Data Analyst Contracts in Essex

Data Analyst
East of England > Essex

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Essex is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.75% - 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.90% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £324 - -
25th Percentile £341 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £331
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.36%
75th Percentile £441 - -
90th Percentile £461 - -
East of England median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.95 £20.56
% change year-on-year -18.77% +89.45% -30.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Essex with a recognized job title 77 211 223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 95.05% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 108 134
10th Percentile £223 £250 £161
25th Percentile £315 £350 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £458 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +1.67% -8.44%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £538
90th Percentile £539 £600 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 53 16
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.86 £20.40
25th Percentile £14.44 £16.65 £24.09
Median hourly rate £26.25 £40.31 £43.32
Median % change year-on-year -34.88% -6.94% +80.48%
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.00 £63.31
90th Percentile £192.00 - £69.51
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Essex

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Essex

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Essex

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Essex

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the Essex 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
Benfleet - 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £325 - 3
Data Analyst
East of England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Essex region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (33.33%) Aviation
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aviation
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality