Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.65% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% - -
75th Percentile £513 £594 -
90th Percentile £670 £710 -
England median daily rate £563 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 661 645 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.40% 82.48% 86.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 409 535
10th Percentile £225 £267 £213
25th Percentile £344 £361 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -9.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £630 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 47
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.65 £17.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -38.18% +46.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.57 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the East Midlands

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the East Midlands

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Northamptonshire -9 2 £358 -10.50% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 2
Derbyshire - 1 £750 - 4
Leicestershire - 1 £400 - 4
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Housing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Ontologies
3 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL