Data Analyst Contracts in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 157 164
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 563 887 1,248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.52% 1.75% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.85% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 632 911
10th Percentile £274 £270 £256
25th Percentile £368 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £557 £580 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 28 64
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.31 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.56 £19.53 £14.09
Median hourly rate £21.64 £22.33 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +14.40% +5.51%
75th Percentile £40.00 £31.51 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.95 £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £21.66 £20.47 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.81% +4.87% -2.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -5 297 £500 -3.85% 104
North of England +25 100 £475 +12.43% 33
South East +31 75 £450 - 19
North West +28 71 £475 +15.15% 14
Midlands +4 28 £375 +10.29% 22
South West -10 27 £450 -2.70% 13
Yorkshire -2 26 £425 -11.46% 10
East of England +11 24 £450 - 11
West Midlands +10 16 £425 +30.77% 11
East Midlands +19 12 £369 -7.81% 11
North East +16 2 £500 - 9
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 215 (38.19%) SQL
2 192 (34.10%) Finance
3 161 (28.60%) Data Analysis
4 158 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
5 156 (27.71%) Power BI
5 156 (27.71%) Power Platform
6 151 (26.82%) Social Skills
7 130 (23.09%) Data Quality
8 129 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
9 118 (20.96%) Analytics
10 113 (20.07%) Python
11 108 (19.18%) Visualisation
12 104 (18.47%) Data Modelling
13 85 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
14 83 (14.74%) Data Management
15 80 (14.21%) Tableau
16 76 (13.50%) Data Governance
17 75 (13.32%) Banking
18 72 (12.79%) Migration
19 66 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
20 64 (11.37%) Data Visualisation
21 60 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
22 53 (9.41%) Data Cleansing
23 52 (9.24%) Azure
23 52 (9.24%) Decision-Making
24 50 (8.88%) Data Migration
25 49 (8.70%) SAP
25 49 (8.70%) Agile
25 49 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
26 46 (8.17%) Change Management

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (3.91%) SAS
2 13 (2.31%) Confluence
3 6 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.24%) SPSS
6 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.18%) Endur
3 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 156 (27.71%) Power Platform
2 52 (9.24%) Azure
3 29 (5.15%) Snowflake
4 24 (4.26%) Collibra
5 23 (4.09%) AWS
6 20 (3.55%) Power Automate
7 14 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.31%) GCP
9 11 (1.95%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.60%) Google Analytics
11 7 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.71%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (0.71%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.53%) dbt
14 3 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.07%) DNS
1 6 (1.07%) Firewall
2 5 (0.89%) DHCP
3 4 (0.71%) IPv4
4 1 (0.18%) NAS
4 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.18%) VLAN
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (27.71%) Power BI
2 80 (14.21%) Tableau
3 38 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (5.33%) Metadata
5 29 (5.15%) SQL Server
6 26 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.02%) Data Mining
8 15 (2.66%) Qlik Sense
9 14 (2.49%) Big Data
10 12 (2.13%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.60%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.42%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (1.24%) Ataccama
14 7 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.07%) Looker
15 6 (1.07%) MS Access
16 5 (0.89%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (4.62%) JIRA
2 9 (1.60%) Eclipse
3 8 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.89%) PyCharm
5 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.18%) Git
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.18%) RStudio
6 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 192 (34.10%) Finance
2 151 (26.82%) Social Skills
3 129 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (13.32%) Banking
5 35 (6.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 31 (5.51%) Legal
7 27 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (4.62%) Retail
9 22 (3.91%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.37%) Marketing
11 18 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (3.20%) Manufacturing
11 18 (3.20%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.60%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.42%) Local Government
15 7 (1.24%) Front Office
16 5 (0.89%) Billing
17 4 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.24%) D3.js
2 6 (1.07%) PySpark
3 3 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.53%) Shiny
4 2 (0.36%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.36%) ggplot2
4 2 (0.36%) LDAP
4 2 (0.36%) Pandas
4 2 (0.36%) Plotly
5 1 (0.18%) JSON
5 1 (0.18%) Middleware
5 1 (0.18%) Node.js
5 1 (0.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.62%) Data Structures
2 23 (4.09%) Management Information System
3 11 (1.95%) Credit Risk
3 11 (1.95%) NHS
4 10 (1.78%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.24%) Life Science
7 7 (1.24%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.71%) Derivative
9 4 (0.71%) e-Health
9 4 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (0.71%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.53%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.78%) Windows
2 4 (0.71%) Linux
2 4 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (28.60%) Data Analysis
2 158 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
3 118 (20.96%) Analytics
4 108 (19.18%) Visualisation
5 104 (18.47%) Data Modelling
6 85 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (14.74%) Data Management
8 76 (13.50%) Data Governance
9 72 (12.79%) Migration
10 66 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 64 (11.37%) Data Visualisation
12 53 (9.41%) Data Cleansing
13 52 (9.24%) Decision-Making
14 50 (8.88%) Data Migration
15 49 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
15 49 (8.70%) Agile
16 46 (8.17%) Change Management
17 44 (7.82%) Data Analytics
18 43 (7.64%) ETL
19 34 (6.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 215 (38.19%) SQL
2 113 (20.07%) Python
3 22 (3.91%) R
4 8 (1.42%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.42%) T-SQL
5 7 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.07%) Java
7 5 (0.89%) VBScript
8 4 (0.71%) Groovy
8 4 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.53%) VBA
10 2 (0.36%) C#
10 2 (0.36%) C++
10 2 (0.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) Julia
11 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (7.10%) Degree
2 23 (4.09%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.18%) ACCA
7 1 (0.18%) APMP
7 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.18%) CIMA
7 1 (0.18%) CISM
7 1 (0.18%) CISSP
7 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (23.09%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.97%) QA
3 27 (4.80%) GDPR
4 6 (1.07%) SLA
5 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (0.71%) GxP
6 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.53%) PMO
7 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) EMIR
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.36%) Terraform
2 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.18%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 49 (8.70%) SAP
2 42 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.93%) Oracle
4 34 (6.04%) Alteryx
5 24 (4.26%) Databricks
6 17 (3.02%) Google
7 16 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.66%) Splunk
9 12 (2.13%) Bloomberg
9 12 (2.13%) Refinitiv
10 9 (1.60%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.42%) Ariba
12 7 (1.24%) Trillium
13 6 (1.07%) Informatica
14 5 (0.89%) Adobe
14 5 (0.89%) Citrix
14 5 (0.89%) Datix
14 5 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.71%) Denodo