Market Data Analyst Contracts

Market Data Analyst
UK

The median Market Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £385 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 704 840
Rank change year-on-year +132 +136 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Market Data Analyst 19 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.005% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.005% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 16
10th Percentile - £360 -
25th Percentile £359 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £569 £675
90th Percentile - £610 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 - -

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 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
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 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Market Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Data Analyst in the UK

Market Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Market Data Analyst in the UK

Market Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Data Analyst over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Market Data Analyst in the UK

Market Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Market Data Analyst in the UK

Market Data Analyst
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +131 19 £385 -14.44% 5
London +116 18 £385 -14.44% 5
Work from Home - 6 £650 -
UK excluding London - 1 £200 -
North of England - 1 £200 -
North West - 1 £200 -
South West - 1 £200 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Market 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 Market Data Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Refinitiv
1 11 (57.89%) Bloomberg
2 9 (47.37%) Banking
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Windows
4 6 (31.58%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
5 5 (26.32%) Application Security
5 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
5 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
5 5 (26.32%) Application Packaging
5 5 (26.32%) VBScript
5 5 (26.32%) Citrix
5 5 (26.32%) Red Hat
6 4 (21.05%) DHCP
6 4 (21.05%) DNS
6 4 (21.05%) IPv4
6 4 (21.05%) Change Management
6 4 (21.05%) Firewall
6 4 (21.05%) QA
6 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
6 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (21.05%) SDLC
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (21.05%) Security Patching
6 4 (21.05%) Application Virtualisation
6 4 (21.05%) Batch Scripting
7 2 (10.53%) Internal Audit
7 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics

Market 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) DHCP
1 4 (21.05%) DNS
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
1 4 (21.05%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) KDB
2 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (47.37%) Banking
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Front Office
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (26.32%) Application Packaging
2 5 (26.32%) Application Security
3 4 (21.05%) Application Virtualisation
3 4 (21.05%) Batch Scripting
3 4 (21.05%) Change Management
3 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
3 4 (21.05%) SDLC
3 4 (21.05%) Security Patching
3 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Internal Audit
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (10.53%) Service Management
4 2 (10.53%) TDD
5 1 (5.26%) EAI
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) VBScript
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) C++
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Bloomberg
1 11 (57.89%) Refinitiv
2 5 (26.32%) Citrix
2 5 (26.32%) Red Hat