Exploratory Analysis Contract Job Trends

Exploratory Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Exploratory Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 530 586
Rank change year-on-year -109 +56 +99
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Analysis 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.007% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.007% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £509 £314 -
25th Percentile £534 £336 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £381 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.52% - -
75th Percentile £788 £436 -
90th Percentile - £463 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Exploratory Analysis 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 43,357 27,782 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.94% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,993 17,554 23,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,350 2,559
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

Exploratory Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Exploratory Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Exploratory Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exploratory Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exploratory Analysis

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Analysis over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Analysis in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exploratory Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exploratory Analysis

Exploratory Analysis
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. 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
London -67 7 £643 +38.92% 6
England -121 7 £643 +68.52% 9
Work from Home - 2 £550 - 5

Exploratory Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Data Science
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Data Design
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Pricing Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Cypher
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Palantir