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

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 275 368
Rank change year-on-year -19 +93 +77
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 476 967 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.05% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.21% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 282 545 597
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £44,246
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £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 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,600 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £69,235 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.52% +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 47,236 80,210 105,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.56% 86.88% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,832 57,895 61,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,045
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 1 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 1 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 -40 448 £85,000 +6.25% 634
UK excluding London +34 244 £73,750 +6.52% 254
London -58 215 £100,000 +11.11% 430
Work from Home -44 172 £75,000 - 310
South East +12 89 £85,000 +6.25% 77
North of England +42 70 £64,573 -13.90% 88
Yorkshire +62 39 £62,779 +4.20% 32
Midlands +43 39 £65,000 +3.01% 27
North West -1 31 £66,389 -26.23% 48
West Midlands +27 23 £67,500 +3.85% 20
South West +69 18 £73,750 +13.46% 23
East Midlands +49 16 £65,000 +83.10% 5
East of England +57 13 £89,500 +49.17% 18
Scotland +89 9 £80,000 +22.95% 18
Wales +48 6 £81,250 -37.50% 2
North East +35 4 £62,779 -16.30% 8
Northern Ireland +36 1 - - 2

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 16 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.31%) Apache
4 6 (1.26%) SAS
5 5 (1.05%) Luigi
6 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.84%) Weka
3 3 (0.63%) SPSS
4 2 (0.42%) Maya
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) 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
1 180 (37.82%) Azure
2 95 (19.96%) AWS
3 91 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 71 (14.92%) GCP
5 43 (9.03%) Snowflake
6 37 (7.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (2.94%) dbt
9 10 (2.10%) Serverless
10 9 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.47%) GitHub
12 7 (1.47%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.47%) SaaS
13 6 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.05%) Intranet
2 3 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (21.22%) Data Lake
2 100 (21.01%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (19.12%) Power BI
4 58 (12.18%) Tableau
5 54 (11.34%) Metadata
6 26 (5.46%) BigQuery
7 22 (4.62%) NoSQL
8 21 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (4.20%) SQL Server
10 19 (3.99%) Big Data
11 16 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (2.73%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.89%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.89%) Power Query
15 8 (1.68%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (1.47%) Looker
16 7 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (3.57%) Git
2 3 (0.63%) ERwin
2 3 (0.63%) GitLab
2 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.42%) JIRA
3 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) MLflow
General
1 156 (32.77%) Finance
2 126 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 121 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (11.76%) Law
5 44 (9.24%) Banking
6 42 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (7.98%) Retail
8 33 (6.93%) Marketing
9 32 (6.72%) Public Sector
10 27 (5.67%) Legal
11 26 (5.46%) Financial Institution
12 23 (4.83%) Retail Banking
13 19 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.89%) Advertising
16 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.84%) Back Office
17 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 128 (26.89%) Architect
2 108 (22.69%) Data Architect
3 101 (21.22%) Lead
4 80 (16.81%) Senior
5 51 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 37 (7.77%) Data Manager
7 31 (6.51%) Senior Architect
8 30 (6.30%) Analyst
9 24 (5.04%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (4.20%) Data Analyst
11 15 (3.15%) Associate Director
11 15 (3.15%) Senior Data Architect
12 14 (2.94%) Enterprise Architect
13 11 (2.31%) Consultant
13 11 (2.31%) Data Analytics Director
13 11 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.10%) Head of Digital
14 10 (2.10%) Principal Architect
14 10 (2.10%) Principal Data Architect
14 10 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.47%) React
2 6 (1.26%) PySpark
3 5 (1.05%) EDI
3 5 (1.05%) REST
4 4 (0.84%) Kafka
4 4 (0.84%) Middleware
5 3 (0.63%) XGBoost
6 2 (0.42%) .NET
6 2 (0.42%) HTML
6 2 (0.42%) jQuery
6 2 (0.42%) 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%) Pandas
7 1 (0.21%) Redux
7 1 (0.21%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.62%) FMCG
3 21 (4.41%) Public Cloud
4 17 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.89%) IoT
7 9 (1.89%) Reference Data
8 8 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (1.68%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
12 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.84%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.84%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.63%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (51.05%) Analytics
2 207 (43.49%) Data Architecture
3 188 (39.50%) Data Governance
4 155 (32.56%) Business Intelligence
5 137 (28.78%) Data Modelling
5 137 (28.78%) Roadmaps
6 136 (28.57%) Data Management
7 133 (27.94%) Decision-Making
8 88 (18.49%) Mentoring
9 86 (18.07%) ETL
10 84 (17.65%) Data Engineering
11 82 (17.23%) Agile
12 77 (16.18%) Artificial Intelligence
13 76 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (15.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 63 (13.24%) Migration
16 62 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
16 62 (13.03%) Visualisation
17 61 (12.82%) Machine Learning
18 60 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (27.52%) SQL
2 81 (17.02%) Python
3 22 (4.62%) R
4 14 (2.94%) T-SQL
5 11 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (1.89%) Scala
7 8 (1.68%) Java
8 7 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.84%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.42%) C#
11 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.42%) VBScript
12 1 (0.21%) Bicep
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 92 (19.33%) Degree
2 34 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 23 (4.83%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.99%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.73%) Security Cleared
6 12 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.10%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.26%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.42%) MBA
10 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.42%) PhD
10 2 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
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
1 123 (25.84%) Data Quality
2 41 (8.61%) Accessibility
3 39 (8.19%) GDPR
4 14 (2.94%) QA
5 11 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.63%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) GLP
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.84%) HDFS
2 3 (0.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (2.94%) Terraform
2 4 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.84%) Matomo
Vendors
1 96 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 70 (14.71%) Databricks
3 28 (5.88%) Google
4 27 (5.67%) Informatica
5 20 (4.20%) SAP
6 19 (3.99%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.68%) Oracle
8 4 (0.84%) Teradata
9 3 (0.63%) ESRI
9 3 (0.63%) Talend
10 2 (0.42%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.21%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.21%) IBM
11 1 (0.21%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.21%) Palantir