Data Strategy Contracts in the North West

Data Strategy
England > North West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 121 155
Rank change year-on-year +15 +34 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 29 30 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.06% 0.98% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.10% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 15
10th Percentile £508 £391 £515
25th Percentile £525 £456 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -8.47%
75th Percentile £689 £693 £706
90th Percentile £725 £725 £770
England median daily rate £675 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.09 £49.13 -
% change year-on-year +42.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,732 3,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.07% 89.66% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,918 2,617
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.90 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Manchester +16 14 £600 +10.09% 13
Cheshire +12 14 £676 +50.22% 1
Lancashire +8 1 £600 +60.00% 3
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure Stack
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle CX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.69%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) Power BI
4 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) ERwin
1 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 5 (17.24%) Law
1 5 (17.24%) Legal
1 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Architect
1 12 (41.38%) Data Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Project Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 4 (13.79%) Security Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Data Modeller
5 2 (6.90%) Information Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analytics Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Portfolio Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Portfolio Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) JSON
1 6 (20.69%) REST
1 6 (20.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Structures
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
1 6 (20.69%) Reference Data
2 4 (13.79%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (13.79%) Taxonomies
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Analytics
1 13 (44.83%) Data Governance
2 12 (41.38%) Data Protection
3 11 (37.93%) Data Modelling
3 11 (37.93%) Decision-Making
4 10 (34.48%) Agile
4 10 (34.48%) Data Architecture
5 9 (31.03%) Data Management
6 7 (24.14%) Business Case
6 7 (24.14%) Value Proposition
7 6 (20.69%) Application Security
7 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
7 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (20.69%) Data Lineage
7 6 (20.69%) Data Mapping
7 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven
7 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
7 6 (20.69%) Microservices
7 6 (20.69%) Pricing Strategy
7 6 (20.69%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
1 8 (27.59%) Master's Degree
2 6 (20.69%) CISA
2 6 (20.69%) CISM
2 6 (20.69%) CISSP
2 6 (20.69%) MBA
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (20.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) SAP
2 1 (3.45%) Sparx