Data Strategy Contracts

Data Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 409 507
Rank change year-on-year +92 +98 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 295 331 395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.62% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 227 299
10th Percentile £476 £448 £463
25th Percentile £555 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £725
90th Percentile £925 £775 £834
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £606
% change year-on-year - +7.22% +27.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £34.31 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.09 £64.50 -
% change year-on-year +8.66% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy.

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +85 264 £700 +20.90% 218
London +83 160 £725 +30.04% 127
UK excluding London +66 113 £650 - 93
Work from Home +109 97 £650 +4.00% 104
North of England +36 43 £676 +4.00% 23
North West +29 34 £663 +2.00% 13
South West +22 22 £638 -1.92% 11
South East +26 19 £675 +1.89% 32
Midlands +43 18 £573 -0.43% 11
Scotland +45 14 £575 -11.54% 5
West Midlands +35 13 £570 - 8
Yorkshire +23 11 £775 +37.78% 7
East Midlands +20 4 £588 +2.17% 3
East of England +10 4 £450 - 9
Wales +14 2 £625 -5.66% 1
North East - 2 - - 3

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (1.69%) Apache
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Drupal
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (6.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.02%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.02%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (21.69%) Azure
2 43 (14.58%) Power Platform
3 25 (8.47%) AWS
4 18 (6.10%) Snowflake
5 17 (5.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (4.75%) GCP
9 11 (3.73%) Azure Stack
9 11 (3.73%) OCI
10 7 (2.37%) Alation
10 7 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.69%) dbt
11 5 (1.69%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.36%) Serverless
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.02%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.69%) LAN
1 5 (1.69%) WAN
2 1 (0.34%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (23.39%) Metadata
2 49 (16.61%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (16.27%) NoSQL
4 43 (14.58%) Power BI
5 25 (8.47%) Data Vault
5 25 (8.47%) Metadata Repository
6 24 (8.14%) Big Data
7 21 (7.12%) Data Lake
8 18 (6.10%) Tableau
9 14 (4.75%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.05%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.71%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.71%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.69%) OLAP
13 5 (1.69%) OLTP
14 4 (1.36%) Data Mining
15 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 27 (9.15%) ERwin
2 12 (4.07%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.36%) kappa
4 3 (1.02%) RStudio
5 2 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) JIRA
5 2 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
General
1 84 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 83 (28.14%) Finance
3 62 (21.02%) Public Sector
4 44 (14.92%) Marketing
5 41 (13.90%) Manufacturing
6 36 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (10.85%) Telecoms
8 31 (10.51%) Electronics
9 15 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (5.08%) Legal
9 15 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (5.08%) Retail
10 12 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (3.73%) Law
12 5 (1.69%) Banking
13 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.36%) Local Government
13 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.02%) Automotive
14 3 (1.02%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 145 (49.15%) Architect
2 131 (44.41%) Data Architect
3 28 (9.49%) Lead
4 26 (8.81%) Chief Architect
4 26 (8.81%) Chief Data Architect
5 24 (8.14%) Enterprise Architect
5 24 (8.14%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 22 (7.46%) Analyst
6 22 (7.46%) Senior
7 21 (7.12%) Data Manager
8 17 (5.76%) Data Analyst
9 16 (5.42%) Data Engineer
10 15 (5.08%) Project Manager
11 12 (4.07%) Azure Architect
12 10 (3.39%) Data Modeller
12 10 (3.39%) Head of Architecture
12 10 (3.39%) Head of Data Architecture
13 9 (3.05%) Data Strategist
14 8 (2.71%) Data Migration Manager
14 8 (2.71%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.10%) JSON
2 12 (4.07%) XML
3 11 (3.73%) REST
4 7 (2.37%) JSON Schema
5 6 (2.03%) PySpark
6 5 (1.69%) Middleware
7 3 (1.02%) Kafka
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.34%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.34%) D3.js
8 1 (0.34%) Drools
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.34%) pytest
8 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.53%) Reference Data
2 25 (8.47%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.42%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.07%) Wiki
6 9 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.05%) Taxonomies
7 7 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.69%) CMDB
8 5 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.36%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.68%) IoT
11 2 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.69%) Linux
1 5 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (49.49%) Data Modelling
2 129 (43.73%) Data Governance
3 108 (36.61%) Data Architecture
4 101 (34.24%) Analytics
5 85 (28.81%) Data Management
6 84 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
7 58 (19.66%) Agile
8 57 (19.32%) Data Integration
9 46 (15.59%) Data Protection
10 45 (15.25%) Business Strategy
11 42 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (13.56%) Decision-Making
13 37 (12.54%) Data Analysis
14 36 (12.20%) Programme Management
15 34 (11.53%) Data Design
16 33 (11.19%) Data Lineage
17 32 (10.85%) Roadmaps
18 31 (10.51%) Digital Marketing
18 31 (10.51%) Migration
19 29 (9.83%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.92%) SQL
2 22 (7.46%) Python
3 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.68%) R
4 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.34%) Java
5 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (12.54%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.17%) Degree
4 11 (3.73%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.37%) CISA
5 7 (2.37%) CISM
5 7 (2.37%) CISSP
5 7 (2.37%) MBA
6 5 (1.69%) Postgraduate
7 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (25.76%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.20%) GDPR
3 15 (5.08%) QA
4 8 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Control-M
1 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (14.24%) SAP
2 39 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.86%) Sparx
4 21 (7.12%) Databricks
5 20 (6.78%) Oracle
6 10 (3.39%) Informatica
7 7 (2.37%) IBM
8 5 (1.69%) Adobe
8 5 (1.69%) Okta
8 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.69%) Symantec
8 5 (1.69%) Talend
8 5 (1.69%) Varonis
9 4 (1.36%) Google
10 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.68%) IDERA
11 2 (0.68%) Marketo
12 1 (0.34%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.34%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.34%) Splunk