Data Strategy Contracts in the North West

Data Strategy
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 103 123 160
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 34 37 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.23% 1.16% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.28% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 13
10th Percentile £514 £405 £495
25th Percentile £600 £420 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £676
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% +83.95%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £725 £785
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 - £50.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.09 £63.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +13 19 £625 +28.87% 9
Cheshire +18 14 £676 +20.18% 4
Lancashire +2 1 £600 +60.00% 1
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Azure Stack
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle CX
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (20.59%) Metadata
3 6 (17.65%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
4 5 (14.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.88%) Big Data
6 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) ERwin
2 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Manufacturing
3 5 (14.71%) Law
3 5 (14.71%) Legal
4 4 (11.76%) Electronics
4 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Marketing
4 4 (11.76%) Retail
4 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (55.88%) Architect
1 19 (55.88%) Data Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Data Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Lead
2 4 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Security Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Security Project Manager
3 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Data Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Data Modeller
4 2 (5.88%) Information Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analytics Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Portfolio Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) JSON
1 6 (17.65%) REST
1 6 (17.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Structures
2 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 6 (17.65%) Reference Data
3 4 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (11.76%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (11.76%) Taxonomies
3 4 (11.76%) Wiki
4 3 (8.82%) CMDB
4 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Data Governance
2 15 (44.12%) Data Protection
3 14 (41.18%) Data Architecture
4 13 (38.24%) Analytics
4 13 (38.24%) Data Modelling
5 11 (32.35%) Data Management
5 11 (32.35%) Decision-Making
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
7 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (20.59%) Business Case
8 7 (20.59%) Value Proposition
9 6 (17.65%) Application Security
9 6 (17.65%) Cloud Security
9 6 (17.65%) Data Lineage
9 6 (17.65%) Event-Driven
9 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
9 6 (17.65%) Microservices
9 6 (17.65%) Physical Data Model
9 6 (17.65%) Pricing Strategy
9 6 (17.65%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Master's Degree
3 6 (17.65%) CISA
3 6 (17.65%) CISM
3 6 (17.65%) CISSP
3 6 (17.65%) MBA
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) Data Quality
2 9 (26.47%) GDPR
3 2 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Sparx
3 4 (11.76%) SAP
4 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce