Data Strategy Contracts in the South East

Data Strategy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 150 186 206
Rank change year-on-year +36 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 9 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 11
10th Percentile £509 £428 £332
25th Percentile £519 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £744 £731
90th Percentile £765 £950 £755
England median daily rate £575 £700 £579
% change year-on-year -17.86% +20.90% -7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £63.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% +11.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the South East

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the South East

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the South East

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the South East

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +40 6 £550 -31.25% 41
Berkshire +28 3 £575 -36.11% 25
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £515 +11.35% 10
Hampshire +23 1 - - 28
Surrey +16 1 £700 +1.82% 13
Kent +6 1 £775 +19.23% 9
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 11
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CATIA
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) CAD Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Strategy Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science
4 1 (11.11%) Data Sharing
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Story Points
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow