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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 278 375
Rank change year-on-year -22 +97 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 482 975 1,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.05% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.21% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 288 550 595
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £44,144
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,438 £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 £105,000 £100,000 £98,125
90th Percentile £117,500 £116,025 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,235 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.72% +2.57% +12.41%

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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 3 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 3 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 -25 453 £85,000 +6.25% 630
UK excluding London +23 246 £72,500 +4.72% 261
London -58 218 £100,000 +11.11% 410
Work from Home -33 174 £75,000 - 294
South East +18 89 £85,000 +6.25% 78
North of England +37 71 £62,779 -16.30% 96
Yorkshire +80 40 £62,779 +4.20% 32
Midlands +50 39 £65,000 - 29
North West -9 31 £66,389 -26.23% 50
West Midlands +20 23 £67,500 +3.85% 21
South West +71 18 £73,750 +13.46% 27
East Midlands +51 16 £65,000 +83.10% 6
East of England +59 14 £92,250 +53.75% 15
Scotland +88 9 £80,000 +22.95% 17
Wales +44 6 £81,250 -37.50%
North East +39 4 £62,779 -16.30% 14
Northern Ireland +38 1 - - 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 18 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.49%) Apache
4 6 (1.24%) SAS
5 5 (1.04%) Luigi
6 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.83%) Weka
3 3 (0.62%) SPSS
4 2 (0.41%) Maya
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 184 (38.17%) Azure
2 98 (20.33%) AWS
3 93 (19.29%) Power Platform
4 73 (15.15%) GCP
5 46 (9.54%) Snowflake
6 38 (7.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (2.90%) dbt
9 10 (2.07%) Serverless
10 9 (1.87%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.45%) GitHub
12 7 (1.45%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.45%) SaaS
13 6 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.04%) Intranet
2 3 (0.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (21.37%) Data Lake
1 103 (21.37%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (19.29%) Power BI
3 59 (12.24%) Tableau
4 55 (11.41%) Metadata
5 28 (5.81%) BigQuery
6 22 (4.56%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (4.36%) Big Data
7 21 (4.36%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (2.70%) Relational Database
11 10 (2.07%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.87%) Power Query
13 8 (1.66%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (1.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (3.53%) Git
2 3 (0.62%) ERwin
2 3 (0.62%) GitLab
2 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.41%) JIRA
3 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) MLflow
General
1 156 (32.37%) Finance
2 128 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 123 (25.52%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (12.03%) Law
5 44 (9.13%) Banking
6 42 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (7.88%) Retail
8 33 (6.85%) Marketing
9 31 (6.43%) Public Sector
10 27 (5.60%) Legal
11 26 (5.39%) Financial Institution
12 23 (4.77%) Retail Banking
13 19 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.87%) Advertising
16 5 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.83%) Back Office
18 3 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 129 (26.76%) Architect
2 109 (22.61%) Data Architect
3 101 (20.95%) Lead
4 81 (16.80%) Senior
5 52 (10.79%) Data Engineer
6 37 (7.68%) Data Manager
7 32 (6.64%) Analyst
7 32 (6.64%) Senior Architect
8 24 (4.98%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (4.36%) Data Analyst
10 18 (3.73%) Associate Director
11 16 (3.32%) Senior Data Architect
12 14 (2.90%) Enterprise Architect
13 11 (2.28%) Consultant
13 11 (2.28%) Data Analytics Director
13 11 (2.28%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.07%) Head of Digital
14 10 (2.07%) Principal Architect
14 10 (2.07%) Principal Data Architect
14 10 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.45%) React
2 6 (1.24%) PySpark
3 5 (1.04%) EDI
3 5 (1.04%) REST
4 4 (0.83%) Kafka
4 4 (0.83%) Middleware
5 3 (0.62%) XGBoost
6 2 (0.41%) .NET
6 2 (0.41%) HTML
6 2 (0.41%) jQuery
6 2 (0.41%) Pandas
6 2 (0.41%) SOAP
7 1 (0.21%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.21%) CSS
7 1 (0.21%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.21%) NumPy
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.21%) Redux
7 1 (0.21%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.56%) FMCG
3 21 (4.36%) Public Cloud
4 18 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.87%) IoT
8 9 (1.87%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.66%) Taxonomies
10 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
13 4 (0.83%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.83%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.83%) Reinsurance
14 3 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.62%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (51.24%) Analytics
2 209 (43.36%) Data Architecture
3 190 (39.42%) Data Governance
4 159 (32.99%) Business Intelligence
5 140 (29.05%) Data Modelling
6 138 (28.63%) Roadmaps
7 136 (28.22%) Data Management
7 136 (28.22%) Decision-Making
8 91 (18.88%) Mentoring
9 90 (18.67%) ETL
10 85 (17.63%) Data Engineering
11 81 (16.80%) Agile
12 80 (16.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 79 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
14 75 (15.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 65 (13.49%) Visualisation
16 64 (13.28%) Migration
16 64 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 63 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
18 61 (12.66%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 134 (27.80%) SQL
2 85 (17.63%) Python
3 22 (4.56%) R
4 14 (2.90%) T-SQL
5 12 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (1.87%) Scala
7 8 (1.66%) Java
7 8 (1.66%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.04%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.83%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.41%) C#
11 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.41%) VBScript
12 1 (0.21%) Bash
12 1 (0.21%) Bicep
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 93 (19.29%) Degree
2 34 (7.05%) Azure Certification
3 23 (4.77%) AWS Certification
4 20 (4.15%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.49%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.07%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.24%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.41%) MBA
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.41%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.21%) OCP
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 41 (8.51%) Accessibility
2 41 (8.51%) GDPR
3 14 (2.90%) QA
4 11 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.62%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.62%) PMO
7 2 (0.41%) GLP
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.04%) HDFS
2 3 (0.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (2.90%) Terraform
2 4 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.83%) Matomo
Vendors
1 99 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 72 (14.94%) Databricks
3 30 (6.22%) Google
4 28 (5.81%) Informatica
5 21 (4.36%) SAP
6 19 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.87%) Oracle
8 5 (1.04%) Teradata
9 4 (0.83%) Talend
10 3 (0.62%) ESRI
11 2 (0.41%) MicroStrategy
12 1 (0.21%) Amplitude
12 1 (0.21%) IBM
12 1 (0.21%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.21%) Palantir