Data Strategy Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 228 280
Rank change year-on-year -85 +52 +188
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 153 503 404
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 1.48% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.66% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 108 233 273
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,350
25th Percentile £68,438 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.14% -8.20%
75th Percentile £98,474 £102,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,875 £112,500 £103,042
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,219 30,330 34,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.09% 89.25% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10,253 22,426 25,175
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Data Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Strategy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Strategy
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Strategy.

Data Strategy salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Data Strategy salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (7.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) Apache
2 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.65%) FastStats
1 1 (0.65%) FastStats PeopleStage
1 1 (0.65%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.91%) Azure
2 36 (23.53%) AWS
3 27 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 15 (9.80%) GCP
5 11 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (7.19%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.92%) GitHub
8 5 (3.27%) Serverless
9 4 (2.61%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.61%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (2.61%) SaaS
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.96%) dbt
10 3 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.96%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (17.65%) Power BI
3 20 (13.07%) Tableau
4 16 (10.46%) Data Lake
5 13 (8.50%) BigQuery
6 10 (6.54%) Big Data
6 10 (6.54%) Metadata
7 9 (5.88%) Looker
8 8 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.92%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.27%) SAP BW
11 4 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.61%) Apache Hive
11 4 (2.61%) Parquet
11 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.96%) Power Query
12 3 (1.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (1.96%) Babel
2 3 (1.96%) GitLab
2 3 (1.96%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.96%) webpack
3 2 (1.31%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) ERwin
General
1 66 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 53 (34.64%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (28.76%) Finance
4 17 (11.11%) Banking
5 16 (10.46%) Marketing
5 16 (10.46%) Retail
6 14 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (6.54%) Law
9 8 (5.23%) Legal
10 5 (3.27%) Advertising
10 5 (3.27%) Back Office
11 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.65%) Front Office
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (26.80%) Senior
2 28 (18.30%) Architect
3 27 (17.65%) Data Architect
4 20 (13.07%) Lead
5 18 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 18 (11.76%) Data Manager
6 17 (11.11%) Analyst
7 14 (9.15%) Senior Manager
8 10 (6.54%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.23%) Developer
9 8 (5.23%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.58%) Product Lead
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Consultant
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Service Manager
11 6 (3.92%) Service Manager
12 5 (3.27%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.27%) Head of Engineering
12 5 (3.27%) Project Manager
12 5 (3.27%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.23%) Node.js
2 4 (2.61%) HTML
2 4 (2.61%) PySpark
3 3 (1.96%) CSS
3 3 (1.96%) CSS3
3 3 (1.96%) HTML5
3 3 (1.96%) Pandas
3 3 (1.96%) React
3 3 (1.96%) REST
3 3 (1.96%) Sass
3 3 (1.96%) XGBoost
4 2 (1.31%) EDI
4 2 (1.31%) Kafka
4 2 (1.31%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.65%) FHIR
5 1 (0.65%) Middleware
5 1 (0.65%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.19%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.61%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.61%) NHS
5 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.96%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.96%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.31%) New Media
7 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.65%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.65%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.65%) IoT
7 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.65%) Social Media
7 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.41%) Analytics
2 51 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 50 (32.68%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (29.41%) Data Governance
5 39 (25.49%) Agile
6 37 (24.18%) Decision-Making
7 35 (22.88%) Data Engineering
8 33 (21.57%) Mentoring
9 32 (20.92%) Data Modelling
9 32 (20.92%) DevOps
10 31 (20.26%) Data Management
11 28 (18.30%) ETL
12 25 (16.34%) Roadmaps
13 24 (15.69%) Data Integration
14 21 (13.73%) Computer Science
14 21 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
15 19 (12.42%) Machine Learning
16 18 (11.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 49 (32.03%) SQL
2 27 (17.65%) Python
3 9 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.23%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.27%) R
6 4 (2.61%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.96%) Scala
8 2 (1.31%) Bash
8 2 (1.31%) Java
8 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (22.88%) Degree
2 19 (12.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.23%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.31%) CITP
7 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.84%) GDPR
3 9 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 8 (5.23%) PMO
5 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.65%) HL7
7 1 (0.65%) PERC
7 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.61%) HDFS
2 3 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.96%) vSphere
3 2 (1.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.27%) Terraform
2 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Matomo
Vendors
1 31 (20.26%) Databricks
2 28 (18.30%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.80%) Google
4 9 (5.88%) Informatica
5 7 (4.58%) Oracle
6 5 (3.27%) SAP
7 4 (2.61%) Avaloq
7 4 (2.61%) Teradata
8 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.96%) VMware
9 2 (1.31%) Talend
10 1 (0.65%) Apteco
10 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.65%) IBM
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce