Data Strategy Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 208 218
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 20 49 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.63% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.77% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 18 46 31
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,375 £45,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,744 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% +0.31% -
75th Percentile £81,688 £70,300 £72,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £74,770 £95,000
England median annual salary £94,637 £80,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +18.30% +8.47% -1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Birmingham +33 12 £65,000 - 21
Worcestershire +28 3 £110,000 +15.79% 9
Wolverhampton +15 2 £82,000 +17.14% 9
Staffordshire +21 1 £45,000 -25.00% 14
Shropshire +14 1 £65,000 +39.78% 20
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Firebase
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.00%) Tableau
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.00%) ERwin
General
1 5 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Data Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Governance Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Science Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Delivery Director
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Digital
5 1 (5.00%) Head of ICT
5 1 (5.00%) Implementation Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Network Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) EDI
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Analytics
2 8 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
3 7 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) Data Governance
3 7 (35.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (30.00%) Data Management
4 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (20.00%) Data Security
6 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (20.00%) ETL
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) ERP
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) CITP
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Optimizely