Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Analyst
England > North of England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 115 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 -26 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 75 47 100
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.60% 1.31% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.42% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 36 62
10th Percentile £264 £143 £225
25th Percentile £305 £313 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £410 £407
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +0.74% -3.67%
75th Percentile £415 £496 £538
90th Percentile £503 £588 £567
England median daily rate £432 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -10.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £33.60 - -
25th Percentile £51.38 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £16.88 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +277.78% -15.92% -5.66%
75th Percentile £66.88 £18.13 £27.54
90th Percentile £70.25 £18.50 £32.01
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +19.82% +25.35% -13.44%

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 4,292 3,308 4,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 92.09% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 1,910 2,911
10th Percentile £213 £230 £270
25th Percentile £363 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 170 208
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.35 £15.49
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £25.03 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -10.29% +29.77%
75th Percentile £55.25 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.88 £60.50 £61.99
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies 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 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the North of England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the North of England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 December 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 -7 46 £358 +43.00% 51
North West -21 27 £344 -16.67% 74
North East -8 2 £465 -35.42% 25
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 35 (46.67%) SQL
2 34 (45.33%) Power Platform
3 33 (44.00%) Data Analysis
3 33 (44.00%) Power BI
4 32 (42.67%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (36.00%) Microsoft Excel
6 24 (32.00%) Visualisation
7 22 (29.33%) Data Quality
8 19 (25.33%) Python
9 18 (24.00%) Analytics
9 18 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (21.33%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (21.33%) Data Modelling
10 16 (21.33%) Decision-Making
11 14 (18.67%) Data Management
11 14 (18.67%) Power Query
12 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (16.00%) Budgeting
14 11 (14.67%) Dashboard Development
14 11 (14.67%) Data Governance
14 11 (14.67%) Data Mapping
15 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (12.00%) Agile
16 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
16 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
17 8 (10.67%) Cost Management
17 8 (10.67%) Data Analytics
17 8 (10.67%) Data Collection
17 8 (10.67%) ITIL
17 8 (10.67%) Microsoft

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (36.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.67%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 34 (45.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.33%) Azure
2 4 (5.33%) GCP
3 3 (4.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.67%) AWS
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (2.67%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.67%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.33%) Collibra
5 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (44.00%) Power BI
2 14 (18.67%) Power Query
3 7 (9.33%) Tableau
4 5 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 5 (6.67%) PowerPivot
5 4 (5.33%) Looker
6 3 (4.00%) Data Mining
6 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.00%) Impala
6 3 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.67%) Metadata
7 2 (2.67%) MS Access
7 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 31 (41.33%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (40.00%) Finance
3 26 (34.67%) Social Skills
4 14 (18.67%) Banking
5 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.33%) Billing
8 4 (5.33%) Electronics
9 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.67%) Military
9 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.33%) Law
10 1 (1.33%) Local Government
10 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) PySpark
2 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (8.00%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.67%) Clustering
6 2 (2.67%) CMDB
6 2 (2.67%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Data Analysis
2 32 (42.67%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (32.00%) Visualisation
4 18 (24.00%) Analytics
4 18 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
5 16 (21.33%) Actionable Insight
5 16 (21.33%) Data Modelling
5 16 (21.33%) Decision-Making
6 14 (18.67%) Data Management
7 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (16.00%) Budgeting
9 11 (14.67%) Dashboard Development
9 11 (14.67%) Data Governance
9 11 (14.67%) Data Mapping
10 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (12.00%) Agile
11 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
12 8 (10.67%) Data Analytics
12 8 (10.67%) ITIL
12 8 (10.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.67%) SQL
2 19 (25.33%) Python
3 6 (8.00%) VBA
4 4 (5.33%) R
5 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (29.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.67%) QA
3 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) Google
2 4 (5.33%) SAP
3 3 (4.00%) Databricks
4 2 (2.67%) Dell
4 2 (2.67%) Intel
4 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.33%) IFS
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow