Report Specialist Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Reporting Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Reporting Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, 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 363 372 426
Rank change year-on-year +9 +54 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Report Specialist 7 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.011% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.012% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £319 - £351
25th Percentile £355 - £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.39%
75th Percentile £425 - £434
90th Percentile - - £444
UK median daily rate £400 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -12.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.11
25th Percentile £32.75 - £22.27
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £22.53
75th Percentile £36.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £34.50 - £22.53
% change year-on-year - - +11.12%

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%

Report Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Report Specialist in the UK excluding London

Report Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Report Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Report Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Report Specialist in the UK excluding London

Report Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Report Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Report Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Report Specialist
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 Report Specialist 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
East of England - 3 £400 - 2
North of England - 3 £295 -
Yorkshire - 2 £295 -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 1
Report Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Report 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 Report Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Front Office
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Investment Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
3 3 (42.86%) MiFID
3 3 (42.86%) Tableau
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) Power BI
3 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (28.57%) Looker
4 2 (28.57%) dbt
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Google

Report 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
1 3 (42.86%) Tableau
2 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Looker
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Data Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Investment Management
3 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) X++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) MiFID
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud