Data Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £423, 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 173 145 179
Rank change year-on-year -28 +34 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 177 309 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.39% 1.49% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.61% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 181 232
10th Percentile £211 £256 £250
25th Percentile £325 £350 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £504 £506 £500
90th Percentile £550 £555 £575
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 34
10th Percentile £16.27 £13.00 £14.53
25th Percentile £19.16 £13.50 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.90 £21.43 £19.98
Median % change year-on-year +20.86% +7.26% +2.36%
75th Percentile £31.64 £40.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £33.99 - £32.30
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £21.66 £20.47
% change year-on-year +25.23% +5.81% +4.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK excluding London 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
South East +19 47 £463 +2.78% 156
North of England -32 44 £410 -13.68% 110
Midlands +22 29 £400 +6.67% 84
West Midlands +18 21 £413 -4.35% 48
Scotland -20 20 £400 -13.14% 23
South West +37 19 £409 -6.51% 42
Yorkshire +1 19 £350 -17.65% 41
North West -36 18 £413 -13.16% 55
East of England +15 9 £488 +8.33% 49
East Midlands +6 8 £400 +8.47% 32
North East +5 7 £450 -10.00% 14
Northern Ireland -4 7 £425 +25.93% 13
Wales +1 2 £360 - 11
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 73 (41.24%) Data Analysis
2 72 (40.68%) SQL
3 69 (38.98%) Business Intelligence
4 67 (37.85%) Power BI
4 67 (37.85%) Power Platform
5 65 (36.72%) Social Skills
6 53 (29.94%) Analytical Skills
7 44 (24.86%) Finance
8 42 (23.73%) Migration
9 41 (23.16%) Data Quality
10 40 (22.60%) Data Governance
11 39 (22.03%) Analytics
12 36 (20.34%) Visualisation
12 36 (20.34%) Data Migration
12 36 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (19.77%) Microsoft Excel
14 34 (19.21%) ETL
15 32 (18.08%) Data Warehouse
16 29 (16.38%) Data Modelling
16 29 (16.38%) Tableau
17 28 (15.82%) Decision-Making
18 27 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
18 27 (15.25%) QA
19 26 (14.69%) Validation
19 26 (14.69%) Actionable Insight
20 24 (13.56%) Data Management
20 24 (13.56%) Data Visualisation
21 23 (12.99%) Security Cleared
22 22 (12.43%) Python
23 21 (11.86%) Agile

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 11 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.95%) Confluence
3 5 (2.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 35 (19.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.56%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 67 (37.85%) Power Platform
2 16 (9.04%) AWS
3 14 (7.91%) Azure
4 11 (6.21%) GCP
5 7 (3.95%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.82%) Adobe Analytics
6 5 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.69%) OCI
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.13%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (1.13%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.13%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (37.85%) Power BI
2 32 (18.08%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (16.38%) Tableau
4 8 (4.52%) Looker
5 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
5 5 (2.82%) Metadata
5 5 (2.82%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.69%) MS Access
7 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.13%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.13%) MySQL
8 2 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.08%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) ERwin
2 2 (1.13%) GitLab
2 2 (1.13%) TestRail
3 1 (0.56%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (36.72%) Social Skills
2 53 (29.94%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (24.86%) Finance
4 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.65%) Banking
6 8 (4.52%) Local Government
7 7 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.95%) Marketing
8 6 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.82%) Retail
10 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.69%) Front Office
11 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Billing
12 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.13%) Games
12 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.56%) Electronics
13 1 (0.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.13%) JSON
2 1 (0.56%) Pandas
2 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.21%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.26%) CMDB
4 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.56%) Derivative
6 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.56%) NHS
6 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (41.24%) Data Analysis
2 69 (38.98%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (23.73%) Migration
4 40 (22.60%) Data Governance
5 39 (22.03%) Analytics
6 36 (20.34%) Data Migration
6 36 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (20.34%) Visualisation
7 34 (19.21%) ETL
8 29 (16.38%) Data Modelling
9 28 (15.82%) Decision-Making
10 27 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (14.69%) Actionable Insight
11 26 (14.69%) Validation
12 24 (13.56%) Data Management
12 24 (13.56%) Data Visualisation
13 21 (11.86%) Agile
14 19 (10.73%) Data Integration
15 15 (8.47%) Data Mapping
16 14 (7.91%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 72 (40.68%) SQL
2 22 (12.43%) Python
3 6 (3.39%) R
4 3 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.13%) PHP
5 2 (1.13%) VBA
6 1 (0.56%) ABAP
6 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) Degree
4 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.16%) Data Quality
2 27 (15.25%) QA
3 9 (5.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) SLA
5 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.65%) Oracle
3 9 (5.08%) Google
3 9 (5.08%) SAP
4 5 (2.82%) Adobe
4 5 (2.82%) Alteryx
4 5 (2.82%) Ariba
4 5 (2.82%) Databricks
5 4 (2.26%) Denodo
5 4 (2.26%) Informatica
6 3 (1.69%) BMC
6 3 (1.69%) Palantir
6 3 (1.69%) Talend
6 3 (1.69%) Workday
7 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.13%) Sparx
7 2 (1.13%) Splunk
7 2 (1.13%) TikTok
7 2 (1.13%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.56%) Foundry