%) Data Engineering
9 61 (25.96%) ETL
10 55 (23.40%) Roadmaps
11 51 (21.70%) Data Pipeline
12 50 (21.28%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (21.28%) Data Transformation
13 48 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (19.15%) Mentoring
15 42 (17.87%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 35 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (12.77%) Business Strategy
17 30 (12.77%) Machine Learning
17 30 (12.77%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.04%) SQL
2 57 (24.26%) Python
3 11 (4.68%) R
4 5 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.85%) Bash
6 2 (0.85%) Java
6 2 (0.85%) Scala
6 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (29.79%) Degree
2 9 (3.83%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.40%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.85%) CITP
8 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.43%) MBA
9 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (31.06%) Data Quality
2 50 (21.28%) Accessibility
3 26 (11.06%) QA
4 11 (4.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.70%) Terraform
2 2 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.77%) Databricks
3 22 (9.36%) SAP
4 11 (4.68%) Google
5 10 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.98%) Informatica
7 5 (2.13%) Oracle
8 2 (0.85%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.85%) IBM
8 2 (0.85%) IFS
9 1 (0.43%) Optimizely