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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 402 515
Rank change year-on-year +90 +113 -24
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 285 312 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.61% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 222 284
10th Percentile £463 £450 £463
25th Percentile £550 £513 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £676 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £738
90th Percentile £925 £775 £852
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £606
% change year-on-year - +7.22% +21.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £62.37 £34.31 -
25th Percentile £65.17 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% - -
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
England +88 257 £688 +19.65% 210
London +73 156 £725 +31.82% 112
UK excluding London +56 108 £650 - 114
Work from Home +89 93 £650 +6.12% 83
North of England +33 39 £625 -3.85% 29
North West +18 31 £625 -3.85% 21
South West +10 24 £650 - 18
South East +24 19 £675 -6.90% 31
Midlands +30 16 £570 -0.87% 15
West Midlands +32 12 £570 - 11
Scotland +42 11 £629 -3.27% 4
Yorkshire +21 10 £800 +42.22% 6
East of England +6 6 £600 +33.33% 13
East Midlands +18 4 £588 +2.17% 4
Wales +19 2 £625 -5.66% 2
North East - 2 - - 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 (1.40%) Apache
1 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Drupal
4 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (5.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.70%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.70%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (22.81%) Azure
2 40 (14.04%) Power Platform
3 23 (8.07%) AWS
4 16 (5.61%) Snowflake
5 15 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (5.26%) GCP
5 15 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 11 (3.86%) Azure Stack
7 9 (3.16%) OCI
8 7 (2.46%) Alation
8 7 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.11%) dbt
10 5 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.40%) Serverless
12 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.05%) Collibra
12 3 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.46%) LAN
1 7 (2.46%) WAN
2 1 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (21.75%) Metadata
2 50 (17.54%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (16.84%) NoSQL
4 40 (14.04%) Power BI
5 25 (8.77%) Data Vault
5 25 (8.77%) Metadata Repository
6 24 (8.42%) Big Data
7 21 (7.37%) Data Lake
8 19 (6.67%) Tableau
9 15 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.16%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.75%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.75%) OLAP
11 5 (1.75%) OLTP
12 4 (1.40%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.05%) Flink
13 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (8.07%) ERwin
2 10 (3.51%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.40%) kappa
3 4 (1.40%) RStudio
4 3 (1.05%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) Git
5 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
General
1 80 (28.07%) Finance
2 76 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 43 (15.09%) Marketing
5 39 (13.68%) Manufacturing
6 32 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (10.53%) Telecoms
8 29 (10.18%) Electronics
9 15 (5.26%) Legal
9 15 (5.26%) Retail
10 13 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.86%) Law
12 11 (3.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.75%) Banking
13 5 (1.75%) Local Government
13 5 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.05%) Automotive
16 2 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 133 (46.67%) Architect
2 117 (41.05%) Data Architect
3 32 (11.23%) Lead
4 25 (8.77%) Chief Architect
4 25 (8.77%) Chief Data Architect
5 22 (7.72%) Enterprise Architect
5 22 (7.72%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 21 (7.37%) Analyst
7 20 (7.02%) Data Manager
8 17 (5.96%) Senior
9 16 (5.61%) Data Analyst
9 16 (5.61%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.91%) Azure Architect
10 14 (4.91%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.86%) Data Modeller
12 10 (3.51%) Head of Architecture
12 10 (3.51%) Head of Data Architecture
13 9 (3.16%) Data Strategist
14 8 (2.81%) Data Migration Manager
14 8 (2.81%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.32%) JSON
2 12 (4.21%) XML
3 11 (3.86%) REST
4 7 (2.46%) JSON Schema
4 7 (2.46%) Middleware
5 6 (2.11%) PySpark
6 2 (0.70%) Kafka
6 2 (0.70%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.35%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.35%) D3.js
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.35%) pytest
7 1 (0.35%) RESTful
7 1 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.93%) Reference Data
2 23 (8.07%) Data Structures
3 21 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.51%) Wiki
6 9 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.16%) Taxonomies
7 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.40%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.05%) FMCG
10 3 (1.05%) NHS
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.70%) IoT
11 2 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.46%) Linux
1 7 (2.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (49.47%) Data Modelling
2 126 (44.21%) Data Governance
3 104 (36.49%) Analytics
4 102 (35.79%) Data Architecture
5 81 (28.42%) Data Management
6 77 (27.02%) Business Intelligence
7 58 (20.35%) Agile
8 56 (19.65%) Data Integration
9 47 (16.49%) Business Strategy
10 45 (15.79%) Data Protection
11 40 (14.04%) Decision-Making
12 36 (12.63%) Roadmaps
13 35 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (12.28%) Programme Management
14 32 (11.23%) Data Analysis
14 32 (11.23%) Data Lineage
14 32 (11.23%) Data Science
15 30 (10.53%) Data Design
15 30 (10.53%) Machine Learning
15 30 (10.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.14%) SQL
2 23 (8.07%) Python
3 3 (1.05%) R
4 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.82%) Degree
4 10 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.46%) CISA
5 7 (2.46%) CISM
5 7 (2.46%) CISSP
5 7 (2.46%) MBA
6 5 (1.75%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (25.96%) Data Quality
2 35 (12.28%) GDPR
3 16 (5.61%) QA
4 8 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.35%) Control-M
1 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.33%) SAP
3 29 (10.18%) Sparx
4 22 (7.72%) Databricks
5 18 (6.32%) Oracle
6 11 (3.86%) Informatica
7 6 (2.11%) IBM
8 5 (1.75%) Adobe
8 5 (1.75%) Google
8 5 (1.75%) Okta
8 5 (1.75%) Symantec
8 5 (1.75%) Talend
8 5 (1.75%) Varonis
9 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.70%) IDERA
10 2 (0.70%) Marketo
11 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.35%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.35%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.35%) Splunk