Data Strategy Contracts in the East of England

Data Strategy
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 108 112
Rank change year-on-year +36 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 10 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.07% 0.21% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.24% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £361 £420 £360
25th Percentile £434 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 -
90th Percentile - £790 £570
England median daily rate £575 £700 £579
% change year-on-year -17.86% +20.90% -7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £61.95
25th Percentile £78.75 - £62.63
Median hourly rate £80.50 £79.17 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +22.74% -
75th Percentile £82.25 - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £65.85
England median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £63.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% +11.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the East of England

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the East of England

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the East of England

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the East of England

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire +32 6 £500 +14.29% 11
Bedfordshire - 3 £650 - 6
Essex - 1 £325 - 9
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) Reference Data
3 3 (30.00%) Life Science
4 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (60.00%) Logical Data Model
1 6 (60.00%) Metadata Management
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Conceptual Models
3 4 (40.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Data Design
4 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Quality Management
4 3 (30.00%) Record to Report
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft