Head of Data Analytics Contract Job Trends

Head of Data Analytics
UK

The median Head of Data Analytics daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 552 599
Rank change year-on-year -20 +47 +206
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Data Analytics 5 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.025% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.027% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile - £738 £760
25th Percentile £613 £772 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £888 £825
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% +7.58% -8.33%
75th Percentile £644 £988 £900
90th Percentile £648 £1,044 £930
UK excluding London median daily rate - £775 £900
% change year-on-year - -13.89% -21.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 33,199 33,522 42,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.79% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 20,434 28,329
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,922 1,156 1,511
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.42 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.97 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +39.68%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Head of Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Head of Data Analytics' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Head of Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Head of Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Head of Data Analytics job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Head of Data Analytics job vacancies in the UK

Head of Data Analytics
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Data Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 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 -38 4 £625 -29.58% 6
London -3 2 £625 -35.90% 2
UK excluding London -43 2 - - 6
South East - 2 - - 3
Work from Home +5 1 £650 -13.33% 3

Head of Data Analytics Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, Head of Data Analytics contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Head of Data Analytics in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) R
4 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Applied Mathematics
5 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Insight
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (20.00%) Power BI
5 1 (20.00%) Power Platform

Head of Data Analytics Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Applied Mathematics
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Statistics
5 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality