Data Analysis Contracts in the South East

Data Analysis
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 93 106 93
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 67 101 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.23% 1.82% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.14% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 65 90
10th Percentile £200 £334 £231
25th Percentile £335 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +13.33%
75th Percentile £541 £688 £575
90th Percentile £625 £744 £701
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £17.34 - -
25th Percentile £18.86 £17.64 £20.47
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.04 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -25.30% +44.26%
75th Percentile £21.75 £29.26 £32.30
90th Percentile £21.96 £37.95 £32.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.24% -17.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +15 34 £525 +16.67% 59
Berkshire +21 28 £550 +27.17% 28
Surrey +33 18 £450 -10.00% 30
Hampshire +10 12 £270 -60.00% 43
Oxfordshire +7 3 £425 +25.00% 23
East Sussex 0 3 £375 -8.54% 10
Buckinghamshire -5 3 £400 -12.09% 12
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) IIS
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.99%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.49%) Maximo
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) Power Platform
2 15 (22.39%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) AWS
3 7 (10.45%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.97%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (2.99%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) SaaS
6 1 (1.49%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.49%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) 5G
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
1 1 (1.49%) Intranet
1 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.85%) Power BI
2 13 (19.40%) Tableau
3 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.97%) Big Data
4 4 (5.97%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.48%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.48%) Metadata
5 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.49%) GIS
7 1 (1.49%) Impala
7 1 (1.49%) Looker
7 1 (1.49%) MS Access
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.49%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) ERwin
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) JMeter
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 27 (40.30%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Telecoms
4 11 (16.42%) Retail
5 8 (11.94%) Marketing
6 7 (10.45%) Billing
6 7 (10.45%) Finance
7 3 (4.48%) Legal
7 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Electronics
9 1 (1.49%) Games
9 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.49%) Local Government
9 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Analyst
2 19 (28.36%) Data Analyst
3 9 (13.43%) IT Manager
3 9 (13.43%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) IT Operations Manager
4 7 (10.45%) Operations Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Performance Manager
6 5 (7.46%) Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Data Manager
6 5 (7.46%) Telecoms Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) CRM Executive
8 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.48%) SQL Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) SQL Data Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) CSS
1 3 (4.48%) HTML
1 3 (4.48%) Web Services
2 1 (1.49%) Kafka
2 1 (1.49%) PySpark
2 1 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.49%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
1 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (34.33%) Analytics
3 20 (29.85%) Actionable Insight
4 15 (22.39%) Decision-Making
4 15 (22.39%) Visualisation
5 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (16.42%) Data Modelling
7 10 (14.93%) DataOps
7 10 (14.93%) Process Improvement
8 9 (13.43%) Dashboard Development
8 9 (13.43%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (11.94%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (10.45%) Agile
11 6 (8.96%) Data Governance
12 5 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (7.46%) Data Integration
12 5 (7.46%) Machine Learning
12 5 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (7.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) SQL
2 9 (13.43%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) R
4 2 (2.99%) C#
4 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.49%) ABAP
5 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.49%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.49%) CCNA
4 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.49%) MBA
4 1 (1.49%) MCSE
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.49%) PhD
4 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.49%) PMP
4 1 (1.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (1.49%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Splunk
2 7 (10.45%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.46%) SAP
4 4 (5.97%) Adobe
4 4 (5.97%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.48%) Ariba
5 3 (4.48%) Databricks
6 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.99%) Sparx
6 2 (2.99%) Workday
7 1 (1.49%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) Talend