Data Strategy Jobs

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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 384 414
Rank change year-on-year +84 +30 +67
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 987 820 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.87% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.92% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 600 525 604
10th Percentile £48,717 £45,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,040 £55,000 £55,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £112,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,235 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.57% +3.85% +18.18%

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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +84 916 £82,500 +10.00% 154
UK excluding London +71 537 £69,235 +2.57% 73
Work from Home +76 521 £75,000 +7.14% 71
London +76 421 £95,000 +18.98% 83
South East +105 215 £85,000 - 14
North of England +36 141 £86,142 +31.51% 24
North West +40 98 £90,000 +24.14% 17
Midlands -3 67 £65,000 +4.00% 11
South West -13 52 £65,000 -6.40% 12
West Midlands -19 51 £65,400 +0.62% 7
Scotland -65 41 £65,066 -3.92% 5
Yorkshire +44 32 £59,353 -10.75% 4
East Midlands -19 16 £38,500 -30.00% 4
East of England -21 13 £60,000 -22.58% 5
North East -26 11 £75,000 +38.89% 3
Wales +13 5 £130,000 +179.57% 2
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +16 1 £70,000 +112.12% 1

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 59 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.01%) Confluence
2 10 (1.01%) SAS
3 9 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.10%) Luigi
Applications
1 21 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 265 (26.85%) Azure
2 170 (17.22%) AWS
3 164 (16.62%) Power Platform
4 104 (10.54%) GCP
5 43 (4.36%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (4.05%) SaaS
7 32 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (2.94%) Serverless
9 24 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (2.33%) Matillion
11 17 (1.72%) Collibra
11 17 (1.72%) dbt
11 17 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (1.52%) Azure Stack
13 12 (1.22%) PaaS
13 12 (1.22%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.81%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.64%) Broadband
2 15 (1.52%) DSL
3 4 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) PPP
4 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (16.41%) Power BI
2 137 (13.88%) Data Lake
3 134 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (10.74%) Metadata
5 91 (9.22%) Tableau
6 46 (4.66%) Big Data
7 42 (4.26%) SQL Server
8 31 (3.14%) Hadoop
9 30 (3.04%) Data Vault
10 25 (2.53%) Data Mining
10 25 (2.53%) MongoDB
11 24 (2.43%) NoSQL
12 22 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 20 (2.03%) Relational Database
14 18 (1.82%) Delta Lake
14 18 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.72%) Apache Ignite
16 15 (1.52%) DB2
17 14 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 39 (3.95%) JIRA
2 18 (1.82%) Git
3 5 (0.51%) GitLab
3 5 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.41%) ERwin
5 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.20%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.10%) Maven
6 1 (0.10%) MLflow
6 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (23.40%) Finance
2 229 (23.20%) Marketing
3 196 (19.86%) Social Skills
4 194 (19.66%) Advertising
5 167 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
6 105 (10.64%) Legal
7 78 (7.90%) Banking
8 67 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (4.56%) Law
10 44 (4.46%) Retail
11 35 (3.55%) Financial Institution
12 32 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.53%) Public Sector
14 19 (1.93%) Retail Banking
15 18 (1.82%) Investment Banking
16 17 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.71%) Billing
18 7 (0.71%) Games
18 7 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 271 (27.46%) Lead
2 197 (19.96%) Architect
3 158 (16.01%) Data Architect
4 145 (14.69%) Senior
5 140 (14.18%) Data Engineer
6 77 (7.80%) Data Manager
7 63 (6.38%) Senior Architect
8 50 (5.07%) Senior Data Architect
9 41 (4.15%) Analyst
9 41 (4.15%) Consultant
10 34 (3.44%) Software Engineer
11 32 (3.24%) Data Consultant
11 32 (3.24%) Principal Engineer
12 28 (2.84%) Informatica Engineer
13 21 (2.13%) Strategy Manager
14 20 (2.03%) Cloud Architect
14 20 (2.03%) Developer
14 20 (2.03%) Product Manager
15 19 (1.93%) Principal Data Engineer
15 19 (1.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.07%) Kafka
2 31 (3.14%) React
3 12 (1.22%) Web Services
4 11 (1.11%) .NET
5 6 (0.61%) Apache Beam
5 6 (0.61%) Pandas
6 5 (0.51%) REST
7 4 (0.41%) ADO
7 4 (0.41%) JSON
7 4 (0.41%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.41%) Redux
7 4 (0.41%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.30%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.30%) HTML
8 3 (0.30%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.30%) PySpark
8 3 (0.30%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.30%) XML
9 2 (0.20%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.64%) Marketing Technology
2 96 (9.73%) Data Structures
3 80 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 77 (7.80%) Algorithms
5 58 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 41 (4.15%) Public Cloud
7 39 (3.95%) Cloud Native
7 39 (3.95%) Reinsurance
8 20 (2.03%) Reference Data
8 20 (2.03%) Taxonomies
9 17 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (0.81%) NHS
12 7 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.71%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.61%) Blog
14 5 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.51%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.81%) Windows
2 4 (0.41%) Linux
2 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.20%) Unix
3 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (56.13%) Analytics
2 277 (28.06%) Data Modelling
3 273 (27.66%) Agile
4 264 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
5 255 (25.84%) Data Management
6 224 (22.70%) Data Governance
7 220 (22.29%) ETL
8 215 (21.78%) Use Case
9 209 (21.18%) Roadmaps
10 201 (20.36%) Data Collection
11 200 (20.26%) Business Case
12 191 (19.35%) Process Improvement
13 189 (19.15%) Matrix Organization
14 188 (19.05%) Digital Marketing
15 184 (18.64%) Regulatory Change
16 177 (17.93%) Data Architecture
17 173 (17.53%) Data Analysis
18 170 (17.22%) Visualisation
19 159 (16.11%) Data Visualisation
20 155 (15.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 251 (25.43%) SQL
2 172 (17.43%) Python
3 44 (4.46%) Java
4 41 (4.15%) R
5 38 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 34 (3.44%) Scala
7 27 (2.74%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.32%) C#
11 10 (1.01%) Go
12 9 (0.91%) Clojure
13 8 (0.81%) C
13 8 (0.81%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.51%) Perl
16 3 (0.30%) Bash
16 3 (0.30%) VB
17 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 163 (16.51%) Degree
2 54 (5.47%) Master's Degree
3 45 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 42 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.84%) SC Cleared
6 25 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.33%) MBA
8 18 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 17 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.22%) PhD
11 11 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.61%) CISM
12 6 (0.61%) CISSP
13 5 (0.51%) CRISC
13 5 (0.51%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.20%) MBCS
15 2 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (18.74%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.36%) GDPR
3 37 (3.75%) QA
4 29 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.52%) SLA
6 10 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.51%) NIST
8 2 (0.20%) 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%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (1.32%) Docker
2 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.20%) HDFS
4 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.42%) Terraform
3 4 (0.41%) Ansible
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) FTK
6 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.10%) Puppet
6 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 129 (13.07%) Databricks
2 118 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.88%) Informatica
4 56 (5.67%) Oracle
5 48 (4.86%) Google
6 22 (2.23%) Alteryx
7 18 (1.82%) SAP
8 15 (1.52%) Cognos
8 15 (1.52%) Sybase
8 15 (1.52%) Teradata
9 14 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.91%) Talend
11 8 (0.81%) Samsung
12 7 (0.71%) F5
13 6 (0.61%) IBM
14 4 (0.41%) Dell
14 4 (0.41%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.20%) Facebook
15 2 (0.20%) Meraki
15 2 (0.20%) MuleSoft