Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in South London

Data Strategy
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 37 42
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.74% 0.46% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.54% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
London median daily rate £625 £625 £700
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 184 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.45% 85.19% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 124 176
10th Percentile £408 £333 £188
25th Percentile £463 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £589
90th Percentile £700 £780 £656
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 21
10th Percentile £54.42 £23.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.28 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in South London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Bromley -6 2 £450 -25.00% 1
Data Strategy
London

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality