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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 235 207
Rank change year-on-year +7 -28 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 446 675 1,234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.14% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.26% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 465 889
10th Percentile £350 £350 £408
25th Percentile £425 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £733 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £515
% change year-on-year -2.37% +4.47% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 22
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.21 £9.92
25th Percentile £15.66 £21.88 £18.20
Median hourly rate £30.25 £40.25 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +22.90% +2.34%
75th Percentile £43.75 £78.30 £38.75
90th Percentile - £79.19 £52.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year -73.01% +270.72% -53.97%

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 37,484 53,362 80,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.34% 89.87% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,149 37,016 56,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
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% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,744 1,921
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 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 +8 383 £550 +1.85% 438
London -1 201 £563 -1.10% 209
UK excluding London +13 184 £525 -2.37% 239
Work from Home +19 160 £513 -5.09% 185
Midlands +38 80 £550 +1.85% 55
West Midlands +21 65 £550 +1.85% 43
South East +13 38 £450 - 40
North of England +19 32 £550 +10.00% 63
North West +25 26 £569 +33.82% 32
East Midlands +25 15 £383 -33.48% 12
Wales +32 13 £538 - 5
Scotland +3 8 £450 -21.74% 19
South West +11 7 £600 -6.80% 34
East of England +8 7 £307 -18.81% 21
Yorkshire +1 5 £515 -6.36% 19
North East +19 1 - - 12

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 (3.59%) SAS
1 16 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.35%) Confluence
3 5 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.90%) govService
4 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Apache
6 2 (0.45%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.67%) SPSS
6 2 (0.45%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) InVision
7 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Endur
2 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.90%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.67%) Shopify
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 107 (23.99%) Power Platform
2 104 (23.32%) Azure
3 61 (13.68%) AWS
4 32 (7.17%) GCP
5 18 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.81%) Snowflake
7 12 (2.69%) Adobe Analytics
7 12 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (2.47%) Google Analytics
9 9 (2.02%) PaaS
10 8 (1.79%) GitHub
10 8 (1.79%) Serverless
11 7 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.35%) IaaS
12 6 (1.35%) SaaS
13 5 (1.12%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.26%) Firewall
2 14 (3.14%) Network Security
3 12 (2.69%) VPN
4 9 (2.02%) LAN
4 9 (2.02%) MPLS
4 9 (2.02%) PBX
4 9 (2.02%) VoIP
4 9 (2.02%) WAN
4 9 (2.02%) WLAN
5 5 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.12%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (1.12%) DHCP
5 5 (1.12%) DNS
5 5 (1.12%) Internet
5 5 (1.12%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.45%) Intranet
7 2 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (23.77%) Power BI
2 59 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (9.64%) Tableau
4 34 (7.62%) Big Data
5 28 (6.28%) MySQL
6 27 (6.05%) Data Lake
7 25 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.59%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.69%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.47%) Looker
10 11 (2.47%) Metadata
11 10 (2.24%) Crystal Reports
11 10 (2.24%) KDB
12 9 (2.02%) Hadoop
12 9 (2.02%) QlikView
13 8 (1.79%) NoSQL
13 8 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.79%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 30 (6.73%) Git
2 23 (5.16%) JIRA
3 10 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.57%) Postman
5 6 (1.35%) GitLab
6 5 (1.12%) Selenium
7 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.67%) Maven
9 2 (0.45%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.45%) Storybook
10 1 (0.22%) AppScan
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.22%) TestNG
10 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 118 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 111 (24.89%) Analytical Skills
3 110 (24.66%) Finance
4 37 (8.30%) Banking
4 37 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.07%) Retail
6 23 (5.16%) Telecoms
7 21 (4.71%) Marketing
8 14 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.14%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.79%) Legal
