Data Strategy Contracts in the City of London

Data Strategy
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Data Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 141 168
Rank change year-on-year +36 +27 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 20 31 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.85% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.93% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 22
10th Percentile £537 £503 -
25th Percentile £581 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £730 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +4.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £800 £775 £819
90th Percentile £860 - £956
Central London median daily rate £738 £690 £700
% change year-on-year +6.88% -1.43% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Alation
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (5.00%) dbt
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (5.00%) OCI
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) Metadata
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Airbyte
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Flink
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) OLAP
4 1 (5.00%) OLTP
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) ERwin
1 2 (10.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Modeller
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Business Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Strategist
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Chief Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.00%) DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Data Governance
2 9 (45.00%) Analytics
3 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (35.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (30.00%) Data Management
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Data Lineage
7 3 (15.00%) Data Science
7 3 (15.00%) Data Security
7 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
8 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 2 (10.00%) CRM
8 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
8 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) ERP
8 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (20.00%) GDPR
3 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) Sparx
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Okta
3 1 (5.00%) Symantec
3 1 (5.00%) Talend
3 1 (5.00%) Varonis