Data Strategy Contracts

Data Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 319 396 495
Rank change year-on-year +77 +99 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 292 351 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.59% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.65% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 240 303
10th Percentile £483 £425 £463
25th Percentile £555 £513 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £775 £703 £725
90th Percentile £925 £776 £827
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £34.31 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.09 £64.50 -
% change year-on-year +8.66% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +70 260 £700 +20.90% 161
London +63 157 £725 +26.09% 87
UK excluding London +68 113 £650 +4.00% 77
Work from Home +99 97 £638 +2.00% 74
North of England +32 44 £676 +8.16% 22
North West +20 34 £663 +2.00% 12
South West +14 22 £638 +3.74% 11
South East +23 19 £675 +8.00% 17
Midlands +39 16 £575 - 15
Scotland +39 15 £563 -13.46% 6
Yorkshire +27 12 £750 +33.33% 7
West Midlands +41 11 £575 - 13
East Midlands +20 4 £588 +2.17% 2
East of England +2 4 £450 - 8
Wales +13 2 £625 -5.66% 1
North East - 2 - - 4

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.71%) Apache
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) JBoss
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (7.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.03%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.03%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (21.92%) Azure
2 46 (15.75%) Power Platform
3 23 (7.88%) AWS
4 18 (6.16%) Snowflake
5 17 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (5.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (4.79%) GCP
9 12 (4.11%) OCI
10 11 (3.77%) Azure Stack
11 7 (2.40%) Alation
12 6 (2.05%) dbt
13 5 (1.71%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.71%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.37%) Serverless
15 3 (1.03%) Collibra
15 3 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) LAN
1 5 (1.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.95%) Metadata
2 51 (17.47%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (16.10%) NoSQL
4 46 (15.75%) Power BI
5 24 (8.22%) Data Vault
5 24 (8.22%) Metadata Repository
6 22 (7.53%) Big Data
7 21 (7.19%) Data Lake
8 19 (6.51%) Tableau
9 14 (4.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.08%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.74%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.71%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.71%) OLAP
13 5 (1.71%) OLTP
14 4 (1.37%) Data Mining
15 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 27 (9.25%) ERwin
2 13 (4.45%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.37%) JIRA
3 4 (1.37%) kappa
4 3 (1.03%) RStudio
5 2 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
General
1 84 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 77 (26.37%) Finance
3 59 (20.21%) Public Sector
4 41 (14.04%) Marketing
5 39 (13.36%) Manufacturing
6 34 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (9.93%) Electronics
7 29 (9.93%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.48%) Legal
9 15 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.79%) Retail
11 12 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (3.77%) Law
13 5 (1.71%) Banking
14 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.03%) Automotive
15 3 (1.03%) Back Office
15 3 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 143 (48.97%) Architect
2 129 (44.18%) Data Architect
3 27 (9.25%) Lead
4 25 (8.56%) Chief Architect
4 25 (8.56%) Chief Data Architect
5 22 (7.53%) Data Manager
5 22 (7.53%) Enterprise Architect
5 22 (7.53%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 22 (7.53%) Senior
6 19 (6.51%) Analyst
7 16 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.14%) Project Manager
9 14 (4.79%) Data Analyst
10 12 (4.11%) Azure Architect
11 10 (3.42%) Data Modeller
12 9 (3.08%) Data Strategist
12 9 (3.08%) Head of Architecture
12 9 (3.08%) Head of Data Architecture
13 8 (2.74%) Data Migration Manager
13 8 (2.74%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.16%) JSON
2 12 (4.11%) XML
3 11 (3.77%) REST
4 7 (2.40%) JSON Schema
5 6 (2.05%) PySpark
6 5 (1.71%) Middleware
7 3 (1.03%) Kafka
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.34%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.34%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.34%) D3.js
9 1 (0.34%) Drools
9 1 (0.34%) pytest
9 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.30%) Reference Data
2 25 (8.56%) Data Structures
3 22 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.77%) Wiki
6 9 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.74%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.71%) CMDB
10 5 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.37%) Industry 4.0
11 4 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.68%) IoT
13 2 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.71%) Linux
1 5 (1.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 127 (43.49%) Data Governance
3 104 (35.62%) Data Architecture
4 102 (34.93%) Analytics
5 84 (28.77%) Data Management
6 82 (28.08%) Business Intelligence
7 59 (20.21%) Data Integration
8 57 (19.52%) Agile
9 45 (15.41%) Data Protection
10 43 (14.73%) Business Strategy
11 40 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (13.36%) Data Analysis
12 39 (13.36%) Decision-Making
13 34 (11.64%) Programme Management
14 33 (11.30%) Data Lineage
15 32 (10.96%) Data Design
16 31 (10.62%) Migration
16 31 (10.62%) Roadmaps
17 30 (10.27%) Data Science
17 30 (10.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.38%) SQL
2 22 (7.53%) Python
3 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.68%) R
4 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.34%) Java
5 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.27%) Degree
4 11 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.40%) CISA
5 7 (2.40%) CISM
5 7 (2.40%) CISSP
5 7 (2.40%) MBA
6 5 (1.71%) Postgraduate
7 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (25.68%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.33%) GDPR
3 12 (4.11%) QA
4 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.03%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Control-M
1 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (13.70%) SAP
2 38 (13.01%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.99%) Sparx
4 22 (7.53%) Oracle
5 21 (7.19%) Databricks
6 10 (3.42%) Informatica
7 7 (2.40%) IBM
8 5 (1.71%) Adobe
8 5 (1.71%) Okta
8 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.71%) Symantec
8 5 (1.71%) Talend
8 5 (1.71%) Varonis
9 4 (1.37%) Google
10 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.68%) IDERA
11 2 (0.68%) Marketo
12 1 (0.34%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.34%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.34%) Splunk