Data Analysis Contracts in the North West

Data Analysis
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 80 81
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 69 81 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.56% 2.57% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.83% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 65
10th Percentile £296 £266 £253
25th Percentile £375 £413 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +8.82% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £550
90th Percentile £556 £680 £657
England median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £23.13 £23.15 -
25th Percentile £24.46 £31.20 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £65.00 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -58.98% +208.94% -4.36%
75th Percentile - - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £33.10
England median hourly rate £29.69 £32.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.10% -7.71% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Analysis 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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,327 2,859 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.59% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,033 2,605
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 143 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.95 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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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 Analysis within the North West 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
Manchester +15 29 £425 -5.56% 38
Cheshire -5 26 £500 -18.37% 14
Lancashire +3 5 £500 -21.56% 14
Cumbria - 4 £383 - 4
Merseyside +9 2 - - 10
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.14%) SAS
2 2 (2.90%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (10.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.45%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.64%) Power Platform
2 10 (14.49%) Snowflake
3 6 (8.70%) Collibra
3 6 (8.70%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.80%) Azure
5 3 (4.35%) AWS
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.45%) GCP
7 1 (1.45%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) Power BI
2 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.14%) Data Lake
4 6 (8.70%) Ataccama
4 6 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (8.70%) Qlik Sense
5 5 (7.25%) Data Mining
5 5 (7.25%) Tableau
6 3 (4.35%) SAP BW
6 3 (4.35%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.45%) Big Data
8 1 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.45%) Presto
8 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (5.80%) JIRA
3 3 (4.35%) LSMW
4 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.45%) JMeter
5 1 (1.45%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.45%) Selenium
5 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.59%) Manufacturing
5 7 (10.14%) Finance
6 4 (5.80%) Legal
6 4 (5.80%) Mandarin Language
6 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.35%) Local Government
8 1 (1.45%) Automotive
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Games
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (52.17%) Analyst
2 28 (40.58%) Data Analyst
3 18 (26.09%) Senior
3 18 (26.09%) Senior Analyst
4 10 (14.49%) Senior Data Analyst
5 9 (13.04%) Data Quality Analyst
5 9 (13.04%) QA Analyst
5 9 (13.04%) Quality Analyst
6 8 (11.59%) Business Analyst
6 8 (11.59%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 8 (11.59%) Senior QA Analyst
6 8 (11.59%) Senior Quality Analyst
7 7 (10.14%) SAP Analyst
8 5 (7.25%) Architect
8 5 (7.25%) SAP Data Analyst
9 4 (5.80%) Consultant
9 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Lead
10 3 (4.35%) Coordinator
10 3 (4.35%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) BAPI
2 2 (2.90%) JSON
2 2 (2.90%) REST
2 2 (2.90%) Swagger
2 2 (2.90%) YAML
3 1 (1.45%) Kafka
3 1 (1.45%) Middleware
3 1 (1.45%) SOAP
3 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 6 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.80%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (5.80%) Taxonomies
3 3 (4.35%) Cyberattack
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.90%) SCADA
4 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.45%) Life Science
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Windows
3 1 (1.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (23.19%) Data Cleansing
3 13 (18.84%) Analytics
4 12 (17.39%) Data Modelling
5 11 (15.94%) Customer Experience
5 11 (15.94%) Data Governance
5 11 (15.94%) Decision-Making
5 11 (15.94%) Project Management
5 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (15.94%) Visualisation
6 10 (14.49%) Data Integration
6 10 (14.49%) Data Management
7 9 (13.04%) Data Migration
7 9 (13.04%) Migration
8 7 (10.14%) Data Architecture
8 7 (10.14%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (8.70%) Machine Learning
9 6 (8.70%) Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (8.70%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.09%) SQL
2 12 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (2.90%) C#
3 2 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) CISM
3 2 (2.90%) CISSP
3 2 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.45%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.29%) Data Quality
2 10 (14.49%) QA
3 9 (13.04%) GDPR
4 5 (7.25%) PMO
5 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (34.78%) SAP
2 6 (8.70%) Alteryx
2 6 (8.70%) Dataiku
2 6 (8.70%) Trillium
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.80%) Ariba
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) Splunk
6 1 (1.45%) Databricks
6 1 (1.45%) Dell
6 1 (1.45%) F5
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) HP
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.45%) Teradata