Data Strategy Contracts in England

Data Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 296 374 460
Rank change year-on-year +78 +86 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 260 313 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.62% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.69% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 216 258
10th Percentile £483 £420 £463
25th Percentile £556 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £579 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.90% -7.36% +17.37%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £747
90th Percentile £925 £781 £847
UK median daily rate £683 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +13.75% -4.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £34.08 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £63.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +52 157 £725 +26.09% 89
North of England +33 44 £676 +8.16% 23
North West +13 34 £663 +2.00% 13
South West +21 22 £638 +3.74% 12
South East +29 19 £675 +8.00% 17
Midlands +35 16 £575 - 15
Yorkshire +24 12 £750 +33.33% 7
West Midlands +40 11 £575 - 13
East Midlands +19 4 £588 +2.17% 2
East of England +10 4 £450 - 9
North East - 2 - - 4
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (1.92%) Apache
2 4 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (8.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.15%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.15%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.31%) Azure
2 43 (16.54%) Power Platform
3 22 (8.46%) AWS
4 17 (6.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (6.54%) Snowflake
5 16 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (5.00%) GCP
6 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 12 (4.62%) OCI
8 9 (3.46%) Azure Stack
9 7 (2.69%) Alation
10 6 (2.31%) dbt
11 5 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.54%) Serverless
13 3 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.15%) Collibra
13 3 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) LAN
1 3 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (23.08%) Metadata
2 49 (18.85%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (17.69%) NoSQL
4 43 (16.54%) Power BI
5 24 (9.23%) Data Vault
5 24 (9.23%) Metadata Repository
6 20 (7.69%) Big Data
6 20 (7.69%) Data Lake
7 19 (7.31%) Tableau
8 12 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (3.46%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.08%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.08%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.92%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.92%) OLAP
12 5 (1.92%) OLTP
13 3 (1.15%) Airbyte
13 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 25 (9.62%) ERwin
2 11 (4.23%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.54%) JIRA
3 4 (1.54%) kappa
4 3 (1.15%) RStudio
5 2 (0.77%) Git
5 2 (0.77%) PowerDesigner
General
1 74 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 70 (26.92%) Finance
3 56 (21.54%) Public Sector
4 41 (15.77%) Marketing
5 36 (13.85%) Manufacturing
6 30 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (11.15%) Electronics
7 29 (11.15%) Telecoms
8 14 (5.38%) Legal
8 14 (5.38%) Retail
9 13 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (4.23%) Law
12 4 (1.54%) Banking
12 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Automotive
13 3 (1.15%) Back Office
13 3 (1.15%) Local Government
14 2 (0.77%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 128 (49.23%) Architect
2 118 (45.38%) Data Architect
3 27 (10.38%) Lead
4 25 (9.62%) Chief Architect
4 25 (9.62%) Chief Data Architect
5 22 (8.46%) Senior
6 19 (7.31%) Enterprise Architect
6 19 (7.31%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 17 (6.54%) Data Manager
8 16 (6.15%) Data Engineer
9 15 (5.77%) Project Manager
10 14 (5.38%) Analyst
11 11 (4.23%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.85%) Azure Architect
12 10 (3.85%) Data Modeller
13 9 (3.46%) Data Strategist
13 9 (3.46%) Head of Architecture
13 9 (3.46%) Head of Data Architecture
14 8 (3.08%) Consultant
14 8 (3.08%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.15%) JSON
2 10 (3.85%) XML
3 9 (3.46%) REST
4 7 (2.69%) JSON Schema
5 6 (2.31%) PySpark
6 3 (1.15%) Kafka
6 3 (1.15%) Middleware
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.38%) D3.js
8 1 (0.38%) Drools
8 1 (0.38%) pytest
8 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.92%) Reference Data
2 20 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 17 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.23%) Wiki
6 8 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.08%) Taxonomies
7 7 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.92%) CMDB
8 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.54%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.77%) FMCG
11 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.77%) IoT
11 2 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.15%) Linux
1 3 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (51.92%) Data Modelling
2 113 (43.46%) Data Governance
3 99 (38.08%) Data Architecture
4 90 (34.62%) Analytics
5 81 (31.15%) Business Intelligence
6 69 (26.54%) Data Management
7 56 (21.54%) Data Integration
8 49 (18.85%) Agile
9 39 (15.00%) Data Protection
9 39 (15.00%) Decision-Making
9 39 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (14.23%) Business Strategy
11 36 (13.85%) Data Analysis
12 33 (12.69%) Programme Management
13 32 (12.31%) Data Design
14 29 (11.15%) Data Lineage
14 29 (11.15%) Digital Marketing
15 28 (10.77%) Physical Data Model
16 27 (10.38%) Machine Learning
16 27 (10.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.62%) SQL
2 22 (8.46%) Python
3 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.77%) R
4 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.38%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.00%) Degree
4 11 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.69%) CISA
5 7 (2.69%) CISM
5 7 (2.69%) CISSP
5 7 (2.69%) MBA
6 5 (1.92%) Postgraduate
7 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (24.62%) Data Quality
2 36 (13.85%) GDPR
3 8 (3.08%) QA
4 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.15%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Control-M
1 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (15.00%) SAP
2 36 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 35 (13.46%) Sparx
4 22 (8.46%) Oracle
5 18 (6.92%) Databricks
6 7 (2.69%) IBM
6 7 (2.69%) Informatica
7 5 (1.92%) Adobe
7 5 (1.92%) Okta
7 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.92%) Symantec
7 5 (1.92%) Talend
7 5 (1.92%) Varonis
8 4 (1.54%) Google
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.77%) Marketo
11 1 (0.38%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.38%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.38%) NEC
11 1 (0.38%) OneTrust