Overview
173tech’s Data Salary Review offers data professionals key insights into salary trends, market demand, and emerging skill gaps, helping them navigate career growth and compensation expectations with confidence.
Methodology
The review takes averages of advertised salaries, which we would generally expect to be a little higher than the reality. This is especially true of some smaller tech hubs where a few large employers can inflate the numbers.
Sources
We scraped data from: Indeed, Glassdoor, Linkedin, SalaryExpert, Reed, Builtin, Talent & Statista, The Salary Checker, TotalJobs & NerdWallet to find average salaries across the last five years.
Analysis By Location
An agency as an alternative
Hiring a data people is expensive (and becoming more so) and the salary is just the start. Factor in employer NI, benefits, recruitment fees, onboarding time, and the six to twelve months it typically takes before someone is genuinely productive in your business. The real cost of a mid-level data hire is often closer to $80–100k in year one.
For a lot of companies, that commitment makes sense. But for many, especially those in the earlier stages of building out a data function, it is a significant bet on a single person, with all the risk that comes with it.
An agency like 173tech gives you access to a team with a broader range of skills than any one hire can offer: engineering, modelling, visualisation, strategy. You get the work done to a deadline, with clear deliverables, and when the project’s complete, you are not carrying the cost. No notice periods, no redundancy risk, no gaps when someone leaves.
If you are looking at those salary figures and wondering whether there’s a smarter way to get data working in your business, there is.
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