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 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 158 167
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 560 842 1,209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.52% 1.72% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.82% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 597 871
10th Percentile £301 £270 £253
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.49%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £550
90th Percentile £629 £654 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +14.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 31 67
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.56 £16.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £22.16 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +5.52% +13.51%
75th Percentile £40.00 £30.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.95 £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £21.66 £19.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.05% +12.16%

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 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
London -10 305 £500 - 125
North of England +22 89 £450 +5.88% 29
South East +23 76 £400 -11.11% 22
North West +38 64 £438 +9.38% 15
Midlands +17 34 £375 +10.29% 26
South West -11 28 £438 -7.89% 13
Yorkshire -3 22 £450 -6.25% 13
East of England +8 20 £450 - 12
West Midlands +2 18 £438 +28.68% 15
East Midlands +29 16 £363 +3.57% 11
North East +12 2 £500 - 1
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 229 (40.89%) SQL
2 203 (36.25%) Finance
3 170 (30.36%) Business Intelligence
4 163 (29.11%) Power BI
4 163 (29.11%) Power Platform
5 159 (28.39%) Social Skills
6 153 (27.32%) Data Analysis
7 136 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
8 129 (23.04%) Python
9 128 (22.86%) Analytics
10 121 (21.61%) Data Quality
11 115 (20.54%) Visualisation
12 101 (18.04%) Data Modelling
13 92 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (15.54%) Data Management
15 86 (15.36%) Tableau
16 80 (14.29%) Data Governance
17 78 (13.93%) Banking
18 69 (12.32%) Migration
19 66 (11.79%) Data Visualisation
20 65 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
21 61 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
22 59 (10.54%) Agile
23 54 (9.64%) Azure
23 54 (9.64%) Data Cleansing
24 50 (8.93%) Decision-Making
25 49 (8.75%) Actionable Insight
25 49 (8.75%) Data Analytics
26 48 (8.57%) Data Migration
27 47 (8.39%) 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 23 (4.11%) SAS
2 13 (2.32%) Confluence
3 8 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 65 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.25%) SPSS
6 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 163 (29.11%) Power Platform
2 54 (9.64%) Azure
3 30 (5.36%) Snowflake
4 28 (5.00%) AWS
5 26 (4.64%) Collibra
6 21 (3.75%) Power Automate
7 16 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.32%) GCP
9 12 (2.14%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.61%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.89%) dbt
13 4 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (0.71%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.54%) GitHub
14 3 (0.54%) Google Tag Manager
14 3 (0.54%) MailChimp
14 3 (0.54%) SuccessFactors
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
1 163 (29.11%) Power BI
2 86 (15.36%) Tableau
3 40 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (5.54%) Metadata
5 29 (5.18%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.29%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.75%) Data Mining
8 20 (3.57%) Big Data
9 17 (3.04%) Qlik Sense
10 14 (2.50%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.96%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.61%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (1.25%) Ataccama
14 7 (1.25%) Impala
14 7 (1.25%) PowerPivot
14 7 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (5.00%) JIRA
2 7 (1.25%) Eclipse
2 7 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (0.89%) PyCharm
4 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.36%) Git
5 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.18%) RStudio
6 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 203 (36.25%) Finance
2 159 (28.39%) Social Skills
3 136 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (13.93%) Banking
5 33 (5.89%) Legal
6 30 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 28 (5.00%) Retail
8 26 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.57%) Public Sector
10 18 (3.21%) Marketing
10 18 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 17 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.68%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.96%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.61%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.43%) Front Office
15 8 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.43%) Local Government
16 5 (0.89%) Billing
16 5 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.43%) PySpark
2 7 (1.25%) D3.js
3 4 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.54%) LDAP
4 3 (0.54%) Shiny
5 2 (0.36%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.36%) ggplot2
5 2 (0.36%) Pandas
5 2 (0.36%) Plotly
6 1 (0.18%) .NET
6 1 (0.18%) ADO
6 1 (0.18%) HTML
6 1 (0.18%) HTML5
6 1 (0.18%) JSON
6 1 (0.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.18%) Node.js
6 1 (0.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.46%) Management Information System
2 18 (3.21%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (1.96%) Credit Risk
4 11 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.61%) NHS
6 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.07%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.71%) Derivative
10 4 (0.71%) e-Health
11 3 (0.54%) CMDB
11 3 (0.54%) Life Science
11 3 (0.54%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.79%) Windows
2 5 (0.89%) Linux
3 4 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (30.36%) Business Intelligence
2 153 (27.32%) Data Analysis
3 128 (22.86%) Analytics
4 115 (20.54%) Visualisation
5 101 (18.04%) Data Modelling
6 92 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (15.54%) Data Management
8 80 (14.29%) Data Governance
9 69 (12.32%) Migration
10 66 (11.79%) Data Visualisation
11 61 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 59 (10.54%) Agile
13 54 (9.64%) Data Cleansing
14 50 (8.93%) Decision-Making
15 49 (8.75%) Actionable Insight
15 49 (8.75%) Data Analytics
16 48 (8.57%) Data Migration
17 47 (8.39%) Change Management
18 42 (7.50%) ETL
19 39 (6.96%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 229 (40.89%) SQL
2 129 (23.04%) Python
3 28 (5.00%) R
4 9 (1.61%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.43%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.07%) Java
7 5 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.89%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.89%) VBScript
8 4 (0.71%) Groovy
8 4 (0.71%) VBA
9 3 (0.54%) C#
9 3 (0.54%) Scala
9 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.36%) C++
10 2 (0.36%) VB
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) Julia
Qualifications
1 42 (7.50%) Degree
2 18 (3.21%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.71%) Master's 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
1 121 (21.61%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.18%) QA
3 27 (4.82%) GDPR
4 5 (0.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (0.71%) GxP
6 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.54%) PMO
7 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.54%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (0.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.32%) Oracle
3 40 (7.14%) SAP
4 33 (5.89%) Alteryx
5 27 (4.82%) Databricks
6 18 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.04%) Google
8 15 (2.68%) Splunk
9 14 (2.50%) Bloomberg
9 14 (2.50%) Refinitiv
10 9 (1.61%) Dataiku
11 7 (1.25%) Informatica
11 7 (1.25%) Trillium
12 6 (1.07%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.89%) Adobe
13 5 (0.89%) Citrix
13 5 (0.89%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.71%) Ariba
14 4 (0.71%) Datix
14 4 (0.71%) IFS