Data Strategy Contracts in Hertfordshire

Data Strategy
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 39 71 68
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 6 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.87% 0.24% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 0.27% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £416 £436
25th Percentile £475 £422 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £538
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -18.60% -10.42%
75th Percentile £525 £447 £597
90th Percentile - £449 £629
East of England median daily rate £575 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +27.78% - -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.95
25th Percentile £78.75 - £62.63
Median hourly rate £80.50 - £64.50
75th Percentile £82.25 - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £65.85
East of England median hourly rate £80.50 £79.17 £64.50
% change year-on-year +1.68% +22.74% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Hertfordshire

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in Hertfordshire

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage - 5 - - 4
Letchworth - 1 £500 -
Data Strategy
East of England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 4 (66.67%) Data Mining
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ER Studio
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modeller
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (66.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 5 (83.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Conceptual Models
3 4 (66.67%) Data Science
3 4 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Ontologies
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft