Data Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 347 404
Rank change year-on-year +69 +57 -49
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 114 114 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.53% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 80 81
10th Percentile £460 £406 £456
25th Percentile £534 £511 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £725 £689 £676
90th Percentile £761 £726 £788
UK median daily rate £691 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +15.21% -4.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £41.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £64.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,650 27,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.55% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,595 15,013 19,156
10th Percentile £243 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,330 1,375
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.17 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +33 44 £676 +4.00% 19
North West +13 34 £663 +2.00% 10
South West +19 22 £638 -1.92% 10
South East +14 20 £675 +10.20% 26
Midlands +38 16 £575 - 15
Scotland +30 15 £563 -13.46% 5
Yorkshire +31 12 £750 +33.33% 6
West Midlands +38 11 £575 - 12
East Midlands +19 4 £588 +2.17% 3
East of England +5 4 £450 +2.86% 9
Wales +17 2 £625 -5.66% 1
North East - 2 - - 4
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 1 (0.88%) Apache
1 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.63%) SAP CO
1 3 (2.63%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.63%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.18%) Azure
2 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.26%) AWS
3 6 (5.26%) Azure Stack
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.39%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.51%) Serverless
6 3 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.63%) GCP
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.75%) dbt
7 2 (1.75%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.88%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) LAN
1 4 (3.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.93%) Metadata
2 21 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (11.40%) Power BI
4 11 (9.65%) Data Lake
5 9 (7.89%) Big Data
5 9 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 7 (6.14%) RDBMS
6 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.14%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.51%) Data Mining
7 4 (3.51%) OLAP
7 4 (3.51%) OLTP
8 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) ERwin
2 4 (3.51%) kappa
3 2 (1.75%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Git
General
1 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 30 (26.32%) Finance
3 19 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.65%) Manufacturing
6 10 (8.77%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (7.02%) Legal
7 8 (7.02%) Marketing
8 6 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.26%) Retail
9 5 (4.39%) Electronics
9 5 (4.39%) Law
9 5 (4.39%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 52 (45.61%) Architect
2 46 (40.35%) Data Architect
3 16 (14.04%) Data Manager
4 12 (10.53%) Lead
5 9 (7.89%) Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) Senior
7 7 (6.14%) Azure Architect
7 7 (6.14%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Finance Manager
10 4 (3.51%) Security Manager
10 4 (3.51%) Security Project Manager
10 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow Architect
11 3 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (2.63%) Lead Architect
11 3 (2.63%) Lead Data Architect
11 3 (2.63%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.14%) JSON
2 6 (5.26%) REST
2 6 (5.26%) XML
3 4 (3.51%) Middleware
4 2 (1.75%) PySpark
5 1 (0.88%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.26%) Reference Data
3 6 (5.26%) Taxonomies
4 5 (4.39%) CMDB
4 5 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.51%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.51%) Wiki
6 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) FMCG
8 1 (0.88%) Life Science
8 1 (0.88%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Linux
1 4 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.11%) Data Modelling
2 44 (38.60%) Data Governance
3 43 (37.72%) Analytics
3 43 (37.72%) Data Architecture
4 34 (29.82%) Data Management
5 25 (21.93%) Agile
5 25 (21.93%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (21.93%) Data Analysis
6 20 (17.54%) Migration
7 19 (16.67%) Data Protection
8 18 (15.79%) Decision-Making
8 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (14.04%) Data Integration
10 14 (12.28%) Data Migration
11 13 (11.40%) Data Lineage
11 13 (11.40%) Data Science
11 13 (11.40%) Machine Learning
11 13 (11.40%) Metadata Management
11 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.65%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.67%) SQL
2 6 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (0.88%) R
3 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) Degree
2 8 (7.02%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.26%) CISA
3 6 (5.26%) CISM
3 6 (5.26%) CISSP
3 6 (5.26%) MBA
4 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.63%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (28.07%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.77%) GDPR
2 10 (8.77%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Control-M
1 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.89%) SAP
3 8 (7.02%) Databricks
3 8 (7.02%) Sparx
4 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.51%) Informatica
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) Google
6 2 (1.75%) IDERA
6 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Cadence
7 1 (0.88%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.88%) IBM
7 1 (0.88%) Infor