Data Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Data Analyst
England > North of England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 117 132
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 87 101 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.85% 1.74% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 1.83% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 75
10th Percentile £256 £200 £214
25th Percentile £350 £338 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +36.00%
75th Percentile £525 £483 £529
90th Percentile £550 £639 £600
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 22
10th Percentile - - £11.21
25th Percentile £13.50 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.62 - £16.41
75th Percentile £20.78 - £20.90
90th Percentile £22.63 - £23.53
England median hourly rate £21.64 £22.16 £20.49
% change year-on-year -2.35% +8.15% +10.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,371 5,522 6,965
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.31% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,902 5,114
10th Percentile £263 £282 £200
25th Percentile £385 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 162 289
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.03 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +69.27% +4.39%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.06 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West +30 62 £438 +4.17% 11
Yorkshire -3 22 £450 -6.25% 13
North East +15 2 £500 - 7
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 North of England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 42 (48.28%) SQL
2 34 (39.08%) Power BI
2 34 (39.08%) Power Platform
3 32 (36.78%) Business Intelligence
4 31 (35.63%) Data Analysis
5 28 (32.18%) Social Skills
6 25 (28.74%) Python
6 25 (28.74%) Finance
7 21 (24.14%) Visualisation
8 20 (22.99%) SAP
9 19 (21.84%) Analytics
10 18 (20.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (17.24%) Data Modelling
11 15 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
11 15 (17.24%) Data Quality
11 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
12 14 (16.09%) Data Management
12 14 (16.09%) Banking
13 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (13.79%) Tableau
14 11 (12.64%) Snowflake
14 11 (12.64%) QA
15 10 (11.49%) Google
15 10 (11.49%) Data Integration
15 10 (11.49%) Change Management
15 10 (11.49%) ITSM
15 10 (11.49%) Service Management
15 10 (11.49%) SQL Server
16 9 (10.34%) Data Architecture
16 9 (10.34%) Data Structures

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (8.05%) SAS
2 2 (2.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.08%) Power Platform
2 11 (12.64%) Snowflake
3 7 (8.05%) Google Analytics
4 6 (6.90%) Collibra
4 6 (6.90%) GCP
4 6 (6.90%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.60%) AWS
6 3 (3.45%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.30%) Azure
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.15%) Matillion
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (39.08%) Power BI
2 12 (13.79%) Tableau
3 10 (11.49%) SQL Server
4 8 (9.20%) Data Lake
5 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.90%) Ataccama
6 6 (6.90%) BigQuery
6 6 (6.90%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (5.75%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.30%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.15%) Big Data
10 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (1.15%) PowerPivot
10 1 (1.15%) Presto
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.15%) PyCharm
General
1 28 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.74%) Finance
3 18 (20.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (16.09%) Banking
6 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.60%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.45%) Marketing
8 3 (3.45%) Retail
9 2 (2.30%) Legal
9 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.15%) Law
10 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.45%) NHS
3 2 (2.30%) Life Science
4 1 (1.15%) CMDB
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.78%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (35.63%) Data Analysis
3 21 (24.14%) Visualisation
4 19 (21.84%) Analytics
5 15 (17.24%) Data Modelling
5 15 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
6 14 (16.09%) Data Management
7 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.49%) Change Management
8 10 (11.49%) Data Integration
8 10 (11.49%) ITSM
8 10 (11.49%) Service Management
9 9 (10.34%) Data Architecture
9 9 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
10 8 (9.20%) Data Cleansing
10 8 (9.20%) Data Governance
10 8 (9.20%) Migration
11 7 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (8.05%) Customer Experience
12 6 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.28%) SQL
2 25 (28.74%) Python
3 3 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (3.45%) R
4 1 (1.15%) Julia
4 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) Degree
2 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.64%) QA
3 8 (9.20%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) SAP
2 10 (11.49%) Google
3 6 (6.90%) Alteryx
3 6 (6.90%) Dataiku
3 6 (6.90%) Trillium
4 4 (4.60%) Ariba
4 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.45%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.30%) Databricks
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle
6 2 (2.30%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) Sage
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Teradata
7 1 (1.15%) Workday