Data Strategy Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Strategy
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 145 168
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 -37
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 9 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.20% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.22% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £431 £354 £383
25th Percentile £506 £387 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £441 £525
Median % change year-on-year +81.41% -16.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £950 £496 £588
90th Percentile - £528 £618
South East median daily rate £675 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £61.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the Thames Valley

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the Thames Valley

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the Thames Valley

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire -2 6 £900 +104.08% 2
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £463 - 2
Data Strategy
South East

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SAP CO
1 3 (33.33%) SAP FI
1 3 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) dbt
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Finance Manager
2 3 (33.33%) SAP Data Manager
2 3 (33.33%) SAP Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Finance Systems Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Migration Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Life Science
1 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Management
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Order to Cash
3 3 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 3 (33.33%) Record to Report
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Lineage
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft