Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Analytics 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 267 210 238
Rank change year-on-year -57 +28 -57
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 141 151 166
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.01% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.16% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 101 125
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £402 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £550 £635 £625
90th Percentile £671 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 9
10th Percentile £22.84 £19.13 £37.40
25th Percentile £32.60 £20.12 £50.53
Median hourly rate £60.00 £29.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% -55.38% +108.67%
75th Percentile £70.08 £31.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £47.24 £85.61
UK median hourly rate £50.75 £29.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -55.38% +96.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,486 12,996 17,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.16% 86.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 7,632 11,289
10th Percentile £219 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,755 780 1,222
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.99% -27.21% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.96 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands -18 50 £519 +8.70% 94
West Midlands -10 42 £523 +6.63% 51
North of England -41 38 £475 -9.52% 132
North West -24 23 £454 -8.54% 66
South East -9 17 £475 -6.86% 150
Scotland -16 15 £348 -32.20% 31
Yorkshire -34 15 £475 -11.63% 47
South West -1 13 £681 +6.86% 44
East of England -22 10 £625 -1.96% 59
East Midlands -16 8 £378 -5.50% 41
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (22.70%) SAS
2 12 (8.51%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.38%) Apache
4 8 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.84%) Confluence
6 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.55%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.71%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.70%) Power Platform
2 29 (20.57%) Azure
3 27 (19.15%) AWS
4 14 (9.93%) GCP
5 8 (5.67%) GitHub
6 6 (4.26%) Azure AI
6 6 (4.26%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (4.26%) PowerApps
6 6 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.84%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.13%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.42%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.42%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) LAN
1 5 (3.55%) WAN
2 2 (1.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) DSL
3 1 (0.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.71%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.70%) Power BI
2 29 (20.57%) Pentaho
3 18 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (10.64%) Hadoop
5 13 (9.22%) NoSQL
6 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.38%) Tableau
8 8 (5.67%) Big Data
9 7 (4.96%) Apache Hive
10 6 (4.26%) Data Lake
10 6 (4.26%) Data Mining
10 6 (4.26%) HBase
10 6 (4.26%) Oracle Database
10 6 (4.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 5 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.55%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.84%) MS Access
12 4 (2.84%) Power Query
13 3 (2.13%) Impala
13 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (24.82%) JIRA
2 32 (22.70%) Git
3 29 (20.57%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.55%) GitLab
5 3 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 47 (33.33%) Finance
2 40 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.89%) Banking
5 12 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.80%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (5.67%) Aerospace
8 7 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Legal
9 3 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.42%) Marketing
10 2 (1.42%) Military
10 2 (1.42%) Retail
11 1 (0.71%) Advertising
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Billing
11 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.71%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (16.31%) Data Engineer
2 22 (15.60%) Analyst
3 16 (11.35%) Data Analyst
4 13 (9.22%) Developer
5 8 (5.67%) Architect
5 8 (5.67%) Lead
6 7 (4.96%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Senior
8 5 (3.55%) Hadoop Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) SAS Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) SQL Analyst
8 5 (3.55%) SQL Data Analyst
9 4 (2.84%) Data Architect
9 4 (2.84%) Project Leader
9 4 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.13%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (2.13%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.13%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.09%) REST
2 8 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.67%) PySpark
3 7 (4.96%) PyTorch
3 7 (4.96%) scikit-learn
3 7 (4.96%) TensorFlow
4 6 (4.26%) NumPy
4 6 (4.26%) Pandas
4 6 (4.26%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (2.13%) Kafka
5 3 (2.13%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.42%) React
7 1 (0.71%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.71%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.71%) LESS
7 1 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.71%) Next.js
7 1 (0.71%) Sass
7 1 (0.71%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.96%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.55%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.55%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.84%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.71%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.71%) Derivative
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.71%) Robotics
7 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.67%) Linux
2 3 (2.13%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (100.00%) Analytics
2 59 (41.84%) Agile
2 59 (41.84%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (36.17%) Data Modelling
3 51 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (32.62%) CI/CD
4 46 (32.62%) DevOps
5 45 (31.91%) Data Pipeline
6 40 (28.37%) ETL
7 33 (23.40%) Scrum
8 31 (21.99%) Data Integration
9 30 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (21.28%) Data Governance
10 29 (20.57%) Data Virtualisation
10 29 (20.57%) Test Automation
11 26 (18.44%) Visualisation
12 25 (17.73%) Business Analytics
12 25 (17.73%) Deployment Automation
13 24 (17.02%) Data Science
14 22 (15.60%) AI
Programming Languages
1 74 (52.48%) SQL
2 46 (32.62%) Python
3 9 (6.38%) R
4 7 (4.96%) Java
5 6 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.55%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.13%) Scala
9 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.42%) VBA
10 1 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.71%) LookML
10 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 37 (26.24%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.48%) Degree
4 7 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) CISA
6 1 (0.71%) CISM
6 1 (0.71%) CISSP
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) IIBA
6 1 (0.71%) ISEB
6 1 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.71%) PhD
6 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.71%) PMP
6 1 (0.71%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (24.82%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.38%) GDPR
3 5 (3.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.13%) Def Stans
5 3 (2.13%) QA
6 2 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.71%) COBIT
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS
7 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) PSD2
System Software
1 41 (29.08%) Docker
2 6 (4.26%) HDFS
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (30.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.26%) Hadoop YARN
3 5 (3.55%) Ansible
3 5 (3.55%) Kibana
3 5 (3.55%) logstash
3 5 (3.55%) Puppet
4 4 (2.84%) Grafana
5 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.42%) Terraform
7 1 (0.71%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) Denodo
1 29 (20.57%) Talend
2 28 (19.86%) Oracle
3 24 (17.02%) Microsoft
4 12 (8.51%) Databricks
5 11 (7.80%) Google
6 7 (4.96%) OpenAI
7 6 (4.26%) Foundry
8 5 (3.55%) Splunk
9 4 (2.84%) Cloudera
9 4 (2.84%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.84%) SAP
10 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.13%) VMware
11 2 (1.42%) Cognos
12 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.71%) IBM
12 1 (0.71%) Informatica
12 1 (0.71%) Pega
12 1 (0.71%) Planview