Data Strategy Contracts in England

Data Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 367 477
Rank change year-on-year +57 +110 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 240 284 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.60% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.66% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 202 234
10th Percentile £461 £450 £463
25th Percentile £534 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £747
90th Percentile £925 £774 £853
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
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 £49.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £35.25 -
% change year-on-year +98.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,578 42,765 64,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.86% 89.99% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,635 30,003 45,576
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,521 1,733
10th Percentile £12.84 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in England

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +49 144 £725 +28.04% 91
North of England +29 38 £625 - 27
North West +23 29 £625 -3.85% 18
South West +5 22 £650 - 16
South East +12 20 £675 -7.53% 22
Midlands +29 13 £548 -4.78% 15
Yorkshire +14 11 £675 +16.13% 5
West Midlands +23 9 £548 - 10
East of England +3 6 £600 +33.33% 4
East Midlands +12 4 £588 +2.17% 5
North East - 2 - - 4
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.67%) Apache
1 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.42%) CMS
2 1 (0.42%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.42%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (23.33%) Azure
2 35 (14.58%) Power Platform
3 21 (8.75%) AWS
4 14 (5.83%) Snowflake
5 13 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (5.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (5.42%) Microsoft Purview
6 12 (5.00%) GCP
7 9 (3.75%) Azure Stack
8 7 (2.92%) dbt
8 7 (2.92%) OCI
9 6 (2.50%) Alation
10 5 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.67%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.67%) Serverless
12 3 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.50%) LAN
1 6 (2.50%) WAN
2 1 (0.42%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (20.42%) Metadata
2 47 (19.58%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (19.17%) NoSQL
4 35 (14.58%) Power BI
5 25 (10.42%) Data Vault
6 24 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
7 21 (8.75%) Big Data
8 20 (8.33%) Data Lake
9 15 (6.25%) Tableau
10 14 (5.83%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.08%) OLAP
12 5 (2.08%) OLTP
13 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.25%) Airbyte
14 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.25%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.25%) Flink
Development Applications
1 14 (5.83%) ERwin
2 6 (2.50%) ER Studio
3 5 (2.08%) RStudio
4 4 (1.67%) kappa
5 2 (0.83%) Git
5 2 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 67 (27.92%) Finance
2 64 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 45 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 36 (15.00%) Marketing
5 31 (12.92%) Manufacturing
6 27 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (10.83%) Telecoms
8 25 (10.42%) Electronics
9 13 (5.42%) Legal
10 12 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.58%) Law
11 11 (4.58%) Retail
12 10 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (2.08%) Local Government
16 3 (1.25%) Automotive
16 3 (1.25%) Banking
17 2 (0.83%) Back Office
17 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 111 (46.25%) Architect
2 98 (40.83%) Data Architect
3 30 (12.50%) Lead
4 25 (10.42%) Chief Architect
4 25 (10.42%) Chief Data Architect
5 17 (7.08%) Senior
6 16 (6.67%) Analyst
7 15 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
7 15 (6.25%) Project Manager
8 14 (5.83%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 13 (5.42%) Azure Architect
9 13 (5.42%) Data Analyst
9 13 (5.42%) Data Manager
10 11 (4.58%) Data Modeller
11 10 (4.17%) Head of Architecture
11 10 (4.17%) Head of Data Architecture
12 9 (3.75%) Consultant
13 8 (3.33%) Data Consultant
13 8 (3.33%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.67%) JSON
2 10 (4.17%) XML
3 9 (3.75%) REST
4 7 (2.92%) JSON Schema
5 6 (2.50%) Middleware
6 4 (1.67%) PySpark
7 3 (1.25%) Kafka
7 3 (1.25%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.42%) D3.js
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.42%) pytest
8 1 (0.42%) RESTful
8 1 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.33%) Reference Data
2 18 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 18 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.33%) Taxonomies
5 7 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.50%) Wiki
7 4 (1.67%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.25%) FMCG
8 3 (1.25%) NHS
9 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.83%) IoT
9 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.83%) Life Science
10 1 (0.42%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.50%) Linux
1 6 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (50.42%) Data Modelling
2 104 (43.33%) Data Governance
3 89 (37.08%) Data Architecture
4 87 (36.25%) Analytics
5 69 (28.75%) Business Intelligence
6 60 (25.00%) Data Management
7 54 (22.50%) Agile
8 48 (20.00%) Data Integration
9 41 (17.08%) Business Strategy
10 40 (16.67%) Decision-Making
11 37 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (14.17%) Data Protection
13 30 (12.50%) Data Design
13 30 (12.50%) Programme Management
14 29 (12.08%) Data Science
15 28 (11.67%) Data Analysis
16 27 (11.25%) Roadmaps
17 26 (10.83%) Data Lineage
17 26 (10.83%) Machine Learning
18 25 (10.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.08%) SQL
2 23 (9.58%) Python
3 4 (1.67%) R
4 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.83%) Degree
1 26 (10.83%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.92%) CISA
4 7 (2.92%) CISM
4 7 (2.92%) CISSP
4 7 (2.92%) MBA
5 5 (2.08%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (24.58%) Data Quality
2 29 (12.08%) GDPR
3 13 (5.42%) QA
4 5 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.25%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) Control-M
1 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.92%) SAP
3 23 (9.58%) Sparx
4 18 (7.50%) Databricks
5 14 (5.83%) Oracle
6 7 (2.92%) Informatica
7 5 (2.08%) Google
8 4 (1.67%) IBM
8 4 (1.67%) Okta
8 4 (1.67%) Symantec
8 4 (1.67%) Talend
8 4 (1.67%) Varonis
9 3 (1.25%) Adobe
9 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.42%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.42%) Infor
10 1 (0.42%) OneTrust