Data Interpretation Contracts in the North of England

Data Interpretation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Interpretation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Interpretation 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 164 181 219
Rank change year-on-year +17 +38 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Interpretation 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.084% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.098% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £443 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.47%
75th Percentile £491 - £388
90th Percentile £494 - -
England median daily rate £496 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +27.21% +4.00% -25.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £54.00 -
England median hourly rate £19.36 £14.00 £46.01
% change year-on-year +38.27% -69.57% +217.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Interpretation 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 Interpretation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Interpretation in the North of England

Data Interpretation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Interpretation in the North of England

Data Interpretation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Interpretation in the North of England

Data Interpretation
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 Interpretation 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 +15 1 £496 - 20
Yorkshire +8 1 £450 - 15
Data Interpretation
England

Data Interpretation
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Story Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Ping Identity
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas