Data Analyst Contracts in England

The median contractor rate for a Data Analyst was £400 per day in advertised job vacancies in England during the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Data Analyst UK / England
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	187	204	159
Rank change year-on-year	+17	-45
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst	588	628	792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.36%	1.29%	1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category	1.44%	1.36%	1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted	377	427	546
Median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£200	£205	£190
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£555	£550	£521
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£350	£340
% change year-on-year	-	+2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	22	35	20
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£16.09	£20.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+11.87%	-22.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.98	£10.70	£11.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£22.30	£31.80	£28.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£18.00	£15.25	£18.74
% change year-on-year	+18.03%	-18.60%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles England
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	40905	46317	48290
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	94.76%	95.03%	94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted	26668	30607	30911
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£263	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1248	1357	1858
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.44	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£43.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+9.06%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England that featured Data Analyst in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+16	340	£428	+6.87%	47
South East	-21	72	£300	-14.28%	23
North West	+15	39	£400	+14.28%	10
West Midlands	+14	29	£313	+9.17%	12
East of England	-12	27	£375	-6.25%	10
Yorkshire	+20	24	£303	-24.37%	5
East Midlands	+3	22	£419	+34.00%
South West	-6	21	£415	+18.57%	8
North East	+73	10	£180	-44.61%
Midlands	+16	3	£180	-34.54%	12
Data Analyst UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, Data Analyst contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1	474 (42.66%)	SQL
2	331 (29.79%)	Data Analysis
3	324 (29.16%)	Finance
4	306 (27.54%)	Microsoft Excel
5	230 (20.70%)	Data Modelling
6	229 (20.61%)	Migration
7	227 (20.43%)	Analytical Skills
8	193 (17.37%)	Data Migration
9	190 (17.10%)	Data Quality
10	183 (16.47%)	Analytics
11	166 (14.94%)	Data Management
12	146 (13.14%)	SQL Server
13	140 (12.60%)	Business Intelligence
14	128 (11.52%)	Microsoft
15	124 (11.16%)	ETL

16	121 (10.89%)	Banking
17	119 (10.71%)	SAP
18	108 (9.72%)	Oracle
18	108 (9.72%)	Degree
19	107 (9.63%)	Data Warehouse
20	95 (8.55%)	Data Cleansing
21	94 (8.46%)	Agile Software Development
22	91 (8.19%)	VBA
23	90 (8.10%)	Big Data
24	87 (7.83%)	R
24	87 (7.83%)	Data Mapping
25	85 (7.65%)	Tableau
26	78 (7.02%)	Hadoop
27	76 (6.84%)	Visualisation
28	74 (6.66%)	Python

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	72 (6.48%)	SAS
2	34 (3.06%)	Apache Spark
3	17 (1.53%)	SharePoint
4	9 (0.81%)	Confluence
5	8 (0.72%)	Apache Pig
6	7 (0.63%)	Apache
6	7 (0.63%)	Smallworld
7	5 (0.45%)	MS Exchange
8	4 (0.36%)	CMS
8	4 (0.36%)	Elasticsearch
9	3 (0.27%)	Exchange Server 2010
9	3 (0.27%)	IBM HTTP Server
9	3 (0.27%)	Tomcat
10	2 (0.18%)	Documentum
11	1 (0.090%)	Apache Solr
11	1 (0.090%)	IBM Notes
11	1 (0.090%)	IIS
11	1 (0.090%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	306 (27.54%)	Microsoft Excel
2	56 (5.04%)	Microsoft Office
3	43 (3.87%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	32 (2.88%)	Spreadsheet
5	30 (2.70%)	MS Visio
6	15 (1.35%)	SPSS
7	9 (0.81%)	Microsoft Project
8	3 (0.27%)	Stata
9	1 (0.090%)	S-PLUS
9	1 (0.090%)	SPSS Modeler

