Data Strategy Contracts in London

Data Strategy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 297 403
Rank change year-on-year +55 +106 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 157 193 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.73% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.81% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 131 158
10th Percentile £500 £450 £471
25th Percentile £558 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £558 £675
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -17.41% +21.08%
75th Percentile £869 £725 £784
90th Percentile £925 £825 £941
England median daily rate £700 £579 £625
% change year-on-year +20.90% -7.36% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £33.85 -
England median hourly rate £70.09 £63.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in London

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +30 20 £738 +13.46% 12
South London - 5 £500 - 1
East London -2 1 £550 +4.76% 1
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (1.91%) Apache
1 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (11.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.84%) Azure
2 28 (17.83%) Power Platform
3 17 (10.83%) AWS
4 14 (8.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (8.28%) Snowflake
6 11 (7.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (7.01%) GCP
7 10 (6.37%) OCI
8 7 (4.46%) Alation
8 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.18%) Adobe Analytics
9 5 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.18%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.55%) dbt
11 3 (1.91%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.91%) Collibra
12 1 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.64%) Google Data Studio
12 1 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) LAN
1 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (26.75%) Metadata
2 38 (24.20%) NoSQL
3 28 (17.83%) Power BI
4 25 (15.92%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (15.29%) Data Vault
5 24 (15.29%) Metadata Repository
6 16 (10.19%) Tableau
7 12 (7.64%) Big Data
8 10 (6.37%) Data Lake
9 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.91%) Airbyte
12 3 (1.91%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.91%) Flink
13 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.64%) Data Mart
14 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.10%) ERwin
2 9 (5.73%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.27%) RStudio
4 1 (0.64%) Git
General
1 47 (29.94%) Finance
2 41 (26.11%) Social Skills
3 37 (23.57%) Marketing
4 36 (22.93%) Public Sector
5 27 (17.20%) Manufacturing
5 27 (17.20%) Telecoms
6 26 (16.56%) Electronics
7 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (6.37%) Retail
9 8 (5.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (4.46%) Legal
11 6 (3.82%) Law
12 5 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.91%) Automotive
13 3 (1.91%) Back Office
13 3 (1.91%) Banking
13 3 (1.91%) Local Government
13 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 80 (50.96%) Architect
2 75 (47.77%) Data Architect
3 26 (16.56%) Chief Architect
3 26 (16.56%) Chief Data Architect
4 15 (9.55%) Enterprise Architect
4 15 (9.55%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 15 (9.55%) Lead
5 13 (8.28%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) Senior
7 10 (6.37%) Head of Architecture
7 10 (6.37%) Head of Data Architecture
8 9 (5.73%) Analyst
8 9 (5.73%) Data Strategist
9 8 (5.10%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.10%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.46%) Data Migration Manager
10 7 (4.46%) Data Migration Project Manager
10 7 (4.46%) Data Modeller
10 7 (4.46%) Migration Manager
10 7 (4.46%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.73%) JSON
2 6 (3.82%) JSON Schema
3 4 (2.55%) PySpark
3 4 (2.55%) XML
4 3 (1.91%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) Kafka
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.64%) D3.js
6 1 (0.64%) Drools
6 1 (0.64%) Middleware
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.64%) pytest
6 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.56%) Reference Data
2 12 (7.64%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (6.37%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.10%) Wiki
5 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.55%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.27%) IoT
8 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.64%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.64%) FMCG
9 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.64%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.64%) Life Science
9 1 (0.64%) NHS
9 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) Linux
1 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (58.60%) Data Modelling
2 77 (49.04%) Data Governance
3 62 (39.49%) Data Architecture
4 54 (34.39%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (30.57%) Analytics
6 42 (26.75%) Data Management
7 40 (25.48%) Data Integration
8 31 (19.75%) Agile
9 30 (19.11%) Business Strategy
10 26 (16.56%) Digital Marketing
10 26 (16.56%) Programme Management
11 25 (15.92%) Data Design
12 24 (15.29%) UML
13 23 (14.65%) Data Protection
14 22 (14.01%) Physical Data Model
14 22 (14.01%) Roadmaps
15 20 (12.74%) Decision-Making
15 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (10.19%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (10.19%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.29%) SQL
2 14 (8.92%) Python
3 3 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.64%) R
4 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) Degree
4 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (23.57%) Data Quality
2 27 (17.20%) GDPR
3 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.55%) QA
4 3 (1.91%) PMO
5 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (20.38%) SAP
2 26 (16.56%) Sparx
3 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
4 15 (9.55%) Oracle
5 13 (8.28%) Databricks
6 6 (3.82%) IBM
6 6 (3.82%) Informatica
7 5 (3.18%) Adobe
7 5 (3.18%) Okta
7 5 (3.18%) Symantec
7 5 (3.18%) Talend
7 5 (3.18%) Varonis
8 3 (1.91%) Google
9 2 (1.27%) Marketo
10 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.64%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.64%) Salesforce