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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 90 109
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 984 1,039 1,362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.36% 2.39% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.77% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 659 920
10th Percentile £294 £313 £308
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £601
90th Percentile £694 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 60 56
10th Percentile £20.12 £17.96 £19.86
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.22 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £29.00 £31.79
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -8.76% -9.19%
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 £33.65
% change year-on-year +13.88% -25.71% -3.86%

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 26,635 37,480 53,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 86.37% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,151 24,166 36,804
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,086 2,447 1,751
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%
75th Percentile £61.28 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 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
England +22 849 £490 -2.00% 2,226
London +15 480 £500 - 1,210
UK excluding London +23 399 £450 -0.88% 1,256
Work from Home +12 316 £475 -5.00% 912
North of England -7 83 £436 -8.16% 290
Midlands +17 75 £425 +4.94% 190
South East +8 71 £450 -10.00% 433
Scotland +32 63 £425 -15.42% 63
West Midlands +12 52 £474 +18.50% 111
South West +38 50 £488 -6.02% 115
Yorkshire +28 47 £435 -8.42% 92
East of England +39 44 £650 +33.33% 151
North West -21 29 £425 -10.53% 175
East Midlands +15 23 £401 -5.65% 70
Northern Ireland 0 13 £550 +64.18% 29
North East -2 7 £500 +16.01% 27
Wales +5 4 £575 +39.56% 18

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 53 (5.39%) Confluence
2 44 (4.47%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 25 (2.54%) SAS
5 13 (1.32%) IIS
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
7 7 (0.71%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.30%) Drupal
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 191 (19.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (5.08%) MS Visio
4 31 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.61%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.30%) Trello
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Notepad++
9 2 (0.20%) Simulink
10 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.10%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.81%) SAP HR
4 7 (0.71%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) Endur
6 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.30%) Maximo
7 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.30%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.30%) SAP GTS
7 3 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.20%) Actimize
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.20%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 229 (23.27%) Power Platform
2 125 (12.70%) Azure
3 85 (8.64%) AWS
4 39 (3.96%) GCP
5 23 (2.34%) Snowflake
6 18 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
9 11 (1.12%) Google Analytics
9 11 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (0.81%) OCI
11 8 (0.81%) SaaS
12 7 (0.71%) Amazon S3
12 7 (0.71%) GitHub
12 7 (0.71%) Lucidchart
12 7 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.52%) Internet
2 7 (0.71%) Network Security
3 6 (0.61%) HTTP
3 6 (0.61%) POP3
3 6 (0.61%) SMTP
3 6 (0.61%) VPN
4 4 (0.41%) Firewall
4 4 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (0.41%) SNMP
5 3 (0.30%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.30%) SSH
5 3 (0.30%) Telnet
5 3 (0.30%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.20%) Intranet
6 2 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.10%) 5G
7 1 (0.10%) HSRP
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (23.07%) Power BI
2 137 (13.92%) Tableau
3 62 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 43 (4.37%) Big Data
6 33 (3.35%) Hadoop
7 30 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 24 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
9 23 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 19 (1.93%) Data Mining
10 19 (1.93%) Looker
11 17 (1.73%) Oracle Database
11 17 (1.73%) Power Query
12 16 (1.63%) Metadata
13 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.32%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.32%) MS Access
15 12 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 84 (8.54%) JIRA
2 20 (2.03%) Git
3 8 (0.81%) ERwin
4 7 (0.71%) GitLab
5 6 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.41%) MagicDraw
8 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.30%) JMeter
9 2 (0.20%) Ant
9 2 (0.20%) Postman
9 2 (0.20%) Selenium
9 2 (0.20%) Toad
9 2 (0.20%) XMLSpy
10 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.10%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.10%) JUnit
10 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.10%) MLflow
10 1 (0.10%) NetBeans
General
1 384 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 336 (34.15%) Analytical Skills
3 288 (29.27%) Finance
4 125 (12.70%) Banking
5 95 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 58 (5.89%) Marketing
6 58 (5.89%) Presentation Skills
7 54 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (3.86%) Front Office
