Data Analytics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 96 117 123
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 6 28 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 1.04% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.20% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 17
10th Percentile £400 £214 £373
25th Percentile £456 £263 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -22.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile £590 £478 £502
90th Percentile £614 £788 £609
South East median daily rate £525 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 - £79.19
% change year-on-year - - +13.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the Thames Valley

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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 Analytics 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 +15 6 £550 +57.14% 38
Data Analytics
South East

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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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Billing
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Operations Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 2 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) DataOps
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) LLM
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk