Data Strategy Contracts in Cheshire

Data Strategy
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 56 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 14 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.52% 0.20% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 0.22% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £603 - £633
25th Percentile £663 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £676 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +50.22% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £725 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -8.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 464 458 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.60% 90.51% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 296 268
10th Percentile £311 £294 £204
25th Percentile £394 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +14.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £543
90th Percentile £638 £669 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 30 34
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.98 £9.99
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.44 £13.38
Median hourly rate £36.50 £29.26 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% +34.34% +2.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £53.88
North West median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -9.95% +28.86% +31.25%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Cheshire

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in Cheshire

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Cheshire over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in Cheshire

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Macclesfield -6 6 £525 +16.67%
Knutsford - 6 £688 -
Warrington - 2 - - 1
Data Strategy
North West

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Stack
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Data Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Security Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Security Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
3 2 (14.29%) Information Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (28.57%) Taxonomies
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Decision-Making
2 8 (57.14%) Analytics
3 7 (50.00%) Business Case
4 6 (42.86%) Application Security
4 6 (42.86%) Business Development
4 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
4 6 (42.86%) Pricing Strategy
4 6 (42.86%) Threat Management
5 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 4 (28.57%) Ontologies
5 4 (28.57%) Predictive Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Predictive Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
1 8 (57.14%) Master's Degree
2 6 (42.86%) CISA
2 6 (42.86%) CISM
2 6 (42.86%) CISSP
2 6 (42.86%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft