Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Strategy
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 66 74
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 7 2 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.94% 0.24% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.28% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 20
10th Percentile £425 £553 £523
25th Percentile £463 £594 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £744 £653
90th Percentile £655 £778 £768
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -20.37% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 661 720 1,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.37% 85.41% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 461 838
10th Percentile £287 £350 £339
25th Percentile £400 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £659 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 21
10th Percentile - £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £13.44 £13.17
Median hourly rate £29.56 £17.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.51% -1.39% -10.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £26.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -15.00% +5.26%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in West Yorkshire

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in West Yorkshire

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Leeds +3 7 £525 -22.22% 8
Data Strategy
Yorkshire

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Data Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Data Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (14.29%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
4 1 (14.29%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Data Mapping
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Storytelling
2 2 (28.57%) Business Case
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) Infographics
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Web Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Workday