Exploratory Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in England

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 512 583
Rank change year-on-year +3 +71 +189
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 11 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.032% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.037% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £391 £341 -
25th Percentile £402 £349 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £400 £356
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +12.28% -49.11%
75th Percentile £600 £459 £426
90th Percentile £894 £528 £440
UK median daily rate £444 £378 £375
% change year-on-year +17.39% +0.80% -46.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.36 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Exploratory Data 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 25,818 27,322 36,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 86.54% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,369 16,640 25,071
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,635 1,055 1,472
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.27 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.42 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%

Exploratory Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Exploratory Data Analysis job vacancy trend in England

Exploratory Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Exploratory Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis in England over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Data Analysis in England

Exploratory Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Exploratory Data Analysis
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 Data Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 21 October 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 +5 3 £625 +47.06% 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
South East - 2 £444 - 1
North West -19 1 £400 +14.85% 2
North of England -29 1 £400 +14.85% 5
South West - 1 £1,100 -
Exploratory Data Analysis
UK

Exploratory Data Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) Big Data
2 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
2 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
3 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Metadata
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Head of AI
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Data Science
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Pandas
2 2 (18.18%) scikit-learn
3 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
3 1 (9.09%) NumPy
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (9.09%) Seaborn
3 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 7 (63.64%) Data Modelling
3 6 (54.55%) Visualisation
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (36.36%) Data Science
5 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) Statistical Modelling
7 2 (18.18%) AI
7 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
7 2 (18.18%) ETL
7 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) Statistical Analysis
7 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) R
4 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle