Data Strategy Contracts in London

Data Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 230 237 296
Rank change year-on-year +7 +59 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 123 157 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.98% 0.88% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.99% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 120 140
10th Percentile £420 £500 £450
25th Percentile £500 £556 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +26.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £719 £850 £728
90th Percentile £870 £925 £826
England median daily rate £575 £700 £579
% change year-on-year -17.86% +20.90% -7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £32.92
25th Percentile £62.50 - £33.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £33.85
75th Percentile £67.50 - £34.42
90th Percentile - - £34.77
England median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £63.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% +11.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London -3 15 £550 -25.42% 6
East London +17 3 £625 +13.64%
South London +3 1 £600 +20.00% 5
North London - 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 12 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.07%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.63%) iTrent
2 2 (1.63%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.81%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.81%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (39.84%) Azure
2 35 (28.46%) AWS
3 19 (15.45%) Power Platform
4 17 (13.82%) GCP
4 17 (13.82%) Snowflake
5 12 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.07%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (4.07%) Serverless
8 4 (3.25%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.44%) dbt
9 3 (2.44%) GitHub
9 3 (2.44%) SaaS
10 2 (1.63%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.81%) 5G
2 1 (0.81%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) Intranet
2 1 (0.81%) LAN
2 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.81%) VPN
2 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (32.52%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (15.45%) Power BI
3 18 (14.63%) Tableau
4 17 (13.82%) Data Lake
5 15 (12.20%) Big Data
6 10 (8.13%) Data Vault
6 10 (8.13%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.32%) Metadata
7 9 (7.32%) NoSQL
8 8 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.50%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.69%) Data Mining
9 7 (5.69%) Delta Lake
10 6 (4.88%) Data Mart
10 6 (4.88%) Hadoop
10 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.88%) RDBMS
11 5 (4.07%) SAP Data Services
11 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) ERwin
2 5 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.44%) Maven
4 2 (1.63%) GitLab
4 2 (1.63%) MLflow
5 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.81%) Git
5 1 (0.81%) LSMW
5 1 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (32.52%) Finance
2 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.94%) Banking
5 7 (5.69%) Financial Institution
5 7 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.88%) Front Office
6 6 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Back Office
7 5 (4.07%) Marketing
7 5 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Retail
9 2 (1.63%) French Language
9 2 (1.63%) Local Government
9 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.63%) Police
10 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) Aviation
10 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (28.46%) Architect
2 29 (23.58%) Data Architect
3 18 (14.63%) Data Engineer
3 18 (14.63%) Senior
4 17 (13.82%) Lead
5 11 (8.94%) Analyst
6 9 (7.32%) Data Modeller
6 9 (7.32%) Head of Analytics
7 8 (6.50%) Head of Engineering
7 8 (6.50%) Senior Architect
7 8 (6.50%) Senior Data Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Head of AI
8 6 (4.88%) Head of Data Science
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.25%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.25%) Data Consultant
9 4 (3.25%) Data Manager
9 4 (3.25%) Head of Business Intelligence
9 4 (3.25%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.94%) Kafka
2 4 (3.25%) D3.js
2 4 (3.25%) REST
2 4 (3.25%) SOAP
3 3 (2.44%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.44%) Hibernate
3 3 (2.44%) JPA
3 3 (2.44%) Plotly
3 3 (2.44%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.44%) React
3 3 (2.44%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.44%) Spring
3 3 (2.44%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.44%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.44%) Web Services
4 2 (1.63%) Middleware
4 2 (1.63%) PySpark
4 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.81%) BAPI
5 1 (0.81%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.13%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.50%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.25%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.63%) IoT
6 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) FMCG
7 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) SCADA
7 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Social Media
7 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.44%) Linux
2 2 (1.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (47.97%) Data Governance
2 53 (43.09%) Data Modelling
3 52 (42.28%) Analytics
4 40 (32.52%) Data Architecture
5 32 (26.02%) Data Science
6 27 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (21.95%) Decision-Making
7 25 (20.33%) Data Management
7 25 (20.33%) Machine Learning
7 25 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (19.51%) Migration
8 24 (19.51%) Visualisation
9 23 (18.70%) Data Integration
9 23 (18.70%) ETL
10 22 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (15.45%) Data Engineering
12 19 (15.45%) Data Visualisation
13 16 (13.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (35.77%) SQL
2 29 (23.58%) Python
3 7 (5.69%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.07%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.25%) Java
6 3 (2.44%) Bicep
6 3 (2.44%) R
7 2 (1.63%) C#
7 2 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.63%) Scala
7 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.81%) ABAP
8 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (9.76%) Degree
1 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.81%) CISA
5 1 (0.81%) CISM
5 1 (0.81%) CISSP
5 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (29.27%) Data Quality
2 18 (14.63%) GDPR
3 8 (6.50%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.25%) QA
5 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.81%) GRC
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (7.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.50%) Terraform
2 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.44%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 20 (16.26%) Databricks
2 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.76%) SAP
4 9 (7.32%) Google
5 8 (6.50%) Oracle
6 5 (4.07%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.07%) Sparx
7 3 (2.44%) Informatica
8 2 (1.63%) Talend
9 1 (0.81%) Adobe
9 1 (0.81%) Ariba
9 1 (0.81%) Conga
9 1 (0.81%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.81%) Foundry
9 1 (0.81%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.81%) IBM
9 1 (0.81%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.81%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.81%) Teradata
9 1 (0.81%) TSYS