Data Strategy Contracts

Data Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 407 511
Rank change year-on-year +81 +104 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 265 299 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.59% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 217 277
10th Percentile £463 £450 £463
25th Percentile £550 £513 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £725 £725
90th Percentile £925 £775 £841
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £613
% change year-on-year - +6.12% +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £34.54 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £35.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +98.82% - -
75th Percentile £74.75 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.09 £64.50 -
% change year-on-year +8.66% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Strategy in the UK

Data Strategy
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +60 241 £675 +12.50% 189
London +66 145 £700 +25.56% 105
UK excluding London +41 101 £650 - 82
Work from Home +78 85 £650 +4.00% 76
North of England +21 38 £625 - 24
North West +20 29 £625 -3.85% 17
South West +9 22 £650 - 15
South East +17 20 £675 -7.53% 18
Midlands +32 13 £548 -4.78% 17
Yorkshire +18 11 £675 +16.13% 4
Scotland +38 10 £683 -5.86% 4
West Midlands +22 9 £548 - 12
East of England +1 6 £600 +33.33% 2
East Midlands +13 4 £588 +2.17% 5
North East - 2 - - 3
Wales +16 1 - - 2

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (1.51%) Apache
1 4 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.38%) CMS
2 1 (0.38%) Drupal
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (5.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.38%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.77%) Azure
2 35 (13.21%) Power Platform
3 22 (8.30%) AWS
4 15 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
4 15 (5.66%) Snowflake
5 13 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (4.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (4.91%) GCP
6 11 (4.15%) Azure Stack
7 7 (2.64%) dbt
7 7 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.64%) OCI
8 6 (2.26%) Alation
9 5 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.51%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.51%) Serverless
11 3 (1.13%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (1.13%) SaaS
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.02%) LAN
1 8 (3.02%) WAN
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (20.00%) Metadata
2 49 (18.49%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (17.74%) NoSQL
4 35 (13.21%) Power BI
5 25 (9.43%) Data Vault
6 24 (9.06%) Metadata Repository
7 22 (8.30%) Big Data
8 20 (7.55%) Data Lake
9 16 (6.04%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (5.66%) Tableau
11 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.89%) OLAP
12 5 (1.89%) OLTP
13 4 (1.51%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.51%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.13%) Flink
14 3 (1.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.04%) ERwin
2 8 (3.02%) ER Studio
3 5 (1.89%) RStudio
4 4 (1.51%) kappa
5 2 (0.75%) Git
5 2 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.38%) JIRA
General
1 75 (28.30%) Finance
2 70 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 47 (17.74%) Public Sector
4 36 (13.58%) Marketing
5 33 (12.45%) Manufacturing
6 29 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (9.81%) Telecoms
8 25 (9.43%) Electronics
9 13 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (4.91%) Legal
10 11 (4.15%) Law
10 11 (4.15%) Retail
11 10 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.89%) Local Government
15 4 (1.51%) Banking
15 4 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (1.13%) Automotive
17 2 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 126 (47.55%) Architect
2 109 (41.13%) Data Architect
3 30 (11.32%) Lead
4 25 (9.43%) Chief Architect
4 25 (9.43%) Chief Data Architect
5 21 (7.92%) Analyst
6 18 (6.79%) Enterprise Architect
7 17 (6.42%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 17 (6.42%) Senior
8 16 (6.04%) Data Analyst
8 16 (6.04%) Project Manager
9 15 (5.66%) Azure Architect
9 15 (5.66%) Data Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) Data Manager
11 11 (4.15%) Data Modeller
12 10 (3.77%) Consultant
12 10 (3.77%) Head of Architecture
12 10 (3.77%) Head of Data Architecture
13 9 (3.40%) Data Consultant
13 9 (3.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.79%) JSON
2 12 (4.53%) XML
3 11 (4.15%) REST
4 8 (3.02%) Middleware
5 7 (2.64%) JSON Schema
6 4 (1.51%) PySpark
7 3 (1.13%) Kafka
7 3 (1.13%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.38%) D3.js
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.38%) pytest
8 1 (0.38%) RESTful
8 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.83%) Reference Data
2 23 (8.68%) Data Structures
3 20 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.02%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.02%) Taxonomies
6 7 (2.64%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.26%) Wiki
8 4 (1.51%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.13%) FMCG
9 3 (1.13%) NHS
10 2 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.75%) IoT
10 2 (0.75%) Life Science
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.02%) Linux
1 8 (3.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (49.81%) Data Modelling
2 114 (43.02%) Data Governance
3 96 (36.23%) Analytics
4 94 (35.47%) Data Architecture
5 71 (26.79%) Data Management
6 69 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (21.51%) Agile
8 52 (19.62%) Data Integration
9 46 (17.36%) Business Strategy
10 40 (15.09%) Decision-Making
11 39 (14.72%) Data Protection
12 37 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (11.70%) Data Analysis
13 31 (11.70%) Data Science
13 31 (11.70%) Roadmaps
14 30 (11.32%) Data Design
14 30 (11.32%) Data Lineage
14 30 (11.32%) Programme Management
15 29 (10.94%) Machine Learning
16 27 (10.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.98%) SQL
2 23 (8.68%) Python
3 4 (1.51%) R
4 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.57%) Degree
3 27 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.64%) CISA
5 7 (2.64%) CISM
5 7 (2.64%) CISSP
5 7 (2.64%) MBA
6 5 (1.89%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (26.04%) Data Quality
2 29 (10.94%) GDPR
3 17 (6.42%) QA
4 8 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.13%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Control-M
1 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.08%) SAP
3 23 (8.68%) Sparx
4 21 (7.92%) Databricks
5 14 (5.28%) Oracle
6 10 (3.77%) Informatica
7 5 (1.89%) Google
8 4 (1.51%) IBM
8 4 (1.51%) Okta
8 4 (1.51%) Symantec
8 4 (1.51%) Talend
8 4 (1.51%) Varonis
9 3 (1.13%) Adobe
9 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.75%) IDERA
11 1 (0.38%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.38%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.38%) Infor
11 1 (0.38%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.38%) Splunk