Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Strategy
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.19% - 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £405 - £365
25th Percentile £413 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £421
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.41%
75th Percentile £438 - £460
90th Percentile £445 - £480
England median daily rate £575 £625 £660
% change year-on-year -8.00% -5.30% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £84.00 - £79.17
England median hourly rate £74.50 - £79.17

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 1,356 957 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.49% 84.24% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 794
10th Percentile £192 £240 £239
25th Percentile £363 £338 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £586 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 182 355
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Strategy

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 20 December 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £425 - 2
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 14
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) Vertica