Data Analysis Contracts

Data Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 88 107
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 971 1,057 1,390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.32% 2.42% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.81% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 665 937
10th Percentile £287 £313 £313
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.57%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £480
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 59 60
10th Percentile £20.12 £17.93 £20.35
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.10 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £29.00 £33.65
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -13.82% -3.86%
75th Percentile £36.03 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £60.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.47 £25.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year +13.88% -40.70% +20.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +18 840 £488 -2.35% 1,607
London +13 476 £500 - 936
UK excluding London +22 389 £450 -2.17% 726
Work from Home +16 318 £475 -5.00% 781
North of England -5 82 £435 -8.42% 214
Midlands +13 74 £425 - 109
South East +10 67 £450 -10.00% 188
Scotland +26 62 £425 -19.05% 41
West Midlands +10 52 £475 +15.03% 65
South West +48 51 £488 +1.30% 63
Yorkshire +24 46 £410 -8.89% 55
East of England +38 42 £650 +33.33% 86
North West -30 29 £425 -10.53% 140
East Midlands +12 22 £400 -8.57% 42
Northern Ireland -1 11 £425 +26.87% 20
North East +1 7 £500 +16.01% 20
Wales +2 4 £575 +39.56% 13

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 49 (5.05%) Confluence
2 46 (4.74%) Apache Spark
3 25 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 24 (2.47%) SAS
5 13 (1.34%) IIS
6 10 (1.03%) Apache
7 6 (0.62%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.31%) Drupal
11 2 (0.21%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) Camunda
12 1 (0.10%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 191 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (5.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 46 (4.74%) MS Visio
4 31 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.62%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.31%) Trello
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.21%) Notepad++
9 2 (0.21%) Simulink
10 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.10%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.82%) SAP HR
4 7 (0.72%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.31%) Endur
7 3 (0.31%) Maximo
7 3 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.31%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.31%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.31%) SAP GTS
7 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 230 (23.69%) Power Platform
2 125 (12.87%) Azure
3 83 (8.55%) AWS
4 40 (4.12%) GCP
5 23 (2.37%) Snowflake
6 19 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
10 12 (1.24%) Google Analytics
10 12 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (0.93%) SaaS
13 8 (0.82%) OCI
14 7 (0.72%) GitHub
14 7 (0.72%) Lucidchart
14 7 (0.72%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.62%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.62%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.54%) Internet
2 7 (0.72%) Network Security
3 6 (0.62%) HTTP
3 6 (0.62%) POP3
3 6 (0.62%) SMTP
3 6 (0.62%) VPN
4 4 (0.41%) Firewall
4 4 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (0.41%) SNMP
5 3 (0.31%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.31%) SSH
5 3 (0.31%) Telnet
5 3 (0.31%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.21%) Intranet
6 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.10%) DNS
7 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.10%) LAN
7 1 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (23.48%) Power BI
2 139 (14.32%) Tableau
3 62 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (5.46%) SQL Server
5 41 (4.22%) Big Data
6 33 (3.40%) Hadoop
7 32 (3.30%) Relational Database
8 24 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
9 21 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (2.06%) Data Mining
10 20 (2.06%) Looker
11 18 (1.85%) Power Query
12 17 (1.75%) Metadata
12 17 (1.75%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.54%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.34%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.34%) MS Access
14 13 (1.34%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 79 (8.14%) JIRA
2 19 (1.96%) Git
3 8 (0.82%) ERwin
4 6 (0.62%) GitLab
4 6 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.41%) MagicDraw
7 3 (0.31%) JMeter
8 2 (0.21%) Ant
8 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.21%) Postman
8 2 (0.21%) Selenium
8 2 (0.21%) Toad
8 2 (0.21%) XMLSpy
9 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.10%) Gatling
9 1 (0.10%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.10%) MLflow
9 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 375 (38.62%) Social Skills
2 334 (34.40%) Analytical Skills
3 269 (27.70%) Finance
4 117 (12.05%) Banking
5 95 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 61 (6.28%) Marketing
7 58 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (5.25%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (3.91%) Retail
10 31 (3.19%) Investment Banking
11 30 (3.09%) Front Office
12 26 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (2.68%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.57%) Local Government
14 22 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (1.54%) Legal
