Data Analysis Contracts

Data Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 107 116
Rank change year-on-year +20 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 1,050 1,392 2,087
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.42% 2.33% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.59% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 939 1,418
10th Percentile £313 £313 £331
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% +6.32%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 60 91
10th Percentile £17.93 £20.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.10 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £29.00 £33.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% -3.86% +42.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £42.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.70% +20.44% +59.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +17 932 £500 - 793
London +9 507 £500 -4.76% 326
UK excluding London +34 432 £462 -3.65% 478
Work from Home +39 385 £500 +5.26% 335
North of England +30 116 £475 -5.00% 132
South East -5 104 £500 -1.96% 95
Midlands +41 77 £425 +7.59% 97
North West +7 72 £475 - 75
West Midlands +54 57 £425 -5.66% 65
South West +24 47 £481 +1.32% 64
Scotland +9 45 £525 +6.06% 28
East of England +12 37 £488 +21.88% 63
Yorkshire +24 35 £450 -14.29% 37
East Midlands +10 18 £438 +28.68% 31
Wales +17 7 £412 +1.73% 15
North East +22 6 £431 -5.53% 21
Northern Ireland +6 4 £335 -36.79% 6

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.86%) Confluence
3 25 (2.38%) SAS
4 24 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.05%) MTS
6 10 (0.95%) Apache
7 9 (0.86%) IIS
8 8 (0.76%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.29%) Appian
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.095%) CMS
12 1 (0.095%) Jadu
12 1 (0.095%) Moodle
12 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 160 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (3.62%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.86%) SPSS
6 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.67%) Simulink
8 5 (0.48%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.48%) InVision
8 5 (0.48%) Sketch
8 5 (0.48%) Zeplin
9 2 (0.19%) Mingle
10 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.095%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.095%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.095%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 22 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.81%) Endur
3 11 (1.05%) Aligne
3 11 (1.05%) EuroRunner
4 8 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.48%) Primavera
6 5 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.38%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.38%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.29%) Shopify
9 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.19%) Maximo
9 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.19%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 229 (21.81%) Power Platform
2 120 (11.43%) Azure
3 69 (6.57%) AWS
4 37 (3.52%) Power Automate
5 34 (3.24%) Snowflake
6 26 (2.48%) PowerApps
7 20 (1.90%) Collibra
7 20 (1.90%) GCP
8 18 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (1.52%) OCI
11 14 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.05%) Serverless
13 10 (0.95%) WhatsApp
14 9 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (0.86%) Figma
15 8 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (0.67%) SaaS
17 6 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.52%) Internet
2 11 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (0.95%) Network Security
4 7 (0.67%) 5G
5 5 (0.48%) 2G
5 5 (0.48%) 3G
5 5 (0.48%) 4G
5 5 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
5 5 (0.48%) SNA
6 4 (0.38%) Wireless
7 2 (0.19%) AMQP
7 2 (0.19%) DMZ
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) HTTP
7 2 (0.19%) Modbus
7 2 (0.19%) MQTT
8 1 (0.095%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.095%) DHCP
8 1 (0.095%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.095%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (21.14%) Power BI
2 90 (8.57%) Tableau
3 89 (8.48%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (8.00%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.00%) Big Data
6 40 (3.81%) Data Lake
7 38 (3.62%) Metadata
8 30 (2.86%) Data Mining
9 29 (2.76%) Oracle Database
10 25 (2.38%) Hadoop
11 15 (1.43%) GIS
11 15 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (1.43%) Power Query
12 14 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
12 14 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
13 13 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (6.76%) JIRA
2 12 (1.14%) Git
3 9 (0.86%) Eclipse
4 7 (0.67%) ERwin
4 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.57%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.48%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.48%) Maven
6 5 (0.48%) Selenium
7 4 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.38%) JMeter
7 4 (0.38%) LSMW
7 4 (0.38%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.29%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.19%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.19%) RStudio
General
1 348 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 290 (27.62%) Finance
3 276 (26.29%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (11.62%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.67%) Banking
6 47 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 44 (4.19%) Marketing
8 37 (3.52%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.86%) Retail
10 28 (2.67%) Legal
10 28 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 27 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (2.38%) Back Office
