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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 112 109
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 64 48 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.39% 1.54% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 1.62% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 36 36
10th Percentile £200 £200 £199
25th Percentile £306 £303 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -3.03% +33.06%
75th Percentile £510 £439 £488
90th Percentile £548 £483 £545
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 20
10th Percentile - - £11.01
25th Percentile £13.50 - £13.81
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £14.91
75th Percentile £22.63 - £21.22
90th Percentile - - £23.78
England median hourly rate £21.64 £22.16 £21.00
% change year-on-year -2.35% +5.52% +13.51%

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 2,533 2,968 3,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 94.92% 96.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 2,109 2,840
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 127 176
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.71 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +23.02% +38.01%
75th Percentile £46.91 £49.08 £50.01
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

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 12 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 12 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 +25 29 £400 +3.23% 7
Cheshire +20 26 £500 +12.68% 5
Merseyside +18 5 £200 -50.00% 5
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 34 (53.13%) SQL
2 29 (45.31%) Power BI
2 29 (45.31%) Power Platform
3 28 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (43.75%) Data Analysis
4 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
5 23 (35.94%) Python
6 20 (31.25%) Visualisation
7 19 (29.69%) SAP
8 18 (28.13%) Analytics
9 17 (26.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (23.44%) Data Management
11 14 (21.88%) Data Modelling
11 14 (21.88%) Data Quality
11 14 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
12 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (17.19%) Snowflake
13 11 (17.19%) Finance
14 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (15.63%) Google
14 10 (15.63%) QA
15 9 (14.06%) Tableau
15 9 (14.06%) Data Architecture
15 9 (14.06%) Data Cleansing
15 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
16 8 (12.50%) Data Integration
16 8 (12.50%) Data Governance
16 8 (12.50%) Data Lake
17 7 (10.94%) GDPR
17 7 (10.94%) Translating Business Requirements

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 (10.94%) SAS
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) Power Platform
2 11 (17.19%) Snowflake
3 7 (10.94%) Google Analytics
4 6 (9.38%) Collibra
4 6 (9.38%) GCP
4 6 (9.38%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.25%) AWS
6 3 (4.69%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.13%) Azure
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.56%) Matillion
8 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (45.31%) Power BI
2 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.06%) Tableau
3 8 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 7 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (9.38%) Ataccama
5 6 (9.38%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (7.81%) BigQuery
6 5 (7.81%) Data Mining
7 3 (4.69%) Data Vault
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.56%) Big Data
9 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.56%) PowerPivot
9 1 (1.56%) Presto
9 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (4.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) PyCharm
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.19%) Finance
5 5 (7.81%) Banking
5 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.69%) Marketing
6 3 (4.69%) Retail
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (1.56%) CMDB
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
1 28 (43.75%) Data Analysis
2 20 (31.25%) Visualisation
3 18 (28.13%) Analytics
4 15 (23.44%) Data Management
5 14 (21.88%) Data Modelling
5 14 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.06%) Data Architecture
7 9 (14.06%) Data Cleansing
8 8 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 8 (12.50%) Data Integration
9 7 (10.94%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (9.38%) Customer Experience
11 5 (7.81%) Agile
11 5 (7.81%) Dashboard Development
11 5 (7.81%) Logistics
11 5 (7.81%) Migration
11 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) SQL
2 23 (35.94%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.69%) R
4 1 (1.56%) Julia
4 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (15.63%) QA
3 7 (10.94%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 19 (29.69%) SAP
2 10 (15.63%) Google
3 6 (9.38%) Alteryx
3 6 (9.38%) Dataiku
3 6 (9.38%) Trillium
4 4 (6.25%) Ariba
5 3 (4.69%) Bloomberg
5 3 (4.69%) Refinitiv
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.13%) Databricks
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.56%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.56%) Teradata
7 1 (1.56%) Workday