Data Analytics Contracts

Data Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics 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 231 240 235
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 344 442 687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.01% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.17% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 323 474
10th Percentile £314 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £636
90th Percentile £775 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.23% +4.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 12
10th Percentile £18.52 £13.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £19.12 £15.66 £21.88
Median hourly rate £31.25 £30.25 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -24.84% +22.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £78.30
90th Percentile - - £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.06 £78.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -73.01% +270.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analytics 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 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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
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 Analytics 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 +8 288 £528 -4.09% 873
London +4 156 £550 -2.22% 524
UK excluding London +28 147 £500 -9.09% 384
Work from Home +13 117 £500 -4.76% 460
North of England +26 34 £450 -18.18% 96
Midlands -18 29 £413 -26.58% 66
North West +7 23 £450 -23.40% 53
South East +27 22 £525 +16.67% 95
East of England +45 20 £650 +66.35% 34
Scotland +19 18 £500 +11.11% 29
East Midlands +16 16 £358 -30.15% 24
Wales +5 13 £244 -54.67% 11
West Midlands -33 12 £549 -4.61% 40
South West +49 11 £513 -14.58% 42
Yorkshire +16 9 £425 -17.48% 30
Northern Ireland - 3 £250 - 11
North East +1 2 £358 - 13

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 23 (6.69%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.52%) Confluence
3 8 (2.33%) Apache
4 6 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.16%) SAS
7 3 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.58%) CMS
8 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 26 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.58%) Trello
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.29%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) Magento
3 2 (0.58%) Maximo
3 2 (0.58%) Relativity
3 2 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.58%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.29%) Actimize
4 1 (0.29%) Demantra
4 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 95 (27.62%) Power Platform
2 87 (25.29%) Azure
3 74 (21.51%) AWS
4 41 (11.92%) GCP
5 16 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 16 (4.65%) Snowflake
6 15 (4.36%) PowerApps
7 14 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (4.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.78%) Serverless
9 10 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.91%) dbt
9 10 (2.91%) Google Analytics
10 9 (2.62%) GitHub
10 9 (2.62%) SaaS
11 8 (2.33%) PaaS
12 6 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.45%) Network Security
2 4 (1.16%) DNS
3 3 (0.87%) Firewall
3 3 (0.87%) LAN
3 3 (0.87%) WAN
4 1 (0.29%) DHCP
4 1 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.29%) SSL
4 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
4 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (23.84%) Power BI
2 52 (15.12%) Tableau
3 36 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (6.98%) Big Data
5 18 (5.23%) Hadoop
6 16 (4.65%) BigQuery
6 16 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 13 (3.78%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.49%) Metadata
9 11 (3.20%) Looker
10 9 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (2.33%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.03%) MySQL
12 7 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.03%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.74%) KDB
13 6 (1.74%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 32 (9.30%) JIRA
2 9 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.03%) GitLab
3 7 (2.03%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.74%) Git
5 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.58%) MLflow
5 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.29%) Appium
6 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.29%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.29%) Vite
6 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 124 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 102 (29.65%) Finance
3 92 (26.74%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.47%) Banking
6 19 (5.52%) Marketing
7 14 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.33%) Retail
9 7 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.74%) Legal
10 6 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.16%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.16%) Front Office
11 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.16%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (21.22%) Analyst
2 46 (13.37%) Data Engineer
3 39 (11.34%) Architect
4 38 (11.05%) Developer
5 36 (10.47%) Data Analyst
5 36 (10.47%) Senior
6 30 (8.72%) Business Analyst
7 28 (8.14%) Lead
8 20 (5.81%) Data Manager
9 18 (5.23%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.07%) Data Science Developer
11 13 (3.78%) Data Business Analyst
12 12 (3.49%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.91%) Insight Manager
14 9 (2.62%) Consultant
14 9 (2.62%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Data Architect
15 7 (2.03%) Project Engineer
15 7 (2.03%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.81%) Kafka
2 19 (5.52%) NumPy
2 19 (5.52%) Pandas
3 18 (5.23%) PySpark
4 17 (4.94%) scikit-learn
4 17 (4.94%) TensorFlow
5 16 (4.65%) Matplotlib
6 15 (4.36%) PyTorch
7 14 (4.07%) Seaborn
8 9 (2.62%) React
9 6 (1.74%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.45%) Node.js
11 4 (1.16%) .NET
11 4 (1.16%) CSS
11 4 (1.16%) HTML
12 3 (0.87%) RESTful
13 2 (0.58%) Django
13 2 (0.58%) JSON
13 2 (0.58%) REST
13 2 (0.58%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.72%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.62%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.62%) Equities
4 9 (2.62%) Fixed Income
5 8 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.03%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.74%) IoT
7 6 (1.74%) Social Media
8 5 (1.45%) FMCG
8 5 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.45%) NHS
8 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.16%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.16%) Replication
10 3 (0.87%) Blog
10 3 (0.87%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.07%) Linux
2 4 (1.16%) Unix
2 4 (1.16%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) CentOS
3 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (100.00%) Analytics
2 85 (24.71%) Business Intelligence
3 80 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (22.97%) Agile
5 75 (21.80%) Visualisation
6 73 (21.22%) Decision-Making
7 71 (20.64%) Data Analysis
8 69 (20.06%) Data Science
9 62 (18.02%) Data Modelling
10 55 (15.99%) ETL
11 49 (14.24%) Machine Learning
12 48 (13.95%) Data Engineering
13 47 (13.66%) Data Governance
14 45 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 44 (12.79%) Computer Science
16 43 (12.50%) DevOps
17 39 (11.34%) Project Management
18 38 (11.05%) Migration
19 36 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
20 33 (9.59%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 121 (35.17%) SQL
2 103 (29.94%) Python
3 26 (7.56%) R
4 19 (5.52%) Java
5 10 (2.91%) C++
6 7 (2.03%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.16%) Bash
9 3 (0.87%) C#
9 3 (0.87%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.87%) Rust
9 3 (0.87%) Scala
9 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.58%) PHP
10 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.29%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.29%) JCL
11 1 (0.29%) REXX
11 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (19.77%) Degree
2 46 (13.37%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.43%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.81%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.94%) PhD
7 12 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.49%) PMI Certification
7 12 (3.49%) PMP
8 11 (3.20%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.16%) CBAP
11 4 (1.16%) CISSP
11 4 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.87%) CSPO
13 2 (0.58%) CCNA
13 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.66%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.62%) Def Stans
4 8 (2.33%) PMO
5 7 (2.03%) GDPR
6 6 (1.74%) QA
7 4 (1.16%) MiFID
8 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.87%) WCAG
9 2 (0.58%) COBIT
9 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.58%) EMIR
9 2 (0.58%) NIST
9 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) COSO
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.03%) Docker
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) HDFS
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.62%) Terraform
3 5 (1.45%) Ansible
4 3 (0.87%) Grafana
4 3 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) CASB
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.88%) Databricks
3 32 (9.30%) Google
4 17 (4.94%) SAP
5 14 (4.07%) Oracle
6 13 (3.78%) VMware
7 8 (2.33%) Adobe
7 8 (2.33%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.33%) Splunk
8 5 (1.45%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.16%) Talend
10 3 (0.87%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.87%) Denodo
10 3 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.87%) Foundry
10 3 (0.87%) Palantir
10 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.58%) Wrike
11 2 (0.58%) YouTube