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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 255 301
Rank change year-on-year +30 +46 +113
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 126 144 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 0.82% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.93% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 109 122
10th Percentile £443 £497 £450
25th Percentile £513 £556 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £566
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +28.04% -9.40%
75th Percentile £725 £875 £718
90th Percentile £838 £925 £775
England median daily rate £575 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £33.15
25th Percentile £62.50 - £33.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £35.13
90th Percentile - - £35.20
England median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £49.13
% change year-on-year +3.80% +42.67% -

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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +13 22 £550 -20.72% 20
North London - 1 - - 1
West London - 1 - - 22
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 11 (8.73%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.59%) iTrent
2 2 (1.59%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.59%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Endur
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.79%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 48 (38.10%) Azure
2 34 (26.98%) AWS
3 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 16 (12.70%) Snowflake
5 15 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (9.52%) GCP
7 8 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.97%) Serverless
10 4 (3.17%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.17%) dbt
10 4 (3.17%) GitHub
10 4 (3.17%) SaaS
11 3 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) LAN
1 2 (1.59%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) 5G
2 1 (0.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 18 (14.29%) Power BI
3 12 (9.52%) Big Data
4 10 (7.94%) Metadata
4 10 (7.94%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.94%) Tableau
5 9 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (7.14%) Data Vault
5 9 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (4.76%) Data Mining
7 6 (4.76%) Delta Lake
7 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.97%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.97%) Data Mart
8 5 (3.97%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.17%) SAP BW
9 4 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) ERwin
2 4 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.38%) Maven
4 2 (1.59%) GitLab
4 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.79%) Git
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) LSMW
5 1 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
General
1 48 (38.10%) Finance
2 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
3 24 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.35%) Banking
4 8 (6.35%) Financial Institution
4 8 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Retail
6 6 (4.76%) Back Office
6 6 (4.76%) Front Office
6 6 (4.76%) Marketing
7 4 (3.17%) Police
8 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Local Government
9 2 (1.59%) French Language
9 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) Architect
2 27 (21.43%) Data Architect
3 22 (17.46%) Data Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Lead
5 15 (11.90%) Senior
6 12 (9.52%) Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Data Modeller
8 8 (6.35%) Head of Engineering
9 7 (5.56%) Azure Architect
10 6 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.76%) Head of AI
10 6 (4.76%) Head of Analytics
10 6 (4.76%) Head of Data Science
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Senior Architect
11 5 (3.97%) Senior Data Architect
12 4 (3.17%) Business Manager
12 4 (3.17%) Data Manager
12 4 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.94%) Kafka
2 5 (3.97%) Web Services
3 3 (2.38%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.38%) Hibernate
3 3 (2.38%) JPA
3 3 (2.38%) Middleware
3 3 (2.38%) REST
3 3 (2.38%) Spring
3 3 (2.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.59%) JSON
4 2 (1.59%) Plotly
4 2 (1.59%) PySpark
4 2 (1.59%) pytest
4 2 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.59%) React
4 2 (1.59%) WSDL
4 2 (1.59%) XML
5 1 (0.79%) BAPI
5 1 (0.79%) NumPy
5 1 (0.79%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.35%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.38%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.59%) FMCG
5 2 (1.59%) IoT
5 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.24%) Data Governance
2 53 (42.06%) Analytics
3 51 (40.48%) Data Modelling
4 39 (30.95%) Data Architecture
5 32 (25.40%) Data Management
6 29 (23.02%) Data Science
7 28 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (19.84%) ETL
9 23 (18.25%) Decision-Making
9 23 (18.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (17.46%) Machine Learning
10 22 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (16.67%) Migration
12 19 (15.08%) Data Integration
13 18 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
13 18 (14.29%) Data Engineering
14 16 (12.70%) Agile
14 16 (12.70%) Visualisation
15 15 (11.90%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.13%) SQL
2 30 (23.81%) Python
3 7 (5.56%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.17%) Java
4 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.38%) Bicep
5 3 (2.38%) R
6 2 (1.59%) C#
6 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.59%) Scala
6 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.79%) ABAP
7 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.79%) Bash
7 1 (0.79%) C++
7 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) Degree
4 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) CISA
6 1 (0.79%) CISM
6 1 (0.79%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.60%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.11%) GDPR
3 5 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.17%) QA
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.35%) Terraform
2 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (17.46%) Databricks
2 18 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.11%) SAP
4 10 (7.94%) Google
5 5 (3.97%) Oracle
6 4 (3.17%) Informatica
6 4 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.17%) Sparx
7 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.59%) Talend
8 1 (0.79%) Adobe
8 1 (0.79%) Ariba
8 1 (0.79%) Conga
8 1 (0.79%) Foundry
8 1 (0.79%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.79%) IBM
8 1 (0.79%) Palantir
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Teradata
8 1 (0.79%) TSYS