Data Analyst Contracts in the North West

Data Analyst
England > North West

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the North West is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 113 109
Rank change year-on-year +37 -4 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 62 50 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.30% 1.58% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 1.66% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 36
10th Percentile £200 £200 £208
25th Percentile £328 £313 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £410 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -0.61% +33.06%
75th Percentile £518 £442 £488
90th Percentile £550 £534 £545
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 22
10th Percentile - - £11.21
25th Percentile £13.50 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £16.41
75th Percentile £22.63 - £20.90
90th Percentile - - £23.53
England median hourly rate £21.64 £22.16 £20.49
% change year-on-year -2.35% +8.15% +10.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,547 3,009 3,896
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 94.86% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,659 2,156 2,848
10th Percentile £281 £300 £211
25th Percentile £391 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 129 168
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +72.33% +13.46%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.25 £42.82
90th Percentile £67.63 £66.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the North West

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the North West

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the North West

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the North West

Data Analyst
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 Analyst within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +20 28 £356 -10.94% 4
Cheshire +16 26 £500 +12.68% 6
Merseyside +13 4 £200 -50.00% 3
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 33 (53.23%) SQL
2 29 (46.77%) Power BI
2 29 (46.77%) Power Platform
3 28 (45.16%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (45.16%) Data Analysis
4 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
5 23 (37.10%) Python
6 19 (30.65%) SAP
6 19 (30.65%) Visualisation
7 18 (29.03%) Analytics
8 17 (27.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (22.58%) Data Management
10 13 (20.97%) Data Modelling
10 13 (20.97%) Data Quality
10 13 (20.97%) Data Visualisation
11 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (17.74%) Snowflake
13 10 (16.13%) QA
13 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (16.13%) Google
13 10 (16.13%) Finance
14 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
14 9 (14.52%) Tableau
15 8 (12.90%) Data Integration
15 8 (12.90%) Data Architecture
15 8 (12.90%) Data Cleansing
15 8 (12.90%) Data Lake
16 7 (11.29%) Data Structures
16 7 (11.29%) Translating Business Requirements
16 7 (11.29%) GDPR

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 (11.29%) SAS
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) Power Platform
2 11 (17.74%) Snowflake
3 7 (11.29%) Google Analytics
4 6 (9.68%) Collibra
4 6 (9.68%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.45%) AWS
6 3 (4.84%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.23%) Azure
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.61%) Matillion
8 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (46.77%) Power BI
2 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.52%) Tableau
3 8 (12.90%) Data Lake
4 7 (11.29%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (9.68%) Ataccama
5 6 (9.68%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (8.06%) BigQuery
6 5 (8.06%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.23%) Data Vault
7 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.61%) Big Data
8 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.61%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.61%) Presto
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) PyCharm
General
1 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Pharmaceutical
3 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.13%) Finance
5 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.45%) Banking
7 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.84%) Marketing
7 3 (4.84%) Retail
8 2 (3.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Law
9 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) Life Science
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Business Intelligence
1 28 (45.16%) Data Analysis
2 19 (30.65%) Visualisation
3 18 (29.03%) Analytics
4 14 (22.58%) Data Management
5 13 (20.97%) Data Modelling
5 13 (20.97%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (12.90%) Data Architecture
7 8 (12.90%) Data Cleansing
7 8 (12.90%) Data Integration
8 7 (11.29%) Data Governance
8 7 (11.29%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (9.68%) Customer Experience
10 5 (8.06%) Agile
10 5 (8.06%) Dashboard Development
10 5 (8.06%) ETL
10 5 (8.06%) Logistics
11 4 (6.45%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) SQL
2 23 (37.10%) Python
3 3 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.84%) R
4 1 (1.61%) Julia
4 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.97%) Data Quality
2 10 (16.13%) QA
3 7 (11.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) SAP
2 10 (16.13%) Google
3 6 (9.68%) Alteryx
3 6 (9.68%) Dataiku
3 6 (9.68%) Trillium
4 4 (6.45%) Ariba
5 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.23%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.23%) Databricks
6 2 (3.23%) Refinitiv
6 2 (3.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Teradata
7 1 (1.61%) Workday