Data Strategy Contracts in the South East

Data Strategy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 178 192
Rank change year-on-year +44 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 20 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.45% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 15
10th Percentile £371 £413 £490
25th Percentile £434 £450 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £730
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -7.53% +12.74%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £805
90th Percentile £733 £746 £850
England median daily rate £575 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -13.21% +6.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00

All Process and 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 3,051 4,631 5,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.08% 82.79% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,902 2,705 3,568
10th Percentile £250 £263 £262
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £674 £700 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 433 239
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.20 £21.81
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.40 £74.83
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.88% +55.77%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the South East

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the South East

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the South East over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the South East

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the South East

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 13 July 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
Thames Valley +20 10 £575 +15.00% 14
Berkshire +27 8 £588 -16.07% 8
Hampshire +28 5 £404 -45.25% 2
West Sussex +7 2 £500 +284.62% 3
Surrey +17 1 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £525 +23.53% 2
Kent -1 1 £775 +19.23%
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP GRC
1 1 (5.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.00%) Tableau
4 2 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Big Data
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) ERwin
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Local Government
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (10.00%) User Researcher
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.00%) CDIO
5 1 (5.00%) CIO
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Data Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Strategy Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (40.00%) Analytics
2 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (20.00%) ETL
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Master Data Management
6 4 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (15.00%) DataOps
7 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce