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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 202 230
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 298 437 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.19% 1.17% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.37% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 313 364
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £420 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £641
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.66% -3.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 16
10th Percentile £16.70 - £17.68
25th Percentile £18.68 £13.50 £24.19
Median hourly rate £28.75 £25.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -59.35% +75.71%
75th Percentile £35.75 £43.75 £79.19
90th Percentile £59.38 - £84.60
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.57 £61.50
% change year-on-year +59.94% -64.93% +75.71%

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 22,825 31,956 42,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.34% 85.23% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,747 20,674 29,622
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,390 1,546
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -14 164 £550 -2.22% 2,154
North of England +18 38 £450 -18.18% 455
Midlands -36 29 £492 +23.00% 295
South East +34 27 £500 +36.99% 481
North West -3 24 £450 -18.18% 237
East of England +33 17 £600 +42.86% 189
East Midlands +5 14 £363 -5.23% 111
West Midlands -31 14 £575 +35.29% 181
Yorkshire +11 13 £490 -4.85% 171
South West +46 12 £506 -10.99% 221
North East +2 1 £413 - 47
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 24 (8.05%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.03%) Confluence
3 7 (2.35%) Apache
4 6 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.01%) SAS
5 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.67%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 29 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.02%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (2.35%) MS Visio
5 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.67%) Trello
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.34%) InDesign
7 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.34%) Simulink
7 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.01%) Actimize
3 2 (0.67%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.67%) Magento
3 2 (0.67%) Maximo
3 2 (0.67%) Relativity
3 2 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.67%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (26.85%) Power Platform
2 68 (22.82%) Azure
3 64 (21.48%) AWS
4 27 (9.06%) GCP
5 15 (5.03%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.70%) PowerApps
7 13 (4.36%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.36%) dbt
8 10 (3.36%) Serverless
9 9 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.02%) GitHub
10 8 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.68%) Google Analytics
10 8 (2.68%) SaaS
11 7 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (1.68%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.68%) DNS
2 3 (1.01%) HTTP
2 3 (1.01%) Network Security
3 2 (0.67%) 4G
3 2 (0.67%) 5G
3 2 (0.67%) DOCSIS
3 2 (0.67%) GPON
3 2 (0.67%) LTE
3 2 (0.67%) MPLS
3 2 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.67%) VoIP
3 2 (0.67%) xDSL
4 1 (0.34%) Converged Networks
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (22.82%) Power BI
2 42 (14.09%) Tableau
3 31 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (8.39%) Big Data
5 20 (6.71%) Hadoop
6 17 (5.70%) BigQuery
7 12 (4.03%) Data Lake
7 12 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.69%) Looker
8 11 (3.69%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.35%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (2.01%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (1.68%) Metadata
12 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.34%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 23 (7.72%) JIRA
2 11 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.35%) Git
4 5 (1.68%) GitLab
5 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.01%) Vite
6 3 (1.01%) webpack
7 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.34%) Appium
8 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.34%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
General
1 120 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 99 (33.22%) Finance
3 89 (29.87%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.75%) Banking
5 26 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.38%) Marketing
7 15 (5.03%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.68%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.35%) Legal
11 6 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.01%) Retail
11 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.68%) Local Government
12 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.34%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (23.49%) Analyst
2 43 (14.43%) Data Engineer
3 40 (13.42%) Senior
4 33 (11.07%) Architect
4 33 (11.07%) Business Analyst
5 30 (10.07%) Data Analyst
6 25 (8.39%) Lead
7 24 (8.05%) Developer
8 16 (5.37%) Data Manager
9 12 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (3.69%) Data Architect
10 11 (3.69%) Data Science Developer
10 11 (3.69%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.36%) Insight Manager
12 9 (3.02%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 8 (2.68%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.35%) Consultant
14 7 (2.35%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.38%) Kafka
2 14 (4.70%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.36%) HTML
3 13 (4.36%) NumPy
3 13 (4.36%) Pandas
4 12 (4.03%) PySpark
5 11 (3.69%) CSS
5 11 (3.69%) Matplotlib
5 11 (3.69%) PyTorch
5 11 (3.69%) scikit-learn
5 11 (3.69%) Seaborn
6 10 (3.36%) React
7 7 (2.35%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.34%) Next.js
8 4 (1.34%) RESTful
8 4 (1.34%) XHTML
9 3 (1.01%) Jest
9 3 (1.01%) Parceljs
9 3 (1.01%) React Native
9 3 (1.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.38%) Algorithms
2 20 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.36%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.36%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.69%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.02%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.35%) Equities
6 7 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.01%) IoT
8 5 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.68%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.68%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.68%) Social Media
9 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.34%) FMCG
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (100.00%) Analytics
2 81 (27.18%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (26.51%) Agile
4 62 (20.81%) Visualisation
5 61 (20.47%) Data Analysis
5 61 (20.47%) Data Modelling
6 60 (20.13%) Decision-Making
7 55 (18.46%) Data Science
8 45 (15.10%) Data Engineering
8 45 (15.10%) ETL
8 45 (15.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (14.77%) Computer Science
10 41 (13.76%) DevOps
10 41 (13.76%) Machine Learning
11 39 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
12 37 (12.42%) Data Governance
13 36 (12.08%) Project Management
14 35 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence
15 33 (11.07%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 111 (37.25%) SQL
2 82 (27.52%) Python
3 19 (6.38%) Java
4 17 (5.70%) R
5 14 (4.70%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.35%) C++
7 6 (2.01%) Scala
8 4 (1.34%) Bash
8 4 (1.34%) PHP
9 3 (1.01%) Go
9 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.34%) JCL
11 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.34%) REXX
11 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (21.14%) Degree
2 43 (14.43%) Security Cleared
3 36 (12.08%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.71%) Master's Degree
5 18 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.03%) PhD
6 12 (4.03%) PMI Certification
7 11 (3.69%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.69%) PMP
8 8 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.68%) CBAP
9 4 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.01%) CSPO
10 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.67%) CISSP
11 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.67%) RIBA
11 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.42%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.69%) GDPR
4 8 (2.68%) Def Stans
4 8 (2.68%) PMO
5 5 (1.68%) MiFID
5 5 (1.68%) QA
6 4 (1.34%) COBIT
7 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.01%) WCAG
8 2 (0.67%) NIST
8 2 (0.67%) OASIS TOSCA
8 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) COSHH
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (3.36%) Docker
2 9 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 22 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.70%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (1.68%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.67%) Kibana
5 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.05%) Google
3 22 (7.38%) Databricks
4 14 (4.70%) SAP
5 11 (3.69%) VMware
6 9 (3.02%) Oracle
7 7 (2.35%) Adobe
8 6 (2.01%) Alteryx
8 6 (2.01%) Foundry
8 6 (2.01%) Palantir
8 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.34%) Splunk
10 4 (1.34%) Talend
11 3 (1.01%) Amplitude
11 3 (1.01%) Denodo
11 3 (1.01%) Workday
12 2 (0.67%) Avaya
12 2 (0.67%) Ericsson
12 2 (0.67%) Wrike