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 during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 163 165
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 297 340 473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.45% 1.46% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.54% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 220 330
10th Percentile £253 £213 £210
25th Percentile £350 £324 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% +4.80%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £555 £579 £550
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £466
% change year-on-year -2.63% +1.93% +12.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 47
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.56 £11.53
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.43 £18.14 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -11.51% +14.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £23.75 £35.00
90th Percentile - £32.30 -
UK median hourly rate £21.66 £19.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.05% +12.16%

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 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £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 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +24 89 £450 +5.88% 29
South East +21 76 £400 -12.33% 20
North West +32 64 £438 +9.38% 16
Scotland +63 51 £465 +9.41% 4
Midlands +20 34 £375 +10.29% 26
South West -17 28 £438 -7.89% 13
Yorkshire -3 22 £450 -6.25% 12
East of England +6 20 £450 - 13
West Midlands 0 18 £438 +28.68% 15
East Midlands +27 16 £363 +3.57% 11
Northern Ireland +7 3 £338 -43.75%
North East +12 2 £500 - 1
Wales +9 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 11 May 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.

1 120 (40.40%) SQL
2 111 (37.37%) Business Intelligence
3 101 (34.01%) Finance
4 100 (33.67%) Power BI
4 100 (33.67%) Power Platform
5 94 (31.65%) Analytics
6 89 (29.97%) Analytical Skills
7 79 (26.60%) Data Analysis
8 75 (25.25%) Social Skills
9 62 (20.88%) Visualisation
10 58 (19.53%) Python
10 58 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (18.18%) Data Quality
12 52 (17.51%) Tableau
13 45 (15.15%) Data Modelling
14 43 (14.48%) Data Management
15 42 (14.14%) Data Visualisation
16 38 (12.79%) Data Governance
17 34 (11.45%) Actionable Insight
18 33 (11.11%) JIRA
18 33 (11.11%) Agile
19 32 (10.77%) Microsoft
20 31 (10.44%) Migration
20 31 (10.44%) Alteryx
20 31 (10.44%) Snowflake
21 30 (10.10%) Legal
22 29 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
22 29 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
22 29 (9.76%) SAP
22 29 (9.76%) Data Cleansing

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 (6.06%) SAS
2 9 (3.03%) Confluence
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.36%) SPSS
3 4 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 100 (33.67%) Power Platform
2 31 (10.44%) Snowflake
3 22 (7.41%) Power Automate
4 16 (5.39%) Azure
5 13 (4.38%) PowerApps
6 11 (3.70%) Collibra
7 8 (2.69%) AWS
7 8 (2.69%) GCP
7 8 (2.69%) Google Analytics
8 7 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.35%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.01%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (0.67%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.67%) OCI
13 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.34%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) Intranet
1 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (33.67%) Power BI
2 52 (17.51%) Tableau
3 16 (5.39%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.05%) Data Mining
5 14 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 14 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.71%) Qlik Sense
6 9 (3.03%) Big Data
6 9 (3.03%) Hadoop
7 8 (2.69%) Metadata
8 7 (2.36%) Ataccama
8 7 (2.36%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.02%) Impala
9 6 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.68%) Power Query
10 5 (1.68%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.35%) MS Access
11 4 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (11.11%) JIRA
2 8 (2.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.68%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.35%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.67%) ERwin
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
General
1 101 (34.01%) Finance
2 89 (29.97%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (25.25%) Social Skills
4 30 (10.10%) Legal
5 25 (8.42%) Pharmaceutical
6 24 (8.08%) Banking
7 16 (5.39%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.39%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.38%) Retail
9 12 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.03%) Marketing
11 8 (2.69%) Local Government
12 4 (1.35%) Back Office
12 4 (1.35%) Billing
12 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.36%) D3.js
2 5 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.67%) Middleware
3 2 (0.67%) PySpark
4 1 (0.34%) Shiny
4 1 (0.34%) XML
4 1 (0.34%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.39%) Credit Risk
2 13 (4.38%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.35%) e-Health
8 4 (1.35%) NHS
9 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.01%) IoT
10 2 (0.67%) Life Science
10 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.34%) CMDB
11 1 (0.34%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.34%) FMCG
11 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.34%) Social Media
11 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (37.37%) Business Intelligence
2 94 (31.65%) Analytics
3 79 (26.60%) Data Analysis
4 62 (20.88%) Visualisation
5 58 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 43 (14.48%) Data Management
8 42 (14.14%) Data Visualisation
9 38 (12.79%) Data Governance
10 34 (11.45%) Actionable Insight
11 33 (11.11%) Agile
12 31 (10.44%) Migration
13 29 (9.76%) Data Cleansing
13 29 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (8.75%) Dashboard Development
14 26 (8.75%) Data Analytics
15 25 (8.42%) Decision-Making
16 23 (7.74%) Data Integration
17 20 (6.73%) Data Extraction
17 20 (6.73%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 120 (40.40%) SQL
2 58 (19.53%) Python
3 16 (5.39%) R
4 7 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.35%) Groovy
5 4 (1.35%) Java
5 4 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.67%) VBA
7 1 (0.34%) Julia
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Scala
7 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (8.42%) Degree
2 18 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 18 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.34%) ACCA
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.34%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.73%) GDPR
3 18 (6.06%) QA
4 7 (2.36%) PMO
5 4 (1.35%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (1.35%) GxP
6 2 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.01%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 32 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.44%) Alteryx
3 29 (9.76%) SAP
4 27 (9.09%) Oracle
5 13 (4.38%) Google
5 13 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.04%) Databricks
6 12 (4.04%) Splunk
7 11 (3.70%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.36%) Dataiku
8 7 (2.36%) Trillium
9 4 (1.35%) Ariba
9 4 (1.35%) Denodo
9 4 (1.35%) IFS
10 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.01%) Informatica
10 3 (1.01%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.67%) Ceridian
11 2 (0.67%) IDERA
11 2 (0.67%) Teradata