Data Analytics Contracts

Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 235 211
Rank change year-on-year -10 -24 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 435 688 1,242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.15% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.28% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 474 900
10th Percentile £354 £350 £408
25th Percentile £425 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £515
% change year-on-year +2.23% +4.47% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 21
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.21 £9.92
25th Percentile £15.66 £21.88 £21.04
Median hourly rate £30.25 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +15.00% +22.81%
75th Percentile £43.75 £78.30 £38.75
90th Percentile - £79.19 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £25.52
% change year-on-year -73.01% +205.64% -44.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +6 371 £550 +1.85% 444
London -18 196 £561 -2.39% 205
UK excluding London +11 177 £550 +2.23% 249
Work from Home +15 157 £521 -3.52% 184
Midlands +22 68 £575 +6.48% 56
West Midlands +26 59 £575 +6.48% 42
South East +17 38 £450 +5.88% 39
North of England +21 36 £550 +4.76% 72
North West +23 27 £588 +17.50% 40
Wales +28 13 £538 - 5
East Midlands +20 9 £513 -10.87% 14
East of England +9 8 £391 -11.19% 21
Yorkshire +2 8 £515 -6.36% 17
Scotland 0 8 £450 -20.00% 19
South West +4 7 £600 - 36
North East +19 1 - - 15

Data 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 16 (3.68%) SAS
2 15 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.61%) Confluence
4 5 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.92%) govService
5 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) CMS
7 2 (0.46%) Apache
7 2 (0.46%) CICS
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.69%) SPSS
6 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.23%) InVision
7 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Endur
2 4 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.69%) Shopify
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 108 (24.83%) Power Platform
2 103 (23.68%) Azure
3 57 (13.10%) AWS
4 31 (7.13%) GCP
5 20 (4.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.91%) Snowflake
8 13 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (2.76%) Adobe Analytics
10 11 (2.53%) Google Analytics
11 8 (1.84%) PaaS
11 8 (1.84%) Serverless
12 7 (1.61%) GitHub
13 6 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.15%) Azure Stack
14 5 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.15%) IaaS
14 5 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.60%) Firewall
2 15 (3.45%) Network Security
3 12 (2.76%) VPN
4 9 (2.07%) LAN
4 9 (2.07%) MPLS
4 9 (2.07%) PBX
4 9 (2.07%) VoIP
4 9 (2.07%) WAN
4 9 (2.07%) WLAN
5 5 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (1.15%) DHCP
5 5 (1.15%) DNS
5 5 (1.15%) Internet
5 5 (1.15%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.46%) Intranet
7 2 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (24.60%) Power BI
2 57 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (9.66%) Tableau
4 34 (7.82%) Big Data
5 28 (6.44%) Data Lake
6 22 (5.06%) MySQL
7 19 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.68%) BigQuery
9 15 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (2.99%) SQL Server
11 11 (2.53%) Looker
11 11 (2.53%) Metadata
12 10 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
13 9 (2.07%) KDB
13 9 (2.07%) QlikView
14 8 (1.84%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.84%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.61%) Data Mining
15 7 (1.61%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 25 (5.75%) Git
2 23 (5.29%) JIRA
3 10 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.61%) Postman
5 5 (1.15%) GitLab
6 4 (0.92%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.69%) Maven
7 3 (0.69%) Selenium
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.46%) Storybook
9 1 (0.23%) AppScan
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 112 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 110 (25.29%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (22.30%) Finance
4 36 (8.28%) Retail
5 34 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.36%) Banking
7 23 (5.29%) Telecoms
8 21 (4.83%) Marketing
9 15 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.22%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.07%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.07%) Legal
12 7 (1.61%) Front Office
13 6 (1.38%) Advertising
13 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 89 (20.46%) Analyst
2 62 (14.25%) Architect
3 55 (12.64%) Senior
4 51 (11.72%) Data Analyst
5 45 (10.34%) Developer
6 32 (7.36%) Data Engineer
7 31 (7.13%) Analytics Manager
7 31 (7.13%) Project Manager
8 29 (6.67%) Data Analytics Manager
9 26 (5.98%) Data Manager
10 25 (5.75%) Lead
11 19 (4.37%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.76%) Consultant
15 11 (2.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 11 (2.53%) SOC Engineer
16 10 (2.30%) Azure Architect
16 10 (2.30%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.45%) Web Services
2 13 (2.99%) PySpark
3 10 (2.30%) .NET
3 10 (2.30%) HTML
4 9 (2.07%) CSS
4 9 (2.07%) jQuery
5 8 (1.84%) JSON
6 6 (1.38%) Middleware
6 6 (1.38%) REST
7 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.15%) Swagger
8 4 (0.92%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.92%) DOM
8 4 (0.92%) Node.js
8 4 (0.92%) Pandas
8 4 (0.92%) React
8 4 (0.92%) Spring
8 4 (0.92%) Vue
9 3 (0.69%) Laravel
9 3 (0.69%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.80%) Management Information System
2 19 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.91%) Security Posture
4 13 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.99%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.53%) NHS
7 10 (2.30%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.61%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.61%) CMDB
11 5 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.15%) Life Science
11 5 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.60%) Linux
2 18 (4.14%) Windows
3 10 (2.30%) Unix
4 7 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.46%) VMS
5 2 (0.46%) zOS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (100.00%) Analytics
2 126 (28.97%) Business Intelligence
3 112 (25.75%) Agile
4 88 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (20.00%) ETL
6 77 (17.70%) Data Modelling
7 70 (16.09%) Project Management
7 70 (16.09%) Visualisation
8 56 (12.87%) Data Management
8 56 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (12.64%) Data Analysis
10 44 (10.11%) Migration
11 43 (9.89%) DevOps
12 41 (9.43%) Machine Learning
13 40 (9.20%) Data Integration
14 39 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (8.74%) Business Analysis
15 38 (8.74%) Computer Science
16 37 (8.51%) Decision-Making
16 37 (8.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 142 (32.64%) SQL
2 87 (20.00%) Python
3 14 (3.22%) C#
4 13 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 12 (2.76%) Java
5 12 (2.76%) Shell Script
6 11 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (2.53%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.53%) Scala
7 10 (2.30%) R
8 7 (1.61%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.15%) F#
10 5 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.92%) C++
11 4 (0.92%) COBOL
11 4 (0.92%) Perl
11 4 (0.92%) REXX
11 4 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (15.40%) Degree
2 58 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 48 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.60%) CISSP
6 13 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 13 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.76%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.07%) CCIE
9 9 (2.07%) CCIE Data Center
10 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.92%) CCNP
10 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.69%) CISM
12 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.98%) QA
3 11 (2.53%) PMO
4 10 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.38%) GDPR
6 5 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.15%) GAMP
6 5 (1.15%) GxP
6 5 (1.15%) SLA
7 3 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (1.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (3.22%) Grafana
1 14 (3.22%) Terraform
2 8 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.92%) Ansible
4 3 (0.69%) Graylog
4 3 (0.69%) Matomo
4 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.46%) Nagios
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.23%) Nessus
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 92 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.90%) Databricks
2 30 (6.90%) Google
3 25 (5.75%) Oracle
4 18 (4.14%) Adobe
5 14 (3.22%) SAP
6 13 (2.99%) Informatica
7 12 (2.76%) Denodo
7 12 (2.76%) Talend
8 10 (2.30%) IFS
8 10 (2.30%) Splunk
9 9 (2.07%) Cisco
10 7 (1.61%) Optimizely
10 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.38%) IBM
12 5 (1.15%) Autodesk
12 5 (1.15%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.15%) Infoblox
12 5 (1.15%) Symantec