Data Interpretation Contracts in England

Data Interpretation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Interpretation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Interpretation 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 465 511 620
Rank change year-on-year +46 +109 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Interpretation 20 31 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.083% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.096% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 12
10th Percentile £303 £301 £189
25th Percentile £425 £354 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% +4.00% -25.60%
75th Percentile £650 £475 £409
90th Percentile £675 £528 £438
UK median daily rate £496 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +27.21% +4.00% -25.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £16.89 - £42.80
25th Percentile £17.75 - £44.00
Median hourly rate £19.36 £14.00 £46.01
Median % change year-on-year +38.27% -69.57% +217.28%
75th Percentile £20.82 £24.56 £48.01
90th Percentile £21.59 £54.00 £49.21
UK median hourly rate £19.36 £14.00 £46.01
% change year-on-year +38.27% -69.57% +217.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Interpretation 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 Interpretation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Interpretation in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Interpretation in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Interpretation in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Interpretation in England

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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 Interpretation 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 +38 10 £575 +47.44% 54
South East +44 3 £575 +63.12% 53
South West +44 2 £375 -16.67% 23
North of England +17 2 £473 - 39
Midlands +15 1 - - 39
North West +15 1 £496 - 20
Yorkshire +8 1 £450 - 15
East Midlands +5 1 - - 15
East of England - 1 £325 - 33
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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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle Smart View
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (5.00%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (25.00%) OCI
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Lucidchart
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Power BI
2 9 (45.00%) Tableau
3 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (30.00%) Qlik Sense
4 5 (25.00%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
General
1 15 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Military
6 2 (10.00%) Local Government
6 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (5.00%) Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (5.00%) Legal
7 1 (5.00%) Marketing
7 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Report Writer
4 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.00%) Performance Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 14 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (70.00%) Visualisation
3 12 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (55.00%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
6 9 (45.00%) Analytics
6 9 (45.00%) Validation
7 8 (40.00%) Data Governance
7 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
8 7 (35.00%) Business Strategy
8 7 (35.00%) Dashboard Development
8 7 (35.00%) Data Security
8 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (30.00%) Process Improvement
10 4 (20.00%) Agile
10 4 (20.00%) Data Collection
10 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) ABAP
4 1 (5.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Dell
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Veritas