Data Strategy Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 129 161
Rank change year-on-year +32 +32 -44
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 13 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.042% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.048% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 8
10th Percentile £444 - £490
25th Percentile £500 - £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.68%
75th Percentile £588 - £675
90th Percentile £750 - £686
England median daily rate £700 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,098 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.64% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 1,439 2,351
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 69
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.38 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the West Midlands

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham - 7 £525 - 8
Coventry - 3 £573 -
Warwickshire +2 2 - - 1
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Metadata
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) OLAP
3 2 (15.38%) OLTP
4 1 (7.69%) Data Vault
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) kappa
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Taxonomies
2 1 (7.69%) CMDB
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) Data Management
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Business Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) Data Cleansing
4 4 (30.77%) Data Design
4 4 (30.77%) IT Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) Content Management
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Development
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Master Data Management
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (23.08%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow