Data Analytics Contracts in the South East

Data Analytics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 137 167 174
Rank change year-on-year +30 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 22 38 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.68% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.81% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 31
10th Percentile £381 £263 £313
25th Percentile £500 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £520
90th Percentile £627 £731 £600
England median daily rate £528 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.09% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £79.19
75th Percentile £28.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
South East

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 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 Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the South East

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the South East

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the South East

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the South East

Data Analytics
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 Analytics 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
Hampshire +34 12 £538 -6.52% 43
Thames Valley +21 6 £550 +57.14% 87
Berkshire +15 6 £550 +57.14% 36
West Sussex - 3 £443 - 13
Surrey +13 1 £500 - 30
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
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 1 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) Asana
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.64%) Big Data
4 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
5 1 (4.55%) GIS
5 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.55%) OLAP
5 1 (4.55%) QlikView
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Billing
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Project Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Project Leader
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 2 (9.09%) IT Operations Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Operations Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Project Office Support
3 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (4.55%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (4.55%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) IoT
1 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.09%) SCADA
1 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) FMCG
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) Project Management
4 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 4 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (18.18%) ETL
5 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (13.64%) API Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Science
6 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 2 (9.09%) PMP
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Def Stans
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) PMO
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) VMware
2 3 (13.64%) Alteryx
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) Fujitsu
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Cognos
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) SAP