Data Insight Analyst Contracts

Data Insight Analyst
UK

The median Data Insight Analyst daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 693 842
Rank change year-on-year +104 +149 -164
Contract jobs requiring a Data Insight Analyst 9 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.032% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.034% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 9
10th Percentile £406 £375 £300
25th Percentile £463 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -13.91% +35.29%
75th Percentile £628 £506 -
90th Percentile £638 £594 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Data Insight Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Insight Analyst in the UK

Data Insight Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Insight Analyst in the UK

Data Insight Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Insight Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Insight Analyst in the UK

Data Insight Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Insight Analyst in the UK

Data Insight Analyst
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Insight Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +121 8 £525 +6.06% 2
London +94 6 £525 +16.67%
UK excluding London +44 3 £450 -10.00% 1
Work from Home +121 2 £450 +3.45% 1
North of England +29 1 £450 -21.05%
South West - 1 £625 - 1
Scotland - 1 £375 -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -

Data Insight Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Data Insight 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 featuring Data Insight Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (55.56%) Power BI
3 5 (55.56%) Analytics
3 5 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 3 (33.33%) Customer Insight
5 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (33.33%) Tableau
5 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (33.33%) Data Science
5 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (22.22%) Epics
6 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (22.22%) Actionable Customer Insight
6 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (22.22%) Storytelling
6 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
6 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 2 (22.22%) Behavioural Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) Predictive Modelling
6 2 (22.22%) User Stories

Data Insight Analyst Skill Set
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 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Power BI
2 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) Tableau
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Customer Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Behavioural Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (22.22%) Epics
4 2 (22.22%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Storytelling
4 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft