Data Analytics Contracts in England

Data Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 232 226
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 287 380 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.18% 1.02% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.18% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 272 405
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £625
90th Percentile £788 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 12
10th Percentile £17.53 £13.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £18.68 £16.38 £21.88
Median hourly rate £21.75 £41.25 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% +2.48% +22.90%
75th Percentile £30.31 £43.75 £78.30
90th Percentile £35.75 - £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -7.44% -24.84% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in England

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 0 155 £550 -2.22% 633
North of England +19 34 £450 -18.18% 104
Midlands -23 29 £413 -24.91% 74
North West +13 23 £450 -23.40% 59
South East +30 22 £525 +16.67% 200
East of England +43 20 £650 +112.07% 45
East Midlands +16 16 £358 -30.15% 27
West Midlands -38 12 £549 -0.27% 43
South West +50 11 £513 -14.58% 50
Yorkshire +11 9 £425 -17.48% 29
North East +1 2 £358 - 16
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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 (7.67%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.23%) Confluence
3 8 (2.79%) Apache
4 6 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
5 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 23 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) Magento
3 2 (0.70%) Maximo
3 2 (0.70%) Relativity
3 2 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.70%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.35%) Actimize
4 1 (0.35%) Demantra
4 1 (0.35%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.62%) Power Platform
2 68 (23.69%) Azure
3 57 (19.86%) AWS
4 29 (10.10%) GCP
5 16 (5.57%) Snowflake
6 15 (5.23%) PowerApps
7 13 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 12 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (3.48%) dbt
9 10 (3.48%) Serverless
10 9 (3.14%) Google Analytics
11 8 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.79%) SaaS
12 7 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.09%) GitHub
14 5 (1.74%) Asana
14 5 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) DNS
1 3 (1.05%) LAN
1 3 (1.05%) WAN
2 2 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.09%) Power BI
2 49 (17.07%) Tableau
3 27 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.01%) Big Data
5 17 (5.92%) Hadoop
6 15 (5.23%) BigQuery
7 14 (4.88%) Data Lake
7 14 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.83%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.48%) Looker
10 7 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (2.44%) Metadata
11 6 (2.09%) KDB
11 6 (2.09%) Kdb+
11 6 (2.09%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.74%) MySQL
12 5 (1.74%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.39%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 27 (9.41%) JIRA
2 8 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.09%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.74%) GitLab
5 4 (1.39%) Git
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.35%) Appium
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.35%) MLflow
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Vite
7 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 112 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 89 (31.01%) Finance
3 82 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.80%) Banking
5 29 (10.10%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.57%) Marketing
7 13 (4.53%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.44%) Retail
10 6 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.09%) Legal
10 6 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.39%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.39%) Front Office
11 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.05%) Local Government
12 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (21.25%) Analyst
2 38 (13.24%) Data Engineer
3 31 (10.80%) Developer
4 30 (10.45%) Architect
4 30 (10.45%) Data Analyst
4 30 (10.45%) Senior
5 26 (9.06%) Business Analyst
6 19 (6.62%) Data Manager
6 19 (6.62%) Lead
7 16 (5.57%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.88%) Data Science Developer
9 13 (4.53%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (4.18%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.48%) Insight Manager
12 9 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.79%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Data Architect
14 7 (2.44%) Consultant
15 6 (2.09%) IT Manager
15 6 (2.09%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.62%) Kafka
2 17 (5.92%) TensorFlow
3 16 (5.57%) NumPy
3 16 (5.57%) Pandas
4 15 (5.23%) PyTorch
5 14 (4.88%) Matplotlib
5 14 (4.88%) PySpark
5 14 (4.88%) scikit-learn
5 14 (4.88%) Seaborn
6 7 (2.44%) React
7 4 (1.39%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.05%) CSS
8 3 (1.05%) HTML
9 2 (0.70%) .NET
9 2 (0.70%) Middleware
9 2 (0.70%) Plotly
9 2 (0.70%) RESTful
9 2 (0.70%) XHTML
10 1 (0.35%) Jest
10 1 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.76%) Algorithms
2 12 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.14%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.14%) Equities
3 9 (3.14%) Fixed Income
3 9 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.09%) IoT
4 6 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.09%) Social Media
5 5 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.74%) FMCG
5 5 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.05%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.05%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.05%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.53%) Linux
2 3 (1.05%) Unix
2 3 (1.05%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (100.00%) Analytics
2 77 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (23.00%) Decision-Making
5 65 (22.65%) Data Analysis
5 65 (22.65%) Visualisation
6 61 (21.25%) Agile
7 58 (20.21%) Data Science
8 50 (17.42%) Data Modelling
9 43 (14.98%) ETL
10 42 (14.63%) Machine Learning
11 41 (14.29%) Data Governance
11 41 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (13.24%) Project Management
13 34 (11.85%) Data Engineering
14 31 (10.80%) Actionable Insight
14 31 (10.80%) Computer Science
15 30 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (10.45%) DevOps
15 30 (10.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 103 (35.89%) SQL
2 79 (27.53%) Python
3 24 (8.36%) R
4 18 (6.27%) Java
5 10 (3.48%) C++
6 5 (1.74%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.05%) Bash
7 3 (1.05%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.05%) Scala
8 2 (0.70%) PHP
8 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.35%) C#
9 1 (0.35%) Go
9 1 (0.35%) JCL
9 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.35%) REXX
9 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (16.72%) Degree
2 39 (13.59%) Security Cleared
3 33 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.97%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.88%) PhD
6 12 (4.18%) PMI Certification
6 12 (4.18%) PMP
7 11 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.48%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.39%) CBAP
10 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.05%) CSPO
12 2 (0.70%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) ACCA
13 1 (0.35%) CIMA
13 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.53%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.79%) Def Stans
4 7 (2.44%) PMO
5 6 (2.09%) GDPR
6 5 (1.74%) QA
7 4 (1.39%) MiFID
8 2 (0.70%) COBIT
8 2 (0.70%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.70%) EMIR
8 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.70%) NIST
8 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.35%) COSO
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) PSD2
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.09%) Docker
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 11 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.14%) Terraform
3 4 (1.39%) Ansible
4 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.36%) Databricks
3 22 (7.67%) Google
4 15 (5.23%) SAP
5 11 (3.83%) VMware
6 9 (3.14%) Oracle
7 8 (2.79%) Splunk
8 7 (2.44%) Alteryx
9 6 (2.09%) Adobe
10 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.05%) Foundry
10 3 (1.05%) Palantir
10 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.05%) Talend
11 2 (0.70%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.70%) Workday
11 2 (0.70%) Wrike
11 2 (0.70%) YouTube