13 22 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.62%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.52%) Front Office
16 15 (1.43%) Military
17 12 (1.14%) Publishing
18 11 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 397 (37.81%) Analyst
2 195 (18.57%) Data Analyst
3 150 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 103 (9.81%) Senior
5 75 (7.14%) Developer
6 63 (6.00%) Data Scientist
7 61 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 59 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
9 57 (5.43%) Architect
10 43 (4.10%) Consultant
11 40 (3.81%) Data Architect
11 40 (3.81%) Lead
12 32 (3.05%) Senior Data Analyst
13 26 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
14 23 (2.19%) C# Developer
15 20 (1.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 19 (1.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 18 (1.71%) Power BI Developer
18 17 (1.62%) Project Manager
18 17 (1.62%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.43%) .NET
2 21 (2.00%) .NET Framework
3 17 (1.62%) Pandas
4 15 (1.43%) XML
5 12 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
5 12 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (1.14%) PySpark
5 12 (1.14%) Web Services
6 11 (1.05%) JSON
7 10 (0.95%) Kafka
7 10 (0.95%) WinForms
8 9 (0.86%) WPF
9 8 (0.76%) Matplotlib
9 8 (0.76%) REST
9 8 (0.76%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.76%) WCF
10 7 (0.67%) NumPy
10 7 (0.67%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.48%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.29%) Management Information System
2 46 (4.38%) Algorithms
3 34 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 28 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 25 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.33%) NHS
8 14 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
9 13 (1.24%) Distributed Applications
10 12 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
10 12 (1.14%) Market Risk
11 11 (1.05%) Derivative
11 11 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 10 (0.95%) Equities
13 9 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.86%) Genomics
13 9 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.76%) Hedge funds
14 8 (0.76%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.24%) Windows
2 25 (2.38%) Linux
3 22 (2.10%) Unix
4 8 (0.76%) Android
4 8 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.095%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (25.52%) Business Intelligence
2 231 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
3 224 (21.33%) Data Modelling
4 207 (19.71%) Agile
5 206 (19.62%) Visualisation
6 202 (19.24%) Analytics
7 153 (14.57%) Decision-Making
8 122 (11.62%) Data Science
9 120 (11.43%) Project Management
10 115 (10.95%) Data Visualisation
11 112 (10.67%) Data Management
11 112 (10.67%) Migration
12 107 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 101 (9.62%) ETL
14 96 (9.14%) Data Governance
15 83 (7.90%) Actionable Insight
16 76 (7.24%) Computer Science
17 74 (7.05%) Business Analysis
18 67 (6.38%) Data Migration
18 67 (6.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 344 (32.76%) SQL
2 216 (20.57%) Python
3 62 (5.90%) R
4 49 (4.67%) C#
5 46 (4.38%) T-SQL
6 37 (3.52%) VBA
7 35 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 26 (2.48%) Java
9 23 (2.19%) VB
10 22 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.90%) VB.NET
12 18 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 17 (1.62%) C++
14 14 (1.33%) Scala
15 13 (1.24%) MATLAB
16 11 (1.05%) JavaScript
17 7 (0.67%) C
18 5 (0.48%) Bash
18 5 (0.48%) Perl
19 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 153 (14.57%) Degree
2 136 (12.95%) Security Cleared
3 96 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.57%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.62%) PMI Certification
8 15 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (1.43%) PMP
9 8 (0.76%) CIMA
10 7 (0.67%) CBAP
11 6 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.48%) ACCA
12 5 (0.48%) PhD
12 5 (0.48%) Postgraduate
12 5 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.38%) CISSP
13 4 (0.38%) HNC
13 4 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.81%) Data Quality
2 88 (8.38%) QA
3 44 (4.19%) PMO
4 26 (2.48%) GDPR
5 20 (1.90%) SLA
6 17 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.76%) IFRS
9 8 (0.76%) NIST
10 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.67%) WCAG
11 5 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) GRC
12 4 (0.38%) EMIR
13 3 (0.29%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.19%) Basel III
14 2 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (0.76%) Docker
2 4 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) HDFS
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.38%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.29%) MOM
4 2 (0.19%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.19%) Grafana
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.19%) SCCM
4 2 (0.19%) Terraform
5 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.095%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.095%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 119 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 95 (9.05%) Oracle
3 77 (7.33%) SAP
4 33 (3.14%) Salesforce
5 28 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.38%) Databricks
7 23 (2.19%) Citrix
8 22 (2.10%) Google
9 15 (1.43%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.43%) Dell
10 13 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.95%) Splunk
12 9 (0.86%) Adobe
12 9 (0.86%) Cadence
12 9 (0.86%) Remedy
13 8 (0.76%) Dataiku
13 8 (0.76%) Informatica
14 7 (0.67%) IBM
14 7 (0.67%) Trillium