16 14 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 440 (45.31%) Analyst
2 196 (20.19%) Data Analyst
3 173 (17.82%) Business Analyst
4 100 (10.30%) Developer
5 63 (6.49%) Senior
6 54 (5.56%) Data Scientist
7 39 (4.02%) Lead
8 37 (3.81%) Architect
9 35 (3.60%) Consultant
9 35 (3.60%) Data Business Analyst
9 35 (3.60%) Data Engineer
10 29 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
11 23 (2.37%) Technical Analyst
12 21 (2.16%) Report Analyst
13 18 (1.85%) IT Manager
14 17 (1.75%) SQL Analyst
14 17 (1.75%) Technical Business Analyst
15 16 (1.65%) Junior
16 15 (1.54%) C# Developer
16 15 (1.54%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.30%) Pandas
2 28 (2.88%) .NET
3 25 (2.57%) scikit-learn
4 21 (2.16%) Matplotlib
4 21 (2.16%) NumPy
4 21 (2.16%) REST
4 21 (2.16%) TensorFlow
5 20 (2.06%) PyTorch
6 19 (1.96%) CSS
7 18 (1.85%) HTML
7 18 (1.85%) SOAP
8 16 (1.65%) .NET Framework
8 16 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (1.65%) Seaborn
8 16 (1.65%) Web Services
9 15 (1.54%) Kafka
10 14 (1.44%) WPF
11 12 (1.24%) JSON
11 12 (1.24%) WinForms
12 11 (1.13%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.77%) Algorithms
2 42 (4.33%) Data Structures
3 37 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.96%) Derivative
8 17 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.44%) Multi-touch
9 14 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.34%) Equities
10 13 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.34%) Reference Data
11 12 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.13%) IoT
13 10 (1.03%) Credit Risk
14 9 (0.93%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.72%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.72%) Virtual Team
16 6 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.78%) Windows
2 18 (1.85%) Linux
3 7 (0.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.10%) SUSE
4 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.10%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
2 244 (25.13%) Business Intelligence
3 212 (21.83%) Analytics
4 211 (21.73%) Visualisation
5 205 (21.11%) Decision-Making
6 157 (16.17%) Agile
7 145 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 134 (13.80%) Data Modelling
9 133 (13.70%) Actionable Insight
10 126 (12.98%) Data Visualisation
11 118 (12.15%) Project Management
12 116 (11.95%) Machine Learning
13 110 (11.33%) Data Science
14 99 (10.20%) Data Governance
15 83 (8.55%) Business Analysis
16 81 (8.34%) Artificial Intelligence
17 80 (8.24%) Migration
18 79 (8.14%) ETL
19 77 (7.93%) Data Management
19 77 (7.93%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 382 (39.34%) SQL
2 231 (23.79%) Python
3 70 (7.21%) R
4 37 (3.81%) C#
5 30 (3.09%) VBA
6 28 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 25 (2.57%) T-SQL
8 24 (2.47%) PL/SQL
9 22 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (1.96%) Java
11 17 (1.75%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.54%) VB
13 12 (1.24%) C++
14 7 (0.72%) Scala
15 6 (0.62%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.51%) PHP
16 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.41%) ABAP
17 4 (0.41%) Bash
17 4 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 170 (17.51%) Degree
2 116 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 100 (10.30%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.12%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.57%) PhD
6 21 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.13%) CBAP
8 11 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
10 8 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.82%) PMP
11 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.51%) CFA
12 5 (0.51%) IIBA
13 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.41%) MBA
13 4 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.31%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 71 (7.31%) QA
3 37 (3.81%) GDPR
4 31 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.75%) PMO
6 15 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.54%) SLA
7 10 (1.03%) MiFID
8 8 (0.82%) EMIR
8 8 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.62%) Dodd-Frank
9 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.41%) GxP
10 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.31%) Basel III
11 3 (0.31%) GRC
11 3 (0.31%) NIST
11 3 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (1.13%) Docker
2 9 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.31%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (0.31%) iptables
4 1 (0.10%) HDFS
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.62%) Ansible
3 6 (0.62%) Terraform
4 4 (0.41%) Grafana
4 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.31%) Cacti
5 3 (0.31%) Nagios
5 3 (0.31%) Netcool
5 3 (0.31%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.31%) Puppet
6 2 (0.21%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.21%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.10%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.10%) Graylog
7 1 (0.10%) logstash
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.10%) Rancher
7 1 (0.10%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 132 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.21%) Oracle
3 62 (6.39%) SAP
4 40 (4.12%) Google
5 28 (2.88%) Databricks
6 27 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.75%) Splunk
9 15 (1.54%) Ariba
10 13 (1.34%) Citrix
11 12 (1.24%) Adobe
11 12 (1.24%) Workday
12 10 (1.03%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.03%) Foundry
13 8 (0.82%) Informatica
14 6 (0.62%) Talend
15 5 (0.51%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.51%) OpenAI
16 4 (0.41%) UiPath