Exploratory Data Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Data Analysis 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 333 398 461
Rank change year-on-year +65 +63 +40
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.006% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £536 - -
25th Percentile £589 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.67% - -
75th Percentile £779 - -
90th Percentile £835 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £481
% change year-on-year - +3.90% -7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.12 - -
Median hourly rate £20.24 - -
75th Percentile £20.35 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.87 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -58.27% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis 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%

Exploratory Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis
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 Exploratory Data Analysis 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
South West +46 1 £865 +92.22%
Wales - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £500 - 6
North West - 1 £500 - 6
Exploratory Data Analysis
UK

Exploratory Data Analysis
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
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate
1 1 (33.33%) Head of AI
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Applied Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks