Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 105 119
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 12 16 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.79% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.86% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 11
10th Percentile £323 £400 £555
25th Percentile £406 £496 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -13.79% +3.57%
75th Percentile £625 £706 £800
90th Percentile £670 £738 £838
Central London median daily rate £500 £625 £725
% change year-on-year -20.00% -13.79% +3.57%

All Process & 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 1,656 1,860 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 92.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,128 1,572
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the City of London

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) dbt
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) PowerDesigner
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Modeller
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Engagement Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Strategy Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Data Management
3 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Lineage
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Marketo
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Sparx