Data Analytics Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 370 426
Rank change year-on-year +3 +56 -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.024% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £481 -
25th Percentile £513 £509 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +27.57% -
75th Percentile £538 £630 £500
90th Percentile - - £523
UK median daily rate £456 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -27.58% +9.57% -28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate - - £40.00

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 13,778 16,349 20,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 92.24% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,464 9,485 13,633
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 1,438 1,196
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +6.95% +91.26%
75th Percentile £51.95 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies 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 16 September 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 - 2 £525 -
North of England - 2 £525 -
Scotland - 1 - -
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 16 September 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 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Dremio
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis

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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Dremio
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle