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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 143 170
Rank change year-on-year +11 +27 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 37 35 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.12% 0.75% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.88% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 23
10th Percentile £330 £398 £411
25th Percentile £379 £506 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £541 £602 £625
90th Percentile £614 £606 £635
England median daily rate £525 £538 £548
% change year-on-year -2.33% -1.83% -4.78%
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 £28.75 £40.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% -48.72% +122.86%

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 2,978 3,966 5,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 84.67% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,415 3,463
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 377 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.11 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -34.95% +46.53%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £43.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +2 25 £450 -18.18% 275
Yorkshire +15 11 £425 -20.19% 242
North East -1 1 £413 - 81
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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Power Platform
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) AWS
5 4 (10.81%) Snowflake
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (2.70%) dbt
8 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Power BI
2 7 (18.92%) Tableau
3 3 (8.11%) BigQuery
3 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.41%) Dremio
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Looker
5 1 (2.70%) Mixpanel
5 1 (2.70%) Power Query
5 1 (2.70%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Environmental Health
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Local Government
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Analyst
2 7 (18.92%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Buyer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Buyer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Data Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Head of Testing
7 1 (2.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Replication
3 1 (2.70%) Insider Threat
3 1 (2.70%) IoT
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Analytics
2 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (18.92%) Data Analysis
4 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
4 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (16.22%) Agile
5 6 (16.22%) Risk Management
5 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (16.22%) Visualisation
6 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (10.81%) Data Science
7 4 (10.81%) DevOps
7 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning
8 3 (8.11%) Change Management
8 3 (8.11%) Data Protection
8 3 (8.11%) Kanban
8 3 (8.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.70%) Groovy
4 1 (2.70%) R
4 1 (2.70%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) CBAP
5 1 (2.70%) CSPO
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMP
5 1 (2.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) COSHH
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Databricks
1 5 (13.51%) Google
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) ESRI
4 1 (2.70%) Hotjar
4 1 (2.70%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Virgin Media