Data Analytics Contracts in Lancashire

Data Analytics
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 26 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.56% 0.89% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.24% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £435 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -20.91% +18.92% -14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £70.16 - £21.36
North West median hourly rate £70.16 £28.25 £30.68
% change year-on-year +148.35% -7.92% +209.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 161 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 88.21% 71.88% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 59 134
10th Percentile £350 £205 £326
25th Percentile £425 £381 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £635 £628
90th Percentile £647 £706 £696
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 54 54
10th Percentile £16.09 - £20.58
25th Percentile £25.84 £16.06 £25.75
Median hourly rate £40.83 £27.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.12% -34.71% +12.43%
75th Percentile £63.40 £45.00 £46.80
90th Percentile £71.06 £48.00 £52.16
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £28.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +3.13% -4.44% +19.40%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Lancashire

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in Lancashire

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in Lancashire

Data Analytics
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Blackburn - 1 - - 1
Lancaster - 1 £530 - 1
Preston - 1 - - 3
Data Analytics
North West

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Buyer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Buyer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Digital
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Networks
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Demand Management
3 2 (40.00%) Indirect Procurement
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) People Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Virgin Media