Data Strategy Contracts in England

Data Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 293 376
Rank change year-on-year +21 +83 +100
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 216 254 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.81% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 187 200
10th Percentile £361 £463 £444
25th Percentile £473 £550 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £676 £577
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% +17.16% -7.68%
75th Percentile £709 £775 £700
90th Percentile £798 £925 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £676 £600
% change year-on-year -14.88% +12.58% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £36.78 £62.37 £34.08
25th Percentile £53.31 £65.17 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +11.25% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £74.75 £66.00
90th Percentile - £77.40 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £49.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% +43.03% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,200 31,464 43,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.22% 86.38% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,506 20,624 30,476
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,249 1,526
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.20
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 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
London +20 126 £575 -20.69% 377
North of England +5 27 £475 -24.00% 48
Midlands +21 19 £400 -29.82% 41
North West -2 15 £550 -12.00% 24
South West +31 14 £581 -10.58% 35
West Midlands +6 13 £500 -12.28% 23
South East +30 11 £575 -14.81% 147
Yorkshire +14 11 £145 -81.88% 19
East of England +26 10 £575 -4.17% 6
East Midlands +13 5 £379 -35.49% 14
North East -4 3 £775 - 5
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 14 (6.48%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.78%) Apache
4 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.85%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Luigi
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) CATIA
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.39%) Eloqua
2 3 (1.39%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.93%) iTrent
3 2 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.46%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 68 (31.48%) Azure
2 50 (23.15%) AWS
3 39 (18.06%) Power Platform
4 30 (13.89%) Snowflake
5 24 (11.11%) GCP
6 14 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (5.09%) Serverless
8 8 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.24%) SaaS
10 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.31%) dbt
11 5 (2.31%) GitHub
12 4 (1.85%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.39%) Cloud Composer
13 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) LAN
1 4 (1.85%) WAN
2 2 (0.93%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) 5G
3 1 (0.46%) DNS
3 1 (0.46%) Internet
3 1 (0.46%) Intranet
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (28.70%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (18.06%) Power BI
3 21 (9.72%) Big Data
3 21 (9.72%) Data Lake
4 18 (8.33%) Metadata
5 16 (7.41%) Tableau
6 13 (6.02%) Relational Database
7 12 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 11 (5.09%) Data Mining
8 11 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (4.17%) Data Vault
11 8 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (3.70%) Delta Lake
11 8 (3.70%) SQL Server
12 7 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (3.24%) BigQuery
12 7 (3.24%) Hadoop
12 7 (3.24%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (5.56%) ERwin
2 5 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.85%) JIRA
4 3 (1.39%) Maven
4 3 (1.39%) MLflow
5 2 (0.93%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.93%) GitLab
6 1 (0.46%) Git
6 1 (0.46%) LSMW
6 1 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (25.93%) Finance
2 50 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.02%) Marketing
6 9 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Retail
8 7 (3.24%) Banking
8 7 (3.24%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.78%) Back Office
9 6 (2.78%) Front Office
9 6 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.31%) Local Government
10 5 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.85%) Military
11 4 (1.85%) Police
12 3 (1.39%) Automotive
12 3 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (27.31%) Architect
2 44 (20.37%) Data Architect
3 37 (17.13%) Lead
4 31 (14.35%) Data Engineer
5 30 (13.89%) Senior
6 25 (11.57%) Analyst
7 16 (7.41%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (5.56%) Data Modeller
10 9 (4.17%) Data Manager
11 8 (3.70%) Data Migration Lead
11 8 (3.70%) Head of Engineering
12 7 (3.24%) Consultant
12 7 (3.24%) Head of Analytics
13 6 (2.78%) Azure Architect
13 6 (2.78%) Business Analyst
13 6 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (2.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 6 (2.78%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.02%) Kafka
2 6 (2.78%) Middleware
3 5 (2.31%) REST
3 5 (2.31%) Web Services
4 4 (1.85%) PyTorch
4 4 (1.85%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.39%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.39%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.39%) JPA
5 3 (1.39%) Plotly
5 3 (1.39%) React
5 3 (1.39%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.39%) SOAP
5 3 (1.39%) Spring
5 3 (1.39%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.93%) JSON
6 2 (0.93%) Node.js
6 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.93%) WSDL
6 2 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.24%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.85%) FMCG
6 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.39%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.39%) Life Science
7 3 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.93%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.93%) IoT
8 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.78%) Linux
2 5 (2.31%) Windows
3 1 (0.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.28%) Data Governance
2 85 (39.35%) Analytics
3 77 (35.65%) Data Modelling
4 53 (24.54%) Data Architecture
5 50 (23.15%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (20.37%) Migration
7 43 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (18.98%) Data Management
8 41 (18.98%) Data Science
9 40 (18.52%) Decision-Making
10 39 (18.06%) ETL
11 35 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (15.74%) Machine Learning
13 33 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 32 (14.81%) Data Engineering
15 30 (13.89%) Data Migration
16 29 (13.43%) Data Analysis
17 28 (12.96%) Data Integration
17 28 (12.96%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.94%) SQL
2 50 (23.15%) Python
3 9 (4.17%) Java
4 7 (3.24%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.31%) R
6 3 (1.39%) Bicep
7 2 (0.93%) C#
7 2 (0.93%) C++
7 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.93%) Scala
7 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.46%) ABAP
8 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.46%) C
8 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.46%) PHP
8 1 (0.46%) Rust
8 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (10.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.33%) Degree
3 14 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.93%) CISM
6 2 (0.93%) CISSP
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) CISA
7 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (27.31%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.80%) GDPR
3 9 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.17%) QA
4 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (5.56%) Terraform
2 6 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.39%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 32 (14.81%) Databricks
2 25 (11.57%) Microsoft
3 22 (10.19%) SAP
4 15 (6.94%) Google
5 10 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.70%) Oracle
7 4 (1.85%) Informatica
7 4 (1.85%) Sparx
8 3 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.93%) Ariba
9 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.93%) Talend
10 1 (0.46%) Conga
10 1 (0.46%) Foundry
10 1 (0.46%) Palantir
10 1 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.46%) TSYS