Data Analysis Contracts in the South West

Data Analysis
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 60 109 122
Rank change year-on-year +49 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 51 48 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.04% 1.50% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 1.81% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 25
10th Percentile £314 £341 £211
25th Percentile £407 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% +1.32% -
75th Percentile £600 £678 £556
90th Percentile £721 £723 £579
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 7
10th Percentile - - £44.00
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -61.54% +33.68%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £71.50 -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.24% -17.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 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
Wiltshire +45 24 £513 -24.07% 4
Gloucestershire +22 12 £409 +2.25% 30
Bristol +10 7 £533 +10.75% 29
Somerset -4 4 £618 +2.92% 9
Devon +14 1 £325 - 15
Dorset - 1 £300 - 4
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (13.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.84%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.96%) Azure
3 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.96%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) Power BI
2 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.88%) Big Data
3 3 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.92%) Tableau
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) KDB
5 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Gatling
2 1 (1.96%) JMeter
2 1 (1.96%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (37.25%) Analytical Skills
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Finance
4 7 (13.73%) Local Government
5 6 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.96%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (47.06%) Analyst
2 9 (17.65%) Service Manager
3 8 (15.69%) Business Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) Data Analyst
4 7 (13.73%) Report Analyst
4 7 (13.73%) Service Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) SAP Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) SAP Data Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Data Scientist
7 3 (5.88%) Service Owner
8 2 (3.92%) Business Information Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Information Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Procurement Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Procurement Project Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
9 1 (1.96%) Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Developer
9 1 (1.96%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.96%) CSS
2 1 (1.96%) Django
2 1 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (33.33%) Service Management
3 16 (31.37%) ITIL
4 14 (27.45%) Visualisation
5 13 (25.49%) Data Visualisation
6 12 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (21.57%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (19.61%) ERP
9 9 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (15.69%) Data Integration
10 8 (15.69%) Problem Management
10 8 (15.69%) Quality Management
10 8 (15.69%) Statistics
11 7 (13.73%) Data Science
11 7 (13.73%) Service Catalogue
12 5 (9.80%) Data Management
12 5 (9.80%) Data Migration
12 5 (9.80%) Machine Learning
12 5 (9.80%) Migration
12 5 (9.80%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) Python
1 7 (13.73%) SQL
2 3 (5.88%) Java
3 2 (3.92%) R
4 1 (1.96%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (11.76%) Degree
5 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) IIBA
7 1 (1.96%) ACCA
7 1 (1.96%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) SLA
2 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) GAAP
3 1 (1.96%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) SAP
2 7 (13.73%) Ariba
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Oracle
3 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.92%) Foundry
5 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.96%) New Relic
5 1 (1.96%) Palantir
5 1 (1.96%) Splunk