Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Analysis
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 75 76
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 64 46 64
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 3.09% 2.29% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.58% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 16 45
10th Percentile £231 £203 £276
25th Percentile £402 £229 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +6.38%
75th Percentile £661 £553 £638
90th Percentile £675 £621 £915
South East median daily rate £496 £416 £550
% change year-on-year +19.16% -24.32% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £25.99 £30.24
25th Percentile £40.22 £26.00 £50.34
Median hourly rate £40.44 £27.00 £70.59
Median % change year-on-year +49.76% -61.75% +213.74%
75th Percentile £40.65 £28.63 £79.78
90th Percentile - £29.00 -
South East median hourly rate £40.44 £28.50 £34.12
% change year-on-year +41.88% -16.47% +37.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,817 1,784 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.74% 88.84% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,045 1,475
10th Percentile £268 £292 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 54 104
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.92 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.40 £29.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.80% +137.45%
75th Percentile £56.50 £63.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £69.03 £74.37
South East median hourly rate £22.23 £50.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -55.55% -5.66% +41.33%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the Thames Valley

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Berkshire +2 47 £630 +100.00% 90
Buckinghamshire +13 15 £380 -25.85% 30
Oxfordshire -12 2 £312 - 29
Data Analysis
South East

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (7.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.13%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
2 8 (12.50%) Azure
2 8 (12.50%) OCI
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.81%) SaaS
4 3 (4.69%) AWS
4 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) 2G
1 3 (4.69%) 5G
2 2 (3.13%) LTE
2 2 (3.13%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (3.13%) VoIP
3 1 (1.56%) 3G
3 1 (1.56%) 4G
3 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) Power BI
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.13%) Star Schema
5 2 (3.13%) Tableau
6 1 (1.56%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Git
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.94%) Finance
4 4 (6.25%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Military
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Analyst
2 17 (26.56%) Lead
3 15 (23.44%) Data Analyst
4 12 (18.75%) Data Migration Lead
5 8 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
6 6 (9.38%) Compliance Analyst
6 6 (9.38%) HR Analyst
6 6 (9.38%) HR Data Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Risk Support Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Senior
7 5 (7.81%) Support Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) SIEM Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Report Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) SAP Data Migration Lead
10 2 (3.13%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) NumPy
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.56%) Pandas
1 1 (1.56%) Plotly
1 1 (1.56%) REST
1 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Data Structures
1 10 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 8 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.81%) Operational Technology
4 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.13%) IoT
6 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.56%) CMDB
7 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (21.88%) Dashboard Development
3 14 (21.88%) Data Cleansing
3 14 (21.88%) Decision-Making
3 14 (21.88%) Visualisation
4 13 (20.31%) Collaborative Working
4 13 (20.31%) Data Modelling
5 12 (18.75%) Analytics
5 12 (18.75%) Data Migration
5 12 (18.75%) Migration
6 7 (10.94%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (10.94%) ETL
6 7 (10.94%) Impact Assessments
6 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.94%) SIEM
6 7 (10.94%) SOAR
7 6 (9.38%) Customer-Centricity
7 6 (9.38%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) Python
2 8 (12.50%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.25%) R
5 2 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) Data Quality
1 9 (14.06%) GDPR
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Oracle
2 10 (15.63%) Salesforce
3 6 (9.38%) SAP
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.81%) Workday
5 4 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.13%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.56%) Databricks