Data Analysis Contracts in the North West

Data Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 80 82
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 66 74 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.36% 2.46% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.74% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 57
10th Percentile £190 £199 £229
25th Percentile £353 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +1.80%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £500
90th Percentile £560 £680 £614
England median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile £23.13 £21.90 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.46 £22.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £23.15 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.16% +21.84% -2.16%
75th Percentile - £28.63 £25.38
90th Percentile - £38.49 £33.18
England median hourly rate £29.00 £23.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.27% -33.86% +44.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Analysis 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 June 2024. 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
Manchester +19 34 £425 -8.11% 66
Cheshire -17 19 £475 -24.00% 12
Lancashire +2 6 £450 -10.00% 18
Cumbria - 3 £250 - 3
Merseyside +9 2 - - 13
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (10.61%) SAS
1 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) Power Platform
2 10 (15.15%) Snowflake
3 6 (9.09%) Collibra
3 6 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.55%) Azure
5 3 (4.55%) ShareGate
6 2 (3.03%) AWS
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.52%) GCP
7 1 (1.52%) Matillion
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.24%) Power BI
2 8 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.61%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.09%) Ataccama
4 6 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
5 5 (7.58%) Data Mining
6 4 (6.06%) Tableau
7 3 (4.55%) SAP BW
7 3 (4.55%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.52%) Big Data
9 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (1.52%) Presto
9 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (6.06%) JIRA
3 3 (4.55%) LSMW
4 1 (1.52%) JMeter
4 1 (1.52%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.52%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (10.61%) Manufacturing
3 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Legal
5 5 (7.58%) Finance
6 4 (6.06%) Mandarin Language
6 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Local Government
7 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.52%) Automotive
8 1 (1.52%) Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Games
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Police
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (48.48%) Analyst
2 21 (31.82%) Data Analyst
3 14 (21.21%) Senior
3 14 (21.21%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (13.64%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (13.64%) QA Analyst
4 9 (13.64%) Quality Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Business Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Senior QA Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
7 5 (7.58%) Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Asset Management Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Consultant
8 4 (6.06%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.06%) IT Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Lead
9 3 (4.55%) Data Consultant
9 3 (4.55%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) BAPI
2 1 (1.52%) JSON
2 1 (1.52%) Kafka
2 1 (1.52%) Middleware
2 1 (1.52%) REST
2 1 (1.52%) SOAP
2 1 (1.52%) Swagger
2 1 (1.52%) XML
2 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
1 4 (6.06%) Taxonomies
2 3 (4.55%) Cyberattack
2 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Insider Threat
3 2 (3.03%) SCADA
3 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Life Science
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Windows
2 1 (1.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (21.21%) Data Governance
3 13 (19.70%) Data Cleansing
3 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (16.67%) Analytics
4 11 (16.67%) Project Management
4 11 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 10 (15.15%) Data Management
6 9 (13.64%) Data Migration
6 9 (13.64%) Migration
7 8 (12.12%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.61%) Data Architecture
8 7 (10.61%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.09%) Time Management
10 5 (7.58%) Asset Management
10 5 (7.58%) Customer Experience
10 5 (7.58%) Data Integration
10 5 (7.58%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (7.58%) Machine Learning
10 5 (7.58%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.76%) SQL
2 10 (15.15%) Python
3 2 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.52%) C#
4 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
1 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) CISM
3 2 (3.03%) CISSP
3 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (3.03%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) Data Quality
2 10 (15.15%) QA
3 4 (6.06%) PMO
4 3 (4.55%) GDPR
5 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Grafana
1 1 (1.52%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) SAP
2 6 (9.09%) Alteryx
2 6 (9.09%) Dataiku
2 6 (9.09%) Trillium
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.52%) Dell
5 1 (1.52%) F5
5 1 (1.52%) HP
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.52%) Teradata