Data Strategy Contracts in London

Data Strategy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 304 388
Rank change year-on-year +63 +84 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 157 206 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.76% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.84% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 140 163
10th Percentile £500 £450 £463
25th Percentile £556 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -8.73% +14.55%
75th Percentile £850 £728 £775
90th Percentile £925 £826 £900
England median daily rate £700 £579 £625
% change year-on-year +20.90% -7.36% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £33.85 -
England median hourly rate £70.09 £63.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +28 22 £738 +6.88% 13
South London - 5 £500 - 1
East London -4 1 £550 +4.76% 1
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (2.55%) Apache
1 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.64%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (12.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.84%) Azure
2 30 (19.11%) Power Platform
3 15 (9.55%) AWS
4 14 (8.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (8.28%) Snowflake
6 12 (7.64%) OCI
7 11 (7.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.37%) GCP
9 7 (4.46%) Alation
9 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (3.18%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.55%) dbt
12 3 (1.91%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.91%) Collibra
13 1 (0.64%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.64%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) LAN
1 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.11%) Metadata
2 37 (23.57%) NoSQL
3 30 (19.11%) Power BI
4 29 (18.47%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (14.65%) Data Vault
5 23 (14.65%) Metadata Repository
6 17 (10.83%) Tableau
7 11 (7.01%) Big Data
8 10 (6.37%) Data Lake
9 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.91%) Airbyte
12 3 (1.91%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.91%) Flink
13 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.27%) Oracle ODI
13 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (12.74%) ERwin
2 11 (7.01%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.55%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.27%) RStudio
5 1 (0.64%) Git
General
1 42 (26.75%) Finance
1 42 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.93%) Public Sector
3 33 (21.02%) Marketing
4 25 (15.92%) Manufacturing
5 24 (15.29%) Electronics
5 24 (15.29%) Telecoms
6 15 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (5.10%) Retail
9 7 (4.46%) Legal
10 6 (3.82%) Law
11 5 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.91%) Automotive
12 3 (1.91%) Back Office
12 3 (1.91%) Banking
12 3 (1.91%) Local Government
12 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.27%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 82 (52.23%) Architect
2 76 (48.41%) Data Architect
3 25 (15.92%) Chief Architect
3 25 (15.92%) Chief Data Architect
4 15 (9.55%) Lead
5 13 (8.28%) Enterprise Architect
5 13 (8.28%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 12 (7.64%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) Senior
7 9 (5.73%) Data Strategist
7 9 (5.73%) Head of Architecture
7 9 (5.73%) Head of Data Architecture
8 8 (5.10%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.46%) Analyst
9 7 (4.46%) Data Migration Manager
9 7 (4.46%) Data Migration Project Manager
9 7 (4.46%) Data Modeller
9 7 (4.46%) Migration Manager
9 7 (4.46%) Migration Project Manager
10 6 (3.82%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.73%) JSON
2 6 (3.82%) JSON Schema
3 4 (2.55%) PySpark
3 4 (2.55%) XML
4 3 (1.91%) Kafka
4 3 (1.91%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.64%) D3.js
6 1 (0.64%) Drools
6 1 (0.64%) Middleware
6 1 (0.64%) pytest
6 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.92%) Reference Data
2 11 (7.01%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (6.37%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.46%) Wiki
5 4 (2.55%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.27%) IoT
7 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.64%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.64%) FMCG
8 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.64%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.64%) Life Science
8 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) Linux
1 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (59.24%) Data Modelling
2 75 (47.77%) Data Governance
3 59 (37.58%) Data Architecture
4 54 (34.39%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (30.57%) Analytics
6 43 (27.39%) Data Integration
7 42 (26.75%) Data Management
8 29 (18.47%) Agile
9 28 (17.83%) Business Strategy
10 25 (15.92%) Data Design
11 24 (15.29%) Digital Marketing
11 24 (15.29%) Programme Management
12 23 (14.65%) UML
13 21 (13.38%) Data Protection
13 21 (13.38%) Physical Data Model
13 21 (13.38%) Roadmaps
14 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (11.46%) Artificial Intelligence
15 18 (11.46%) Decision-Making
16 17 (10.83%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.01%) SQL
2 14 (8.92%) Python
3 3 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.64%) Java
4 1 (0.64%) R
4 1 (0.64%) Scala
4 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 31 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) Degree
4 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (24.20%) Data Quality
2 26 (16.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.91%) PMO
4 2 (1.27%) QA
5 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 30 (19.11%) SAP
2 27 (17.20%) Sparx
3 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
4 18 (11.46%) Oracle
5 13 (8.28%) Databricks
6 6 (3.82%) IBM
6 6 (3.82%) Informatica
7 5 (3.18%) Adobe
7 5 (3.18%) Okta
7 5 (3.18%) Symantec
7 5 (3.18%) Talend
7 5 (3.18%) Varonis
8 2 (1.27%) Google
8 2 (1.27%) Marketo
9 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.64%) NEC
9 1 (0.64%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.64%) Salesforce