Data Analytics Contracts in the North of England

Data Analytics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics 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 132 151 172
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 34 34 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 0.71% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.83% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 31
10th Percentile £335 £383 £263
25th Percentile £358 £502 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -7.33%
75th Percentile £496 £606 £611
90th Percentile £608 £614 £638
England median daily rate £528 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.09% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +303.23%
England median hourly rate £21.75 £41.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -47.27% +2.48% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data 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 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 Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the North of England

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the North of England

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the North of England

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the North of England

Data 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 Data Analytics 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
North West +13 23 £450 -23.40% 59
Yorkshire +11 9 £425 -17.48% 29
North East +1 2 £358 - 16
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (8.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (17.65%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.88%) PaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) LAN
1 3 (8.82%) WAN
2 2 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Power BI
2 7 (20.59%) Tableau
3 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
4 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.88%) Dremio
5 2 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) Looker
6 1 (2.94%) Mixpanel
6 1 (2.94%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
1 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Data Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Network Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Data Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Kafka
1 2 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Low-Code
1 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (2.94%) Insider Threat
2 1 (2.94%) IoT
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.59%) Data Engineering
3 7 (20.59%) Data Modelling
3 7 (20.59%) Data Science
3 7 (20.59%) Decision-Making
4 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (17.65%) Data Transformation
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
5 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
5 5 (14.71%) ETL
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) R
3 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Groovy
4 1 (2.94%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) CBAP
3 1 (2.94%) CSPO
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) PMO
3 1 (2.94%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Databricks
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) Google
4 3 (8.82%) Splunk
5 2 (5.88%) Brio
6 1 (2.94%) ESRI
6 1 (2.94%) Hotjar
6 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) Virgin Media