Business Applications
1	26 (2.34%)	Markit EDM
2	18 (1.62%)	Dynamics CRM
3	15 (1.35%)	Maximo
4	12 (1.08%)	SAP S/4HANA
5	9 (0.81%)	Oracle EBS
5	9 (0.81%)	SAP PM
6	8 (0.72%)	Eagle PACE
6	8 (0.72%)	FastStats
6	8 (0.72%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	8 (0.72%)	thinkFolio
7	7 (0.63%)	Dynamics AX
7	7 (0.63%)	Oracle ERP
7	7 (0.63%)	SimCorp Dimension
8	6 (0.54%)	Oracle Financials
9	5 (0.45%)	SAP ERP
10	4 (0.36%)	Eloqua
10	4 (0.36%)	SAP FI
10	4 (0.36%)	SAP Oil and Gas
11	3 (0.27%)	Bloomberg TOMS
11	3 (0.27%)	Infor M3

Cloud Services
1	14 (1.26%)	Google Analytics
2	13 (1.17%)	SaaS
3	12 (1.08%)	Office 365
4	6 (0.54%)	Amazon AWS
5	5 (0.45%)	Adobe Analytics
5	5 (0.45%)	G Suite
6	3 (0.27%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	3 (0.27%)	Microsoft Azure
7	2 (0.18%)	Cloud Computing
7	2 (0.18%)	GitHub
7	2 (0.18%)	Veeva
8	1 (0.090%)	AdSense
8	1 (0.090%)	AdWords
8	1 (0.090%)	IBM Blueworks
8	1 (0.090%)	Slack
8	1 (0.090%)	SuccessFactors
8	1 (0.090%)	SurveyMonkey
8	1 (0.090%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	6 (0.54%)	LDAP
2	5 (0.45%)	DHCP
2	5 (0.45%)	Internet
2	5 (0.45%)	LAN
2	5 (0.45%)	MPLS
2	5 (0.45%)	TCP/IP
2	5 (0.45%)	VLAN
2	5 (0.45%)	WAN
2	5 (0.45%)	Wireless
3	3 (0.27%)	Firewall
3	3 (0.27%)	SMS
4	2 (0.18%)	PuTTY
4	2 (0.18%)	WinSCP
5	1 (0.090%)	Broadband
5	1 (0.090%)	Cisco Nexus
5	1 (0.090%)	DNS
5	1 (0.090%)	Network Security
5	1 (0.090%)	Radio Access Network
5	1 (0.090%)	SAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	146 (13.14%)	SQL Server
2	107 (9.63%)	Data Warehouse
3	90 (8.10%)	Big Data
4	78 (7.02%)	Hadoop
5	70 (6.30%)	Relational Database
6	62 (5.58%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	58 (5.22%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	49 (4.41%)	Data Mining
9	44 (3.96%)	MS Access
10	31 (2.79%)	QlikView
11	30 (2.70%)	BusinessObjects
11	30 (2.70%)	Power BI
12	25 (2.25%)	DB2
13	19 (1.71%)	DataStage
14	18 (1.62%)	Apache Hive
15	17 (1.53%)	GIS
15	17 (1.53%)	PowerPivot
16	16 (1.44%)	MySQL
16	16 (1.44%)	NoSQL
17	14 (1.26%)	IBM InfoSphere

Development Applications
1	25 (2.25%)	Talend Open Studio
2	23 (2.07%)	ERwin
3	22 (1.98%)	JIRA
4	11 (0.99%)	PowerDesigner
5	9 (0.81%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6	8 (0.72%)	Toad
7	7 (0.63%)	Team Foundation Server
7	7 (0.63%)	Visual Studio
8	4 (0.36%)	Git (software)
9	2 (0.18%)	HP UFT
9	2 (0.18%)	Jenkins
9	2 (0.18%)	Maven
9	2 (0.18%)	Oracle APEX
9	2 (0.18%)	Selenium
10	1 (0.090%)	LSMW
10	1 (0.090%)	PowerBuilder
10	1 (0.090%)	SpecFlow
10	1 (0.090%)	TeamCity

