Data Strategy Contracts in the North of England

Data Strategy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 132 142 176
Rank change year-on-year +10 +34 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 34 43 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 0.90% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 35
10th Percentile £135 £519 £406
25th Percentile £196 £600 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £676 £625
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +8.16% -3.85%
75th Percentile £647 £734 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £715
England median daily rate £575 £700 £579
% change year-on-year -17.86% +20.90% -7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.10
25th Percentile - - £42.75
Median hourly rate - - £50.50
75th Percentile - - £58.25
90th Percentile - - £62.90
England median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £63.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% +11.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the North of England

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +3 20 £613 -7.62% 26
Yorkshire +10 13 £145 -81.29% 8
North East +1 3 £775 - 2
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) GCP
2 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.71%) Azure
4 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.88%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.94%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (20.59%) Power BI
3 5 (14.71%) Looker
3 5 (14.71%) Tableau
4 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
4 4 (11.76%) Data Mining
5 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.88%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.94%) Big Data
7 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.94%) HBase
7 1 (2.94%) Metadata
7 1 (2.94%) Mixpanel
7 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.94%) Pentaho
7 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) ERwin
General
1 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Banking
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Automotive
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Marketing
3 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) Architect
3 8 (23.53%) Data Analyst
3 8 (23.53%) Data Architect
4 7 (20.59%) Senior
5 5 (14.71%) Junior
5 5 (14.71%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Junior Data Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Engagement Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) FMCG
3 2 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Analytics
1 13 (38.24%) Data Governance
2 10 (29.41%) Data Analysis
2 10 (29.41%) Decision-Making
3 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (26.47%) Data Architecture
3 9 (26.47%) ETL
4 8 (23.53%) ETL Development
4 8 (23.53%) Technical Debt
5 7 (20.59%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.65%) Migration
6 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
7 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
7 5 (14.71%) Web Analytics
8 4 (11.76%) Data Science
8 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (11.76%) Digital Analytics
8 4 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.76%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.94%) CISM
2 1 (2.94%) CISSP
2 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.94%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.94%) Hotjar
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica
3 1 (2.94%) Pega
3 1 (2.94%) SAP