Data Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 354 435
Rank change year-on-year +65 +81 +45
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 979 977 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.92% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.97% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 564 569 609
10th Percentile £48,777 £44,890 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,415 £55,000 £54,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,998 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.85% +6.06%
75th Percentile £97,743 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,700 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,235 £65,978 £60,050
% change year-on-year +4.94% +9.87% +14.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Top 18 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 23 April 2024. 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 +92 903 £80,000 +6.67% 163
Work from Home +70 517 £75,000 +7.14% 71
UK excluding London +45 509 £69,235 +4.94% 68
London +108 439 £90,000 +12.50% 98
South East +111 202 £80,000 -5.88% 15
North of England +20 131 £75,000 +14.77% 20
North West +21 80 £90,000 +50.00% 11
Midlands +28 61 £65,000 +4.00% 13
South West -12 50 £65,000 -20.00% 8
Scotland -56 45 £65,000 +8.25% 4
West Midlands +35 43 £65,000 - 11
Yorkshire +60 40 £60,249 -9.40% 6
East Midlands -8 18 £38,500 -23.00% 2
East of England +20 12 £60,000 -22.58% 9
North East -12 11 £75,000 +20.97% 4
Wales -1 5 £130,000 +271.43% 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +16 1 £70,000 +112.12% 1

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 65 (6.64%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.23%) SAS
3 11 (1.12%) Confluence
4 10 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.61%) Apache
7 1 (0.10%) Luigi
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.31%) Endur
2 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.10%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 267 (27.27%) Azure
2 175 (17.88%) AWS
3 169 (17.26%) Power Platform
4 105 (10.73%) GCP
5 51 (5.21%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.09%) SaaS
7 38 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (3.47%) Serverless
9 28 (2.86%) Matillion
10 24 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (2.04%) dbt
12 19 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (1.53%) Collibra
14 14 (1.43%) Azure Stack
15 11 (1.12%) Amazon S3
15 11 (1.12%) PaaS
16 10 (1.02%) PowerApps
17 7 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (0.72%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.79%) Broadband
2 18 (1.84%) DSL
3 2 (0.20%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) PPP
4 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (16.96%) Power BI
2 146 (14.91%) Data Lake
3 118 (12.05%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (10.11%) Metadata
5 94 (9.60%) Tableau
6 50 (5.11%) Big Data
7 46 (4.70%) SQL Server
8 40 (4.09%) Hadoop
9 36 (3.68%) Data Mining
10 31 (3.17%) Data Vault
11 30 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
12 29 (2.96%) Apache Ignite
12 29 (2.96%) MongoDB
13 24 (2.45%) Delta Lake
14 23 (2.35%) BigQuery
14 23 (2.35%) NoSQL
15 21 (2.15%) Relational Database
16 18 (1.84%) DB2
17 13 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (4.39%) JIRA
2 21 (2.15%) Git
3 7 (0.72%) ERwin
4 5 (0.51%) GitLab
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.20%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.10%) Maven
7 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 232 (23.70%) Marketing
2 224 (22.88%) Finance
3 199 (20.33%) Social Skills
4 192 (19.61%) Advertising
5 186 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
6 104 (10.62%) Legal
7 73 (7.46%) Banking
8 54 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 48 (4.90%) Law
10 46 (4.70%) Retail
11 31 (3.17%) Financial Institution
11 31 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.25%) Public Sector
13 18 (1.84%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.33%) Retail Banking
16 8 (0.82%) Games
16 8 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.72%) Billing
18 5 (0.51%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 263 (26.86%) Lead
2 205 (20.94%) Architect
3 163 (16.65%) Senior
4 155 (15.83%) Data Engineer
5 147 (15.02%) Data Architect
6 66 (6.74%) Senior Architect
