Business Analytics Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Business Analytics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Business Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 158 193
Rank change year-on-year -26 +35 +43
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 5 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.17% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.20% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £338 £403 -
25th Percentile £344 £538 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £725 £375
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% +93.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £488 £738 £388
90th Percentile £495 £745 -
England median daily rate £519 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -3.98% +2.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Business 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,628 3,488 4,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.83% 84.33% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,375 1,932 3,021
10th Percentile £259 £300 £280
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 179 210
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.05 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.27% +30.95%
75th Percentile £36.75 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.45 £70.00 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Business Analytics job vacancy trend in the North of England

Business Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analytics

Business Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analytics in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analytics in the North of England

Business Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analytics

Business Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analytics within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West -13 4 £403 -44.38% 2
Yorkshire -20 1 £500 +53.85% 1
Business Analytics
England

Business Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
2 2 (40.00%) Prefect
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft