Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in West London

Data Strategy
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.67% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £1,200
Median % change year-on-year - - +152.63%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £625 £625 £700
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 279 172 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 93.31% 82.30% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 122 244
10th Percentile £204 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £341 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £402 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -19.55% -2.63%
75th Percentile £625 £475 £600
90th Percentile £716 £587 £647
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 27
10th Percentile £19.51 £17.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.68 £19.97 £16.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.93 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -29.45% -49.22%
75th Percentile £30.59 £28.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £34.42 £29.80 £67.80
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in West London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in West London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in West London

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Richmond upon Thames - 4 £625 -
Hillingdon - 1 £438 -
Data Strategy
London

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (80.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) GCP Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Principal Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Workstream Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks