Business Analytics Contracts

Business Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Analytics 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 559 658 724
Rank change year-on-year +99 +66 -105
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 32 60 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 47 84
10th Percentile £358 £395 £315
25th Percentile £422 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £592 £650 £588
90th Percentile £758 £700 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 - £36.50
75th Percentile - - £37.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.64 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analytics over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analytics within the UK 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
England +85 27 £450 -10.00% 55
London +95 19 £450 -13.46% 26
Work from Home +115 15 £475 -7.32% 24
UK excluding London +51 11 £450 -5.26% 31
South West - 4 - - 1
Scotland +41 3 £456 +1.39% 3
South East +17 3 £438 +8.02% 6
Yorkshire +21 1 £325 -27.78% 2
North of England +11 1 £325 -50.00% 8

Business Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (6.25%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (9.38%) MIS ActiveH
1 3 (9.38%) NEC Housing
2 1 (3.13%) OPENHousing
2 1 (3.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.25%) IaaS
3 2 (6.25%) PaaS
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) Figma
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Power BI
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.50%) Data Mining
4 3 (9.38%) Tableau
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata
6 1 (3.13%) Essbase
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.13%) OLAP
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.13%) Parquet
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.38%) Retail
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Multimedia
6 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Applications Support
4 5 (15.63%) Applications Support Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Applications Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Data Migration Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Applications Support
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Support Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Pega Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) JSP
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Avro
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) JSON Schema
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.13%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Analytics
2 25 (78.13%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (40.63%) Agile
4 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
4 11 (34.38%) Risk Management
5 10 (31.25%) Decision-Making
5 10 (31.25%) ETL
5 10 (31.25%) Visualisation
6 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.00%) Data Management
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (21.88%) SDLC
8 6 (18.75%) Data Migration
8 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
8 6 (18.75%) ITIL
8 6 (18.75%) Migration
8 6 (18.75%) Pricing Analytics
8 6 (18.75%) PRINCE2
8 6 (18.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.38%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.13%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) CEH
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
3 2 (6.25%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) CREST Certified
3 2 (6.25%) CSSLP
3 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ACCA
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) COBIT
2 2 (6.25%) IFRS
2 2 (6.25%) ISO 22301
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) IFRS 17
3 1 (3.13%) IFRS 9
3 1 (3.13%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Nessus
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Databricks
2 3 (9.38%) NEC
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Pega
3 2 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) Northgate
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) SimCorp