Data Analytics Contracts in the North West

Data Analytics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 97 110 136
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 23 27 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.17% 0.98% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.14% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 14
10th Percentile £334 £420 £316
25th Percentile £358 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £463
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +27.03% -22.27%
75th Percentile £506 £606 £606
90th Percentile £580 £624 £643
England median daily rate £528 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.09% +1.85% -6.09%
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 £21.75 £41.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -47.27% +2.48% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the North West

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the North West

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the North West

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the North West

Data Analytics
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 Analytics 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 +16 11 £450 -21.74% 37
Cheshire -1 11 £438 -25.53% 5
Lancashire +2 1 £530 -11.67% 26
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) ArcGIS
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) AWS
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (4.35%) Google Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) LAN
1 3 (13.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 6 (26.09%) Tableau
3 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.70%) Dremio
4 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Mixpanel
5 1 (4.35%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Business Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Risk Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Commercial Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Commercial Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
1 1 (4.35%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Low-Code
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Insider Threat
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
3 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
3 4 (17.39%) Data Transformation
3 4 (17.39%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (17.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
4 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
4 3 (13.04%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (13.04%) Data Science
4 3 (13.04%) Data Strategy
4 3 (13.04%) ETL
4 3 (13.04%) Internal Audit
4 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) R
4 1 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CBAP
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) PSD2
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
3 3 (13.04%) Splunk
4 2 (8.70%) Brio
5 1 (4.35%) ESRI
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) Hotjar
5 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity
5 1 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) Virgin Media