Data Analyst Contracts

Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 163 167
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 671 969 1,507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.61% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.71% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 686 1,098
10th Percentile £276 £266 £262
25th Percentile £363 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.10%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £419
% change year-on-year +2.94% +1.43% +6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 40 67
10th Percentile £13.40 £15.70 £12.33
25th Percentile £15.89 £16.98 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.66 £20.52 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +5.10% -2.40%
75th Percentile £40.00 £26.22 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.95 £34.25 £35.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.43 £20.47 £19.52
% change year-on-year +4.69% +4.87% +9.05%

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 -7 567 £475 - 217
UK excluding London +24 309 £438 +2.94% 111
London -3 299 £500 -3.85% 115
Work from Home +41 282 £475 - 86
North of England +25 99 £475 +13.10% 33
South East +20 76 £450 - 24
North West +30 71 £475 +14.11% 12
Scotland +52 54 £456 +10.55% 8
Midlands +10 29 £375 +10.29% 21
South West -11 27 £450 -5.26% 13
Yorkshire +7 25 £400 -8.57% 11
East of England +5 24 £450 - 9
West Midlands +11 17 £431 +32.69% 10
East Midlands +19 12 £369 -7.81% 11
Northern Ireland +10 3 £338 -43.75% 1
North East +15 2 £500 - 10
Wales +6 2 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Data 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 250 (37.26%) SQL
2 227 (33.83%) Finance
3 196 (29.21%) Data Analysis
4 193 (28.76%) Business Intelligence
4 193 (28.76%) Power BI
4 193 (28.76%) Power Platform
5 172 (25.63%) Social Skills
6 162 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
7 154 (22.95%) Analytics
8 143 (21.31%) Data Quality
9 138 (20.57%) Visualisation
10 127 (18.93%) Python
11 125 (18.63%) Data Modelling
12 103 (15.35%) Data Management
12 103 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (13.56%) Tableau
14 87 (12.97%) Data Governance
15 86 (12.82%) Banking
16 85 (12.67%) Migration
17 82 (12.22%) Data Visualisation
18 80 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 78 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
20 67 (9.99%) Decision-Making
21 62 (9.24%) Data Cleansing
22 60 (8.94%) Microsoft
22 60 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
23 58 (8.64%) Agile
24 56 (8.35%) Azure
25 53 (7.90%) Change Management
25 53 (7.90%) Data Migration

Data 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 23 (3.43%) SAS
2 13 (1.94%) Confluence
3 8 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 78 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.24%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.04%) SPSS
6 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 193 (28.76%) Power Platform
2 56 (8.35%) Azure
3 38 (5.66%) Snowflake
4 33 (4.92%) Power Automate
5 25 (3.73%) AWS
6 24 (3.58%) Collibra
7 22 (3.28%) PowerApps
8 18 (2.68%) GCP
9 13 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (1.49%) Google Analytics
11 8 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (0.60%) Adobe Analytics
14 4 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.60%) GitHub
14 4 (0.60%) iPaaS
14 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.60%) OCI
14 4 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.89%) DNS
1 6 (0.89%) Firewall
2 5 (0.75%) DHCP
3 4 (0.60%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) NAS
4 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (28.76%) Power BI
2 91 (13.56%) Tableau
3 40 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 31 (4.62%) Metadata
6 26 (3.87%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.13%) Data Mining
8 16 (2.38%) Big Data
8 16 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 15 (2.24%) Qlik Sense
10 10 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.34%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (1.19%) Looker
13 7 (1.04%) Ataccama
13 7 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (5.66%) JIRA
2 11 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (1.34%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.75%) PyCharm
5 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
6 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Git
7 1 (0.15%) RStudio
7 1 (0.15%) Toad
General
1 227 (33.83%) Finance
2 172 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 162 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.82%) Banking
5 40 (5.96%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.51%) Legal
7 36 (5.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 30 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (4.02%) Retail
10 21 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.98%) Marketing
11 20 (2.98%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.49%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.34%) Local Government
14 9 (1.34%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.04%) Front Office
16 6 (0.89%) Back Office
16 6 (0.89%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.04%) D3.js
1 7 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (1.04%) PySpark
2 3 (0.45%) Middleware
2 3 (0.45%) Shiny
3 2 (0.30%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.30%) ggplot2
3 2 (0.30%) LDAP
3 2 (0.30%) Pandas
3 2 (0.30%) Plotly
3 2 (0.30%) XML
3 2 (0.30%) XSD
4 1 (0.15%) EDI
4 1 (0.15%) JSON
4 1 (0.15%) Node.js
4 1 (0.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.77%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.53%) Credit Risk
4 12 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.64%) NHS
6 10 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.19%) Life Science
7 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 6 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.60%) Derivative
10 4 (0.60%) e-Health
10 4 (0.60%) Freedom of Information
10 4 (0.60%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.64%) Windows
2 4 (0.60%) Linux
2 4 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (29.21%) Data Analysis
2 193 (28.76%) Business Intelligence
3 154 (22.95%) Analytics
4 138 (20.57%) Visualisation
5 125 (18.63%) Data Modelling
6 103 (15.35%) Data Management
6 103 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (12.97%) Data Governance
8 85 (12.67%) Migration
9 82 (12.22%) Data Visualisation
10 80 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 67 (9.99%) Decision-Making
12 62 (9.24%) Data Cleansing
13 60 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
14 58 (8.64%) Agile
15 53 (7.90%) Change Management
15 53 (7.90%) Data Analytics
15 53 (7.90%) Data Migration
16 48 (7.15%) ETL
17 38 (5.66%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 250 (37.26%) SQL
2 127 (18.93%) Python
3 25 (3.73%) R
4 9 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (1.04%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.04%) T-SQL
6 6 (0.89%) Java
7 5 (0.75%) VBScript
8 4 (0.60%) Groovy
8 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) C++
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Julia
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (7.75%) Degree
2 38 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 36 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.15%) ACCA
8 1 (0.15%) APMP
8 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.15%) CIMA
8 1 (0.15%) CISM
8 1 (0.15%) CISSP
8 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (21.31%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.11%) QA
3 27 (4.02%) GDPR
4 9 (1.34%) PMO
5 7 (1.04%) SLA
6 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.60%) GxP
7 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.30%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) EMIR
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.30%) Terraform
2 1 (0.15%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 60 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.75%) SAP
3 44 (6.56%) Oracle
4 43 (6.41%) Alteryx
5 25 (3.73%) Databricks
6 20 (2.98%) Google
7 18 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.53%) Splunk
9 13 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.79%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.79%) Refinitiv
11 9 (1.34%) Ariba
11 9 (1.34%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.19%) Informatica
13 7 (1.04%) Trillium
14 5 (0.75%) Adobe
14 5 (0.75%) Citrix
14 5 (0.75%) Datix
14 5 (0.75%) Red Hat
252 Data Analyst jobs Nationwide