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 £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 169 164
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 309 349 471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.44% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.53% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 229 335
10th Percentile £256 £205 £198
25th Percentile £350 £320 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +1.43% +6.41%
75th Percentile £506 £500 £494
90th Percentile £555 £562 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 33 45
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.04 £11.42
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.98 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.43 £20.47 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +4.87% +9.05%
75th Percentile £40.00 £23.75 £35.00
90th Percentile - £32.30 -
UK median hourly rate £21.66 £20.52 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.58% +5.10% -2.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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
North of England +25 99 £475 +13.10% 33
South East +20 76 £450 - 22
North West +30 71 £475 +14.11% 13
Scotland +52 54 £456 +10.55% 8
Midlands +10 29 £375 +10.29% 22
South West -11 27 £450 -5.26% 12
Yorkshire +7 25 £400 -8.57% 11
East of England +5 24 £450 - 8
West Midlands +11 17 £431 +32.69% 11
East Midlands +19 12 £369 -7.81% 11
Northern Ireland +10 3 £338 -43.75% 1
North East +15 2 £500 - 9
Wales +6 2 - - 3
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 118 (38.19%) SQL
2 104 (33.66%) Business Intelligence
3 99 (32.04%) Power BI
3 99 (32.04%) Power Platform
4 97 (31.39%) Finance
5 92 (29.77%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (29.45%) Analytics
7 85 (27.51%) Data Analysis
8 78 (25.24%) Social Skills
9 71 (22.98%) Data Quality
10 61 (19.74%) Visualisation
11 60 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (17.15%) Python
13 52 (16.83%) Data Modelling
13 52 (16.83%) Tableau
14 45 (14.56%) Data Management
15 41 (13.27%) Data Governance
15 41 (13.27%) Data Visualisation
16 38 (12.30%) SAP
17 36 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 35 (11.33%) Actionable Insight
19 33 (10.68%) Alteryx
20 32 (10.36%) Snowflake
20 32 (10.36%) Migration
20 32 (10.36%) JIRA
21 31 (10.03%) Agile
21 31 (10.03%) Microsoft
22 30 (9.71%) Pharmaceutical
22 30 (9.71%) Data Cleansing
23 29 (9.39%) Decision-Making

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 18 (5.83%) SAS
2 9 (2.91%) Confluence
3 4 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.27%) SPSS
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (32.04%) Power Platform
2 32 (10.36%) Snowflake
3 22 (7.12%) Power Automate
4 15 (4.85%) Azure
5 13 (4.21%) PowerApps
6 11 (3.56%) Collibra
7 9 (2.91%) AWS
8 8 (2.59%) Google Analytics
9 7 (2.27%) GCP
10 5 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.29%) iPaaS
12 3 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.97%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.65%) OCI
14 1 (0.32%) Azure Stack
14 1 (0.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (32.04%) Power BI
2 52 (16.83%) Tableau
3 15 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (4.85%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.53%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.53%) Data Mining
4 14 (4.53%) Qlik Sense
5 9 (2.91%) Metadata
6 8 (2.59%) Big Data
7 7 (2.27%) Ataccama
8 6 (1.94%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.62%) MS Access
9 5 (1.62%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.62%) Power Query
10 4 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.97%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (10.36%) JIRA
2 9 (2.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.62%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.29%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.65%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.65%) ERwin
5 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (31.39%) Finance
2 92 (29.77%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (25.24%) Social Skills
4 30 (9.71%) Pharmaceutical
5 28 (9.06%) Legal
6 22 (7.12%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.47%) Banking
8 16 (5.18%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.18%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.21%) Retail
10 12 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.91%) Marketing
12 8 (2.59%) Local Government
13 4 (1.29%) Back Office
13 4 (1.29%) Billing
13 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.29%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.65%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.27%) D3.js
2 5 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.65%) Middleware
3 2 (0.65%) PySpark
4 1 (0.32%) Shiny
4 1 (0.32%) XML
4 1 (0.32%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.44%) Data Structures
2 16 (5.18%) Credit Risk
3 13 (4.21%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.94%) Life Science
5 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.29%) e-Health
6 4 (1.29%) NHS
7 3 (0.97%) IoT
7 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.32%) CMDB
9 1 (0.32%) FMCG
9 1 (0.32%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.32%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.32%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.29%) Unix
2 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.66%) Business Intelligence
2 91 (29.45%) Analytics
3 85 (27.51%) Data Analysis
4 61 (19.74%) Visualisation
5 60 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (16.83%) Data Modelling
7 45 (14.56%) Data Management
8 41 (13.27%) Data Governance
8 41 (13.27%) Data Visualisation
9 36 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (11.33%) Actionable Insight
11 32 (10.36%) Migration
12 31 (10.03%) Agile
13 30 (9.71%) Data Cleansing
14 29 (9.39%) Decision-Making
15 25 (8.09%) Data Integration
16 23 (7.44%) Data Analytics
17 22 (7.12%) Dashboard Development
18 19 (6.15%) Data Extraction
18 19 (6.15%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 118 (38.19%) SQL
2 53 (17.15%) Python
3 11 (3.56%) R
4 6 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.29%) Groovy
5 4 (1.29%) Java
5 4 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.32%) Julia
7 1 (0.32%) Scala
7 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (9.06%) Degree
2 22 (7.12%) SC Cleared
2 22 (7.12%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.32%) ACCA
5 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.32%) CIMA
5 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (22.98%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.44%) QA
3 19 (6.15%) GDPR
4 7 (2.27%) PMO
5 4 (1.29%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (1.29%) GxP
6 3 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.32%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 38 (12.30%) SAP
2 33 (10.68%) Alteryx
3 31 (10.03%) Microsoft
4 25 (8.09%) Oracle
5 12 (3.88%) Databricks
5 12 (3.88%) Google
5 12 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.88%) Splunk
6 11 (3.56%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.59%) Ariba
8 7 (2.27%) Dataiku
8 7 (2.27%) Trillium
9 4 (1.29%) Denodo
9 4 (1.29%) IFS
9 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.97%) Informatica
11 2 (0.65%) Ceridian
11 2 (0.65%) IDERA
11 2 (0.65%) Talend
11 2 (0.65%) Teradata