Data Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Data Strategy
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 157 191
Rank change year-on-year +45 +34 -46
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 15 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 8
10th Percentile £450 - £507
25th Percentile £463 £538 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -2.13% +23.68%
75th Percentile £688 £613 £647
90th Percentile £738 - £675
England median daily rate £676 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +17.48% -8.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,226 2,856 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.87% 87.96% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,006 3,231
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +5.26% +13.77%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £699 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 100 147
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.45 £10.61
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.88 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £34.13 £40.75 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £58.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the Midlands

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the Midlands

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the Midlands

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Midlands +27 11 £570 - 10
East Midlands +17 4 £588 +2.17% 5
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (20.00%) Metadata
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) OLAP
3 2 (13.33%) OLTP
4 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
4 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) kappa
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) ERP Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.67%) FMCG
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Analytics
2 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Data Architecture
3 6 (40.00%) Data Management
3 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
5 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
5 4 (26.67%) IT Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Data Design
6 3 (20.00%) Data Development
6 3 (20.00%) Master Data Management
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Hyperion
3 1 (6.67%) Infor
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle