Digital Strategy Contracts in the South West

Digital Strategy
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Digital Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital 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 100 141 157
Rank change year-on-year +41 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Digital Strategy 11 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.50% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.60% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 10
10th Percentile £188 - £348
25th Percentile £199 £600 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £638 £425
Median % change year-on-year -67.06% +50.00% -15.00%
75th Percentile £294 £688 £534
90th Percentile £436 - £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Digital 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Digital Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Strategy in the South West

Digital Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Strategy in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Digital Strategy in the South West

Digital Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Strategy in the South West

Digital Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Strategy within the South West 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
Bristol +19 11 £210 -68.89% 9
Digital Strategy
England

Digital Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Marketing
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analytics Manager
1 7 (63.64%) Data Analytics Manager
1 7 (63.64%) Data Manager
1 7 (63.64%) Insight Manager
1 7 (63.64%) Strategy Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
2 2 (18.18%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Network Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Analytics
1 7 (63.64%) Business Transformation
1 7 (63.64%) Critical Thinking
1 7 (63.64%) Data Extraction
1 7 (63.64%) Data Visualisation
1 7 (63.64%) Digital Banking
1 7 (63.64%) ETL
1 7 (63.64%) Migration
1 7 (63.64%) Storytelling
1 7 (63.64%) Visualisation
1 7 (63.64%) Web Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Change Management
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security Management
3 1 (9.09%) Security Management
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) R
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Adobe
1 7 (63.64%) Teradata
2 1 (9.09%) Apple
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft