Data Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 225 235
Rank change year-on-year +32 +10 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 147 181 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.87% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.03% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 117 174
10th Percentile £269 £325 £313
25th Percentile £363 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.23% +4.47%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £17.86 £13.50 £12.70
25th Percentile £18.74 £14.78 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.06 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -73.01% +270.72%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -7.44% -24.84% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
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 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 of England +19 34 £450 -18.18% 104
Midlands -23 29 £413 -24.91% 74
North West +13 23 £450 -23.40% 59
South East +30 22 £525 +16.67% 199
East of England +43 20 £650 +112.07% 45
Scotland +23 18 £500 +11.11% 32
East Midlands +16 16 £358 -30.15% 27
Wales +1 13 £244 -54.67% 14
West Midlands -38 12 £549 -0.27% 43
South West +50 11 £513 -14.58% 51
Yorkshire +11 9 £425 -17.48% 29
Northern Ireland - 3 £250 - 11
North East +1 2 £358 - 16
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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 14 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.72%) Confluence
3 3 (2.04%) Apache
3 3 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.68%) Sketch
4 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.36%) Maximo
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.97%) Azure
2 39 (26.53%) AWS
3 36 (24.49%) Power Platform
4 22 (14.97%) GCP
5 8 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (5.44%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (4.76%) Serverless
7 6 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.08%) GitHub
8 5 (3.40%) Asana
8 5 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.40%) Google Analytics
8 5 (3.40%) PaaS
9 4 (2.72%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.36%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) Network Security
2 3 (2.04%) DNS
2 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 3 (2.04%) LAN
2 3 (2.04%) WAN
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (24.49%) Power BI
2 29 (19.73%) Tableau
3 18 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (11.56%) Big Data
5 13 (8.84%) Hadoop
6 10 (6.80%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.08%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.08%) Metadata
8 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.72%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (2.72%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.04%) Looker
10 3 (2.04%) MySQL
10 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.04%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.84%) JIRA
2 6 (4.08%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.72%) Git
5 2 (1.36%) GitLab
5 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.68%) PyCharm
General
1 42 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 42 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.13%) Finance
3 30 (20.41%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.84%) Banking
5 8 (5.44%) Marketing
6 6 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Brand Awareness
7 4 (2.72%) Retail
7 4 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.04%) Local Government
8 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.36%) Billing
9 2 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.36%) Military
9 2 (1.36%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (18.37%) Senior
2 24 (16.33%) Analyst
3 19 (12.93%) Data Engineer
3 19 (12.93%) Developer
4 16 (10.88%) Lead
5 15 (10.20%) Architect
6 14 (9.52%) Data Science Developer
7 12 (8.16%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.12%) Project Manager
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Consultant
10 6 (4.08%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.08%) IT Manager
10 6 (4.08%) Project Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Project Leader
11 5 (3.40%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 4 (2.72%) Campaign Manager
12 4 (2.72%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.72%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.56%) NumPy
1 17 (11.56%) Pandas
2 16 (10.88%) Kafka
3 15 (10.20%) scikit-learn
4 14 (9.52%) Matplotlib
4 14 (9.52%) PyTorch
4 14 (9.52%) Seaborn
4 14 (9.52%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.72%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.72%) PySpark
6 3 (2.04%) Node.js
6 3 (2.04%) React
7 2 (1.36%) .NET
7 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.36%) REST
8 1 (0.68%) CSS
8 1 (0.68%) HTML
8 1 (0.68%) Middleware
8 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.56%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.72%) IoT
5 4 (2.72%) Replication
5 4 (2.72%) Social Media
6 3 (2.04%) Blog
6 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.04%) NHS
7 2 (1.36%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.36%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.36%) FMCG
7 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.36%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.36%) SCADA
7 2 (1.36%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.72%) Linux
2 2 (1.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) CentOS
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) Analytics
2 37 (25.17%) Data Science
3 36 (24.49%) Visualisation
4 35 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (23.81%) Decision-Making
5 31 (21.09%) Data Analysis
6 30 (20.41%) Agile
7 28 (19.05%) Computer Science
8 27 (18.37%) Machine Learning
8 27 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (17.69%) Data Modelling
10 25 (17.01%) Data Engineering
11 23 (15.65%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (14.97%) ETL
13 21 (14.29%) Data Governance
13 21 (14.29%) DevOps
13 21 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (12.93%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (12.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.65%) Python
2 45 (30.61%) SQL
3 17 (11.56%) R
4 4 (2.72%) Java
5 3 (2.04%) Rust
5 3 (2.04%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.36%) Bash
6 2 (1.36%) C#
6 2 (1.36%) Scala
6 2 (1.36%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.68%) Groovy
7 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (25.85%) Degree
2 23 (15.65%) Master's Degree
3 21 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 17 (11.56%) SC Cleared
5 15 (10.20%) PhD
6 12 (8.16%) AWS Certification
6 12 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.04%) CISSP
10 3 (2.04%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.04%) PMP
11 2 (1.36%) CCNA
11 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.68%) CITP
12 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.44%) Def Stans
3 5 (3.40%) GDPR
4 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.04%) PMO
5 3 (2.04%) QA
6 2 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.36%) WCAG
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.68%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.72%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.40%) Terraform
3 2 (1.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) CASB
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.24%) Google
3 15 (10.20%) Databricks
4 12 (8.16%) VMware
5 6 (4.08%) Adobe
6 5 (3.40%) SAP
6 5 (3.40%) Splunk
7 4 (2.72%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.72%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.72%) Oracle
8 2 (1.36%) Brio
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco
8 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.36%) Fujitsu
8 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.68%) Palantir
9 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media