9 35 (3.56%) Retail
10 32 (3.25%) Investment Banking
11 27 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (2.54%) Local Government
13 24 (2.44%) Telecoms
14 21 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
15 17 (1.73%) Legal
16 14 (1.42%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 451 (45.83%) Analyst
2 199 (20.22%) Data Analyst
3 182 (18.50%) Business Analyst
4 101 (10.26%) Developer
5 61 (6.20%) Senior
6 52 (5.28%) Data Scientist
7 44 (4.47%) Lead
8 40 (4.07%) Architect
9 38 (3.86%) Consultant
10 35 (3.56%) Data Business Analyst
11 34 (3.46%) Data Engineer
12 30 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
14 21 (2.13%) Report Analyst
15 19 (1.93%) IT Manager
15 19 (1.93%) SQL Analyst
16 17 (1.73%) SQL Data Analyst
16 17 (1.73%) Technical Business Analyst
17 15 (1.52%) C# Developer
17 15 (1.52%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.15%) Pandas
2 28 (2.85%) .NET
3 24 (2.44%) scikit-learn
4 23 (2.34%) REST
5 21 (2.13%) Matplotlib
5 21 (2.13%) NumPy
6 20 (2.03%) TensorFlow
7 19 (1.93%) CSS
7 19 (1.93%) PyTorch
8 18 (1.83%) HTML
8 18 (1.83%) SOAP
9 17 (1.73%) Web Services
10 16 (1.63%) .NET Framework
10 16 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.63%) Seaborn
11 14 (1.42%) Kafka
11 14 (1.42%) WPF
12 12 (1.22%) JSON
12 12 (1.22%) PySpark
12 12 (1.22%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.28%) Algorithms
2 44 (4.47%) Data Structures
3 35 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.93%) Derivative
8 17 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.63%) Reference Data
10 14 (1.42%) Equities
10 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.22%) Credit Risk
12 12 (1.22%) Multi-touch
13 10 (1.02%) IoT
14 9 (0.91%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.71%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.71%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.74%) Windows
2 19 (1.93%) Linux
3 9 (0.91%) 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
1 275 (27.95%) Problem-Solving
2 246 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 214 (21.75%) Visualisation
4 211 (21.44%) Analytics
5 202 (20.53%) Decision-Making
6 162 (16.46%) Agile
7 147 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 135 (13.72%) Data Modelling
9 132 (13.41%) Actionable Insight
10 125 (12.70%) Data Visualisation
10 125 (12.70%) Project Management
11 111 (11.28%) Machine Learning
12 109 (11.08%) Data Science
13 99 (10.06%) Data Governance
14 94 (9.55%) Business Analysis
15 85 (8.64%) Validation
16 83 (8.43%) Artificial Intelligence
17 81 (8.23%) Migration
17 81 (8.23%) Requirements Gathering
18 77 (7.83%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 390 (39.63%) SQL
2 233 (23.68%) Python
3 69 (7.01%) R
4 36 (3.66%) C#
5 29 (2.95%) VBA
6 28 (2.85%) JavaScript
7 25 (2.54%) T-SQL
8 24 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 19 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 19 (1.93%) Java
10 17 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.52%) VB
12 12 (1.22%) C++
13 6 (0.61%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.51%) PHP
14 5 (0.51%) Scala
14 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.51%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.41%) ABAP
15 4 (0.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 174 (17.68%) Degree
2 114 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 99 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 44 (4.47%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.54%) PhD
6 21 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (1.22%) CBAP
8 12 (1.22%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (0.91%) PMP
10 8 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.51%) CFA
12 5 (0.51%) IIBA
13 4 (0.41%) MBA
13 4 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.30%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 73 (7.42%) QA
3 36 (3.66%) GDPR
4 29 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.03%) PMO
6 16 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (1.42%) MiFID
7 14 (1.42%) SLA
8 11 (1.12%) EMIR
9 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.61%) Dodd-Frank
10 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.41%) GxP
11 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.30%) Basel III
12 3 (0.30%) GRC
12 3 (0.30%) NIST
12 3 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (1.12%) Docker
2 9 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (0.30%) iptables
4 1 (0.10%) HDFS
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.61%) Ansible
3 6 (0.61%) Terraform
4 4 (0.41%) Grafana
4 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
5 3 (0.30%) Cacti
5 3 (0.30%) Nagios
5 3 (0.30%) Netcool
5 3 (0.30%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.30%) Puppet
6 2 (0.20%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.20%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.20%) 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
1 134 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.11%) Oracle
3 62 (6.30%) SAP
4 39 (3.96%) Google
5 28 (2.85%) Databricks
5 28 (2.85%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.73%) Splunk
8 15 (1.52%) Ariba
9 13 (1.32%) Citrix
10 12 (1.22%) Adobe
10 12 (1.22%) Workday
11 10 (1.02%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.91%) Alteryx
12 9 (0.91%) Foundry
13 8 (0.81%) Informatica
14 6 (0.61%) Talend
15 5 (0.51%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.51%) OpenAI
16 4 (0.41%) UiPath