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 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 330 364
Rank change year-on-year -44 +34 +103
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 530 576 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.95% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.01% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 327 405 650
10th Percentile £47,000 £42,439 £44,990
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,750 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - +8.33%

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 65,317 57,192 139,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.49% 94.47% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 32,274 40,876 77,262
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £33,950
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,760 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% +5.00%

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 11 October 2024.

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 11 October 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 -40 499 £88,750 +18.33% 183
UK excluding London +11 331 £75,000 +15.38% 87
London -38 189 £95,000 +18.75% 97
Work from Home -70 166 £84,335 +16.32% 177
North of England +6 109 £82,500 +27.26% 17
South East -20 90 £90,000 +20.00% 25
North West +12 86 £95,000 +45.37% 9
Midlands -25 65 £66,650 +11.08% 12
West Midlands -26 47 £65,400 +9.00% 10
South West -14 31 £68,937 +10.30% 13
Scotland -11 22 £70,000 +33.33% 3
East Midlands -25 18 £100,000 +31.58% 2
Yorkshire 0 17 £53,500 -15.75% 6
East of England -34 13 £99,548 -7.40% 14
North East -36 6 £60,000 -6.95% 2
Wales +32 1 £53,000 -26.48%

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 21 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.64%) Apache
3 9 (1.70%) SAS
4 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.51%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.94%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.32%) Weka
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) InDesign
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.51%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) iTrent
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (33.58%) Azure
2 108 (20.38%) AWS
3 88 (16.60%) Power Platform
4 77 (14.53%) GCP
5 30 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (4.91%) Snowflake
7 20 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (3.21%) SaaS
9 15 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (2.08%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.51%) Collibra
11 8 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.51%) Serverless
12 6 (1.13%) GitHub
13 5 (0.94%) Matillion
13 5 (0.94%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (22.64%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (16.60%) Power BI
3 62 (11.70%) Data Lake
4 43 (8.11%) Metadata
5 36 (6.79%) Tableau
6 32 (6.04%) SQL Server
7 23 (4.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (3.40%) Big Data
8 18 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (2.64%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.89%) Data Mining
11 10 (1.89%) Data Vault
11 10 (1.89%) GIS
11 10 (1.89%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.51%) Amazon QuickSight
12 8 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.32%) Ataccama
13 7 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (2.26%) Git
2 9 (1.70%) JIRA
3 4 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.38%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.19%) MLflow
5 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 160 (30.19%) Finance
2 134 (25.28%) Social Skills
3 83 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.04%) Banking
6 32 (6.04%) Marketing
7 23 (4.34%) Legal
8 20 (3.77%) Law
9 19 (3.58%) Retail
10 18 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.26%) Local Government
13 12 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.08%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.89%) Advertising
15 10 (1.89%) Retail Banking
16 8 (1.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 141 (26.60%) Architect
2 124 (23.40%) Data Architect
3 87 (16.42%) Lead
4 80 (15.09%) Data Manager
5 56 (10.57%) Senior
6 54 (10.19%) Data Engineer
7 37 (6.98%) Analyst
8 22 (4.15%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.58%) Analytics Manager
9 19 (3.58%) Data Analytics Manager
9 19 (3.58%) Lead Data Engineer
10 17 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (3.02%) Senior Architect
12 15 (2.83%) Consultant
12 15 (2.83%) Head of Analytics
12 15 (2.83%) Head of Business Intelligence
12 15 (2.83%) Head of Data Analytics
13 13 (2.45%) Senior Data Architect
14 11 (2.08%) Transformation Director
15 10 (1.89%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.21%) Kafka
2 12 (2.26%) React
3 7 (1.32%) PySpark
3 7 (1.32%) XML
4 5 (0.94%) PyTorch
4 5 (0.94%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.75%) HTML
5 4 (0.75%) jQuery
5 4 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.75%) XBRL
6 3 (0.57%) Pandas
7 2 (0.38%) CSS
7 2 (0.38%) JSON
7 2 (0.38%) LangChain
7 2 (0.38%) REST
7 2 (0.38%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.19%) DAO
8 1 (0.19%) Keras
8 1 (0.19%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.49%) Management Information System
2 37 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 28 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.40%) Reference Data
5 17 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.08%) Reinsurance
6 11 (2.08%) Taxonomies
7 10 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (0.94%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.94%) Life Science
11 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.75%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.13%) Linux
1 6 (1.13%) Windows
2 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (44.91%) Analytics
2 199 (37.55%) Data Governance
3 186 (35.09%) Data Management
4 165 (31.13%) Business Intelligence
5 149 (28.11%) Agile
6 146 (27.55%) Data Architecture
7 129 (24.34%) Data Modelling
8 128 (24.15%) Roadmaps
9 97 (18.30%) Decision-Making
10 93 (17.55%) ETL
11 89 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
13 69 (13.02%) Data Analytics
13 69 (13.02%) Data Science
14 66 (12.45%) Machine Learning
15 64 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 60 (11.32%) Visualisation
17 57 (10.75%) Data Engineering
18 56 (10.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 55 (10.38%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 130 (24.53%) SQL
2 71 (13.40%) Python
3 15 (2.83%) Java
4 14 (2.64%) R
4 14 (2.64%) Scala
5 11 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.89%) Clojure
6 10 (1.89%) Kotlin
6 10 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 10 (1.89%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.70%) C#
8 8 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.32%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.75%) Bash
10 4 (0.75%) PHP
11 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.57%) VBScript
12 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (16.60%) Degree
2 58 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 45 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.91%) DV Cleared
4 26 (4.91%) Master's Degree
5 23 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.08%) MBA
8 10 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.13%) CISM
11 6 (1.13%) CISSP
12 5 (0.94%) CRISC
13 4 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.57%) MAPM
14 3 (0.57%) MBCS
14 3 (0.57%) PhD
14 3 (0.57%) PMP
15 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.91%) GDPR
3 25 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.45%) QA
5 5 (0.94%) NIST
6 4 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (0.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.75%) Terraform
3 3 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.38%) Matomo
5 1 (0.19%) FTK
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.06%) Databricks
3 29 (5.47%) Google
4 27 (5.09%) SAP
5 22 (4.15%) Informatica
6 17 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.64%) Oracle
8 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.75%) QAD
9 4 (0.75%) Talend
10 2 (0.38%) Adobe
11 1 (0.19%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.19%) Cellebrite
11 1 (0.19%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.19%) Greenplum
11 1 (0.19%) IBM
11 1 (0.19%) Teradata