7 57 (5.82%) Data Manager
8 43 (4.39%) Analyst
9 41 (4.19%) Senior Data Architect
10 40 (4.09%) Consultant
11 35 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
12 31 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
12 31 (3.17%) IT Architect
13 30 (3.06%) Data Consultant
13 30 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
14 29 (2.96%) Software Engineer
15 25 (2.55%) Informatica Engineer
15 25 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (2.15%) Developer
16 21 (2.15%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.82%) Kafka
2 24 (2.45%) React
3 12 (1.23%) Web Services
4 11 (1.12%) .NET
5 7 (0.72%) Apache Beam
6 6 (0.61%) Pandas
7 4 (0.41%) ADO
7 4 (0.41%) PySpark
7 4 (0.41%) Redux
7 4 (0.41%) REST
8 3 (0.31%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.20%) HTML
9 2 (0.20%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.20%) JSON
9 2 (0.20%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.10%) D3.js
10 1 (0.10%) Middleware
10 1 (0.10%) NumPy
10 1 (0.10%) SQLAlchemy
10 1 (0.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.79%) Marketing Technology
2 91 (9.30%) Data Structures
3 76 (7.76%) Algorithms
4 69 (7.05%) Management Information System
5 55 (5.62%) Product Ownership
6 46 (4.70%) Public Cloud
7 42 (4.29%) Cloud Native
8 38 (3.88%) Reinsurance
9 16 (1.63%) Taxonomies
10 11 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.82%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.72%) IoT
14 6 (0.61%) Blog
15 5 (0.51%) Data Centre
15 5 (0.51%) Mainframe
15 5 (0.51%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.51%) NHS
15 5 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.02%) Windows
2 8 (0.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.20%) Linux
4 1 (0.10%) Android
4 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (55.06%) Analytics
2 283 (28.91%) Agile
3 280 (28.60%) Data Modelling
4 250 (25.54%) Business Intelligence
5 241 (24.62%) Data Management
6 219 (22.37%) Roadmaps
7 218 (22.27%) ETL
7 218 (22.27%) Use Case
8 207 (21.14%) Data Governance
9 200 (20.43%) Data Collection
10 196 (20.02%) Business Case
11 194 (19.82%) Visualisation
12 190 (19.41%) Digital Marketing
12 190 (19.41%) Process Improvement
13 188 (19.20%) Matrix Organization
14 184 (18.79%) Regulatory Change
15 177 (18.08%) Data Visualisation
16 172 (17.57%) Data Analysis
17 160 (16.34%) Data Architecture
18 145 (14.81%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 265 (27.07%) SQL
2 185 (18.90%) Python
3 47 (4.80%) R
4 42 (4.29%) Java
5 38 (3.88%) Kotlin
6 31 (3.17%) Scala
7 30 (3.06%) T-SQL
8 18 (1.84%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.53%) C#
9 15 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.02%) Go
12 8 (0.82%) C
13 5 (0.51%) Perl
13 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.31%) Bash
14 3 (0.31%) Clojure
14 3 (0.31%) VB
15 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 154 (15.73%) Degree
2 49 (5.01%) Master's Degree
3 38 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (3.78%) Security Cleared
5 23 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.04%) MBA
7 15 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.12%) PhD
10 10 (1.02%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.61%) OCP
11 6 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.10%) CISM
14 1 (0.10%) PMP
14 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (16.34%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.01%) GDPR
3 35 (3.58%) QA
4 21 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.84%) SLA
6 10 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.10%) GMP
9 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (1.02%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.53%) Terraform
3 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.10%) Puppet
6 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 138 (14.10%) Databricks
2 120 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.03%) Google
3 59 (6.03%) Oracle
4 57 (5.82%) Informatica
5 27 (2.76%) Alteryx
6 23 (2.35%) SAP
7 18 (1.84%) Cognos
7 18 (1.84%) Sybase
8 17 (1.74%) Teradata
9 14 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.82%) IBM
10 8 (0.82%) Samsung
11 7 (0.72%) F5
12 6 (0.61%) Talend
13 4 (0.41%) Dell
13 4 (0.41%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.20%) Adobe
14 2 (0.20%) Ariba
14 2 (0.20%) Meraki