Data Strategy Contracts in the North of England

Data Strategy
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 183 213
Rank change year-on-year +41 +30 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 42 35 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.90% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.68% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 19
10th Percentile £513 £445 £475
25th Percentile £550 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £701
90th Percentile £775 £725 £770
England median daily rate £700 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.09 £63.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,996 5,147 6,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.66% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,564 4,604
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.84%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 204 263
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.44
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +53.42% +4.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.54 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £62.18
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North West +22 33 £625 -3.85% 13
Yorkshire +20 11 £775 +37.78% 6
North East - 2 - - 1
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Azure Stack
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (4.76%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle CX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (26.19%) Metadata
2 6 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.76%) Big Data
4 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.76%) Power BI
4 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) ERwin
2 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 13 (30.95%) Public Sector
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
3 8 (19.05%) Manufacturing
4 6 (14.29%) Marketing
5 5 (11.90%) Law
5 5 (11.90%) Legal
5 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
6 4 (9.52%) Electronics
6 4 (9.52%) Retail
6 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Architect
1 19 (45.24%) Data Architect
2 5 (11.90%) Lead
2 5 (11.90%) Project Manager
2 5 (11.90%) Senior
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Security Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Data Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Data Modeller
5 2 (4.76%) Information Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (2.38%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Developer
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) JSON
1 6 (14.29%) REST
1 6 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 6 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 6 (14.29%) Reference Data
3 4 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (9.52%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (9.52%) Taxonomies
3 4 (9.52%) Wiki
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) NHS
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Data Governance
2 21 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 19 (45.24%) Data Architecture
4 16 (38.10%) Analytics
5 15 (35.71%) Data Protection
6 13 (30.95%) Agile
7 12 (28.57%) Data Management
8 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (26.19%) Decision-Making
9 9 (21.43%) Data Analysis
10 8 (19.05%) Data Lineage
10 8 (19.05%) Programme Management
11 7 (16.67%) Business Case
11 7 (16.67%) Value Proposition
12 6 (14.29%) Application Security
12 6 (14.29%) Change Management
12 6 (14.29%) Cloud Security
12 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 6 (14.29%) Pricing Strategy
12 6 (14.29%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
1 8 (19.05%) Master's Degree
2 6 (14.29%) CISA
2 6 (14.29%) CISM
2 6 (14.29%) CISSP
2 6 (14.29%) MBA
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) Data Quality
2 9 (21.43%) GDPR
3 2 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 8 (19.05%) Sparx
2 4 (9.52%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Salesforce