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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 307 372
Rank change year-on-year -21 +65 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 490 973 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.93% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.11% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 290 590 520
10th Percentile £52,461 £48,419 £45,450
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,660 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £72,249
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +10.73% -0.35%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,235 £65,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +5.70% +0.77%

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 52,280 87,832 90,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.56% 83.69% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 25,832 61,251 54,293
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -36 447 £94,637 +18.30% 2,451
UK excluding London -18 237 £75,000 +8.33% 2,248
London -14 224 £105,000 +10.53% 471
Work from Home -110 152 £82,500 +10.00% 1,058
South East 0 100 £82,500 -2.94% 623
North of England -30 55 £70,000 -6.67% 499
Midlands +39 36 £65,000 - 429
Yorkshire +57 33 £66,367 +15.42% 215
North West -57 23 £70,000 -22.22% 222
West Midlands +32 20 £67,500 +3.21% 237
East Midlands +39 16 £57,500 +49.35% 163
South West +84 15 £80,000 +23.08% 263
Scotland +84 15 £77,500 +19.11% 109
East of England +40 11 £95,000 +58.33% 322
Wales +42 4 £80,000 -38.46% 54
North East +39 3 £61,000 -18.67% 62
Northern Ireland +41 1 - - 30

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 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.43%) Apache
2 7 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.61%) Luigi
4 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.82%) Maya
2 4 (0.82%) SPSS
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.20%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.20%) FastStats
3 1 (0.20%) FastStats PeopleStage
3 1 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 205 (41.84%) Azure
2 117 (23.88%) AWS
3 93 (18.98%) Power Platform
4 72 (14.69%) GCP
5 57 (11.63%) Snowflake
6 26 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 24 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (2.86%) SaaS
9 10 (2.04%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.04%) dbt
9 10 (2.04%) Serverless
10 9 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.84%) Google Analytics
11 7 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.02%) GitHub
13 5 (1.02%) Google Tag Manager
13 5 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (23.88%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (19.39%) Data Lake
3 93 (18.98%) Power BI
4 66 (13.47%) Metadata
5 47 (9.59%) Tableau
6 22 (4.49%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.29%) BigQuery
8 19 (3.88%) Big Data
9 16 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (2.65%) Looker
12 11 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.84%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.43%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.43%) NoSQL
16 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 6 (1.22%) Power Query
16 6 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (4.69%) Git
2 5 (1.02%) JIRA
3 3 (0.61%) GitLab
3 3 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.41%) Babel
4 2 (0.41%) ERwin
4 2 (0.41%) Maven
4 2 (0.41%) Subversion
4 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.41%) webpack
5 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.20%) MLflow
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 175 (35.71%) Finance
2 134 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 130 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (19.59%) Law
5 59 (12.04%) Banking
6 46 (9.39%) Marketing
7 44 (8.98%) Retail
8 43 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (4.90%) Financial Institution
9 24 (4.90%) Legal
10 20 (4.08%) Retail Banking
11 14 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.24%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.84%) Private Banking
15 8 (1.63%) Advertising
16 6 (1.22%) Back Office
17 5 (1.02%) Games
17 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 123 (25.10%) Lead
2 101 (20.61%) Architect
3 95 (19.39%) Data Architect
4 81 (16.53%) Senior
5 48 (9.80%) Data Engineer
6 37 (7.55%) Analyst
7 35 (7.14%) Data Manager
8 21 (4.29%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.88%) Associate Director
9 19 (3.88%) Data Analytics Director
10 18 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (2.65%) Developer
11 13 (2.65%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.45%) Head of Analytics
12 12 (2.45%) Head of Data Analytics
13 10 (2.04%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (2.04%) Head of Engineering
14 9 (1.84%) Consultant
14 9 (1.84%) Product Lead
14 9 (1.84%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.63%) React
2 7 (1.43%) Kafka
3 6 (1.22%) Node.js
3 6 (1.22%) PySpark
4 5 (1.02%) REST
5 4 (0.82%) HTML
5 4 (0.82%) Middleware
6 3 (0.61%) CSS
6 3 (0.61%) JSON
6 3 (0.61%) Pandas
6 3 (0.61%) XGBoost
6 3 (0.61%) XML
7 2 (0.41%) .NET
7 2 (0.41%) CSS3
7 2 (0.41%) EDI
7 2 (0.41%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.41%) HTML5
7 2 (0.41%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.41%) Sass
7 2 (0.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.96%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.94%) FMCG
3 19 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.45%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.84%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.84%) Taxonomies
6 8 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.02%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.82%) Blockchain
9 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.61%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.61%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.41%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.41%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (57.55%) Analytics
2 200 (40.82%) Data Architecture
3 186 (37.96%) Data Governance
4 155 (31.63%) Data Modelling
4 155 (31.63%) Decision-Making
5 150 (30.61%) Data Management
6 144 (29.39%) Business Intelligence
7 124 (25.31%) Roadmaps
8 111 (22.65%) Artificial Intelligence
9 102 (20.82%) Data Engineering
10 95 (19.39%) ETL
11 85 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
11 85 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 84 (17.14%) Agile
13 80 (16.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 73 (14.90%) Data Pipeline
15 71 (14.49%) Mentoring
16 66 (13.47%) Machine Learning
17 63 (12.86%) Data Transformation
18 59 (12.04%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 152 (31.02%) SQL
2 98 (20.00%) Python
3 17 (3.47%) R
4 10 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.43%) Scala
5 7 (1.43%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.22%) Java
7 5 (1.02%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.82%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.61%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.41%) Bash
10 2 (0.41%) C#
10 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.20%) Bicep
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 126 (25.71%) Degree
2 26 (5.31%) Azure Certification
3 20 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.47%) Security Cleared
6 15 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.06%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.84%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) CITP
12 1 (0.20%) MBA
12 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (23.27%) Data Quality
2 57 (11.63%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.92%) QA
4 26 (5.31%) GDPR
5 6 (1.22%) PMO
6 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.41%) GLP
6 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) PERC
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.82%) HDFS
2 3 (0.61%) Docker
3 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.41%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.04%) Terraform
2 6 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.82%) Matomo
Vendors
1 106 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 68 (13.88%) Databricks
3 29 (5.92%) SAP
4 26 (5.31%) Google
5 21 (4.29%) Informatica
6 17 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.65%) Oracle
8 7 (1.43%) Talend
9 4 (0.82%) Avaloq
9 4 (0.82%) Teradata
10 3 (0.61%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.41%) IBM
11 2 (0.41%) IFS
11 2 (0.41%) VMware
12 1 (0.20%) Apteco
12 1 (0.20%) Foundry
12 1 (0.20%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.20%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.20%) Palantir
12 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow