Exploratory Data Analysis Contracts

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Exploratory Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Data Analysis over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 685 823
Rank change year-on-year +115 +138 -134
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 16 8 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.014% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.015% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 18
10th Percentile £388 £400 £405
25th Percentile £420 £456 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £584
90th Percentile £588 - £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £375 £415
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.64% -19.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £53.05
25th Percentile £47.50 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £60.50
75th Percentile £52.50 - £63.25
90th Percentile - - £64.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Exploratory Data Analysis 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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
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 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +100 16 £500 +3.90% 14
London +109 14 £500 +3.90% 12
Work from Home +124 8 £484 +0.56% 6
UK excluding London +70 1 £450 +20.00% 1
South West - 1 £450 -

Exploratory Data Analysis
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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Watson
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.25%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Big Data
1 6 (37.50%) Hadoop
1 6 (37.50%) Tableau
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Parquet
3 2 (12.50%) Power Query
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Deequ
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 2 (12.50%) Great Expectations
1 2 (12.50%) JSON
1 2 (12.50%) JSON Schema
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 13 (81.25%) Data Science
3 10 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 10 (62.50%) Predictive Modelling
4 9 (56.25%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (56.25%) Mathematics
4 9 (56.25%) Statistics
5 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (50.00%) Visualisation
6 6 (37.50%) Analytics
6 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
6 6 (37.50%) Prototyping
7 3 (18.75%) Agile
7 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (12.50%) Economics
8 2 (12.50%) ETL
8 2 (12.50%) Migration
8 2 (12.50%) Operations Research
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (43.75%) R
4 2 (12.50%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Alteryx
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) OpenAI