Data Analyst Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Analyst
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the Thames Valley is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 90 108
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 32 55 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.12% 2.05% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 2.20% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 32
10th Percentile £350 £261 £280
25th Percentile £411 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £400 £457
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% -12.41% +6.45%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £526
90th Percentile £613 £555 £550
South East median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.30 £80.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -68.38% +184.09% -
75th Percentile £25.45 £90.00 £32.30
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £80.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -72.41% +245.68% +18.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the Thames Valley

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the Thames Valley

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the Thames Valley

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the Thames Valley

Data Analyst
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 Analyst within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +10 22 £510 +27.50% 20
Buckinghamshire +14 7 £500 +25.00% 8
Oxfordshire +5 3 £413 +77.42% 14
Data Analyst
South East

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 12 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Migration
6 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 8 (25.00%) Power BI
6 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (21.88%) Validation
8 6 (18.75%) Data Governance
8 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
8 6 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (18.75%) Data Management
8 6 (18.75%) Oracle
9 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
9 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (15.63%) Finance
9 5 (15.63%) Change Management
9 5 (15.63%) QA
9 5 (15.63%) Tableau
10 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (12.50%) Azure
10 4 (12.50%) AWS
10 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
10 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
10 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
10 4 (12.50%) Analytics

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.13%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) OCI
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) Tableau
3 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.38%) Metadata
4 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.13%) Impala
5 1 (3.13%) MS Access
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) ERwin
2 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Retail
4 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.25%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) CMDB
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (28.13%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) Migration
4 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 7 (21.88%) Validation
6 6 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (18.75%) Data Governance
6 6 (18.75%) Data Management
7 5 (15.63%) Change Management
7 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.50%) Analytics
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
9 3 (9.38%) Impact Analysis
9 3 (9.38%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) R
4 1 (3.13%) ABAP
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (15.63%) QA
3 4 (12.50%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) BMC
3 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Sparx
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) Workday
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Talend