Exploratory Data Analysis Contracts in London

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Data Analysis 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 348 377 487
Rank change year-on-year +29 +110 +99
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 5 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.079% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.089% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £442 £388 £458
25th Percentile £473 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +3.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £725 £527 £519
90th Percentile - £560 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £481
% change year-on-year - +3.90% -10.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -57.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Exploratory Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis in London.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Data Analysis in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis in London.

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Matillion
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Pandas
1 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) R
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Talend