Data Analyst Contracts in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 157 164
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 556 864 1,244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 1.73% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.83% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 618 905
10th Percentile £303 £270 £254
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £550
90th Percentile £628 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £466
% change year-on-year -2.63% +1.93% +10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 31 67
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.56 £16.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £22.16 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +8.15% +10.76%
75th Percentile £40.00 £30.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.95 £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £21.66 £19.50 £20.10
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.99% +8.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 6 months to 5 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
London -8 301 £500 - 130
North of England +20 87 £450 +5.88% 32
South East +23 74 £425 -5.56% 21
North West +37 62 £438 +6.71% 13
Midlands +17 33 £375 +8.70% 26
South West -7 27 £450 -2.70% 13
East of England +14 24 £450 - 14
Yorkshire -4 22 £450 -6.25% 13
West Midlands +6 17 £431 +26.84% 15
East Midlands +24 16 £363 -9.38% 11
North East +13 2 £500 - 6
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 219 (39.39%) SQL
2 201 (36.15%) Finance
3 166 (29.86%) Business Intelligence
4 157 (28.24%) Power BI
4 157 (28.24%) Power Platform
5 156 (28.06%) Social Skills
6 154 (27.70%) Data Analysis
7 135 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (22.30%) Python
9 123 (22.12%) Data Quality
10 122 (21.94%) Analytics
11 110 (19.78%) Visualisation
12 101 (18.17%) Data Modelling
13 90 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (15.11%) Data Management
14 84 (15.11%) Tableau
15 78 (14.03%) Data Governance
16 77 (13.85%) Banking
17 69 (12.41%) Migration
18 64 (11.51%) Data Visualisation
19 62 (11.15%) Microsoft Excel
20 61 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
21 55 (9.89%) Data Cleansing
22 53 (9.53%) Agile
23 51 (9.17%) Azure
24 50 (8.99%) Decision-Making
25 48 (8.63%) Actionable Insight
25 48 (8.63%) Data Migration
25 48 (8.63%) Change Management
26 47 (8.45%) Data Analytics

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (3.96%) SAS
2 12 (2.16%) Confluence
3 7 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 62 (11.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.98%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.26%) SPSS
5 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.18%) Endur
3 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (28.24%) Power Platform
2 51 (9.17%) Azure
3 29 (5.22%) Snowflake
4 26 (4.68%) Collibra
5 24 (4.32%) AWS
6 20 (3.60%) Power Automate
7 15 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (2.16%) GCP
9 11 (1.98%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.62%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.72%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (0.72%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.54%) dbt
14 3 (0.54%) Google Tag Manager
14 3 (0.54%) MailChimp
14 3 (0.54%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.08%) DNS
1 6 (1.08%) Firewall
2 5 (0.90%) DHCP
3 4 (0.72%) IPv4
4 1 (0.18%) NAS
4 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.18%) VLAN
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (28.24%) Power BI
2 84 (15.11%) Tableau
3 37 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (5.76%) Metadata
5 30 (5.40%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.32%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.24%) Big Data
7 18 (3.24%) Data Mining
8 15 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
9 11 (1.98%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.98%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.62%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.44%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.26%) Ataccama
13 7 (1.26%) Impala
14 6 (1.08%) Looker
14 6 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (4.68%) JIRA
2 8 (1.44%) Eclipse
2 8 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (0.90%) PyCharm
4 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.18%) Git
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.18%) RStudio
5 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 201 (36.15%) Finance
2 156 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 135 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (13.85%) Banking
5 33 (5.94%) Legal
6 31 (5.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 28 (5.04%) Retail
8 26 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (3.42%) Marketing
9 19 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 18 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 17 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.98%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.62%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.44%) Front Office
15 8 (1.44%) Local Government
16 5 (0.90%) Billing
16 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.26%) D3.js
1 7 (1.26%) PySpark
2 3 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.54%) Shiny
3 2 (0.36%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.36%) ggplot2
3 2 (0.36%) LDAP
3 2 (0.36%) Pandas
3 2 (0.36%) Plotly
4 1 (0.18%) JSON
4 1 (0.18%) Middleware
4 1 (0.18%) Node.js
4 1 (0.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.14%) Management Information System
2 16 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (1.98%) Credit Risk
4 11 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.80%) NHS
6 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.90%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.72%) Derivative
9 4 (0.72%) e-Health
10 3 (0.54%) CMDB
10 3 (0.54%) Life Science
10 3 (0.54%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.80%) Windows
2 4 (0.72%) Linux
2 4 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (29.86%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (27.70%) Data Analysis
3 122 (21.94%) Analytics
4 110 (19.78%) Visualisation
5 101 (18.17%) Data Modelling
6 90 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (15.11%) Data Management
8 78 (14.03%) Data Governance
9 69 (12.41%) Migration
10 64 (11.51%) Data Visualisation
11 61 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 55 (9.89%) Data Cleansing
13 53 (9.53%) Agile
14 50 (8.99%) Decision-Making
15 48 (8.63%) Actionable Insight
15 48 (8.63%) Change Management
15 48 (8.63%) Data Migration
16 47 (8.45%) Data Analytics
17 42 (7.55%) ETL
18 36 (6.47%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 219 (39.39%) SQL
2 124 (22.30%) Python
3 28 (5.04%) R
4 9 (1.62%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.44%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.08%) Java
7 5 (0.90%) VBScript
8 4 (0.72%) Groovy
8 4 (0.72%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.72%) VBA
9 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.36%) C#
10 2 (0.36%) C++
10 2 (0.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) Julia
11 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (7.19%) Degree
2 21 (3.78%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.18%) ACCA
7 1 (0.18%) APMP
7 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.18%) CIMA
7 1 (0.18%) CISM
7 1 (0.18%) CISSP
7 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (22.12%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.76%) QA
3 27 (4.86%) GDPR
4 6 (1.08%) SLA
5 4 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.72%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (0.72%) GxP
6 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.54%) PMO
7 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.36%) Terraform
1 2 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (7.37%) SAP
2 39 (7.01%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.01%) Oracle
3 34 (6.12%) Alteryx
4 26 (4.68%) Databricks
5 17 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.88%) Google
7 15 (2.70%) Splunk
8 13 (2.34%) Bloomberg
8 13 (2.34%) Refinitiv
9 9 (1.62%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.26%) Informatica
10 7 (1.26%) Trillium
11 6 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.90%) Adobe
12 5 (0.90%) Citrix
12 5 (0.90%) Datix
12 5 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.72%) Denodo
13 4 (0.72%) IFS