Data Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 341 402
Rank change year-on-year +50 +61 -46
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 101 105 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.52% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 82 78
10th Percentile £450 £428 £463
25th Percentile £519 £528 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.01%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £676
90th Percentile £750 £760 £791
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £41.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £64.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £35.25 -
% change year-on-year +98.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,285 20,362 27,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.51% 89.30% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,280 13,968 18,972
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,123 1,246 1,358
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK excluding London

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England +29 38 £625 - 27
North West +23 29 £625 -3.85% 18
South West +5 22 £650 - 16
South East +12 20 £675 -7.53% 22
Midlands +29 13 £548 -4.78% 15
Yorkshire +14 11 £675 +16.13% 5
Scotland +33 10 £683 +5.00% 5
West Midlands +23 9 £548 - 10
East of England +3 6 £600 +33.33% 4
East Midlands +12 4 £588 +2.17% 5
North East - 2 - - 4
Wales +17 1 - - 2
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.99%) Apache
1 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.99%) CMS
1 1 (0.99%) Drupal
1 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.99%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.76%) Azure
2 10 (9.90%) Power Platform
3 7 (6.93%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (5.94%) AWS
4 6 (5.94%) Azure Stack
4 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (3.96%) Serverless
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.97%) dbt
6 3 (2.97%) GCP
6 3 (2.97%) SaaS
6 3 (2.97%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.99%) GitHub
8 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.99%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) LAN
1 7 (6.93%) WAN
2 1 (0.99%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (22.77%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (14.85%) Metadata
3 11 (10.89%) Data Lake
4 10 (9.90%) Power BI
5 9 (8.91%) Big Data
5 9 (8.91%) NoSQL
5 9 (8.91%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (3.96%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.96%) OLAP
6 4 (3.96%) OLTP
7 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.98%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.98%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.99%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) kappa
2 3 (2.97%) ERwin
3 2 (1.98%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.99%) Git
4 1 (0.99%) RStudio
General
1 29 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.72%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.91%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (6.93%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.94%) Legal
8 5 (4.95%) Law
8 5 (4.95%) Marketing
9 4 (3.96%) Retail
10 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.98%) Electronics
11 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.98%) Local Government
11 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (44.55%) Architect
2 35 (34.65%) Data Architect
3 11 (10.89%) Lead
4 10 (9.90%) Analyst
4 10 (9.90%) Data Manager
5 9 (8.91%) Azure Architect
5 9 (8.91%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.92%) Technical Architect
7 7 (6.93%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.94%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.95%) Data Modeller
9 5 (4.95%) Senior
10 4 (3.96%) Security Manager
10 4 (3.96%) Security Project Manager
11 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 3 (2.97%) Finance Manager
11 3 (2.97%) Information Architect
12 2 (1.98%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 2 (1.98%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) JSON
1 7 (6.93%) Middleware
2 6 (5.94%) REST
2 6 (5.94%) XML
3 3 (2.97%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.99%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.99%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.90%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.93%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.93%) Taxonomies
4 6 (5.94%) Reference Data
5 5 (4.95%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.96%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.98%) FMCG
7 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) Life Science
8 1 (0.99%) NHS
8 1 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Linux
1 7 (6.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (41.58%) Analytics
1 42 (41.58%) Data Modelling
2 34 (33.66%) Data Governance
3 33 (32.67%) Data Architecture
4 26 (25.74%) Data Management
5 24 (23.76%) Agile
6 21 (20.79%) Data Analysis
7 20 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (18.81%) Decision-Making
9 17 (16.83%) Data Science
9 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.84%) Machine Learning
11 15 (14.85%) Data Integration
12 14 (13.86%) Business Strategy
12 14 (13.86%) Migration
13 13 (12.87%) Data Lineage
13 13 (12.87%) Data Protection
14 11 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (9.90%) Data Migration
15 10 (9.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.79%) SQL
2 7 (6.93%) Python
3 2 (1.98%) R
4 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (16.83%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.94%) CISA
3 6 (5.94%) CISM
3 6 (5.94%) CISSP
3 6 (5.94%) MBA
4 3 (2.97%) Postgraduate
4 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.97%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (25.74%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.87%) QA
3 7 (6.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.99%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Control-M
1 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.91%) Databricks
3 3 (2.97%) Informatica
3 3 (2.97%) SAP
3 3 (2.97%) Sparx
4 2 (1.98%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) IDERA
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle
4 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.99%) Hyperion
5 1 (0.99%) Infor