Data Strategy Contracts in the South East

Data Strategy
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 201 230
Rank change year-on-year +17 +29 -39
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 20 14 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.28% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 23
10th Percentile £413 £551 £464
25th Percentile £441 £633 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £730 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +21.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £744 £760 £750
90th Percentile £750 £841 £800
England median daily rate £675 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.09 £49.13 -
% change year-on-year +42.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,681 5,025 6,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.11% 89.06% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,707 3,458 4,680
10th Percentile £260 £250 £230
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 217 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.14 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.16 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

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 31 May 2024.

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

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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 31 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
Thames Valley +20 8 £463 -31.48% 6
Buckinghamshire +32 4 £425 -46.88% 4
Surrey +18 4 £700 - 3
Berkshire -5 4 £800 +45.45% 1
Hampshire -1 3 £738 +28.26% 3
Kent - 3 £650 - 1
West Sussex +1 1 £130 -82.43% 1
East Sussex - 1 - - 3
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%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (5.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (5.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) dbt
2 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Neptune
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (25.00%) Big Data
2 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (20.00%) Power BI
4 3 (15.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (10.00%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata
6 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) kappa
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Drupal Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Finance Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) HR Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Web Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Snowpark
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Analytics
2 7 (35.00%) Data Analysis
2 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (35.00%) Data Science
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Conceptual Models
5 3 (15.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (15.00%) Logical Data Model
5 3 (15.00%) Physical Data Model
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) SAP