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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 204 248
Rank change year-on-year -29 +44 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 342 501 591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.14% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.34% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 356 416
10th Percentile £323 £327 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £533
% change year-on-year +4.06% -9.77% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 15
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.50 £16.94
25th Percentile £19.00 £15.81 £23.63
Median hourly rate £34.50 £25.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.00% -67.95% +122.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £79.19
90th Percentile £55.20 - £85.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.06 £59.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -64.31% +68.57%

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 27,135 37,295 49,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 85.02% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,195 23,752 34,382
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 2,606 1,681
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +6.23% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.25 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -9 296 £525 +0.77% 6,634
London -21 162 £550 -2.00% 2,537
UK excluding London +8 145 £500 +4.06% 4,773
Work from Home -2 119 £500 +0.20% 2,804
North of England +15 38 £450 -17.24% 1,046
Midlands -31 29 £492 +23.00% 791
South East +38 27 £500 +36.99% 1,303
North West +4 24 £450 -18.18% 512
East of England +36 17 £600 +65.18% 626
Scotland +15 14 £475 +11.76% 295
East Midlands +8 14 £363 -5.23% 329
West Midlands -39 14 £575 +27.78% 460
Yorkshire +24 13 £490 -4.85% 438
South West +33 12 £506 -10.99% 518
Wales +2 10 £250 -53.51% 121
North East +2 1 £413 - 97
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 100

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 25 (7.31%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.85%) Confluence
3 7 (2.05%) Apache
4 6 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.88%) SAS
6 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.58%) Camunda
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 31 (9.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.58%) Trello
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.29%) InDesign
7 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.29%) Simulink
7 1 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.34%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.88%) Actimize
3 2 (0.58%) Aladdin
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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (24.85%) Power Platform
2 79 (23.10%) Azure
3 77 (22.51%) AWS
4 36 (10.53%) GCP
5 16 (4.68%) Amazon S3
6 15 (4.39%) Snowflake
7 14 (4.09%) PowerApps
8 13 (3.80%) dbt
8 13 (3.80%) Serverless
9 12 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.22%) GitHub
11 9 (2.63%) SaaS
12 8 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.34%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) DNS
2 5 (1.46%) Network Security
3 3 (0.88%) Firewall
3 3 (0.88%) HTTP
4 2 (0.58%) 4G
4 2 (0.58%) 5G
4 2 (0.58%) DOCSIS
4 2 (0.58%) GPON
4 2 (0.58%) LTE
4 2 (0.58%) MPLS
4 2 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.58%) VoIP
4 2 (0.58%) xDSL
5 1 (0.29%) Converged Networks
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) LAN
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (21.35%) Power BI
2 43 (12.57%) Tableau
3 38 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (7.31%) Big Data
5 20 (5.85%) Hadoop
6 19 (5.56%) BigQuery
7 14 (4.09%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.80%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.80%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (3.22%) Looker
10 8 (2.34%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.05%) Apache Hive
11 7 (2.05%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (2.05%) Metadata
11 7 (2.05%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (8.19%) JIRA
2 11 (3.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.34%) Git
4 5 (1.46%) GitLab
5 4 (1.17%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.88%) Vite
6 3 (0.88%) webpack
7 2 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.29%) Appium
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 126 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 108 (31.58%) Finance
3 96 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.28%) Banking
5 37 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.14%) Marketing
7 17 (4.97%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.63%) Retail
9 8 (2.34%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.05%) Legal
11 6 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.75%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.46%) Local Government
12 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.17%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (23.39%) Analyst
2 46 (13.45%) Data Engineer
3 44 (12.87%) Senior
4 41 (11.99%) Architect
5 38 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 35 (10.23%) Data Analyst
7 31 (9.06%) Developer
7 31 (9.06%) Lead
8 17 (4.97%) Data Manager
9 12 (3.51%) Data Architect
9 12 (3.51%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (3.22%) Data Science Developer
11 10 (2.92%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 10 (2.92%) Insight Manager
11 10 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.34%) Consultant
13 8 (2.34%) Senior Developer
14 7 (2.05%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.31%) Kafka
2 16 (4.68%) PySpark
3 15 (4.39%) HTML
3 15 (4.39%) NumPy
3 15 (4.39%) Pandas
4 14 (4.09%) TensorFlow
5 13 (3.80%) CSS
5 13 (3.80%) Matplotlib
5 13 (3.80%) scikit-learn
6 12 (3.51%) React
7 11 (3.22%) PyTorch
7 11 (3.22%) Seaborn
8 9 (2.63%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.75%) RESTful
10 4 (1.17%) .NET
10 4 (1.17%) Next.js
10 4 (1.17%) Node.js
10 4 (1.17%) Vue
10 4 (1.17%) XHTML
11 3 (0.88%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.31%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.09%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.22%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.05%) Equities
9 6 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.75%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.75%) IoT
10 5 (1.46%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.46%) Social Media
11 4 (1.17%) Blog
11 4 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.17%) FMCG
11 4 (1.17%) NHS
11 4 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.09%) Linux
2 4 (1.17%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) CentOS
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (100.00%) Analytics
2 97 (28.36%) Agile
3 86 (25.15%) Business Intelligence
3 86 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (20.76%) Data Modelling
5 66 (19.30%) Visualisation
6 64 (18.71%) Decision-Making
7 63 (18.42%) Data Analysis
8 60 (17.54%) Data Science
9 54 (15.79%) Computer Science
10 53 (15.50%) Data Engineering
11 52 (15.20%) ETL
12 47 (13.74%) DevOps
13 46 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (12.87%) Machine Learning
15 42 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (11.70%) Data Governance
17 39 (11.40%) Migration
18 38 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
18 38 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 126 (36.84%) SQL
2 100 (29.24%) Python
3 21 (6.14%) Java
4 17 (4.97%) JavaScript
4 17 (4.97%) R
5 8 (2.34%) C++
6 6 (1.75%) Scala
6 6 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.46%) Bash
7 5 (1.46%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.17%) PHP
9 3 (0.88%) Go
9 3 (0.88%) Rust
10 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.58%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.29%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.29%) Groovy
11 1 (0.29%) JCL
Qualifications
1 77 (22.51%) Degree
2 45 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 37 (10.82%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.89%) Master's Degree
5 25 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.39%) PhD
8 12 (3.51%) PMI Certification
9 11 (3.22%) PMP
10 10 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.63%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.34%) CBAP
13 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.88%) CISSP
14 3 (0.88%) CSPO
14 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.58%) CCNA
15 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.51%) GDPR
4 9 (2.63%) Def Stans
4 9 (2.63%) PMO
5 6 (1.75%) QA
6 5 (1.46%) MiFID
6 5 (1.46%) WCAG
7 4 (1.17%) COBIT
8 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.58%) NCSC
9 2 (0.58%) NIST
9 2 (0.58%) OASIS TOSCA
9 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (2.92%) Docker
1 10 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.97%) Terraform
3 6 (1.75%) Ansible
4 5 (1.46%) Grafana
5 2 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.58%) Kibana
5 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 36 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.36%) Google
3 29 (8.48%) Databricks
4 15 (4.39%) SAP
5 13 (3.80%) Oracle
5 13 (3.80%) VMware
6 10 (2.92%) Adobe
7 8 (2.34%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.75%) Foundry
8 6 (1.75%) Palantir
8 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.17%) Splunk
10 4 (1.17%) Talend
11 3 (0.88%) Amplitude
11 3 (0.88%) Denodo
11 3 (0.88%) Workday
12 2 (0.58%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.58%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.58%) NetCracker