Data Strategy Jobs

Data Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 292 372
Rank change year-on-year +9 +80 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 514 987 947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.01% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.17% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 311 571 569
10th Percentile £55,790 £48,750 £44,890
25th Percentile £64,810 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,987 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,937 £65,978
% change year-on-year +8.79% +4.49% +9.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England -25 482 £86,250 +7.81% 668
UK excluding London +44 256 £75,000 +8.79% 277
London -16 239 £100,094 +11.22% 459
Work from Home -49 173 £75,000 - 320
South East +33 107 £85,000 +3.03% 94
North of England +18 72 £70,000 -6.67% 63
Yorkshire +72 40 £62,779 +4.20% 19
Midlands +46 36 £65,000 - 31
North West -17 31 £70,000 -22.22% 36
West Midlands +44 20 £68,750 +3.46% 19
East Midlands +55 16 £65,000 +68.83% 9
South West +82 14 £73,750 +13.46% 40
Scotland +100 11 £77,500 +19.23% 28
East of England +61 10 £100,000 +66.67% 12
Wales +45 6 £81,250 -37.50% 9
North East +46 5 £61,992 -17.34% 8
Northern Ireland +38 1 - - 2

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.75%) Apache
2 9 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.97%) Luigi
4 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.78%) Maya
2 4 (0.78%) SPSS
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 193 (37.55%) Azure
2 112 (21.79%) AWS
3 96 (18.68%) Power Platform
4 76 (14.79%) GCP
5 55 (10.70%) Snowflake
6 33 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (5.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (2.53%) dbt
9 11 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (2.14%) SaaS
9 11 (2.14%) Serverless
10 10 (1.95%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.75%) Google Analytics
11 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.97%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (21.21%) Data Lake
1 109 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (18.68%) Power BI
3 63 (12.26%) Metadata
4 62 (12.06%) Tableau
5 26 (5.06%) BigQuery
6 21 (4.09%) Big Data
6 21 (4.09%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.89%) SQL Server
7 20 (3.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.14%) Looker
12 10 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.75%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.56%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.31%) Git
2 4 (0.78%) ERwin
3 3 (0.58%) GitLab
4 2 (0.39%) JIRA
4 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.19%) MLflow
General
1 173 (33.66%) Finance
2 139 (27.04%) Social Skills
3 126 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (16.73%) Law
5 50 (9.73%) Banking
6 42 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (7.98%) Marketing
8 40 (7.78%) Retail
9 29 (5.64%) Legal
9 29 (5.64%) Public Sector
10 27 (5.25%) Financial Institution
11 23 (4.47%) Retail Banking
12 20 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.75%) Advertising
15 5 (0.97%) Back Office
15 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.78%) Automotive
16 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (25.49%) Architect
2 128 (24.90%) Lead
3 110 (21.40%) Data Architect
4 87 (16.93%) Senior
5 49 (9.53%) Data Engineer
6 38 (7.39%) Analyst
7 33 (6.42%) Data Manager
8 28 (5.45%) Senior Architect
9 22 (4.28%) Data Analyst
9 22 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (4.09%) Associate Director
11 18 (3.50%) Data Analytics Director
12 15 (2.92%) Enterprise Architect
13 13 (2.53%) Consultant
14 12 (2.33%) Senior Data Architect
15 11 (2.14%) Data Consultant
16 10 (1.95%) Cloud Architect
16 10 (1.95%) Principal Architect
16 10 (1.95%) Principal Data Architect
16 10 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.36%) React
1 7 (1.36%) REST
2 6 (1.17%) PySpark
3 4 (0.78%) Middleware
4 3 (0.58%) JSON
4 3 (0.58%) Kafka
4 3 (0.58%) Pandas
4 3 (0.58%) SOAP
4 3 (0.58%) XGBoost
4 3 (0.58%) XML
5 2 (0.39%) .NET
5 2 (0.39%) HTML
5 2 (0.39%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.19%) CSS
6 1 (0.19%) jQuery
6 1 (0.19%) NumPy
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.19%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.98%) Product Ownership
2 33 (6.42%) FMCG
3 18 (3.50%) Public Cloud
4 16 (3.11%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 9 (1.75%) IoT
6 9 (1.75%) Reference Data
7 8 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.56%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.78%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.78%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.58%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (53.89%) Analytics
2 226 (43.97%) Data Architecture
3 201 (39.11%) Data Governance
4 163 (31.71%) Business Intelligence
5 158 (30.74%) Data Management
6 156 (30.35%) Roadmaps
7 151 (29.38%) Data Modelling
8 148 (28.79%) Decision-Making
9 98 (19.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 98 (19.07%) Mentoring
10 92 (17.90%) Data Engineering
11 91 (17.70%) ETL
12 88 (17.12%) Agile
13 86 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
14 81 (15.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 79 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
16 73 (14.20%) Data Pipeline
17 68 (13.23%) Machine Learning
18 65 (12.65%) Business Strategy
18 65 (12.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 146 (28.40%) SQL
2 91 (17.70%) Python
3 19 (3.70%) R
4 10 (1.95%) T-SQL
5 9 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (1.75%) Scala
6 8 (1.56%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.36%) Java
8 6 (1.17%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.58%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.39%) Bash
10 2 (0.39%) C#
10 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.19%) Bicep
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) Go
11 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 113 (21.98%) Degree
2 33 (6.42%) Azure Certification
3 23 (4.47%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.89%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.92%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.75%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.39%) MBA
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.39%) PhD
9 2 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.19%) OCP
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (25.49%) Data Quality
2 56 (10.89%) Accessibility
3 37 (7.20%) GDPR
4 23 (4.47%) QA
5 11 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.58%) PMO
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) GLP
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (0.97%) HDFS
2 3 (0.58%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (2.14%) Terraform
2 4 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.78%) Matomo
Vendors
1 101 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 66 (12.84%) Databricks
3 29 (5.64%) Google
3 29 (5.64%) Informatica
4 26 (5.06%) SAP
5 18 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.53%) Oracle
7 6 (1.17%) Talend
8 5 (0.97%) Teradata
9 3 (0.58%) ESRI
10 2 (0.39%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.39%) Avaloq
11 1 (0.19%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.19%) IBM
11 1 (0.19%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.19%) Palantir