Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data Strategy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 138 181
Rank change year-on-year -43 +43 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 35 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.57% 0.59% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.65% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 17
10th Percentile £363 £371 £413
25th Percentile £500 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -18.52% -8.16%
75th Percentile £803 £619 £725
90th Percentile £1,000 £733 £746
England median daily rate £600 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £77.08 - -
25th Percentile £80.75 - £60.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 - £61.00
75th Percentile £82.25 - £61.50
90th Percentile £83.00 - -
England median hourly rate £81.50 £72.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% +19.26% +1.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,013 2,777 4,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.12% 91.29% 82.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 1,743 2,733
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.44% +0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £634
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 215 479
10th Percentile £15.08 £13.25 £13.04
25th Percentile £23.21 £15.06 £18.32
Median hourly rate £53.90 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.58% -52.00% -4.03%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.09
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Strategy

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Thames Valley -38 16 £575 - 5
Berkshire -25 13 £500 -16.67% 2
Hampshire -27 8 £725 +79.57%
Surrey -14 6 £550 - 2
West Sussex -17 4 £438 -12.50% 1
Buckinghamshire -33 3 £575 +11.65%
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Power BI
2 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (22.86%) Metadata
3 6 (17.14%) Tableau
4 2 (5.71%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.86%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.86%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.86%) QlikView
5 1 (2.86%) SAP BW
5 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) ERwin
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Lead
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.57%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Officer
7 1 (2.86%) Ab Initio Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Chief Technology Officer
7 1 (2.86%) Data Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Data Governance Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Data Modeller
7 1 (2.86%) Information Strategy Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Migration Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Project Leader
7 1 (2.86%) SAP Data Manager
7 1 (2.86%) SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) PySpark
2 1 (2.86%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) CMDB
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) EPoS
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Data Governance
1 18 (51.43%) Data Modelling
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Analytics
4 10 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 9 (25.71%) AI
6 8 (22.86%) Data Architecture
6 8 (22.86%) Data Security
6 8 (22.86%) Migration
7 7 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 7 (20.00%) DevOps
7 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (20.00%) Validation
8 6 (17.14%) Dashboard Development
8 6 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.29%) QA
3 4 (11.43%) GDPR
4 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
3 2 (5.71%) BMC
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Sparx
4 1 (2.86%) Virgin Media