Data Strategy Contracts in Leicester

Data Strategy
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 18 18 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 1.30% 1.77% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.41% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £663 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +17.39% -
75th Percentile £488 £688 £613
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £475 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -29.63% +17.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 83 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 80.52% 73.45% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 65 86
10th Percentile £250 £272 £263
25th Percentile £275 £350 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £414
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +8.76% +0.61%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £450
90th Percentile £651 £625 £561
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £375 £395
% change year-on-year +23.33% -5.06% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £13.20 £14.08
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.38 £17.03
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.50 £20.60
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -0.49% -32.28%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.38 £41.88
90th Percentile - £27.40 £63.50
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £20.60
% change year-on-year +4.65% +4.37% -12.34%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Leicester

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in Leicester

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform