Data Analytics Contracts

Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 244 206
Rank change year-on-year -2 -38 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 430 706 1,251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.16% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.29% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 483 915
10th Percentile £354 £350 £409
25th Percentile £427 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £629 £652
90th Percentile £741 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £510
% change year-on-year +2.23% +5.49% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 21
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.21 £9.92
25th Percentile £15.66 £21.88 £21.04
Median hourly rate £30.25 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +15.00% +22.81%
75th Percentile £43.75 £78.30 £38.75
90th Percentile - £79.19 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £25.52
% change year-on-year -73.01% +205.64% -44.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analytics 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 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 -17 362 £550 +1.85% 433
London -20 189 £570 -0.87% 186
UK excluding London +1 176 £550 +2.23% 258
Work from Home +9 159 £525 -2.78% 196
Midlands +26 68 £575 +6.48% 54
West Midlands +18 58 £575 +6.48% 38
South East +5 40 £450 +5.88% 46
North of England +26 33 £550 +7.32% 72
North West +29 26 £588 +17.50% 44
Wales +29 13 £538 - 4
East Midlands +18 10 £550 -4.35% 16
Scotland +6 9 £438 -20.45% 17
East of England +6 7 £307 -31.89% 24
South West +5 7 £600 - 39
Yorkshire +4 6 £475 -9.52% 17
North East +22 1 - - 12

Data Analytics
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 16 (3.72%) SAS
2 15 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.63%) Confluence
5 5 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.93%) govService
6 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.70%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Apache
8 2 (0.47%) CICS
9 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.70%) SPSS
6 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.23%) InVision
7 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.70%) Endur
2 3 (0.70%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.23%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Utilities
4 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (24.65%) Power Platform
2 103 (23.95%) Azure
3 56 (13.02%) AWS
4 33 (7.67%) GCP
5 19 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (3.02%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.79%) Adobe Analytics
10 11 (2.56%) Google Analytics
11 10 (2.33%) Serverless
12 8 (1.86%) PaaS
13 7 (1.63%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.63%) GitHub
14 5 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.16%) Azure Stack
14 5 (1.16%) IaaS
14 5 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.88%) Firewall
2 17 (3.95%) Network Security
3 12 (2.79%) VPN
4 9 (2.09%) LAN
4 9 (2.09%) MPLS
4 9 (2.09%) PBX
4 9 (2.09%) VoIP
4 9 (2.09%) WAN
4 9 (2.09%) WLAN
5 5 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.16%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (1.16%) DHCP
5 5 (1.16%) DNS
5 5 (1.16%) Internet
5 5 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) Intranet
7 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (24.65%) Power BI
2 64 (14.88%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (9.53%) Tableau
4 37 (8.60%) Big Data
5 31 (7.21%) Data Lake
6 21 (4.88%) MySQL
7 19 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.49%) BigQuery
8 15 (3.49%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (2.79%) Metadata
11 11 (2.56%) Looker
12 10 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
12 10 (2.33%) QlikView
13 9 (2.09%) KDB
14 8 (1.86%) Data Mining
14 8 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.63%) NoSQL
15 7 (1.63%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 26 (6.05%) Git
2 21 (4.88%) JIRA
3 11 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.63%) Postman
5 5 (1.16%) GitLab
5 5 (1.16%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.70%) Maven
7 3 (0.70%) Selenium
8 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.47%) Storybook
9 1 (0.23%) AppScan
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 111 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 110 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (22.56%) Finance
4 36 (8.37%) Retail
5 34 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.21%) Banking
7 23 (5.35%) Telecoms
8 21 (4.88%) Marketing
9 15 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.26%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.56%) Investment Banking
