Data Analytics Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, 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 330 397 457
Rank change year-on-year +67 +60 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.010% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.010% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £447 £469 £531
25th Percentile £472 £478 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.96% +14.74%
75th Percentile £541 £553 £546
90th Percentile £544 £566 £549
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -34.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +62.50% -

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 Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics Engineer
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 Analytics Engineer 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
North West - 3 £528 -
North of England - 3 £528 - 1
Scotland - 2 £431 -
South East - 1 - - 5
Data Analytics Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analytics Engineer 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 Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Power BI
3 4 (66.67%) Databricks
3 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (33.33%) Dremio
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (33.33%) Data Management
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse

Data Analytics Engineer 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) OCI
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Dremio
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Design
5 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Virgin Media