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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 389 418
Rank change year-on-year +85 +29 +65
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 975 840 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.85% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.89% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 586 538 609
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,660 £55,000 £55,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - +7.41%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,937 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.13% +8.00% +13.64%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 18 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 +111 899 £80,000 +6.67% 208
Work from Home +97 525 £75,000 +7.14% 87
UK excluding London +74 513 £68,937 +2.13% 111
London +106 431 £92,225 +15.28% 117
South East +107 204 £85,000 - 34
North of England +67 132 £75,000 +14.63% 25
North West +50 87 £90,000 +43.60% 18
Midlands +4 64 £65,000 +4.00% 14
South West -13 50 £65,000 -7.14% 18
West Midlands +21 48 £65,400 +0.62% 10
Scotland -50 44 £65,000 +8.25% 4
Yorkshire +64 34 £58,875 -11.47% 5
East Midlands -4 16 £35,500 -35.45% 4
East of England -4 11 £60,000 -22.58% 12
North East -15 11 £75,000 +38.89% 2
Wales +10 5 £130,000 +179.57% 2
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +15 1 £70,000 +112.12% 3

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 61 (6.26%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.03%) Confluence
3 10 (1.03%) SAS
4 9 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) Luigi
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.62%) 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 7 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.31%) 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
3 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 261 (26.77%) Azure
2 172 (17.64%) AWS
3 167 (17.13%) Power Platform
4 102 (10.46%) GCP
5 45 (4.62%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (4.00%) SaaS
8 35 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (3.18%) Serverless
10 26 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (2.46%) Matillion
12 20 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.95%) dbt
14 18 (1.85%) Collibra
15 15 (1.54%) Azure Stack
16 11 (1.13%) PaaS
16 11 (1.13%) PowerApps
17 9 (0.92%) Amazon S3
18 7 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
18 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.87%) Broadband
2 18 (1.85%) DSL
3 4 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) PPP
4 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (16.82%) Power BI
2 142 (14.56%) Data Lake
3 125 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (10.67%) Metadata
5 95 (9.74%) Tableau
6 48 (4.92%) Big Data
7 45 (4.62%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.28%) Hadoop
9 31 (3.18%) Data Vault
10 28 (2.87%) Data Mining
10 28 (2.87%) MongoDB
11 23 (2.36%) NoSQL
12 22 (2.26%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.26%) Delta Lake
12 22 (2.26%) Relational Database
13 21 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (2.05%) Apache Ignite
15 18 (1.85%) DB2
16 14 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (4.31%) JIRA
2 21 (2.15%) Git
3 6 (0.62%) ERwin
4 5 (0.51%) GitLab
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.21%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.10%) Maven
7 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (23.69%) Finance
1 231 (23.69%) Marketing
2 198 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 195 (20.00%) Advertising
4 177 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (10.97%) Legal
6 84 (8.62%) Banking
7 65 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (4.82%) Law
9 44 (4.51%) Retail
10 36 (3.69%) Financial Institution
11 32 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.15%) Investment Banking
12 21 (2.15%) Public Sector
13 18 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.74%) Retail Banking
15 11 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.82%) Games
17 7 (0.72%) Billing
17 7 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 268 (27.49%) Lead
2 193 (19.79%) Architect
3 147 (15.08%) Data Architect
4 145 (14.87%) Senior
5 142 (14.56%) Data Engineer
6 69 (7.08%) Data Manager
7 64 (6.56%) Senior Architect
8 48 (4.92%) Senior Data Architect
9 42 (4.31%) Consultant
10 39 (4.00%) Analyst
11 33 (3.38%) Data Consultant
11 33 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
12 32 (3.28%) Software Engineer
13 26 (2.67%) Informatica Engineer
14 23 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (2.15%) Developer
15 21 (2.15%) IT Architect
15 21 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.05%) Product Manager
16 20 (2.05%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.33%) Kafka
2 28 (2.87%) React
3 12 (1.23%) Web Services
4 11 (1.13%) .NET
5 7 (0.72%) Pandas
6 6 (0.62%) Apache Beam
7 5 (0.51%) REST
8 4 (0.41%) ADO
8 4 (0.41%) Redux
9 3 (0.31%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.31%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.31%) JSON
9 3 (0.31%) PySpark
10 2 (0.21%) HTML
10 2 (0.21%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.21%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.21%) XML
11 1 (0.10%) Keras
11 1 (0.10%) pytest
11 1 (0.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.87%) Marketing Technology
2 93 (9.54%) Data Structures
3 79 (8.10%) Management Information System
4 75 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 57 (5.85%) Product Ownership
6 46 (4.72%) Public Cloud
7 42 (4.31%) Cloud Native
8 39 (4.00%) Reinsurance
9 21 (2.15%) Taxonomies
10 18 (1.85%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.72%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.72%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.72%) NHS
15 6 (0.62%) Blog
15 6 (0.62%) IoT
16 5 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
16 5 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.92%) Windows
2 6 (0.62%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.21%) 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 (56.41%) Analytics
2 281 (28.82%) Data Modelling
3 280 (28.72%) Agile
4 261 (26.77%) Business Intelligence
5 250 (25.64%) Data Management
6 223 (22.87%) ETL
7 217 (22.26%) Use Case
8 216 (22.15%) Data Governance
9 212 (21.74%) Roadmaps
10 201 (20.62%) Data Collection
11 198 (20.31%) Business Case
12 192 (19.69%) Process Improvement
13 189 (19.38%) Digital Marketing
13 189 (19.38%) Matrix Organization
14 184 (18.87%) Regulatory Change
15 180 (18.46%) Visualisation
16 175 (17.95%) Data Analysis
17 165 (16.92%) Data Visualisation
18 164 (16.82%) Data Architecture
19 153 (15.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 255 (26.15%) SQL
2 178 (18.26%) Python
3 45 (4.62%) Java
4 43 (4.41%) R
5 39 (4.00%) Kotlin
6 34 (3.49%) Scala
7 28 (2.87%) T-SQL
8 19 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.85%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.54%) C#
11 10 (1.03%) Go
11 10 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.82%) C
13 7 (0.72%) Clojure
14 5 (0.51%) Perl
14 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.31%) Bash
15 3 (0.31%) VB
16 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 155 (15.90%) Degree
2 50 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 41 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (4.10%) Security Cleared
5 25 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.05%) MBA
8 16 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.33%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.23%) PhD
11 11 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.41%) OCP
13 4 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.31%) CISM
14 3 (0.31%) CISSP
15 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.51%) GDPR
3 38 (3.90%) QA
4 26 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.85%) SLA
6 10 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.21%) NIST
8 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 10 (1.03%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) 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 35 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.44%) Terraform
3 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) FTK
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.10%) Puppet
6 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 133 (13.64%) Databricks
2 119 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.05%) Oracle
4 56 (5.74%) Informatica
5 50 (5.13%) Google
6 24 (2.46%) Alteryx
7 19 (1.95%) SAP
8 18 (1.85%) Cognos
8 18 (1.85%) Sybase
9 16 (1.64%) Teradata
10 14 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.92%) Talend
12 8 (0.82%) Samsung
13 7 (0.72%) F5
13 7 (0.72%) IBM
14 4 (0.41%) Dell
14 4 (0.41%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.21%) Facebook
15 2 (0.21%) Meraki
15 2 (0.21%) MuleSoft