11 7 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.57%) Front Office
12 6 (1.35%) Advertising
12 6 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 94 (21.08%) Analyst
2 65 (14.57%) Architect
3 56 (12.56%) Senior
4 54 (12.11%) Data Analyst
5 46 (10.31%) Developer
6 31 (6.95%) Project Manager
7 30 (6.73%) Analytics Manager
7 30 (6.73%) Data Engineer
8 28 (6.28%) Data Analytics Manager
9 26 (5.83%) Data Manager
10 24 (5.38%) Lead
11 21 (4.71%) Data Architect
12 17 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (3.36%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.69%) Consultant
16 11 (2.47%) Azure Architect
16 11 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 10 (2.24%) KDB Developer
17 10 (2.24%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.36%) Web Services
2 13 (2.91%) PySpark
3 11 (2.47%) HTML
4 10 (2.24%) .NET
5 9 (2.02%) CSS
5 9 (2.02%) jQuery
6 8 (1.79%) JSON
6 8 (1.79%) Middleware
7 6 (1.35%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.35%) REST
8 5 (1.12%) Pandas
8 5 (1.12%) Swagger
9 4 (0.90%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.90%) DOM
9 4 (0.90%) Flask
9 4 (0.90%) Node.js
9 4 (0.90%) React
9 4 (0.90%) Spring
9 4 (0.90%) Vue
10 3 (0.67%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.54%) Management Information System
2 19 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.59%) Security Posture
4 14 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (2.47%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.47%) NHS
7 9 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.57%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.57%) CMDB
9 6 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.12%) Life Science
10 5 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.12%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (0.90%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.48%) Linux
2 19 (4.26%) Windows
3 10 (2.24%) Unix
4 7 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.45%) zOS
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (100.00%) Analytics
2 128 (28.70%) Business Intelligence
3 119 (26.68%) Agile
4 89 (19.96%) ETL
5 87 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (17.71%) Data Modelling
7 73 (16.37%) Project Management
8 70 (15.70%) Visualisation
9 57 (12.78%) Data Analysis
10 56 (12.56%) Data Management
11 55 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 46 (10.31%) DevOps
13 44 (9.87%) Migration
14 42 (9.42%) Scrum
15 41 (9.19%) Machine Learning
15 41 (9.19%) Requirements Gathering
16 40 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (8.97%) Data Integration
17 39 (8.74%) Business Analysis
17 39 (8.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 147 (32.96%) SQL
2 94 (21.08%) Python
3 15 (3.36%) C#
4 14 (3.14%) R
5 13 (2.91%) Java
6 12 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (2.69%) Shell Script
7 11 (2.47%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.24%) Scala
9 9 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.57%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (1.12%) F#
11 5 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.90%) ABAP
12 4 (0.90%) C
12 4 (0.90%) C++
12 4 (0.90%) Perl
12 4 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (15.47%) Degree
2 64 (14.35%) Security Cleared
3 54 (12.11%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.26%) CISSP
6 13 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.02%) CCIE
9 9 (2.02%) CCIE Data Center
10 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.90%) CCNP
10 4 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.67%) CISM
12 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.83%) QA
3 11 (2.47%) PMO
4 10 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.57%) GDPR
6 5 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.12%) GAMP
6 5 (1.12%) GxP
6 5 (1.12%) SLA
7 3 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (4.48%) Grafana
2 15 (3.36%) Terraform
3 10 (2.24%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.90%) Ansible
5 3 (0.67%) Graylog
5 3 (0.67%) Matomo
5 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Nagios
7 1 (0.22%) Argo
7 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.22%) Nessus
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.22%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 94 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.95%) Google
3 29 (6.50%) Databricks
4 24 (5.38%) Oracle
5 18 (4.04%) Adobe
5 18 (4.04%) Denodo
5 18 (4.04%) Talend
6 15 (3.36%) SAP
7 13 (2.91%) Informatica
8 10 (2.24%) IFS
8 10 (2.24%) Splunk
9 9 (2.02%) Cisco
10 7 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.57%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.35%) IBM
11 6 (1.35%) Optimizely
12 5 (1.12%) Autodesk
12 5 (1.12%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.12%) Infoblox
12 5 (1.12%) Symantec