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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 185 238
Rank change year-on-year +26 +53 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 20 34 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.48% 0.62% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.69% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 20
10th Percentile £416 £451 £463
25th Percentile £572 £538 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £613 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% - +8.89%
75th Percentile £698 £760 £659
90th Percentile £746 £850 £756
England median daily rate £650 £650 £600
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate - £47.63 -

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 3,528 4,905 6,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 89.80% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,149 3,239 4,780
10th Percentile £260 £225 £271
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £695
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 252 269
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £23.81 £17.76
Median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.53 £72.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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 October 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

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 31 October 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 +9 10 £563 -29.69% 4
Buckinghamshire +10 6 £425 -46.88%
Surrey +19 5 £625 -7.41% 2
Berkshire +6 4 £688 +0.92% 3
Hampshire +16 3 £650 +13.04% 10
East Sussex - 1 - - 2
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%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Veeva
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 3 (15.00%) Big Data
2 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) Star Schema
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) ERwin
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Local Government
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.00%) Publishing
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.00%) Head of Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Pensions Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Drupal Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Data Architecture
5 1 (5.00%) Mobile Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Web Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) Snowpark
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Housing Association
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Analytics
2 7 (35.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (30.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 5 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
5 4 (20.00%) Data Management
5 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) CRM
6 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) COBIT
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Sparx
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Palantir
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce