Data Analytics Contracts in the Midlands

Data Analytics
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 93 106
Rank change year-on-year +37 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 79 72 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.89% 2.11% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.39% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 55 69
10th Percentile £355 £420 £405
25th Percentile £358 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +1.31% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 - £650
90th Percentile £775 £570 £679
England median daily rate £550 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,250 3,018 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.30% 88.43% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,107 3,273
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 122 147
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.05 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.13 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.43 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +5.33% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.69 £22.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.53 £34.70
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the Midlands

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the Midlands

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the Midlands

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +24 64 £550 +1.85% 41
East Midlands +29 15 £383 -23.50% 9
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.53%) Confluence
1 2 (2.53%) SAS
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.27%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.52%) Power Platform
2 15 (18.99%) Azure
3 6 (7.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (6.33%) AWS
4 5 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.80%) GCP
6 3 (3.80%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.27%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) Firewall
1 9 (11.39%) LAN
1 9 (11.39%) MPLS
1 9 (11.39%) PBX
1 9 (11.39%) VoIP
1 9 (11.39%) VPN
1 9 (11.39%) WAN
1 9 (11.39%) WLAN
2 6 (7.59%) Network Security
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (6.33%) DHCP
3 5 (6.33%) DNS
3 5 (6.33%) Internet
3 5 (6.33%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 16 (20.25%) MySQL
1 16 (20.25%) Power BI
2 13 (16.46%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.66%) Big Data
4 8 (10.13%) Hadoop
5 6 (7.59%) Impala
5 6 (7.59%) Tableau
6 3 (3.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.80%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.80%) Metadata
6 3 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.53%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.53%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.53%) Power Query
7 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Git
2 3 (3.80%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
General
1 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (20.25%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Automotive
6 3 (3.80%) Banking
6 3 (3.80%) Law
6 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.53%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Architect
2 15 (18.99%) Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Data Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Data Architect
4 7 (8.86%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Data Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Head of Analytics
7 3 (3.80%) Network Architect
7 3 (3.80%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Portfolio Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Senior PMO
7 3 (3.80%) Senior PMO Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Senior Portfolio Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) Web Services
2 2 (2.53%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.53%) PySpark
3 1 (1.27%) LDAP
3 1 (1.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Data Centre
1 9 (11.39%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.86%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.33%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.06%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (5.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (5.06%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.53%) FMCG
6 2 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.27%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Unix
1 1 (1.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) Analytics
2 30 (37.97%) ETL
3 25 (31.65%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (25.32%) Dashboard Development
5 17 (21.52%) Agile
5 17 (21.52%) Requirements Gathering
6 16 (20.25%) Configuration Management
6 16 (20.25%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (20.25%) Data Extraction
6 16 (20.25%) Software Engineering
7 15 (18.99%) Data Management
8 14 (17.72%) Process Improvement
8 14 (17.72%) Scrum
9 12 (15.19%) Test Strategy
10 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
10 11 (13.92%) Mentoring
11 10 (12.66%) Data Analysis
11 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (12.66%) Programme Management
12 9 (11.39%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.05%) SQL
2 13 (16.46%) Python
3 5 (6.33%) R
4 4 (5.06%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (5.06%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.80%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) CLIST
6 1 (1.27%) COBOL
6 1 (1.27%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.27%) Java
6 1 (1.27%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.27%) REXX
6 1 (1.27%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.27%) SELCOPY
6 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (27.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) CCIE
3 9 (11.39%) CCIE Data Center
3 9 (11.39%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.06%) CCNP
4 4 (5.06%) CISSP
4 4 (5.06%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.06%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) CBAP
6 1 (1.27%) IIBA
6 1 (1.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.80%) PMO
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (18.99%) Grafana
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) Ansible
3 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.25%) Denodo
2 16 (20.25%) Talend
3 9 (11.39%) Cisco
4 5 (6.33%) Autodesk
4 5 (6.33%) CheckPoint
4 5 (6.33%) Databricks
4 5 (6.33%) Infoblox
4 5 (6.33%) Informatica
4 5 (6.33%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.33%) Symantec
4 5 (6.33%) Zscaler
5 4 (5.06%) Oracle
6 3 (3.80%) JD Edwards
6 3 (3.80%) QAD
7 2 (2.53%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.53%) Teradata
8 1 (1.27%) Splunk