Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Data Strategy
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 37 63
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.79% 1.28% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.40% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 2
10th Percentile £379 - £684
25th Percentile £470 £613 £697
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £738
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -15.25% +18.00%
75th Percentile £550 £666 £772
90th Percentile £558 £716 £781
South East median daily rate £575 £625 £719
% change year-on-year -8.00% -13.04% +15.00%

All Process & 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 361 285 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 80.76% 91.35% 81.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 186 361
10th Percentile £207 £181 £200
25th Percentile £400 £252 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £585 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £658 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 49
10th Percentile £24.37 £20.24 £12.34
25th Percentile £27.50 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.18 £26.73
Median % change year-on-year +168.82% -9.54% -40.60%
75th Percentile £71.99 £31.50 £71.90
90th Percentile £77.97 £65.67 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -15.40% -6.67% -16.67%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Surrey over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 10 March 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
Staines - 7 £500 -
Redhill -8 1 £575 -8.00%
Data Strategy
South East

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Tricentis Tosca
2 2 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) GitLab
1 7 (87.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) QA Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) QA Leader
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (25.00%) ADO
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Acceptance Criteria
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Data Management
1 7 (87.50%) Data Privacy
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 7 (87.50%) ERP
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (87.50%) QA Automation
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
1 7 (87.50%) Test Planning
1 7 (87.50%) User Experience
1 7 (87.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 7 (87.50%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) OCA
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) GDPR
1 7 (87.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Ab Initio
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica