Data Strategy Contracts in Surrey

Data Strategy
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 38 54 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.34% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.41% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £664 £619
25th Percentile £650 £666 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £663
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £750 £716 £703
90th Percentile - £721 £716
South East median daily rate £575 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Surrey

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in Surrey

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Guildford - 1 £700 - 5
Data Strategy
South East

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks