Data Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Data Analyst
England > North of England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 90 118
Rank change year-on-year -32 +28 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 44 101 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.34% 2.12% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 2.27% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 70 65
10th Percentile £135 £227 £225
25th Percentile £213 £352 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +13.10% -1.18%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £480
90th Percentile £538 £550 £637
England median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £16.92 - -
25th Percentile £17.93 £13.50 £19.62
Median hourly rate £20.42 £14.62 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +39.70% -30.57% +41.23%
75th Percentile £23.70 £20.78 £22.48
90th Percentile £25.19 £22.63 -
England median hourly rate £27.13 £21.64 £22.33
% change year-on-year +25.35% -3.09% +13.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
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 Analyst 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 +1 19 £350 -17.65% 41
North West -36 18 £413 -13.16% 54
North East +5 7 £450 -10.00% 13
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (45.45%) Power BI
1 20 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 19 (43.18%) Data Governance
2 19 (43.18%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (38.64%) SQL
4 16 (36.36%) ETL
4 16 (36.36%) Data Analysis
5 14 (31.82%) Data Quality
6 12 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (25.00%) Tableau
7 11 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 11 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 10 (22.73%) Finance
8 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
9 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Excel
10 8 (18.18%) Migration
10 8 (18.18%) Data Strategy
10 8 (18.18%) ETL Development
10 8 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (18.18%) Technical Debt
11 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (15.91%) GCP
11 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.91%) Data Management
12 6 (13.64%) Azure
12 6 (13.64%) AWS
13 5 (11.36%) Analytics
13 5 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
13 5 (11.36%) Looker
13 5 (11.36%) Python

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 7 (15.91%) GCP
3 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) Power BI
2 12 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (25.00%) Tableau
4 5 (11.36%) Looker
5 3 (6.82%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.27%) Metadata
7 1 (2.27%) Power Query
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
1 2 (4.55%) TestRail
2 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (22.73%) Finance
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Pandas
1 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.27%) NHS
1 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) Data Governance
2 16 (36.36%) Data Analysis
2 16 (36.36%) ETL
3 11 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 11 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 8 (18.18%) Data Strategy
4 8 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 8 (18.18%) ETL Development
4 8 (18.18%) Migration
4 8 (18.18%) Technical Debt
5 7 (15.91%) Data Management
5 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (11.36%) Analytics
7 4 (9.09%) Data Migration
7 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.82%) Data Mapping
8 3 (6.82%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Google
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Databricks
2 2 (4.55%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.27%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.27%) Workday