Data Analyst Contracts in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 155 164
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 557 822 1,208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.53% 1.71% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.80% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 580 877
10th Percentile £301 £270 £261
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +12.49%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £467
% change year-on-year -5.21% +1.71% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 66
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.40 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.54 £22.16 £22.69
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.34% +26.76%
75th Percentile £40.00 £32.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £41.43 £48.15 -
UK median hourly rate £21.66 £19.75 £22.38
% change year-on-year +9.70% -11.77% +22.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London -1 305 £500 - 135
North of England +21 82 £444 +4.41% 36
South East +37 76 £400 -11.11% 36
North West +32 59 £431 +7.81% 19
Midlands +19 40 £375 +7.14% 30
South West -19 27 £425 -10.53% 13
West Midlands +10 22 £431 +22.78% 19
Yorkshire -10 20 £450 -8.16% 16
East of England -3 19 £450 - 20
East Midlands +23 18 £363 +3.57% 11
North East +9 2 £500 - 1
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 223 (40.04%) SQL
2 196 (35.19%) Finance
3 170 (30.52%) Business Intelligence
4 162 (29.08%) Power BI
4 162 (29.08%) Power Platform
5 159 (28.55%) Social Skills
6 151 (27.11%) Data Analysis
7 138 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
8 131 (23.52%) Python
9 129 (23.16%) Analytics
10 121 (21.72%) Data Quality
11 116 (20.83%) Visualisation
12 97 (17.41%) Data Modelling
13 89 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (15.62%) Tableau
15 84 (15.08%) Data Management
16 79 (14.18%) Data Governance
17 75 (13.46%) Banking
18 73 (13.11%) Migration
19 68 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
20 67 (12.03%) Data Visualisation
21 60 (10.77%) Agile
22 59 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
23 55 (9.87%) Azure
23 55 (9.87%) Data Cleansing
24 52 (9.34%) Data Migration
25 51 (9.16%) Actionable Insight
26 49 (8.80%) Data Analytics
26 49 (8.80%) Decision-Making
27 44 (7.90%) Change Management

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (4.49%) SAS
2 14 (2.51%) Confluence
3 8 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 68 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.26%) SPSS
6 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 162 (29.08%) Power Platform
2 55 (9.87%) Azure
3 30 (5.39%) Snowflake
4 28 (5.03%) AWS
5 26 (4.67%) Collibra
6 21 (3.77%) Power Automate
7 16 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.33%) GCP
9 12 (2.15%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.62%) Google Analytics
11 7 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.08%) dbt
12 6 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.72%) Adobe Analytics
14 4 (0.72%) iPaaS
14 4 (0.72%) OCI
15 3 (0.54%) GitHub
15 3 (0.54%) SaaS
15 3 (0.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.08%) DNS
1 6 (1.08%) Firewall
2 5 (0.90%) DHCP
3 4 (0.72%) IPv4
4 1 (0.18%) NAS
4 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.18%) VLAN
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (29.08%) Power BI
2 87 (15.62%) Tableau
3 40 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (5.75%) Metadata
5 28 (5.03%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.95%) Data Lake
6 22 (3.95%) Data Mining
7 20 (3.59%) Big Data
8 17 (3.05%) Qlik Sense
9 14 (2.51%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.97%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.80%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.44%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (1.26%) Impala
14 7 (1.26%) Looker
14 7 (1.26%) PowerPivot
14 7 (1.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (5.57%) JIRA
2 7 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.08%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.90%) PyCharm
5 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) Git
6 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.18%) RStudio
7 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 196 (35.19%) Finance
2 159 (28.55%) Social Skills
3 138 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (13.46%) Banking
5 32 (5.75%) Legal
6 28 (5.03%) Retail
7 27 (4.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 27 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 18 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 17 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (3.05%) Marketing
11 15 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.97%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.62%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.44%) Front Office
15 7 (1.26%) Billing
15 7 (1.26%) Local Government
16 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.44%) PySpark
2 7 (1.26%) D3.js
3 5 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.54%) LDAP
5 2 (0.36%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.36%) ggplot2
5 2 (0.36%) Pandas
5 2 (0.36%) Plotly
5 2 (0.36%) Shiny
6 1 (0.18%) .NET
6 1 (0.18%) ADO
6 1 (0.18%) BREW
6 1 (0.18%) HTML
6 1 (0.18%) HTML5
6 1 (0.18%) JSON
6 1 (0.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.18%) Node.js
6 1 (0.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.49%) Management Information System
2 18 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.15%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (1.97%) Credit Risk
5 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.44%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.44%) NHS
6 7 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.90%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.72%) Derivative
9 4 (0.72%) e-Health
10 3 (0.54%) CMDB
10 3 (0.54%) IoT
10 3 (0.54%) Life Science
10 3 (0.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.80%) Windows
2 5 (0.90%) Linux
3 4 (0.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (30.52%) Business Intelligence
2 151 (27.11%) Data Analysis
3 129 (23.16%) Analytics
4 116 (20.83%) Visualisation
5 97 (17.41%) Data Modelling
6 89 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (15.08%) Data Management
8 79 (14.18%) Data Governance
9 73 (13.11%) Migration
10 67 (12.03%) Data Visualisation
11 60 (10.77%) Agile
12 59 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (9.87%) Data Cleansing
14 52 (9.34%) Data Migration
15 51 (9.16%) Actionable Insight
16 49 (8.80%) Data Analytics
16 49 (8.80%) Decision-Making
17 44 (7.90%) Change Management
18 41 (7.36%) Data Science
18 41 (7.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 223 (40.04%) SQL
2 131 (23.52%) Python
3 28 (5.03%) R
4 9 (1.62%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.44%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.08%) Java
7 5 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.90%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.90%) VBA
7 5 (0.90%) VBScript
8 4 (0.72%) Groovy
9 3 (0.54%) C#
9 3 (0.54%) Scala
9 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.36%) C++
10 2 (0.36%) VB
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 43 (7.72%) Degree
2 17 (3.05%) Security Cleared
3 16 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.18%) ACCA
8 1 (0.18%) APMP
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) CIMA
8 1 (0.18%) CISM
8 1 (0.18%) CISSP
8 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (21.72%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.03%) GDPR
2 28 (5.03%) QA
3 5 (0.90%) SLA
4 4 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (0.72%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (0.72%) GxP
5 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.54%) PMO
6 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.18%) IFRS
7 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.54%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (0.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (7.90%) Oracle
2 40 (7.18%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.46%) SAP
4 34 (6.10%) Alteryx
5 25 (4.49%) Databricks
6 20 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.69%) Google
7 15 (2.69%) Splunk
8 14 (2.51%) Bloomberg
8 14 (2.51%) Refinitiv
9 9 (1.62%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.26%) Adobe
10 7 (1.26%) Informatica
10 7 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.26%) Trillium
11 5 (0.90%) Ariba
11 5 (0.90%) Citrix
11 5 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.72%) Denodo
12 4 (0.72%) IFS