Data Strategy Contracts in Central London

Data Strategy
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 113 148
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 22 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.16% 0.75% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.83% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 16
10th Percentile £456 £528 £500
25th Percentile £488 £561 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £694 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +2.78% -3.57%
75th Percentile £588 £800 £741
90th Percentile £627 - £755
London median daily rate £600 £725 £566
% change year-on-year -17.24% +28.04% -9.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,777 2,179 3,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.48% 90.94% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £52.69
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +10 21 £550 -16.98% 15
West End of London - 1 £825 - 4
City of Westminster - 1 £825 -
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 5 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) SAP BPC
2 1 (4.55%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Collibra
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) NoSQL
2 6 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (22.73%) Metadata
4 4 (18.18%) Data Mining
5 3 (13.64%) Big Data
5 3 (13.64%) OLAP
5 3 (13.64%) OLTP
5 3 (13.64%) SAP BW
5 3 (13.64%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (13.64%) SAP HANA
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Police
4 2 (9.09%) Back Office
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) French Language
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Principal Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Data Product Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Product Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Product Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared DBA
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Kafka
1 4 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 2 (9.09%) JPA
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) pytest
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) SciPy
3 1 (4.55%) WSDL
3 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) FMCG
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Analytics
1 10 (45.45%) Data Governance
2 7 (31.82%) Data Architecture
2 7 (31.82%) Data Management
3 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 6 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
4 5 (22.73%) Data Lineage
4 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
4 5 (22.73%) Metadata Management
5 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Data Science
5 4 (18.18%) Data Security
5 4 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (18.18%) Observability
5 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) C++
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Adobe
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) GoldenSource
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle