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 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 290 368 433
Rank change year-on-year +78 +65 +61
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 578 1,146 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 0.91% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.95% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 402 619 699
10th Percentile £42,439 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £119,168 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,827 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.27% +8.33% +6.67%

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 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Top 16 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 28 November 2023. 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 +88 523 £75,000 - 207
UK excluding London +82 289 £64,827 -0.27% 93
Work from Home +109 279 £72,500 +2.84% 86
London +95 261 £82,500 -2.65% 122
North of England +113 109 £64,480 -7.89% 22
South East +96 68 £78,500 +11.35% 29
Yorkshire +101 53 £60,249 -10.74% 5
North West +92 50 £64,827 -7.39% 16
Midlands +71 42 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +79 34 £67,500 +12.50% 6
Scotland +29 30 £51,279 -14.53% 6
South West +59 29 £60,249 -33.06% 12
East of England +96 9 £107,500 +19.44% 4
East Midlands +28 8 £43,750 -27.08% 11
North East +35 6 £64,480 -23.01% 1
Wales -17 2 £76,042 +90.11% 3

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 26 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.81%) Jetty
2 22 (3.81%) Tomcat
3 9 (1.56%) Apache
4 8 (1.38%) SAS
5 6 (1.04%) Confluence
5 6 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.17%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 30 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.73%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.69%) HFM
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.69%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.17%) FastStats
5 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 170 (29.41%) Azure
2 129 (22.32%) AWS
3 92 (15.92%) Power Platform
4 84 (14.53%) GCP
5 42 (7.27%) SaaS
6 39 (6.75%) PaaS
7 38 (6.57%) IaaS
8 36 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (6.23%) Snowflake
9 19 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (1.90%) Collibra
11 10 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.56%) dbt
13 8 (1.38%) Matillion
14 7 (1.21%) Serverless
15 6 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.87%) Amazon EMR
16 5 (0.87%) Google Analytics
17 4 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.81%) Internet
2 2 (0.35%) Wireless
3 1 (0.17%) DHCP
3 1 (0.17%) DKIM
3 1 (0.17%) DMARC
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) SMTP
3 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (15.92%) Data Lake
3 87 (15.05%) Power BI
4 61 (10.55%) Big Data
5 58 (10.03%) Metadata
6 45 (7.79%) NoSQL
7 42 (7.27%) Hadoop
8 36 (6.23%) Tableau
9 28 (4.84%) SQL Server
10 23 (3.98%) Data Mining
11 18 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.94%) Apache Ignite
13 14 (2.42%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.38%) Metadata Repository
15 7 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.21%) OLTP
15 7 (1.21%) Power Query
16 6 (1.04%) Data Vault
16 6 (1.04%) Looker
16 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (2.94%) ERwin
1 17 (2.94%) JIRA
2 7 (1.21%) ER Studio
3 5 (0.87%) Git
4 3 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.52%) Toad
5 2 (0.35%) RStudio
5 2 (0.35%) Subversion
5 2 (0.35%) TortoiseSVN
5 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.17%) MLflow
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 250 (43.25%) Finance
2 156 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 126 (21.80%) Banking
4 104 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (16.61%) Retail
6 57 (9.86%) Marketing
7 38 (6.57%) Public Sector
8 34 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (4.84%) Legal
10 27 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (3.98%) Retail Banking
13 22 (3.81%) Law
14 15 (2.60%) Advertising
15 8 (1.38%) Local Government
15 8 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.69%) Back Office
18 4 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 188 (32.53%) Architect
2 108 (18.69%) Senior
3 100 (17.30%) Data Architect
4 71 (12.28%) Data Engineer
4 71 (12.28%) Data Manager
5 59 (10.21%) Enterprise Architect
6 55 (9.52%) Lead
7 48 (8.30%) Analyst
7 48 (8.30%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (6.23%) Senior Architect
8 36 (6.23%) Senior Data Engineer
9 31 (5.36%) Data Analyst
10 24 (4.15%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 23 (3.98%) Consultant
12 20 (3.46%) Capability Manager
12 20 (3.46%) IT Architect
13 19 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (3.29%) Senior Data Architect
14 18 (3.11%) Data Consultant
15 17 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.06%) OpenID
2 26 (4.50%) Kafka
3 23 (3.98%) XML
4 22 (3.81%) CSS
4 22 (3.81%) HTML
4 22 (3.81%) jQuery
4 22 (3.81%) JSON
4 22 (3.81%) Spring
5 19 (3.29%) PySpark
6 4 (0.69%) REST
7 3 (0.52%) .NET
7 3 (0.52%) Apache Beam
7 3 (0.52%) Universal Windows Platform
8 2 (0.35%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (0.35%) Material-UI
8 2 (0.35%) Node.js
8 2 (0.35%) React
8 2 (0.35%) RESTful
9 1 (0.17%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.75%) Mainframe
2 38 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.40%) Blockchain
4 35 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.81%) Data Centre
5 22 (3.81%) Online Banking
6 19 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.29%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.87%) IoT
11 5 (0.87%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.69%) PropTech
12 4 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.23%) Unix
2 4 (0.69%) Windows
3 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.17%) Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (47.75%) Analytics
2 237 (41.00%) Agile
3 169 (29.24%) Data Management
4 153 (26.47%) Roadmaps
5 149 (25.78%) Data Modelling
6 139 (24.05%) Business Intelligence
7 127 (21.97%) Data Governance
8 114 (19.72%) Machine Learning
9 112 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (18.86%) Data Architecture
11 95 (16.44%) Data Science
12 91 (15.74%) DevOps
13 85 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 84 (14.53%) Microservices
14 84 (14.53%) Visualisation
15 82 (14.19%) Business Strategy
16 81 (14.01%) Data Engineering
17 80 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
18 79 (13.67%) Data Analytics
19 78 (13.49%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 149 (25.78%) SQL
2 91 (15.74%) Python
3 29 (5.02%) JavaScript
4 28 (4.84%) Java
5 15 (2.60%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.73%) R
7 5 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.69%) Scala
9 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.35%) C#
10 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (15.22%) Degree
2 21 (3.63%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.04%) OCP
6 6 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.35%) PMP
7 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.17%) ACCA
8 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.17%) CISA
8 1 (0.17%) CISM
8 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.49%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.98%) GDPR
3 9 (1.56%) QA
4 5 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.52%) GMP
6 2 (0.35%) EMIR
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.17%) MiFID
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (0.87%) Terraform
2 4 (0.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.35%) Istio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 67 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.61%) Databricks
3 32 (5.54%) Google
4 28 (4.84%) Informatica
5 24 (4.15%) SAP
6 17 (2.94%) Oracle
7 11 (1.90%) Alteryx
7 11 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.90%) Talend
8 8 (1.38%) FactSet
9 7 (1.21%) IBM
10 6 (1.04%) Cognos
10 6 (1.04%) Teradata
11 4 (0.69%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.69%) Facebook
11 4 (0.69%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.69%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.69%) Workday
12 3 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.35%) Adobe