Data Analyst Contracts in the North West

Data Analyst
England > North West

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the North West is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 66 101
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 18 72 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 2.61% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 2.77% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 57 41
10th Percentile £263 £234 £200
25th Percentile £270 £356 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +15.15% -
75th Percentile £498 £538 £438
90th Percentile £575 £550 £490
England median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £16.92 - -
25th Percentile £17.93 £13.50 £19.62
Median hourly rate £20.42 £14.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +45.84% -33.49% +41.23%
75th Percentile £23.70 £22.63 £22.48
90th Percentile £25.19 - -
England median hourly rate £27.13 £21.64 £22.33
% change year-on-year +25.35% -3.09% +13.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Manchester +2 15 £363 -9.38% 28
Cheshire -31 2 £496 -1.76% 14
Lancashire - 1 - - 16
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
1 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 7 (38.89%) Data Governance
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 5 (27.78%) Tableau
4 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
5 4 (22.22%) ETL
5 4 (22.22%) Data Management
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (16.67%) Azure
6 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Master Data Management
7 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.11%) Use Case

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 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
2 5 (27.78%) Tableau
3 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) Data Governance
3 4 (22.22%) Data Management
3 4 (22.22%) ETL
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Data Privacy
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Information Security
5 2 (11.11%) Master Data Management
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Ping Identity