Exploratory Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 351 422
Rank change year-on-year -28 +71 +90
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 7 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.047% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.056% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £402 £344 -
25th Percentile £405 £348 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £356 £375
Median % change year-on-year +24.65% -5.07% -28.57%
75th Percentile £653 - £388
90th Percentile £951 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £378 £375
% change year-on-year +25.66% +0.80% -46.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.93 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.36 -

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 14,535 14,246 18,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.13% 83.79% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,772 8,091 12,318
10th Percentile £225 £245 £250
25th Percentile £371 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,609 949 1,296
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £37.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% -11.76% +57.41%
75th Percentile £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.82% -10.59% +26.87%

Exploratory Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Exploratory Data Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Exploratory Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Exploratory Data Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Exploratory Data Analysis

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 24 October 2025.

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

Exploratory Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Exploratory Data Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Exploratory Data Analysis

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 24 October 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
East Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
South East - 2 £444 - 1
North West -20 1 £400 +14.85% 2
North of England -35 1 £400 +14.85% 5
South West - 1 £1,100 -
Exploratory Data Analysis
UK

Exploratory Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
1 4 (57.14%) Data Mining
1 4 (57.14%) Hadoop
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Head of AI
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Data Science
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
4 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
6 1 (14.29%) AI
6 1 (14.29%) Applied Mathematics
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
6 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Security
6 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) Logistics
6 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) R
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA