Data Strategy Contracts in Central London

Data Strategy
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 147 167
Rank change year-on-year +36 +20 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 22 33 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.89% 0.85% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.93% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 23
10th Percentile £540 £475 -
25th Percentile £591 £569 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £730 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +4.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £800 £775 £788
90th Percentile £856 - £934
London median daily rate £725 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +26.09% -8.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,234 3,542 4,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.52% 91.74% 91.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,586 2,395 3,189
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.42 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Central London

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in Central London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Central London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in Central London

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 25 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
City of London +31 20 £725 -0.68% 13
Data Strategy
London

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Alation
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.55%) dbt
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.55%) OCI
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.64%) Metadata
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Airbyte
4 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) Flink
4 1 (4.55%) OLAP
4 1 (4.55%) OLTP
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) ERwin
1 2 (9.09%) PowerDesigner
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.55%) Back Office
4 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Data Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Data Modeller
3 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Business Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Change Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Strategist
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) CIO
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 9 (40.91%) Analytics
4 8 (36.36%) Data Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Data Management
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Data Lineage
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (13.64%) Data Science
7 3 (13.64%) Data Security
7 3 (13.64%) Master Data Management
7 3 (13.64%) Metadata Management
8 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
8 2 (9.09%) Data Privacy
8 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (9.09%) Logical Data Model
8 2 (9.09%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (22.73%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Informatica
2 2 (9.09%) Sparx
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Okta
3 1 (4.55%) Symantec
3 1 (4.55%) Talend
3 1 (4.55%) Varonis