Data Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 377 411
Rank change year-on-year +86 +34 +73
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 992 893 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.86% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.90% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 583 559 618
10th Percentile £48,972 £45,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £70,139
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.37% +3.91%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £94,688
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,275 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.15% +8.00% +16.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
England +121 917 £80,000 +6.67% 218
Work from Home +91 525 £75,000 +7.14% 104
UK excluding London +78 516 £68,275 +1.15% 93
London +110 446 £92,500 +15.63% 127
South East +123 204 £82,500 -2.94% 32
North of England +50 132 £75,000 +14.50% 23
North West +44 82 £90,000 +30.58% 13
Midlands +33 65 £65,000 +4.00% 11
South West -20 50 £65,000 -10.34% 11
West Midlands +30 48 £65,400 +0.62% 8
Scotland -53 45 £65,000 +8.25% 5
Yorkshire +66 38 £60,249 -8.02% 7
East Midlands -5 17 £35,500 -35.45% 3
East of England +8 12 £60,000 -22.58% 9
North East -17 12 £75,000 +38.89% 3
Wales +14 5 £130,000 +271.43% 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +19 1 £70,000 +112.12% 2

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 63 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.11%) SAS
2 11 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.01%) Confluence
4 6 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.10%) Luigi
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 263 (26.51%) Azure
2 179 (18.04%) AWS
3 166 (16.73%) Power Platform
4 103 (10.38%) GCP
5 49 (4.94%) Snowflake
6 39 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (3.93%) SaaS
7 33 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (3.23%) Serverless
9 26 (2.62%) Matillion
10 24 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (2.12%) dbt
12 20 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (1.51%) Azure Stack
13 15 (1.51%) Collibra
14 11 (1.11%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.11%) PaaS
14 11 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.55%) Broadband
2 18 (1.81%) DSL
3 3 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) PPP
4 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (16.43%) Power BI
2 142 (14.31%) Data Lake
3 121 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (10.28%) Metadata
5 95 (9.58%) Tableau
6 50 (5.04%) Big Data
7 46 (4.64%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.53%) Hadoop
9 31 (3.13%) Data Vault
10 30 (3.02%) Data Mining
11 29 (2.92%) MongoDB
12 24 (2.42%) Delta Lake
12 24 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (2.32%) Apache Ignite
13 23 (2.32%) BigQuery
14 22 (2.22%) NoSQL
15 21 (2.12%) Relational Database
16 18 (1.81%) DB2
17 14 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (1.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (4.23%) JIRA
2 21 (2.12%) Git
3 6 (0.60%) ERwin
4 5 (0.50%) GitLab
4 5 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.20%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.10%) Maven
7 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (23.29%) Marketing
2 225 (22.68%) Finance
3 196 (19.76%) Social Skills
4 193 (19.46%) Advertising
5 180 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
6 105 (10.58%) Legal
7 82 (8.27%) Banking
8 60 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 49 (4.94%) Law
10 46 (4.64%) Retail
11 34 (3.43%) Financial Institution
12 31 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.22%) Public Sector
14 21 (2.12%) Investment Banking
15 18 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.51%) Retail Banking
17 11 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.81%) Games
19 7 (0.71%) Billing
19 7 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 265 (26.71%) Lead
2 198 (19.96%) Architect
3 162 (16.33%) Senior
4 155 (15.63%) Data Engineer
5 148 (14.92%) Data Architect
6 67 (6.75%) Data Manager
7 64 (6.45%) Senior Architect
8 45 (4.54%) Senior Data Architect
9 40 (4.03%) Analyst
9 40 (4.03%) Consultant
10 35 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
11 31 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 31 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 30 (3.02%) Data Consultant
13 25 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (2.52%) Informatica Engineer
14 24 (2.42%) IT Architect
14 24 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.12%) Developer
16 20 (2.02%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.44%) Kafka
2 27 (2.72%) React
3 12 (1.21%) Web Services
4 11 (1.11%) .NET
5 7 (0.71%) Apache Beam
6 6 (0.60%) Pandas
7 4 (0.40%) ADO
7 4 (0.40%) Redux
7 4 (0.40%) REST
8 3 (0.30%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.30%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.30%) JSON
8 3 (0.30%) PySpark
9 2 (0.20%) HTML
9 2 (0.20%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (0.20%) scikit-learn
10 1 (0.10%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.10%) Keras
10 1 (0.10%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.55%) Marketing Technology
2 92 (9.27%) Data Structures
3 75 (7.56%) Algorithms
4 74 (7.46%) Management Information System
5 55 (5.54%) Product Ownership
6 47 (4.74%) Public Cloud
7 42 (4.23%) Cloud Native
8 38 (3.83%) Reinsurance
9 18 (1.81%) Taxonomies
10 16 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.41%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.71%) IoT
15 6 (0.60%) Blog
15 6 (0.60%) Mobile App
16 5 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
16 5 (0.50%) NHS
16 5 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.91%) Windows
2 7 (0.71%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.20%) Linux
4 1 (0.10%) Android
4 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (55.44%) Analytics
2 282 (28.43%) Agile
2 282 (28.43%) Data Modelling
3 258 (26.01%) Business Intelligence
4 246 (24.80%) Data Management
5 222 (22.38%) ETL
6 218 (21.98%) Use Case
7 216 (21.77%) Data Governance
7 216 (21.77%) Roadmaps
8 200 (20.16%) Data Collection
9 198 (19.96%) Business Case
10 190 (19.15%) Process Improvement
11 189 (19.05%) Digital Marketing
11 189 (19.05%) Matrix Organization
12 186 (18.75%) Visualisation
13 184 (18.55%) Regulatory Change
14 176 (17.74%) Data Analysis
15 169 (17.04%) Data Visualisation
16 168 (16.94%) Data Architecture
17 152 (15.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 258 (26.01%) SQL
2 183 (18.45%) Python
3 45 (4.54%) Java
3 45 (4.54%) R
4 41 (4.13%) Kotlin
5 34 (3.43%) Scala
6 28 (2.82%) T-SQL
7 18 (1.81%) PL/SQL
7 18 (1.81%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.51%) C#
9 10 (1.01%) Go
9 10 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.81%) C
11 6 (0.60%) Clojure
12 5 (0.50%) Perl
12 5 (0.50%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.30%) Bash
13 3 (0.30%) VB
14 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 152 (15.32%) Degree
2 51 (5.14%) Master's Degree
3 39 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (3.93%) Security Cleared
4 24 (2.42%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.02%) MBA
6 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.21%) PhD
9 11 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.60%) OCP
11 6 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.10%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (16.43%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.74%) GDPR
3 35 (3.53%) QA
4 25 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.81%) SLA
6 10 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.10%) GMP
9 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (1.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) HDFS
3 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.51%) Terraform
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.10%) Puppet
6 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 136 (13.71%) Databricks
2 116 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 60 (6.05%) Oracle
4 57 (5.75%) Informatica
5 53 (5.34%) Google
6 27 (2.72%) Alteryx
7 21 (2.12%) SAP
8 18 (1.81%) Cognos
8 18 (1.81%) Sybase
9 16 (1.61%) Teradata
10 14 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.81%) Samsung
12 7 (0.71%) F5
12 7 (0.71%) IBM
13 6 (0.60%) Talend
14 4 (0.40%) Dell
14 4 (0.40%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.20%) Adobe
15 2 (0.20%) Ariba
15 2 (0.20%) Meraki