Senior Data Analyst Contracts

Senior Data Analyst
UK

The median Senior Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500 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 531 671 738
Rank change year-on-year +140 +67 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 55 51 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.085% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.090% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 32 67
10th Percentile £325 £413 £379
25th Percentile £425 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £581
90th Percentile £588 £637 £642
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +6.58% - +18.75%

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%

Senior Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 +119 44 £525 +10.53% 18
UK excluding London +87 35 £506 +6.58% 6
Work from Home +124 22 £538 +14.67% 12
North of England +46 19 £525 -5.61% 1
North West +28 16 £550 -1.12% 1
London +92 15 £525 +13.51% 11
Scotland +32 9 £465 +0.54% 1
South East +14 4 £350 -33.46% 1
East of England +13 4 £525 +23.53% 1
Yorkshire +27 2 £227 -
Midlands +27 2 £488 +156.58% 1
West Midlands - 2 £488 - 1

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

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

1 32 (58.18%) Data Analysis
2 22 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 22 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 21 (38.18%) Analytics
3 21 (38.18%) SQL
4 19 (34.55%) Power BI
4 19 (34.55%) Power Platform
5 18 (32.73%) Data Quality
6 17 (30.91%) Data Visualisation
7 16 (29.09%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
9 14 (25.45%) SAP
10 13 (23.64%) Python
10 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (23.64%) Data Structures
11 12 (21.82%) JIRA
11 12 (21.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (18.18%) Agile
12 10 (18.18%) Data Analytics
12 10 (18.18%) Tableau
13 9 (16.36%) Data Stewardship
13 9 (16.36%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (16.36%) GDPR
13 9 (16.36%) SAP S/4HANA
13 9 (16.36%) Data Integration
13 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (16.36%) Customer Experience
14 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
14 8 (14.55%) Ariba
14 8 (14.55%) Atlassian

Senior 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 4 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.45%) SAS
3 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.45%) SPSS
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (16.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) Power Platform
2 8 (14.55%) Power Automate
2 8 (14.55%) PowerApps
3 6 (10.91%) Azure
4 3 (5.45%) AWS
5 2 (3.64%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) Matillion
5 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) Power BI
2 10 (18.18%) Tableau
3 4 (7.27%) Big Data
3 4 (7.27%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.27%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (5.45%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.45%) Presto
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.82%) GIS
6 1 (1.82%) Impala
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) JIRA
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.82%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (12.73%) Manufacturing
5 6 (10.91%) Finance
6 5 (9.09%) Retail
7 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
7 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.64%) Local Government
9 1 (1.82%) Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Military
9 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) D3.js
1 3 (5.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.09%) Life Science
3 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.64%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (58.18%) Data Analysis
2 22 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 22 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 21 (38.18%) Analytics
4 17 (30.91%) Data Visualisation
5 16 (29.09%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (18.18%) Agile
6 10 (18.18%) Data Analytics
7 9 (16.36%) Customer Experience
7 9 (16.36%) Data Integration
7 9 (16.36%) Data Stewardship
7 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.36%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (12.73%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (12.73%) Migration
9 6 (10.91%) ETL
9 6 (10.91%) Order to Cash
9 6 (10.91%) Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.18%) SQL
2 13 (23.64%) Python
3 3 (5.45%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (32.73%) Data Quality
2 9 (16.36%) GDPR
3 5 (9.09%) PMO
4 2 (3.64%) SLA
5 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) SAP
2 8 (14.55%) Ariba
2 8 (14.55%) Atlassian
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) Databricks
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Splunk
3 3 (5.45%) Teradata
4 1 (1.82%) Brio
4 1 (1.82%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.82%) Informatica
4 1 (1.82%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.82%) Talend