Data Strategy Contracts in the North West

Data Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 120 160
Rank change year-on-year +8 +40 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 23 30 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 1.00% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.11% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 15
10th Percentile £478 £391 £515
25th Percentile £516 £456 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -8.47%
75th Percentile £689 £693 £706
90th Percentile £725 £725 £770
England median daily rate £700 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.50 -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £49.13 -
% change year-on-year +24.17% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in the North West

Data Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cheshire +9 14 £676 +50.22% 1
Manchester +5 8 £538 -1.38% 10
Lancashire +4 1 £600 +60.00% 1
Data Strategy
England

Data Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Stack
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle CX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (26.09%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Big Data
4 2 (8.70%) Metadata
4 2 (8.70%) Power BI
4 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
1 11 (47.83%) Data Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Project Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Security Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Data Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.70%) Information Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Portfolio Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Project Portfolio Manager
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) JSON
1 6 (26.09%) REST
1 6 (26.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Structures
1 6 (26.09%) Product Ownership
1 6 (26.09%) Reference Data
2 4 (17.39%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (17.39%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Analytics
1 12 (52.17%) Data Governance
2 11 (47.83%) Decision-Making
3 9 (39.13%) Data Architecture
3 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
4 8 (34.78%) Data Management
5 7 (30.43%) Agile
5 7 (30.43%) Business Case
5 7 (30.43%) Value Proposition
6 6 (26.09%) Application Security
6 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
6 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (26.09%) Data Lineage
6 6 (26.09%) Data Mapping
6 6 (26.09%) Data Protection
6 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
6 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
6 6 (26.09%) Microservices
6 6 (26.09%) Pricing Strategy
6 6 (26.09%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
1 8 (34.78%) Master's Degree
2 6 (26.09%) CISA
2 6 (26.09%) CISM
2 6 (26.09%) CISSP
2 6 (26.09%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce