Data Analytics Contracts in England

Data Analytics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 226 203
Rank change year-on-year -2 -23 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 383 574 1,023
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.17% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.30% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 388 743
10th Percentile £333 £346 £413
25th Percentile £415 £450 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £665
90th Percentile £763 £741 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 20
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.21 £9.85
25th Percentile £16.38 £21.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.25 £59.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +80.15% +45.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £79.19 £35.94
90th Percentile - - £42.18
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £59.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -48.73% +80.15% +36.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Analytics 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 -6 205 £570 -0.87% 255
Midlands +40 77 £500 -7.41% 56
West Midlands +27 62 £550 +1.85% 44
South East +1 38 £450 -5.26% 43
North of England +16 32 £550 +10.00% 68
North West +29 26 £569 +33.82% 35
East Midlands +26 15 £383 -23.50% 12
South West +1 7 £600 -7.69% 28
East of England -2 6 £306 -28.72% 22
Yorkshire +11 5 £515 -6.36% 19
North East +15 1 - - 14
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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 15 (3.92%) SAS
2 13 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.57%) Confluence
4 5 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.04%) govService
5 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.78%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) Apache
8 1 (0.26%) CICS
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (6.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.78%) SPSS
6 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.09%) Endur
2 5 (1.31%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.78%) Shopify
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 89 (23.24%) Power Platform
2 80 (20.89%) Azure
3 48 (12.53%) AWS
4 24 (6.27%) GCP
5 17 (4.44%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.35%) Google Analytics
10 8 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.09%) PaaS
11 6 (1.57%) IaaS
11 6 (1.57%) Serverless
12 5 (1.31%) Azure Stack
12 5 (1.31%) SaaS
13 4 (1.04%) Matillion
14 3 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.78%) BigCommerce
14 3 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.61%) VPN
2 9 (2.35%) LAN
2 9 (2.35%) MPLS
2 9 (2.35%) PBX
2 9 (2.35%) VoIP
2 9 (2.35%) WAN
2 9 (2.35%) WLAN
3 8 (2.09%) Firewall
4 5 (1.31%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.31%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.31%) DHCP
4 5 (1.31%) DNS
4 5 (1.31%) Internet
4 5 (1.31%) Network Security
4 5 (1.31%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.52%) Intranet
6 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (22.98%) Power BI
2 51 (13.32%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (10.18%) Tableau
4 33 (8.62%) Big Data
5 23 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.74%) MySQL
7 21 (5.48%) Data Lake
8 16 (4.18%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.61%) Crystal Reports
10 10 (2.61%) KDB
10 10 (2.61%) Looker
11 9 (2.35%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.35%) Metadata
12 8 (2.09%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.83%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.57%) Impala
14 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (7.31%) Git
2 21 (5.48%) JIRA
3 10 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.57%) Selenium
5 4 (1.04%) Postman
5 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.78%) GitLab
6 3 (0.78%) Maven
7 2 (0.52%) Bugzilla
7 2 (0.52%) JMeter
7 2 (0.52%) JUnit
7 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.52%) TestNG
7 2 (0.52%) TestRail
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Log4Net
8 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 109 (28.46%) Finance
2 107 (27.94%) Social Skills
3 91 (23.76%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.18%) Banking
5 36 (9.40%) Retail
6 23 (6.01%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.48%) Marketing
7 21 (5.48%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.61%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.09%) Front Office
11 8 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.83%) Legal
13 6 (1.57%) Advertising
13 6 (1.57%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (22.19%) Analyst
2 57 (14.88%) Architect
3 50 (13.05%) Senior
4 48 (12.53%) Data Analyst
5 40 (10.44%) Developer
6 30 (7.83%) Analytics Manager
7 28 (7.31%) Data Analytics Manager
7 28 (7.31%) Project Manager
8 26 (6.79%) Data Manager
9 24 (6.27%) Data Engineer
10 20 (5.22%) Data Architect
11 17 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.66%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.66%) Lead
13 11 (2.87%) Azure Architect
13 11 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 10 (2.61%) Consultant
14 10 (2.61%) KDB Developer
14 10 (2.61%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.18%) Web Services
2 12 (3.13%) HTML
3 11 (2.87%) .NET
4 9 (2.35%) CSS
4 9 (2.35%) jQuery
4 9 (2.35%) Middleware
4 9 (2.35%) PySpark
5 7 (1.83%) JSON
6 6 (1.57%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.31%) REST
7 5 (1.31%) Swagger
8 4 (1.04%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.04%) DOM
8 4 (1.04%) Node.js
8 4 (1.04%) Spring
9 3 (0.78%) J2EE
9 3 (0.78%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.78%) VML
9 3 (0.78%) XML
9 3 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.88%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.39%) Data Structures
2 13 (3.39%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (2.87%) Fixed Income
3 11 (2.87%) NHS
3 11 (2.87%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.31%) Life Science
7 5 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.04%) CMDB
8 4 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.04%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.44%) Windows
2 15 (3.92%) Linux
3 9 (2.35%) Unix
4 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (100.00%) Analytics
2 109 (28.46%) Business Intelligence
3 100 (26.11%) Agile
4 76 (19.84%) ETL
5 68 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (16.97%) Data Modelling
7 61 (15.93%) Project Management
8 54 (14.10%) Visualisation
9 52 (13.58%) Data Analysis
10 50 (13.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 49 (12.79%) Data Management
12 39 (10.18%) Requirements Gathering
13 35 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.14%) Decision-Making
13 35 (9.14%) DevOps
14 34 (8.88%) Data Integration
14 34 (8.88%) Roadmaps
15 33 (8.62%) Scrum
16 32 (8.36%) Machine Learning
16 32 (8.36%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 131 (34.20%) SQL
2 81 (21.15%) Python
3 17 (4.44%) C#
4 14 (3.66%) Java
4 14 (3.66%) R
5 11 (2.87%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.87%) Shell Script
6 10 (2.61%) Scala
7 7 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (1.83%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (1.31%) ABAP
8 5 (1.31%) C
8 5 (1.31%) F#
8 5 (1.31%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.04%) C++
9 4 (1.04%) Perl
9 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.04%) VBA
10 3 (0.78%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 47 (12.27%) Degree
2 43 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 35 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.61%) CISSP
7 9 (2.35%) CCIE
7 9 (2.35%) CCIE Data Center
8 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.04%) CCNP
10 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.78%) CISM
11 3 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.78%) PMP
12 2 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.44%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.22%) QA
3 10 (2.61%) PMO
4 8 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.83%) GDPR
6 5 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.31%) GAMP
6 5 (1.31%) GxP
6 5 (1.31%) SLA
7 3 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (4.44%) Grafana
2 13 (3.39%) Terraform
3 10 (2.61%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.78%) Matomo
5 2 (0.52%) Ansible
6 1 (0.26%) Graylog
6 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.26%) Nessus
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Puppet
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 69 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.31%) Databricks
3 22 (5.74%) Google
3 22 (5.74%) Oracle
4 17 (4.44%) Adobe
4 17 (4.44%) Denodo
4 17 (4.44%) Talend
5 15 (3.92%) SAP
6 11 (2.87%) Informatica
7 10 (2.61%) IFS
8 9 (2.35%) Cisco
9 8 (2.09%) Splunk
10 7 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.57%) Alteryx
11 6 (1.57%) Optimizely
12 5 (1.31%) Ensighten
12 5 (1.31%) Monetate
12 5 (1.31%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.31%) Tealium