General
1	324 (29.16%)	Finance
2	121 (10.89%)	Banking
3	50 (4.50%)	Marketing
3	50 (4.50%)	Retail
4	44 (3.96%)	Investment Banking
5	25 (2.25%)	Legal
6	24 (2.16%)	Telecoms
7	23 (2.07%)	Front Office
8	22 (1.98%)	Manufacturing
9	20 (1.80%)	Pharmaceutical
10	18 (1.62%)	Back Office
11	13 (1.17%)	Financial Institution
12	12 (1.08%)	Law
13	10 (0.90%)	Advertising
13	10 (0.90%)	Publishing
14	8 (0.72%)	Billing
14	8 (0.72%)	French Language
15	7 (0.63%)	German Language
16	6 (0.54%)	Automotive
16	6 (0.54%)	Retail Banking

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	41 (3.69%)	XML
2	11 (0.99%)	XML Messaging
2	11 (0.99%)	XML Schema
3	8 (0.72%)	D3.js
3	8 (0.72%)	Oracle Fusion
3	8 (0.72%)	REST
4	7 (0.63%)	.NET
4	7 (0.63%)	JSON
4	7 (0.63%)	Kafka
4	7 (0.63%)	Middleware
5	5 (0.45%)	AngularJS
5	5 (0.45%)	SOAP
5	5 (0.45%)	Web Services
6	4 (0.36%)	HTML
6	4 (0.36%)	Three.js
7	3 (0.27%)	Node.js
7	3 (0.27%)	React
7	3 (0.27%)	Regular Expression
7	3 (0.27%)	XSD
8	2 (0.18%)	Mason

Miscellaneous
1	227 (20.43%)	Analytical Skills
2	62 (5.58%)	Data Structures
3	58 (5.22%)	Management Information System
4	30 (2.70%)	Reference Data
5	26 (2.34%)	Data Centre
6	24 (2.16%)	Computer Science
7	21 (1.89%)	Greenfield Project
8	19 (1.71%)	Hedge funds
9	18 (1.62%)	NHS
10	16 (1.44%)	Data Protection Act
11	12 (1.08%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	12 (1.08%)	Market Risk
12	11 (0.99%)	Credit Risk
12	11 (0.99%)	Derivative
12	11 (0.99%)	Fixed Income
12	11 (0.99%)	SWIFT
13	10 (0.90%)	Algorithms
13	10 (0.90%)	Equities
14	9 (0.81%)	Virtual Team
15	6 (0.54%)	Taxonomies

Operating Systems
1	27 (2.43%)	Windows
2	23 (2.07%)	Linux
3	16 (1.44%)	Unix
4	5 (0.45%)	Android
4	5 (0.45%)	Apple iOS
5	4 (0.36%)	AIX
5	4 (0.36%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	4 (0.36%)	Solaris
5	4 (0.36%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5	4 (0.36%)	Windows Server 2008
5	4 (0.36%)	Windows Server 2012
6	3 (0.27%)	Windows 10
7	1 (0.090%)	Windows 7
7	1 (0.090%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	331 (29.79%)	Data Analysis
2	230 (20.70%)	Data Modelling
3	229 (20.61%)	Migration
4	193 (17.37%)	Data Migration
5	183 (16.47%)	Analytics
6	166 (14.94%)	Data Management
7	140 (12.60%)	Business Intelligence
8	124 (11.16%)	ETL
9	95 (8.55%)	Data Cleansing
10	94 (8.46%)	Agile Software Development
11	87 (7.83%)	Data Mapping
12	76 (6.84%)	Visualisation
13	72 (6.48%)	Business Analysis
13	72 (6.48%)	Data Analytics
14	70 (6.30%)	Data Governance
14	70 (6.30%)	Stakeholder Management
15	64 (5.76%)	Validation
16	63 (5.67%)	CRM
16	63 (5.67%)	Statistics
17	59 (5.31%)	Asset Management

