Data Analysis Contracts in the North of England

Data Analysis
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 87 76 111
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 81 120 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.46% 2.52% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.93% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 77 77
10th Percentile £143 £295 £243
25th Percentile £309 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -9.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £505 £538 £625
90th Percentile £614 £588 £662
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - - £23.15
25th Percentile - £20.77 £35.23
Median hourly rate £16.25 £21.64 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% -66.72% +251.35%
75th Percentile - £25.68 -
90th Percentile - £26.66 -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.24% -17.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the North of England

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the North of England

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the North of England

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the North of England

Data Analysis
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 Data Analysis within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +16 46 £410 -8.89% 68
North West -27 28 £425 -10.53% 172
North East +1 7 £500 +16.01% 25
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (7.41%) Confluence
2 5 (6.17%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.86%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.64%) GCP
3 4 (4.94%) AWS
3 4 (4.94%) Lucidchart
4 3 (3.70%) Azure
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (2.47%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.47%) Google Tag Manager
5 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.23%) dbt
6 1 (1.23%) Figma
6 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (30.86%) Power BI
2 10 (12.35%) Tableau
3 9 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.41%) Looker
5 5 (6.17%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.47%) Power Query
6 2 (2.47%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.23%) Metadata
7 1 (1.23%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.23%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Finance
3 11 (13.58%) Banking
3 11 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Legal
5 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.47%) Retail
5 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Local Government
6 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (54.32%) Analyst
2 17 (20.99%) Business Analyst
3 16 (19.75%) Data Analyst
4 11 (13.58%) Architect
5 9 (11.11%) Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Junior
6 6 (7.41%) Junior Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Junior Data Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Performance Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Lead
8 4 (4.94%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.70%) Senior
10 2 (2.47%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Information Assurance Leader
10 2 (2.47%) Power BI Developer
10 2 (2.47%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) Anaconda
1 2 (2.47%) Kafka
1 2 (2.47%) OAuth
1 2 (2.47%) OpenID
1 2 (2.47%) Pandas
1 2 (2.47%) PySpark
1 2 (2.47%) SAML
2 1 (1.23%) CSS
2 1 (1.23%) HTML
2 1 (1.23%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.70%) NHS
3 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Life Science
5 1 (1.23%) LIMS
5 1 (1.23%) PMI
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.86%) Business Intelligence
1 25 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.40%) Decision-Making
3 18 (22.22%) ETL
4 15 (18.52%) Agile
4 15 (18.52%) Analytics
5 14 (17.28%) Actionable Insight
5 14 (17.28%) Migration
5 14 (17.28%) Visualisation
6 13 (16.05%) Business Analysis
6 13 (16.05%) Data Governance
7 12 (14.81%) Data Protection
7 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (13.58%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.35%) Data Strategy
9 10 (12.35%) Project Management
10 8 (9.88%) Change Management
10 8 (9.88%) Data Modelling
10 8 (9.88%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.63%) SQL
2 12 (14.81%) Python
3 4 (4.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.47%) R
4 2 (2.47%) VB
5 1 (1.23%) Java
5 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.35%) Degree
2 7 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) CBAP
4 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.28%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) PMO
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) COREP
4 2 (2.47%) FINREP
4 2 (2.47%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.23%) GxP
5 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.47%) NetBackup
1 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Google
2 4 (4.94%) Databricks
2 4 (4.94%) SAP
3 2 (2.47%) Dell
3 2 (2.47%) Veritas
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe
4 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.23%) ESRI
4 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.23%) Hotjar
4 1 (1.23%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.23%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.23%) Workday