Data Analyst Contracts

Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 168 174
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 657 923 1,464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.60% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.69% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 649 1,062
10th Percentile £303 £270 £263
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +0.85% +13.84%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £419
% change year-on-year - +1.43% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 44 71
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.24 £12.38
25th Percentile £16.70 £16.79 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.66 £19.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.17% +13.51%
75th Percentile £40.00 £25.03 £35.00
90th Percentile - £32.44 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.43 £18.14 £20.50
% change year-on-year +18.14% -11.51% +14.53%

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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -5 557 £475 - 234
London -8 304 £500 -3.85% 123
UK excluding London +29 295 £425 - 119
Work from Home +39 268 £475 +2.70% 81
North of England +16 86 £444 +4.41% 33
South East +23 75 £400 -11.11% 21
North West +41 61 £431 +7.81% 20
Scotland +57 51 £465 +9.41% 9
Midlands +20 37 £375 +10.29% 28
South West -19 27 £425 -10.53% 9
Yorkshire 0 22 £450 -6.25% 12
East of England +7 20 £450 - 18
West Midlands +8 19 £438 +28.68% 18
East Midlands +27 18 £363 +3.57% 10
Northern Ireland +8 3 £338 -43.75%
Wales +9 2 - - 3
North East +8 2 £500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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.

1 259 (39.42%) SQL
2 233 (35.46%) Finance
3 201 (30.59%) Business Intelligence
4 194 (29.53%) Power BI
4 194 (29.53%) Power Platform
5 184 (28.01%) Data Analysis
6 174 (26.48%) Social Skills
7 167 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
8 158 (24.05%) Analytics
9 143 (21.77%) Visualisation
10 141 (21.46%) Python
11 127 (19.33%) Data Quality
12 116 (17.66%) Data Modelling
13 107 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
14 99 (15.07%) Data Management
15 97 (14.76%) Tableau
16 89 (13.55%) Banking
17 87 (13.24%) Data Governance
18 85 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
19 83 (12.63%) Microsoft Excel
20 82 (12.48%) Migration
21 73 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
22 65 (9.89%) Agile
23 63 (9.59%) Decision-Making
24 60 (9.13%) Actionable Insight
24 60 (9.13%) Microsoft
24 60 (9.13%) Data Cleansing
25 56 (8.52%) Azure
26 54 (8.22%) Data Analytics
26 54 (8.22%) 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 24 (3.65%) SAS
2 14 (2.13%) Confluence
3 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 83 (12.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.28%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (1.07%) SPSS
7 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
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%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 194 (29.53%) Power Platform
2 56 (8.52%) Azure
3 40 (6.09%) Snowflake
4 34 (5.18%) Power Automate
5 30 (4.57%) AWS
6 26 (3.96%) Collibra
7 23 (3.50%) PowerApps
8 20 (3.04%) GCP
9 16 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (1.52%) Google Analytics
11 8 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.76%) dbt
13 5 (0.76%) GitHub
13 5 (0.76%) OCI
14 4 (0.61%) Adobe Analytics
14 4 (0.61%) iPaaS
14 4 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
15 3 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.91%) DNS
1 6 (0.91%) Firewall
2 5 (0.76%) DHCP
3 4 (0.61%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
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
1 194 (29.53%) Power BI
2 97 (14.76%) Tableau
3 44 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (5.02%) SQL Server
5 32 (4.87%) Metadata
6 24 (3.65%) Data Lake
6 24 (3.65%) Data Mining
7 22 (3.35%) Big Data
8 20 (3.04%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.59%) Qlik Sense
10 12 (1.83%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.52%) Looker
11 10 (1.52%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.22%) Impala
14 7 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (6.24%) JIRA
2 8 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (0.91%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.76%) PyCharm
5 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
6 2 (0.30%) Git
6 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) RStudio
7 1 (0.15%) Toad
General
1 233 (35.46%) Finance
2 174 (26.48%) Social Skills
3 167 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (13.55%) Banking
5 40 (6.09%) Legal
6 31 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 29 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (4.41%) Retail
9 20 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.74%) Marketing
11 16 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.37%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.22%) Front Office
14 8 (1.22%) Local Government
15 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.91%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.37%) PySpark
2 8 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.07%) D3.js
4 3 (0.46%) LDAP
4 3 (0.46%) Middleware
5 2 (0.30%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.30%) ggplot2
5 2 (0.30%) Pandas
5 2 (0.30%) Plotly
5 2 (0.30%) Shiny
5 2 (0.30%) XML
5 2 (0.30%) XSD
6 1 (0.15%) .NET
6 1 (0.15%) ADO
6 1 (0.15%) EDI
6 1 (0.15%) HTML
6 1 (0.15%) HTML5
6 1 (0.15%) JSON
6 1 (0.15%) Node.js
6 1 (0.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 24 (3.65%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.59%) Credit Risk
4 13 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.22%) NHS
9 7 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.61%) Derivative
11 4 (0.61%) e-Health
11 4 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.61%) Life Science
12 3 (0.46%) IoT
12 3 (0.46%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.67%) Windows
2 5 (0.76%) Linux
3 4 (0.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (30.59%) Business Intelligence
2 184 (28.01%) Data Analysis
3 158 (24.05%) Analytics
4 143 (21.77%) Visualisation
5 116 (17.66%) Data Modelling
6 107 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (15.07%) Data Management
8 87 (13.24%) Data Governance
9 85 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
10 82 (12.48%) Migration
11 73 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (9.89%) Agile
13 63 (9.59%) Decision-Making
14 60 (9.13%) Actionable Insight
14 60 (9.13%) Data Cleansing
15 54 (8.22%) Change Management
15 54 (8.22%) Data Analytics
16 51 (7.76%) Data Migration
17 46 (7.00%) ETL
18 43 (6.54%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 259 (39.42%) SQL
2 141 (21.46%) Python
3 30 (4.57%) R
4 9 (1.37%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (1.22%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.91%) Java
7 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.76%) VBScript
8 4 (0.61%) Groovy
8 4 (0.61%) VBA
9 3 (0.46%) C#
9 3 (0.46%) Scala
9 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) C++
10 2 (0.30%) VB
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 51 (7.76%) Degree
2 30 (4.57%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.61%) Master's 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
1 127 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.78%) QA
3 28 (4.26%) GDPR
4 9 (1.37%) PMO
5 6 (0.91%) SLA
6 4 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.61%) GxP
7 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.46%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.30%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.46%) Oracle
3 42 (6.39%) Alteryx
4 40 (6.09%) SAP
5 26 (3.96%) Databricks
6 19 (2.89%) Google
7 18 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.59%) Splunk
9 14 (2.13%) Bloomberg
9 14 (2.13%) Refinitiv
10 13 (1.98%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.52%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.37%) Dataiku
12 9 (1.37%) Informatica
13 7 (1.07%) Trillium
14 5 (0.76%) Adobe
14 5 (0.76%) Ariba
14 5 (0.76%) Citrix
14 5 (0.76%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.61%) Denodo