Data Analyst Contracts

Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 160 174
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 667 972 1,503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.63% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.72% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 686 1,095
10th Percentile £275 £270 £263
25th Percentile £363 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.10%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £416
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.22% +3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 41 67
10th Percentile £13.40 £13.91 £12.33
25th Percentile £15.89 £16.98 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.66 £20.47 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +4.87% -2.40%
75th Percentile £40.00 £25.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.95 £32.50 £35.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.43 £19.98 £19.52
% change year-on-year +7.26% +2.36% +9.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
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 Analyst 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 +1 563 £475 - 205
UK excluding London +30 307 £438 +2.94% 107
London -5 297 £500 -3.85% 106
Work from Home +45 282 £475 +1.24% 78
North of England +25 100 £475 +12.43% 33
South East +31 75 £450 - 18
North West +28 71 £475 +15.15% 14
Scotland +60 53 £461 +8.35% 8
Midlands +4 28 £375 +10.29% 22
South West -10 27 £450 -2.70% 13
Yorkshire -2 26 £425 -11.46% 10
East of England +11 24 £450 - 11
West Midlands +10 16 £425 +30.77% 11
East Midlands +19 12 £369 -7.81% 11
Northern Ireland +9 3 £338 -43.75% 1
North East +16 2 £500 - 9
Wales +4 2 - - 3

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Data Analyst 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 featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 248 (37.18%) SQL
2 224 (33.58%) Finance
3 195 (29.24%) Data Analysis
4 193 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
5 192 (28.79%) Power BI
5 192 (28.79%) Power Platform
6 169 (25.34%) Social Skills
7 162 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
8 152 (22.79%) Analytics
9 142 (21.29%) Data Quality
10 138 (20.69%) Visualisation
11 126 (18.89%) Python
12 125 (18.74%) Data Modelling
13 103 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (15.14%) Data Management
15 91 (13.64%) Tableau
16 87 (13.04%) Migration
17 86 (12.89%) Banking
17 86 (12.89%) Data Governance
18 82 (12.29%) Data Visualisation
19 78 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
20 77 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
21 67 (10.04%) Decision-Making
22 61 (9.15%) Data Cleansing
23 60 (9.00%) Microsoft
23 60 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
24 56 (8.40%) Agile
24 56 (8.40%) Azure
25 55 (8.25%) Data Migration
26 53 (7.95%) Change Management

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 23 (3.45%) SAS
2 13 (1.95%) Confluence
3 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 77 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.25%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (1.05%) SPSS
7 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 192 (28.79%) Power Platform
2 56 (8.40%) Azure
3 39 (5.85%) Snowflake
4 33 (4.95%) Power Automate
5 25 (3.75%) AWS
6 24 (3.60%) Collibra
7 22 (3.30%) PowerApps
8 18 (2.70%) GCP
9 14 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (1.50%) Google Analytics
11 7 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.60%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.60%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (0.60%) GitHub
13 4 (0.60%) iPaaS
13 4 (0.60%) OCI
13 4 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.90%) DNS
1 6 (0.90%) Firewall
2 5 (0.75%) DHCP
3 4 (0.60%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) NAS
4 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (28.79%) Power BI
2 91 (13.64%) Tableau
3 42 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 31 (4.65%) Metadata
6 26 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 20 (3.00%) Data Mining
8 16 (2.40%) Big Data
8 16 (2.40%) BigQuery
9 15 (2.25%) Qlik Sense
10 11 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.35%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.20%) Looker
14 7 (1.05%) Ataccama
14 7 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (0.90%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.90%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 38 (5.70%) JIRA
2 10 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (1.35%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.75%) PyCharm
5 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
6 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Git
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) RStudio
7 1 (0.15%) Toad
General
1 224 (33.58%) Finance
2 169 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 162 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.89%) Banking
5 40 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.55%) Legal
7 36 (5.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 30 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (4.05%) Retail
10 21 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (3.00%) Marketing
11 20 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.85%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.35%) Local Government
15 9 (1.35%) Retail Banking
16 7 (1.05%) Front Office
17 6 (0.90%) Back Office
17 6 (0.90%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.05%) D3.js
1 7 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (1.05%) PySpark
2 3 (0.45%) Middleware
2 3 (0.45%) Shiny
3 2 (0.30%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.30%) ggplot2
3 2 (0.30%) LDAP
3 2 (0.30%) Pandas
3 2 (0.30%) Plotly
3 2 (0.30%) XML
3 2 (0.30%) XSD
4 1 (0.15%) EDI
4 1 (0.15%) JSON
4 1 (0.15%) Node.js
4 1 (0.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.80%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.55%) Credit Risk
4 12 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.65%) NHS
6 10 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.20%) Life Science
8 7 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.60%) Derivative
10 4 (0.60%) e-Health
10 4 (0.60%) Freedom of Information
10 4 (0.60%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.65%) Windows
2 4 (0.60%) Linux
2 4 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (29.24%) Data Analysis
2 193 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
3 152 (22.79%) Analytics
4 138 (20.69%) Visualisation
5 125 (18.74%) Data Modelling
6 103 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (15.14%) Data Management
8 87 (13.04%) Migration
9 86 (12.89%) Data Governance
10 82 (12.29%) Data Visualisation
11 78 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 67 (10.04%) Decision-Making
13 61 (9.15%) Data Cleansing
14 60 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
15 56 (8.40%) Agile
16 55 (8.25%) Data Migration
17 53 (7.95%) Change Management
18 51 (7.65%) Data Analytics
19 46 (6.90%) ETL
20 39 (5.85%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 248 (37.18%) SQL
2 126 (18.89%) Python
3 24 (3.60%) R
4 9 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (1.20%) PowerShell
5 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
6 6 (0.90%) Java
7 5 (0.75%) VBScript
8 4 (0.60%) Groovy
8 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) C++
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Julia
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (7.50%) Degree
2 37 (5.55%) Security Cleared
3 35 (5.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.15%) ACCA
7 1 (0.15%) APMP
7 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.15%) CIMA
7 1 (0.15%) CISM
7 1 (0.15%) CISSP
7 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (21.29%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.00%) QA
3 27 (4.05%) GDPR
4 9 (1.35%) PMO
5 7 (1.05%) SLA
6 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.60%) GxP
7 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.30%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) EMIR
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.30%) Terraform
2 1 (0.15%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 60 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.80%) SAP
3 45 (6.75%) Oracle
4 43 (6.45%) Alteryx
5 25 (3.75%) Databricks
6 20 (3.00%) Google
7 18 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.55%) Splunk
9 13 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.80%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.80%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.80%) Refinitiv
11 9 (1.35%) Ariba
11 9 (1.35%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.20%) Informatica
13 7 (1.05%) Trillium
14 5 (0.75%) Adobe
14 5 (0.75%) Citrix
14 5 (0.75%) Datix
14 5 (0.75%) Red Hat