Data Strategy Contracts in the City of London

Data Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 108 146
Rank change year-on-year 0 +38 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 15 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.87% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.96% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 17
10th Percentile £466 £534 £503
25th Percentile £481 £572 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £730
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile - £800 £775
90th Percentile £578 £853 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £725 £690
% change year-on-year -24.14% +5.07% -1.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) Metadata
3 3 (20.00%) Big Data
3 3 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (20.00%) OLAP
3 3 (20.00%) OLTP
3 3 (20.00%) SAP BW
3 3 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (20.00%) SAP HANA
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Police
3 2 (13.33%) Back Office
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) French Language
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Data Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Analytics
2 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
3 6 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Data Management
5 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (26.67%) Metadata Management
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Data Lineage
6 3 (20.00%) Data Science
6 3 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
6 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) GoldenSource
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle