Data Strategy Job Trends in West Wales

Data Strategy
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 0.58% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £41,750 - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile £48,250 - -
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £80,000 £130,000
% change year-on-year -43.75% -38.46% +179.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 48 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 69.68% 82.76% 74.48%
Number of salaries quoted 165 26 158
10th Percentile £32,750 £21,250 £29,700
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £53,929
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in West Wales

Data Strategy
Job Locations in West Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Swansea - 2 £45,000 - 1
Data Strategy
Wales

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Newman
2 1 (50.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG