Data Strategy Contracts in England

Data Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 384 469
Rank change year-on-year +88 +85 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 262 281 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.64% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 199 241
10th Percentile £463 £444 £463
25th Percentile £555 £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £763
90th Percentile £925 £775 £875
UK median daily rate £679 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +13.21% -4.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £34.08 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £63.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
London +71 158 £725 +31.82% 95
North of England +41 42 £650 - 20
North West +22 33 £625 -3.85% 13
South West +12 23 £650 - 14
South East +24 20 £675 +1.89% 20
Midlands +41 16 £570 -0.87% 12
West Midlands +27 12 £570 - 10
Yorkshire +20 11 £775 +37.78% 6
East of England +7 5 £450 - 10
East Midlands +21 4 £588 +2.17% 2
North East - 2 - - 1
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.53%) Apache
1 4 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (7.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.15%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.15%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.14%) Azure
2 40 (15.27%) Power Platform
3 24 (9.16%) AWS
4 16 (6.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (6.11%) Snowflake
5 15 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (5.34%) GCP
7 13 (4.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.82%) OCI
9 9 (3.44%) Azure Stack
10 7 (2.67%) Alation
11 6 (2.29%) dbt
12 5 (1.91%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.91%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.53%) Serverless
14 3 (1.15%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) LAN
1 3 (1.15%) WAN
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (22.90%) Metadata
2 48 (18.32%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (17.94%) NoSQL
4 40 (15.27%) Power BI
5 25 (9.54%) Data Vault
5 25 (9.54%) Metadata Repository
6 22 (8.40%) Big Data
7 21 (8.02%) Data Lake
8 19 (7.25%) Tableau
9 13 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.44%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.91%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.91%) OLAP
11 5 (1.91%) OLTP
12 3 (1.15%) Airbyte
12 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.15%) Flink
12 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (9.16%) ERwin
2 9 (3.44%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.53%) kappa
4 3 (1.15%) JIRA
4 3 (1.15%) RStudio
5 2 (0.76%) Git
5 2 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
General
1 76 (29.01%) Finance
2 71 (27.10%) Social Skills
3 54 (20.61%) Public Sector
4 45 (17.18%) Marketing
5 38 (14.50%) Manufacturing
6 32 (12.21%) Telecoms
7 31 (11.83%) Electronics
8 30 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (6.49%) Retail
10 13 (4.96%) Legal
11 12 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (4.20%) Law
12 11 (4.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.91%) Local Government
15 4 (1.53%) Banking
15 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (1.15%) Automotive
16 3 (1.15%) Back Office
17 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 124 (47.33%) Architect
2 114 (43.51%) Data Architect
3 30 (11.45%) Lead
4 26 (9.92%) Chief Architect
4 26 (9.92%) Chief Data Architect
5 21 (8.02%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (8.02%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 21 (8.02%) Senior
6 18 (6.87%) Analyst
7 17 (6.49%) Data Manager
8 16 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 16 (6.11%) Project Manager
9 15 (5.73%) Data Analyst
10 11 (4.20%) Data Modeller
11 10 (3.82%) Azure Architect
11 10 (3.82%) Head of Architecture
11 10 (3.82%) Head of Data Architecture
12 9 (3.44%) Data Strategist
13 8 (3.05%) Data Migration Manager
13 8 (3.05%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.11%) JSON
2 10 (3.82%) XML
3 9 (3.44%) REST
4 7 (2.67%) JSON Schema
5 6 (2.29%) PySpark
6 3 (1.15%) Middleware
7 2 (0.76%) Kafka
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.38%) D3.js
8 1 (0.38%) Drools
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.38%) pytest
8 1 (0.38%) RESTful
8 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.21%) Reference Data
2 18 (6.87%) Data Structures
2 18 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.11%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.58%) Wiki
5 9 (3.44%) Taxonomies
6 8 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.53%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.15%) FMCG
10 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.76%) IoT
11 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.76%) Life Science
11 2 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.15%) Linux
1 3 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (51.91%) Data Modelling
2 118 (45.04%) Data Governance
3 104 (39.69%) Data Architecture
4 88 (33.59%) Analytics
5 79 (30.15%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (27.86%) Data Management
7 53 (20.23%) Agile
7 53 (20.23%) Data Integration
8 41 (15.65%) Data Protection
8 41 (15.65%) Decision-Making
9 39 (14.89%) Business Strategy
9 39 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (13.74%) Programme Management
11 34 (12.98%) Data Analysis
12 31 (11.83%) Digital Marketing
12 31 (11.83%) Roadmaps
13 30 (11.45%) Data Design
13 30 (11.45%) Physical Data Model
14 28 (10.69%) Data Lineage
15 26 (9.92%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (16.41%) SQL
2 24 (9.16%) Python
3 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (1.15%) R
4 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.54%) Degree
4 10 (3.82%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.67%) CISA
5 7 (2.67%) CISM
5 7 (2.67%) CISSP
5 7 (2.67%) MBA
6 5 (1.91%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (25.57%) Data Quality
2 37 (14.12%) GDPR
3 11 (4.20%) QA
4 5 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.15%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Control-M
1 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (15.65%) SAP
2 37 (14.12%) Microsoft
3 34 (12.98%) Sparx
4 19 (7.25%) Oracle
5 17 (6.49%) Databricks
6 8 (3.05%) Informatica
7 7 (2.67%) IBM
8 5 (1.91%) Adobe
8 5 (1.91%) Google
8 5 (1.91%) Okta
8 5 (1.91%) Symantec
8 5 (1.91%) Talend
8 5 (1.91%) Varonis
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.76%) Marketo
11 1 (0.38%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.38%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.38%) Infor
11 1 (0.38%) OneTrust