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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 203 299
Rank change year-on-year -47 +96 +185
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 174 524 455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.55% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.69% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 125 262 304
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,759 £43,807
25th Percentile £59,168 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,474 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £115,000 £109,439
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +10.34% +3.16%

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 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 3 May 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 13 (7.47%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.15%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 62 (35.63%) Azure
2 41 (23.56%) Power Platform
3 38 (21.84%) AWS
4 18 (10.34%) GCP
5 14 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (7.47%) Snowflake
7 12 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (4.02%) Serverless
9 6 (3.45%) dbt
10 5 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.30%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (2.30%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.30%) Zapier
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (1.72%) GitHub
13 2 (1.15%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.15%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.29%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (23.56%) Power BI
3 33 (18.97%) Data Lake
4 28 (16.09%) Tableau
5 16 (9.20%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.32%) Big Data
7 10 (5.75%) Relational Database
8 9 (5.17%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.60%) Looker
9 8 (4.60%) Metadata
9 8 (4.60%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.60%) SQL Server
10 7 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.45%) Hadoop
11 6 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (2.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.87%) SAP BW
13 4 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Git
2 3 (1.72%) GitLab
3 2 (1.15%) ERwin
4 1 (0.57%) JIRA
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.74%) Finance
3 47 (27.01%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.62%) Banking
7 14 (8.05%) Retail
8 12 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (5.17%) Marketing
10 8 (4.60%) Legal
11 6 (3.45%) Law
12 3 (1.72%) Advertising
12 3 (1.72%) Back Office
12 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.57%) Front Office
14 1 (0.57%) Local Government
14 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (26.44%) Architect
2 39 (22.41%) Senior
3 35 (20.11%) Data Architect
4 25 (14.37%) Data Engineer
4 25 (14.37%) Lead
5 20 (11.49%) Data Manager
6 17 (9.77%) Analyst
6 17 (9.77%) Senior Architect
7 10 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.17%) Data Analyst
8 9 (5.17%) Senior Data Architect
9 8 (4.60%) Product Lead
9 8 (4.60%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.02%) Domain Architect
10 7 (4.02%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.87%) Consultant
11 5 (2.87%) Data Consultant
11 5 (2.87%) Head of Engineering
12 4 (2.30%) Head of Strategy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.87%) PySpark
2 4 (2.30%) Middleware
2 4 (2.30%) REST
3 3 (1.72%) Pandas
3 3 (1.72%) XGBoost
4 2 (1.15%) Kafka
4 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.57%) EDI
5 1 (0.57%) HTML
5 1 (0.57%) NumPy
5 1 (0.57%) React
5 1 (0.57%) Redux
5 1 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.62%) Public Cloud
2 12 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.60%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.30%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.15%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.57%) IoT
9 1 (0.57%) Kinect
9 1 (0.57%) Lidar
9 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (51.15%) Analytics
2 79 (45.40%) Data Architecture
3 74 (42.53%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (28.74%) Data Governance
5 50 (28.74%) Mentoring
6 47 (27.01%) Roadmaps
7 46 (26.44%) Decision-Making
8 43 (24.71%) Data Modelling
9 41 (23.56%) Agile
9 41 (23.56%) Data Engineering
10 40 (22.99%) ETL
11 39 (22.41%) Data Management
12 29 (16.67%) Data Integration
12 29 (16.67%) Visualisation
13 27 (15.52%) DevOps
14 25 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (12.64%) Coaching
17 20 (11.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.46%) SQL
2 26 (14.94%) Python
3 9 (5.17%) R
4 6 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (2.87%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.30%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.72%) Java
7 3 (1.72%) Scala
8 2 (1.15%) Bash
8 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.57%) C
9 1 (0.57%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (13.79%) Degree
2 11 (6.32%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.17%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.15%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) CITP
6 1 (0.57%) MBA
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (27.01%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.90%) GDPR
3 3 (1.72%) PMO
4 2 (1.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (2.30%) HDFS
2 2 (1.15%) Docker
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.87%) Terraform
2 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Matomo
Vendors
1 38 (21.84%) Databricks
2 28 (16.09%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.77%) Google
4 9 (5.17%) Informatica
5 6 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.45%) SAP
6 4 (2.30%) Avaloq
6 4 (2.30%) Oracle
6 4 (2.30%) Teradata
7 2 (1.15%) Talend
8 1 (0.57%) ESRI
8 1 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.57%) IBM
8 1 (0.57%) Palantir