Data Analytics Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Analytics Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 August 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
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 365 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Specialist 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.011% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £571 £304 -
25th Percentile - £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £448 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.61% - -
75th Percentile - £546 -
90th Percentile £584 £601 -
UK median daily rate £578 £625 -
% change year-on-year -7.60% - -

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,931 16,775 20,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 92.27% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,518 10,100 13,828
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,265 1,652 1,160
10th Percentile £13.36 £13.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.40 £18.27 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +88.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.71% +70.37%

Data Analytics Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Analytics Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Analytics Specialist
DemandTrendContract 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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 5 £580 - 1
North West - 4 £580 -
North of England - 4 £580 -
Midlands -12 1 £575 +28.49%
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Data Analytics Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 2025, Data Analytics Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 5 (83.33%) Data Lake
2 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (83.33%) Master's Degree
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (83.33%) Inventory Management
2 5 (83.33%) Snowflake
2 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 5 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (83.33%) Ariba
2 5 (83.33%) Logistics
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) Life Science
2 5 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Hyperion
4 3 (50.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
4 3 (50.00%) Record to Report
4 3 (50.00%) Anaplan
5 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
5 2 (33.33%) PMO
5 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Quality Management
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 1 (16.67%) Data Governance

Data Analytics Specialist 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
1 5 (83.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Data Lake
1 5 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Inventory Management
2 5 (83.33%) Logistics
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
4 3 (50.00%) Record to Report
5 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
5 2 (33.33%) Quality Management
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 1 (16.67%) Data Management
6 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
1 5 (83.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Ariba
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 3 (50.00%) Anaplan
2 3 (50.00%) Hyperion