Business Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 383 428
Rank change year-on-year +63 +45 +56
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 14 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.053% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.063% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 25
10th Percentile £410 £333 £355
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -
75th Percentile £508 £469 £675
90th Percentile £510 £503 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £32.05 £21.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.11% - -
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £21.64 -
% change year-on-year +48.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business 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 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in the UK excluding London

Business Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Analytics in the UK excluding London

Business Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analytics in the UK excluding London

Business 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 Business Analytics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Scotland +18 10 £463 +1.37% 5
South East +35 2 - - 20
North of England +12 2 £450 +38.46% 14
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 +30.77% 3
North West - 1 £475 - 8
Business Analytics
UK

Business Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (14.29%) CMS
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.14%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
2 4 (28.57%) OCI
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle CX
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Development Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analytics Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Middleware
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Great Expectations
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Learning Management System
2 2 (14.29%) Life Science
2 2 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) CRM
4 4 (28.57%) ERP
4 4 (28.57%) Human Resource Management
4 4 (28.57%) SOA
4 4 (28.57%) Use Case
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
5 3 (21.43%) Data Science
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
6 2 (14.29%) Content Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (28.57%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks