Insight Analyst Contracts

Insight Analyst
UK

The median Insight Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 573 654
Rank change year-on-year +40 +81 +153
Contract jobs requiring an Insight Analyst 15 20 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.047% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.050% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 16
10th Percentile £381 £263 £331
25th Percentile £463 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +10.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £500
90th Percentile £575 - £531
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £12.75 -

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 30,069 39,775 53,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 93.04% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,151 25,566 36,972
10th Percentile £287 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,393 2,719 1,580
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.00 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £63.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +82.84%

Insight Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Insight Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Insight Analyst in the UK

Insight Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Insight Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Insight Analyst in the UK

Insight Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Insight Analyst over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Insight Analyst in the UK

Insight Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Insight Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Insight Analyst in the UK

Insight Analyst
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Insight Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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 +36 13 £500 -1.19% 61
UK excluding London +17 9 £500 -6.98% 41
London +35 6 £525 -12.50% 27
South West +37 3 £475 -24.00% 3
East of England +20 3 £500 +17.65%
Scotland -2 2 £550 -12.00% 3
South East +44 1 - - 11
Work from Home +31 1 £500 -6.98% 24

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, Insight 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 Insight Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
3 7 (46.67%) Power BI
3 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 5 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (33.33%) Tableau
5 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (20.00%) R
7 3 (20.00%) Customer Insight
7 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
7 3 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
7 3 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (20.00%) Actionable Customer Insight
7 3 (20.00%) SAP
7 3 (20.00%) Biotechnology
7 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (13.33%) Requirements Workshops
8 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving

Insight 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (13.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Tableau
3 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Marketing
6 1 (6.67%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Life Science
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 5 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Actionable Customer Insight
6 3 (20.00%) Biotechnology
6 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Customer Insight
6 3 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
7 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Requirements Workshops
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCA
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PhD
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Anaplan
2 2 (13.33%) Hyperion
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google