Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Data Strategy
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 41 70
Rank change year-on-year -15 +29 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 10 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.22% 1.79% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.94% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile - £475 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% -18.60%
75th Percentile - £525 £447
90th Percentile - - £449
East of England median daily rate £653 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +13.48% -4.17% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 -
Median hourly rate £82.25 £80.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £82.25 £80.50 £79.17
% change year-on-year +2.17% +1.68% +22.74%

All Process & 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 652 309 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.32% 92.24% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 155 256
10th Percentile £200 £346 £219
25th Percentile £406 £450 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +33.33% -17.50%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £588
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 76 313
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.48 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £34.91 £40.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.38 £84.50 £76.65
East of England median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% -6.25% +81.82%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Data Strategy

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 4 June 2026. 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 -8 6 - -
Hatfield - 3 - - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £400 -
Data Strategy
East of England

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) dbt
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Publishing
2 2 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Perl Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Data Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Perl Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (50.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Architecture
1 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
1 7 (70.00%) Metadata Management
2 6 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) AI
5 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Data Security
5 1 (10.00%) Data Sharing
5 1 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
2 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft