Data Analyst Contracts in the Midlands

Data Analyst
England > Midlands

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the Midlands is £375 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 95 114 116
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 40 44 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.49% 1.34% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.42% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 55
10th Percentile £350 £185 £235
25th Percentile £356 £288 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £450 £438 £475
90th Percentile £503 £538 £560
England median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +12.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 13
10th Percentile - £24.13 £24.40
25th Percentile - £28.44 -
Median hourly rate - £36.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £43.44 -
90th Percentile - £47.38 -
England median hourly rate £21.54 £22.16 £22.69
% change year-on-year -2.82% -2.34% +26.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,482 3,101 4,798
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.54% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,180 3,495
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +14.91%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 116 164
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £10.87
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.00 £14.58
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +16.63% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.88
90th Percentile £52.45 £61.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 22 £431 +22.78% 19
East Midlands +23 18 £363 +3.57% 11
Data Analyst
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (40.00%) SQL
1 16 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (35.00%) Oracle
3 13 (32.50%) Analytics
4 12 (30.00%) Python
5 11 (27.50%) Finance
5 11 (27.50%) Test Scripting
6 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (22.50%) Data Analytics
8 8 (20.00%) Power BI
8 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
8 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 7 (17.50%) R
9 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis
9 7 (17.50%) Logistic Regression
10 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
10 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
10 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
10 6 (15.00%) Hadoop
10 6 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
10 6 (15.00%) Oracle Database
10 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (12.50%) Data Science
11 5 (12.50%) Decision Tree
11 5 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
11 5 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
11 5 (12.50%) Business Strategy
11 5 (12.50%) Impala
11 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.50%) OCI
2 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Power BI
2 6 (15.00%) Hadoop
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle Database
3 5 (12.50%) Impala
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (7.50%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.50%) Big Data
6 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (2.50%) Pentaho
6 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Presto
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Billing
5 2 (5.00%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Marketing
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) BREW
1 1 (2.50%) Middleware
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) FMCG
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (32.50%) Analytics
3 11 (27.50%) Test Scripting
4 9 (22.50%) Data Analytics
5 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis
5 7 (17.50%) Logistic Regression
6 6 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (12.50%) Agile
7 5 (12.50%) Business Strategy
7 5 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (12.50%) Data Science
7 5 (12.50%) Decision Tree
7 5 (12.50%) Manual Testing
7 5 (12.50%) Migration
7 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
7 5 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (12.50%) System Testing
7 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 5 (12.50%) Web Testing
8 4 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) Python
3 7 (17.50%) R
4 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) ACCA
4 1 (2.50%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Denodo
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) Sage
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Talend
5 1 (2.50%) Teradata