Programming Languages
1	474 (42.66%)	SQL
2	91 (8.19%)	VBA
3	87 (7.83%)	R
4	74 (6.66%)	Python
5	36 (3.24%)	T-SQL
6	25 (2.25%)	Java
7	19 (1.71%)	C
7	19 (1.71%)	JavaScript
8	18 (1.62%)	VB
9	13 (1.17%)	C++
10	12 (1.08%)	PL/SQL
11	11 (0.99%)	MATLAB
12	7 (0.63%)	C#
12	7 (0.63%)	Perl
12	7 (0.63%)	Scala
13	4 (0.36%)	VBScript
14	3 (0.27%)	PHP
14	3 (0.27%)	Shell Script
14	3 (0.27%)	XPath
15	2 (0.18%)	Magik

Qualifications
1	108 (9.72%)	Degree
2	16 (1.44%)	Security Cleared
3	8 (0.72%)	ISEB
3	8 (0.72%)	SC Cleared
4	4 (0.36%)	ACCA
4	4 (0.36%)	CIMA
4	4 (0.36%)	IIBA
4	4 (0.36%)	Postgraduate
5	3 (0.27%)	PhD
5	3 (0.27%)	PMI Certification
6	2 (0.18%)	BPSS Clearance
6	2 (0.18%)	CBAP
6	2 (0.18%)	CISSP
6	2 (0.18%)	DV Cleared
6	2 (0.18%)	GISP
6	2 (0.18%)	ISTQB
6	2 (0.18%)	Master's Degree
6	2 (0.18%)	SAP Certification
7	1 (0.090%)	Computer Science Degree
7	1 (0.090%)	MRICS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	190 (17.10%)	Data Quality
2	17 (1.53%)	GDPR
3	16 (1.44%)	MiFID
3	16 (1.44%)	QA
4	14 (1.26%)	PMO
5	11 (0.99%)	ISO 20022
6	10 (0.90%)	SLA
7	8 (0.72%)	Solvency II
8	6 (0.54%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	5 (0.45%)	Actionable Recommendations
9	5 (0.45%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	4 (0.36%)	Dodd-Frank
10	4 (0.36%)	GMP
10	4 (0.36%)	IFRS
10	4 (0.36%)	IFRS 9
11	3 (0.27%)	Disclosure Scotland
11	3 (0.27%)	PCI DSS
12	2 (0.18%)	EMIR
13	1 (0.090%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
13	1 (0.090%)	UCITS

System Software
1	16 (1.44%)	Active Directory
2	5 (0.45%)	HDFS
2	5 (0.45%)	vSphere
3	3 (0.27%)	XenApp
4	2 (0.18%)	Firmware
4	2 (0.18%)	Microsoft App-V
4	2 (0.18%)	SAP ITS

Systems Management
1	4 (0.36%)	BladeLogic
2	3 (0.27%)	Oracle EDQ
3	2 (0.18%)	Forefront Identity Manager
3	2 (0.18%)	SCCM
3	2 (0.18%)	Thomson Reuters DACS
4	1 (0.090%)	EMC NetWorker
4	1 (0.090%)	Hadoop YARN
4	1 (0.090%)	HP Quality Center
4	1 (0.090%)	PowerCLI
4	1 (0.090%)	vRealize

Vendors
1	128 (11.52%)	Microsoft
2	119 (10.71%)	SAP
3	108 (9.72%)	Oracle
4	85 (7.65%)	Tableau
5	37 (3.33%)	Teradata
6	33 (2.97%)	Informatica
7	27 (2.43%)	IBM
8	25 (2.25%)	Talend
9	22 (1.98%)	Google
10	19 (1.71%)	Salesforce.com
11	16 (1.44%)	Charles River
12	13 (1.17%)	Cognos
13	12 (1.08%)	Netezza
13	12 (1.08%)	Sybase
14	11 (0.99%)	Hyperion
15	9 (0.81%)	Ab Initio
15	9 (0.81%)	Adobe
15	9 (0.81%)	Ariba
15	9 (0.81%)	Trillium
15	9 (0.81%)	VMware