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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 375 412
Rank change year-on-year +71 +37 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 984 825 1,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.89% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.93% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 599 529 603
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £112,500
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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £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 9 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 9 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 +81 915 £83,750 +11.67% 152
UK excluding London +57 537 £69,235 +2.57% 73
Work from Home +84 526 £75,000 +7.14% 65
London +69 418 £95,000 +22.58% 82
South East +103 218 £85,000 - 14
North of England +39 142 £85,000 +27.82% 23
North West +42 99 £90,000 +24.14% 16
Midlands -27 65 £65,000 +4.00% 10
West Midlands -6 52 £65,400 +2.59% 6
South West -9 52 £65,000 -6.40% 11
Scotland -57 39 £65,066 -6.31% 5
Yorkshire +37 32 £59,353 -10.75% 4
East of England -17 13 £60,000 -22.58% 6
East Midlands -33 13 £40,000 -27.27% 4
North East -23 11 £75,000 +38.89% 3
Wales +16 5 £130,000 +179.57% 2
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Northern Ireland +13 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 55 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.02%) Confluence
2 10 (1.02%) 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
1 261 (26.52%) Azure
2 167 (16.97%) AWS
3 165 (16.77%) Power Platform
4 101 (10.26%) GCP
5 43 (4.37%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.07%) SaaS
7 39 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 29 (2.95%) Serverless
10 24 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (2.34%) Matillion
12 17 (1.73%) Collibra
12 17 (1.73%) dbt
12 17 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (1.52%) Azure Stack
14 12 (1.22%) PaaS
14 12 (1.22%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.91%) Amazon S3
16 7 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.70%) Broadband
2 13 (1.32%) DSL
3 4 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) PPP
4 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (16.57%) Power BI
2 135 (13.72%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (13.52%) Data Lake
4 106 (10.77%) Metadata
5 89 (9.04%) Tableau
6 44 (4.47%) Big Data
7 41 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.95%) Data Vault
9 28 (2.85%) Hadoop
10 24 (2.44%) NoSQL
11 23 (2.34%) MongoDB
12 22 (2.24%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.24%) Data Mining
13 20 (2.03%) Relational Database
14 17 (1.73%) Delta Lake
15 15 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.42%) Apache Ignite
16 14 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (1.32%) DB2
Development Applications
1 38 (3.86%) JIRA
2 18 (1.83%) 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
1 232 (23.58%) Finance
2 229 (23.27%) Marketing
3 197 (20.02%) Social Skills
4 194 (19.72%) Advertising
5 162 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
6 105 (10.67%) Legal
7 76 (7.72%) Banking
8 65 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (4.47%) Law
9 44 (4.47%) Retail
10 33 (3.35%) Financial Institution
11 32 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (2.54%) Public Sector
13 19 (1.93%) Retail Banking
14 18 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.63%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.71%) Billing
17 7 (0.71%) Games
17 7 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 271 (27.54%) Lead
2 194 (19.72%) Architect
3 158 (16.06%) Data Architect
4 144 (14.63%) Senior
5 138 (14.02%) Data Engineer
6 78 (7.93%) Data Manager
7 61 (6.20%) Senior Architect
8 50 (5.08%) Senior Data Architect
9 41 (4.17%) Consultant
10 40 (4.07%) Analyst
11 35 (3.56%) Software Engineer
12 32 (3.25%) Data Consultant
12 32 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
13 28 (2.85%) Informatica Engineer
14 22 (2.24%) Strategy Manager
15 20 (2.03%) Product Manager
15 20 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (1.93%) Developer
16 19 (1.93%) Head of Engineering
16 19 (1.93%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.67%) Kafka
2 32 (3.25%) React
3 12 (1.22%) Web Services
4 11 (1.12%) .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 (18.70%) Marketing Technology
2 96 (9.76%) Data Structures
3 78 (7.93%) Management Information System
4 77 (7.83%) Algorithms
5 56 (5.69%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.86%) Public Cloud
6 38 (3.86%) Reinsurance
7 37 (3.76%) Cloud Native
8 20 (2.03%) Reference Data
8 20 (2.03%) Taxonomies
9 17 (1.73%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.81%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (0.81%) NHS
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
1 555 (56.40%) Analytics
2 274 (27.85%) Data Modelling
3 266 (27.03%) Agile
4 264 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
5 254 (25.81%) Data Management
6 221 (22.46%) Data Governance
7 220 (22.36%) ETL
8 215 (21.85%) Use Case
9 208 (21.14%) Roadmaps
10 201 (20.43%) Data Collection
11 200 (20.33%) Business Case
12 191 (19.41%) Process Improvement
13 189 (19.21%) Matrix Organization
14 188 (19.11%) Digital Marketing
15 184 (18.70%) Regulatory Change
16 177 (17.99%) Data Architecture
17 173 (17.58%) Data Analysis
18 167 (16.97%) Visualisation
19 156 (15.85%) Data Visualisation
20 154 (15.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 249 (25.30%) SQL
2 171 (17.38%) Python
3 43 (4.37%) Java
4 41 (4.17%) R
5 39 (3.96%) Kotlin
6 33 (3.35%) Scala
7 27 (2.74%) T-SQL
8 22 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.32%) C#
9 13 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.02%) Clojure
10 10 (1.02%) Go
11 8 (0.81%) C
11 8 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.51%) Perl
14 3 (0.30%) Bash
14 3 (0.30%) VB
15 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 162 (16.46%) Degree
2 56 (5.69%) Master's Degree
3 45 (4.57%) Security Cleared
4 42 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.85%) SC Cleared
6 25 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.54%) MBA
7 18 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.22%) PhD
10 11 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.61%) CISM
11 6 (0.61%) CISSP
12 5 (0.51%) CRISC
12 5 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.20%) PMP
14 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (18.70%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.37%) GDPR
3 37 (3.76%) QA
4 29 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.32%) SLA
6 10 (1.02%) 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 36 (3.66%) 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
1 126 (12.80%) Databricks
2 115 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.89%) Informatica
4 53 (5.39%) Oracle
5 45 (4.57%) Google
6 20 (2.03%) Alteryx
7 18 (1.83%) SAP
8 15 (1.52%) Teradata
9 14 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.32%) Cognos
10 13 (1.32%) Sybase
11 9 (0.91%) Talend
12 8 (0.81%) Samsung
13 7 (0.71%) F5
14 6 (0.61%) IBM
15 4 (0.41%) Dell
15 4 (0.41%) ServiceNow
16 2 (0.20%) Facebook
16 2 (0.20%) Meraki
16 2 (0.20%) Twitter