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 £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 143 176
Rank change year-on-year -10 +33 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 215 298 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 1.44% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.56% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 175 205
10th Percentile £259 £246 £255
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £513
90th Percentile £575 £553 £579
UK median daily rate £461 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 38
10th Percentile £18.01 £12.51 £14.67
25th Percentile £20.86 £13.50 £16.43
Median hourly rate £24.94 £18.95 £18.57
Median % change year-on-year +31.66% +2.02% -21.65%
75th Percentile £31.64 £28.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £33.99 £40.00 £32.30
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £21.65 £20.00
% change year-on-year +22.40% +8.25% -13.04%

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 11,849 19,126 21,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.40% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,597 14,946
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,384 1,087
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £18.02
Median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +42 57 £463 +15.63% 442
North of England -14 53 £419 -6.94% 330
Midlands +16 39 £400 +6.67% 298
West Midlands +24 31 £400 -8.57% 164
Scotland -23 25 £438 -3.31% 75
South West +38 22 £409 -3.76% 168
Yorkshire +22 22 £388 -11.43% 133
North West -26 22 £413 -8.33% 148
Northern Ireland -3 12 £581 +72.22% 20
North East +7 9 £488 -2.50% 52
East Midlands +1 8 £395 +8.97% 117
East of England +18 6 £388 -11.43% 207
Wales +2 1 £500 - 35
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 89 (41.40%) SQL
2 84 (39.07%) Social Skills
3 83 (38.60%) Power Platform
4 82 (38.14%) Data Analysis
5 80 (37.21%) Business Intelligence
6 79 (36.74%) Power BI
7 66 (30.70%) Finance
8 62 (28.84%) Analytical Skills
9 55 (25.58%) Microsoft Excel
10 53 (24.65%) Visualisation
11 49 (22.79%) Data Quality
12 43 (20.00%) Migration
13 42 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (18.60%) Analytics
14 40 (18.60%) Data Governance
15 38 (17.67%) Data Modelling
16 37 (17.21%) Tableau
17 35 (16.28%) Data Management
18 34 (15.81%) Python
19 33 (15.35%) Data Migration
20 32 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
21 31 (14.42%) Agile
22 30 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
22 30 (13.95%) Microsoft
23 29 (13.49%) Decision-Making
24 26 (12.09%) Security Cleared
25 25 (11.63%) Data Visualisation
25 25 (11.63%) Validation
25 25 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
26 24 (11.16%) ETL

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 21 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.12%) Confluence
3 5 (2.33%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 55 (25.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (7.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.79%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.47%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 83 (38.60%) Power Platform
2 16 (7.44%) Azure
3 15 (6.98%) AWS
4 11 (5.12%) GCP
5 6 (2.79%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (2.33%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.33%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.86%) OCI
8 3 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.93%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.93%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (0.93%) Google Ads
9 2 (0.93%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (0.93%) SaaS
10 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (36.74%) Power BI
2 37 (17.21%) Tableau
3 30 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.72%) Metadata
5 7 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.33%) Looker
7 5 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.86%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.86%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.86%) Power Query
9 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.40%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.93%) MS Access
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 14 (6.51%) JIRA
2 3 (1.40%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.93%) ERwin
3 2 (0.93%) GitLab
3 2 (0.93%) TestRail
4 1 (0.47%) Git
4 1 (0.47%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (39.07%) Social Skills
2 66 (30.70%) Finance
3 62 (28.84%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.37%) Banking
6 11 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.65%) Local Government
8 7 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.26%) Marketing
9 6 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.86%) Automotive
10 4 (1.86%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.40%) Front Office
11 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.93%) Aviation
12 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.93%) Games
12 2 (0.93%) Retail
13 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.40%) Kafka
2 2 (0.93%) JSON
3 1 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.44%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.86%) CMDB
5 3 (1.40%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.40%) Smart Meter
6 2 (0.93%) CCTV
6 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.93%) Derivative
6 2 (0.93%) Equities
6 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.93%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.93%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.47%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.14%) Data Analysis
2 80 (37.21%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (24.65%) Visualisation
4 43 (20.00%) Migration
5 42 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (18.60%) Analytics
6 40 (18.60%) Data Governance
7 38 (17.67%) Data Modelling
8 35 (16.28%) Data Management
9 33 (15.35%) Data Migration
10 32 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (14.42%) Agile
12 29 (13.49%) Decision-Making
13 25 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
13 25 (11.63%) Data Visualisation
13 25 (11.63%) Validation
14 24 (11.16%) ETL
15 16 (7.44%) Data Cleansing
16 14 (6.51%) Data Integration
16 14 (6.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 89 (41.40%) SQL
2 34 (15.81%) Python
3 8 (3.72%) R
4 4 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.86%) VBA
5 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.93%) PHP
6 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.37%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.51%) Degree
4 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.93%) ISEB
5 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.93%) PMP
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (22.79%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.84%) QA
3 13 (6.05%) GDPR
4 4 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.40%) SLA
6 2 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) Basel III
7 1 (0.47%) COSHH
7 1 (0.47%) MiFID
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 30 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.05%) SAP
3 10 (4.65%) Oracle
4 9 (4.19%) Google
5 6 (2.79%) Databricks
6 5 (2.33%) Ariba
7 4 (1.86%) Denodo
8 3 (1.40%) BMC
8 3 (1.40%) Palantir
8 3 (1.40%) Talend
8 3 (1.40%) Workday
9 2 (0.93%) Adobe
9 2 (0.93%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.93%) OpenText
9 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.93%) Sparx
9 2 (0.93%) TikTok
9 2 (0.93%) Veeam
9 2 (0.93%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.93%) VMware