Senior Data Analyst Contracts

Senior Data Analyst
UK

The median Senior Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 526 665
Rank change year-on-year +25 +139 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 19 56 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.13% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.14% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 44 31
10th Percentile £474 £325 £413
25th Percentile £503 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £644 £550 £575
90th Percentile £678 £588 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate - £506 £475
% change year-on-year - +6.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in the UK

Senior Data Analyst
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +31 19 £600 +14.29% 71
London +38 16 £600 +14.29% 41
Work from Home +22 3 - - 40
UK excluding London +30 2 - - 48
South East +43 1 - - 14
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 4
North of England +1 1 - - 10

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (63.16%) Data Analysis
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (47.37%) Data Quality
2 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
5 6 (31.58%) Power BI
5 6 (31.58%) Finance
6 5 (26.32%) Python
6 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
6 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
7 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
7 4 (21.05%) Banking
7 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
8 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
8 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Data Management
8 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
8 3 (15.79%) Degree
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (15.79%) ETL
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle
8 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (15.79%) Analytics

Senior 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 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Collibra
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) Impala
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) Power Query
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Sqoop
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Finance
4 4 (21.05%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Local Government
6 1 (5.26%) Back Office
6 1 (5.26%) Front Office
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Data Analysis
2 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
6 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Data Management
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) ETL
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 2 (10.53%) Benchmarking
8 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
8 2 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) LOINC
2 1 (5.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Foundry
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Informatica
2 2 (10.53%) Talend
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Workday