Exploratory Analysis Contract Job Trends in England

Exploratory Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Exploratory Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 495 547
Rank change year-on-year -121 +52 +84
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Analysis 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.016% 0.008% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.009% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £509 £314 -
25th Percentile £534 £336 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £381 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.52% - -
75th Percentile £788 £436 -
90th Percentile - £463 -
UK median daily rate £643 £381 -
% change year-on-year +68.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £42.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Exploratory Analysis 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 37,130 23,233 31,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.23% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,419 14,972 20,715
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,147 2,335
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

Exploratory Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Exploratory Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Exploratory Analysis job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Exploratory Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Exploratory Analysis

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Analysis in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Analysis in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Exploratory Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Exploratory Analysis

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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 Exploratory Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. 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 -67 7 £643 +38.92% 6
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Data Science
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Pricing Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Cypher
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Palantir