Data Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 287 336
Rank change year-on-year +28 +49 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 80 113 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.54% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.64% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 79
10th Percentile £190 £450 £406
25th Percentile £450 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £681
90th Percentile £743 £759 £728
UK median daily rate £575 £683 £600
% change year-on-year -15.75% +13.75% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £36.35 £62.37 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.25 £65.17 £41.63
Median hourly rate £80.50 £70.09 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% +8.66% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £74.75 £66.00
90th Percentile - £77.40 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £49.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% +43.03% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +13 33 £513 -24.19% 44
North West 0 20 £613 -7.62% 30
South West +36 15 £625 -1.96% 34
Midlands +16 15 £488 -14.85% 40
Yorkshire +8 12 £145 -81.29% 10
West Midlands +13 11 £525 -7.89% 25
East of England +35 10 £575 +27.78% 10
South East +37 9 £575 -14.81% 133
East Midlands +14 4 £358 -39.06% 11
Scotland +2 4 £549 -2.49% 21
North East -1 3 £775 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £525 - 5
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Luigi
3 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) CATIA
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Eloqua
1 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) Power Platform
2 16 (20.00%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) GCP
4 12 (15.00%) Snowflake
5 8 (10.00%) AWS
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (2.50%) Matillion
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.50%) SaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Serverless
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.25%) dbt
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.25%) PaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) LAN
1 2 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) Power BI
2 19 (23.75%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (11.25%) Data Mining
4 7 (8.75%) Metadata
5 6 (7.50%) Tableau
6 5 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 5 (6.25%) Looker
7 4 (5.00%) Big Data
7 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (1.25%) Mixpanel
10 1 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) ERwin
2 1 (1.25%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.25%) GitLab
2 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Marketing
4 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.75%) Automotive
7 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Local Government
8 2 (2.50%) Military
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Architect
2 19 (23.75%) Data Architect
3 15 (18.75%) Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) Data Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) Senior
5 11 (13.75%) Lead
6 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Engagement Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Engagement Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Data Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Data Migration Lead
9 3 (3.75%) Junior
9 3 (3.75%) Junior Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Junior Data Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) D3.js
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (13.75%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.75%) Life Science
5 2 (2.50%) FMCG
5 2 (2.50%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Analytics
2 24 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 23 (28.75%) Data Modelling
4 21 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (25.00%) Migration
6 18 (22.50%) Data Architecture
7 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.50%) Data Analysis
8 14 (17.50%) Data Science
8 14 (17.50%) ETL
9 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
10 12 (15.00%) Visualisation
11 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
12 10 (12.50%) Data Management
12 10 (12.50%) Data Migration
12 10 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
13 8 (10.00%) Agile
13 8 (10.00%) Conceptual Models
13 8 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
14 7 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) SQL
2 14 (17.50%) Python
3 2 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (1.25%) C++
4 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.25%) PHP
4 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.25%) CISM
4 1 (1.25%) CISSP
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.75%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Databricks
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) Google
4 6 (7.50%) SAP
5 4 (5.00%) Oracle
5 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) Informatica
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.25%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.25%) Pega
7 1 (1.25%) Teradata
7 1 (1.25%) TSYS