Data Strategy Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Strategy
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 121 124
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +119
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 24 27 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.72% 0.85% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.95% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 25
10th Percentile £67,000 £42,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £67,313 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +3.74% -12.37%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,500 £86,250 £70,171
England median annual salary £82,500 £84,258 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.09% +12.34% -3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,659 2,857 2,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 79.52% 90.01% 90.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 1,116 2,215
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,808
25th Percentile £30,063 £40,988 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Strategy
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in Yorkshire

Data Strategy
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
West Yorkshire -5 21 £75,000 +20.00% 14
South Yorkshire +1 3 £75,000 +20.98% 3
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (8.33%) dbt
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Data Vault
1 5 (20.83%) Delta Lake
1 5 (20.83%) Metadata
2 4 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Power Query
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.17%) Tableau
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Insight Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Data Governance
2 11 (45.83%) Data Modelling
3 9 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 8 (33.33%) AI
4 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (25.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
7 5 (20.83%) ETL
7 5 (20.83%) Kimball Methodology
7 5 (20.83%) Logistics
7 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
7 5 (20.83%) Technology Transformation
8 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (16.67%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Databricks
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft