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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 381 502
Rank change year-on-year +63 +121 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 292 364 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.60% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.67% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 247 306
10th Percentile £487 £436 £463
25th Percentile £556 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £775 £719 £725
90th Percentile £925 £780 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +26.32%
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 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 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
England +58 260 £700 +16.67% 160
London +55 158 £725 +23.40% 94
UK excluding London +58 112 £650 +4.00% 69
Work from Home +92 95 £625 - 69
North of England +34 44 £676 +4.00% 20
North West +16 34 £663 +2.00% 11
South West +17 21 £625 -3.85% 8
South East +19 19 £688 +10.00% 15
Midlands +48 16 £575 - 13
Scotland +40 15 £563 -13.46% 4
Yorkshire +26 12 £750 +34.83% 6
West Midlands +47 11 £575 - 11
East Midlands +20 4 £588 +2.17% 2
East of England +10 4 £450 +2.86% 10
Wales +13 2 £625 -5.66% 1
North East - 2 - - 4

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 4 (1.37%) Apache
1 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.37%) Confluence
2 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.34%) JBoss
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (7.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.03%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.03%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
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 63 (21.58%) Azure
2 46 (15.75%) Power Platform
3 22 (7.53%) AWS
4 19 (6.51%) Snowflake
5 17 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (5.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (4.79%) GCP
9 13 (4.45%) OCI
10 11 (3.77%) Azure Stack
11 7 (2.40%) Alation
12 5 (1.71%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.71%) dbt
12 5 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.71%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.37%) Serverless
14 3 (1.03%) Collibra
14 3 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) LAN
1 5 (1.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.95%) Metadata
2 53 (18.15%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (15.75%) NoSQL
3 46 (15.75%) Power BI
4 24 (8.22%) Data Vault
4 24 (8.22%) Metadata Repository
5 21 (7.19%) Big Data
6 20 (6.85%) Tableau
7 19 (6.51%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (3.08%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.74%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.37%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.37%) OLAP
13 4 (1.37%) OLTP
14 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 28 (9.59%) ERwin
2 14 (4.79%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.37%) JIRA
3 4 (1.37%) kappa
4 3 (1.03%) RStudio
5 2 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
General
1 83 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 77 (26.37%) Finance
3 59 (20.21%) Public Sector
4 41 (14.04%) Marketing
5 39 (13.36%) Manufacturing
6 33 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (9.93%) Electronics
7 29 (9.93%) Telecoms
8 17 (5.82%) Legal
9 15 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.79%) Retail
11 11 (3.77%) Law
11 11 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.71%) Banking
13 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.03%) Automotive
14 3 (1.03%) Back Office
14 3 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 143 (48.97%) Architect
2 129 (44.18%) Data Architect
3 27 (9.25%) Lead
4 25 (8.56%) Chief Architect
4 25 (8.56%) Chief Data Architect
5 23 (7.88%) Data Manager
6 22 (7.53%) Senior
7 21 (7.19%) Enterprise Architect
7 21 (7.19%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 18 (6.16%) Analyst
9 16 (5.48%) Data Engineer
10 15 (5.14%) Project Manager
11 13 (4.45%) Azure Architect
11 13 (4.45%) Data Analyst
12 9 (3.08%) Data Modeller
12 9 (3.08%) Data Strategist
12 9 (3.08%) Head of Architecture
12 9 (3.08%) Head of Data Architecture
13 8 (2.74%) Data Migration Manager
13 8 (2.74%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.16%) JSON
2 12 (4.11%) XML
3 11 (3.77%) REST
4 7 (2.40%) JSON Schema
5 6 (2.05%) PySpark
6 5 (1.71%) Middleware
7 3 (1.03%) Kafka
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.34%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.34%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.34%) D3.js
9 1 (0.34%) Drools
9 1 (0.34%) pytest
9 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.30%) Reference Data
2 25 (8.56%) Data Structures
3 22 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.77%) Wiki
6 9 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.74%) Taxonomies
8 7 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.71%) CMDB
10 5 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.37%) Industry 4.0
11 4 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.68%) IoT
13 2 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.71%) Linux
1 5 (1.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (49.66%) Data Modelling
2 128 (43.84%) Data Governance
3 105 (35.96%) Data Architecture
4 102 (34.93%) Analytics
5 84 (28.77%) Data Management
6 82 (28.08%) Business Intelligence
7 60 (20.55%) Data Integration
8 57 (19.52%) Agile
9 45 (15.41%) Data Protection
10 42 (14.38%) Business Strategy
11 41 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (13.36%) Data Analysis
13 38 (13.01%) Decision-Making
14 34 (11.64%) Programme Management
15 33 (11.30%) Data Design
15 33 (11.30%) Data Lineage
16 31 (10.62%) Machine Learning
16 31 (10.62%) Migration
16 31 (10.62%) Roadmaps
17 29 (9.93%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.04%) SQL
2 21 (7.19%) Python
3 3 (1.03%) 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 38 (13.01%) SC Cleared
1 38 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.27%) Degree
3 11 (3.77%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.40%) CISA
4 7 (2.40%) CISM
4 7 (2.40%) CISSP
4 7 (2.40%) MBA
5 5 (1.71%) Postgraduate
6 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (25.68%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.33%) GDPR
3 12 (4.11%) QA
4 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.03%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Control-M
1 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (13.36%) Microsoft
1 39 (13.36%) SAP
2 36 (12.33%) Sparx
3 23 (7.88%) Oracle
4 20 (6.85%) Databricks
5 10 (3.42%) Informatica
6 7 (2.40%) IBM
7 5 (1.71%) Adobe
7 5 (1.71%) Okta
7 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.71%) Symantec
7 5 (1.71%) Talend
7 5 (1.71%) Varonis
8 4 (1.37%) Google
9 2 (0.68%) IDERA
9 2 (0.68%) Marketo
9 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.34%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.34%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.34%) Splunk