12 10 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.09%) Legal
14 7 (1.63%) Front Office
15 6 (1.40%) Advertising
15 6 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.40%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 86 (20.00%) Analyst
2 66 (15.35%) Architect
3 56 (13.02%) Senior
4 51 (11.86%) Data Analyst
5 43 (10.00%) Developer
6 33 (7.67%) Data Engineer
7 26 (6.05%) Data Manager
8 25 (5.81%) Analytics Manager
8 25 (5.81%) Project Manager
9 24 (5.58%) Lead
10 23 (5.35%) Data Analytics Manager
11 20 (4.65%) Data Architect
12 19 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 13 (3.02%) Consultant
16 12 (2.79%) SOC Engineer
17 11 (2.56%) Azure Architect
18 10 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 10 (2.33%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.49%) PySpark
2 14 (3.26%) Web Services
3 10 (2.33%) .NET
4 9 (2.09%) CSS
4 9 (2.09%) jQuery
4 9 (2.09%) JSON
5 7 (1.63%) HTML
6 6 (1.40%) REST
7 5 (1.16%) Kafka
8 4 (0.93%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.93%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.93%) DOM
8 4 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.93%) Node.js
8 4 (0.93%) Pandas
8 4 (0.93%) React
8 4 (0.93%) Spring
8 4 (0.93%) Swagger
8 4 (0.93%) Vue
9 3 (0.70%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.16%) Management Information System
2 18 (4.19%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.19%) Security Posture
3 14 (3.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.56%) NHS
5 11 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.16%) CMDB
10 5 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.16%) Equities
10 5 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.16%) Life Science
10 5 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.65%) Linux
2 19 (4.42%) Windows
3 11 (2.56%) Unix
4 8 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.47%) VMS
5 2 (0.47%) zOS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (100.00%) Analytics
2 124 (28.84%) Business Intelligence
3 115 (26.74%) Agile
4 89 (20.70%) ETL
5 88 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (18.14%) Data Modelling
7 69 (16.05%) Project Management
7 69 (16.05%) Visualisation
8 57 (13.26%) Data Management
9 56 (13.02%) Data Analysis
10 54 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 47 (10.93%) Machine Learning
11 47 (10.93%) Migration
12 46 (10.70%) DevOps
13 42 (9.77%) Data Integration
14 40 (9.30%) Computer Science
15 38 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (8.60%) Scrum
17 35 (8.14%) Data Science
18 34 (7.91%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 138 (32.09%) SQL
2 89 (20.70%) Python
3 14 (3.26%) Java
3 14 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
4 13 (3.02%) Shell Script
5 12 (2.79%) C#
5 12 (2.79%) R
5 12 (2.79%) Scala
6 11 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.63%) Search Processing Language
7 7 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.16%) C++
9 5 (1.16%) F#
9 5 (1.16%) Perl
9 5 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.16%) VBA
10 4 (0.93%) COBOL
10 4 (0.93%) REXX
Qualifications
1 71 (16.51%) Degree
2 59 (13.72%) Security Cleared
3 49 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.12%) Azure Certification
6 21 (4.88%) CISSP
7 14 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.09%) CCIE
9 9 (2.09%) CCIE Data Center
10 5 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.93%) CCNP
11 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.70%) CISM
13 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.28%) QA
3 11 (2.56%) PMO
4 10 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.40%) GDPR
6 5 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.16%) GAMP
6 5 (1.16%) GxP
7 4 (0.93%) SLA
8 3 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (3.49%) Terraform
2 13 (3.02%) Grafana
3 9 (2.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.93%) Ansible
5 3 (0.70%) Graylog
5 3 (0.70%) Nagios
5 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.23%) Matomo
6 1 (0.23%) Nessus
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 93 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.67%) Databricks
3 31 (7.21%) Google
4 24 (5.58%) Oracle
5 18 (4.19%) Adobe
6 13 (3.02%) Informatica
7 12 (2.79%) SAP
8 11 (2.56%) Denodo
8 11 (2.56%) Talend
9 10 (2.33%) IFS
9 10 (2.33%) Splunk
10 9 (2.09%) Cisco
11 7 (1.63%) Optimizely
12 6 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.40%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.16%) Autodesk
13 5 (1.16%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.16%) IBM
13 5 (1.16%) Infoblox
13 5 (1.16%) Symantec