Data Analyst Contracts

Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 167 174
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 660 945 1,490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.53% 1.60% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.69% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 671 1,084
10th Percentile £301 £270 £263
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £466
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +1.93% +10.95%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £413
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 44 70
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.24 £12.38
25th Percentile £16.29 £16.79 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.66 £19.50 £20.10
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.99% +8.62%
75th Percentile £40.00 £25.03 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.48 £32.44 £35.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.43 £18.14 £19.52
% change year-on-year +18.14% -7.07% +9.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -4 556 £475 - 255
London -8 301 £500 - 139
UK excluding London +26 297 £425 - 118
Work from Home +50 276 £463 +1.65% 95
North of England +20 87 £450 +5.88% 33
South East +23 74 £425 -5.56% 21
North West +37 62 £438 +6.71% 14
Scotland +64 52 £465 +9.41% 8
Midlands +17 33 £375 +8.70% 27
South West -7 27 £450 -2.70% 14
East of England +14 24 £450 - 14
Yorkshire -4 22 £450 -6.25% 13
West Midlands +6 17 £431 +26.84% 15
East Midlands +24 16 £363 -9.38% 12
Northern Ireland +8 3 £338 -43.75%
North East +13 2 £500 - 6
Wales +4 2 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 253 (38.33%) SQL
2 234 (35.45%) Finance
3 200 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
4 192 (29.09%) Power BI
4 192 (29.09%) Power Platform
5 187 (28.33%) Data Analysis
6 173 (26.21%) Social Skills
7 167 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
8 155 (23.48%) Analytics
9 139 (21.06%) Visualisation
10 137 (20.76%) Python
11 134 (20.30%) Data Quality
12 121 (18.33%) Data Modelling
13 108 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (15.30%) Data Management
15 95 (14.39%) Tableau
16 88 (13.33%) Banking
17 87 (13.18%) Data Governance
18 83 (12.58%) Migration
19 82 (12.42%) Data Visualisation
20 80 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
21 73 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
22 65 (9.85%) Decision-Making
23 63 (9.55%) Data Cleansing
24 60 (9.09%) Agile
25 59 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
26 57 (8.64%) Microsoft
27 55 (8.33%) Change Management
27 55 (8.33%) Azure
28 53 (8.03%) Data Analytics

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 23 (3.48%) SAS
2 12 (1.82%) Confluence
3 8 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 80 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.06%) SPSS
6 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 192 (29.09%) Power Platform
2 55 (8.33%) Azure
3 39 (5.91%) Snowflake
4 33 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 26 (3.94%) AWS
5 26 (3.94%) Collibra
6 22 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 18 (2.73%) GCP
8 15 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.52%) Google Analytics
10 8 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.61%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (0.61%) GitHub
12 4 (0.61%) iPaaS
12 4 (0.61%) OCI
12 4 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.45%) dbt
13 3 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.91%) DNS
1 6 (0.91%) Firewall
2 5 (0.76%) DHCP
3 4 (0.61%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) NAS
4 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (29.09%) Power BI
2 95 (14.39%) Tableau
3 41 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 33 (5.00%) Metadata
6 24 (3.64%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.18%) Data Mining
8 20 (3.03%) Big Data
9 16 (2.42%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
11 12 (1.82%) Hadoop
12 11 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.36%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (1.21%) Impala
14 8 (1.21%) Looker
15 7 (1.06%) Ataccama
15 7 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (5.76%) JIRA
2 10 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 8 (1.21%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.76%) PyCharm
5 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
6 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Git
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) RStudio
7 1 (0.15%) Toad
General
1 234 (35.45%) Finance
2 173 (26.21%) Social Skills
3 167 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (13.33%) Banking
5 39 (5.91%) Legal
6 35 (5.30%) Public Sector
7 32 (4.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 29 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (4.39%) Retail
9 20 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.03%) Marketing
9 20 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.36%) Local Government
13 9 (1.36%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.21%) Front Office
15 6 (0.91%) Back Office
15 6 (0.91%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.21%) PySpark
2 7 (1.06%) D3.js
2 7 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.45%) Middleware
3 3 (0.45%) Shiny
4 2 (0.30%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.30%) ggplot2
4 2 (0.30%) LDAP
4 2 (0.30%) Pandas
4 2 (0.30%) Plotly
4 2 (0.30%) XML
4 2 (0.30%) XSD
5 1 (0.15%) EDI
5 1 (0.15%) JSON
5 1 (0.15%) Node.js
5 1 (0.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.24%) Management Information System
2 22 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.58%) Credit Risk
4 13 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.52%) NHS
7 9 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.61%) Derivative
10 4 (0.61%) e-Health
10 4 (0.61%) Life Science
11 3 (0.45%) CMDB
11 3 (0.45%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.67%) Windows
2 4 (0.61%) Linux
2 4 (0.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
2 187 (28.33%) Data Analysis
3 155 (23.48%) Analytics
4 139 (21.06%) Visualisation
5 121 (18.33%) Data Modelling
6 108 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (15.30%) Data Management
8 87 (13.18%) Data Governance
9 83 (12.58%) Migration
10 82 (12.42%) Data Visualisation
11 73 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (9.85%) Decision-Making
13 63 (9.55%) Data Cleansing
14 60 (9.09%) Agile
15 59 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
16 55 (8.33%) Change Management
17 53 (8.03%) Data Analytics
18 51 (7.73%) Data Migration
19 45 (6.82%) ETL
20 39 (5.91%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 253 (38.33%) SQL
2 137 (20.76%) Python
3 30 (4.55%) R
4 9 (1.36%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (1.21%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.91%) Java
7 5 (0.76%) VBScript
8 4 (0.61%) Groovy
8 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.61%) VBA
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) C++
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Julia
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (7.58%) Degree
2 34 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 33 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.15%) ACCA
7 1 (0.15%) APMP
7 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.15%) CIMA
7 1 (0.15%) CISM
7 1 (0.15%) CISSP
7 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (20.30%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.67%) QA
3 27 (4.09%) GDPR
4 9 (1.36%) PMO
5 7 (1.06%) SLA
6 4 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.61%) GxP
7 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.30%) Terraform
1 2 (0.30%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.15%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.82%) Oracle
3 44 (6.67%) SAP
4 43 (6.52%) Alteryx
5 27 (4.09%) Databricks
6 19 (2.88%) Google
7 18 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.58%) Splunk
9 13 (1.97%) Bloomberg
9 13 (1.97%) Refinitiv
10 12 (1.82%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.52%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.36%) Dataiku
12 9 (1.36%) Informatica
13 7 (1.06%) Trillium
14 5 (0.76%) Adobe
14 5 (0.76%) Ariba
14 5 (0.76%) Citrix
14 5 (0.76%) Datix
14 5 (0.76%) Red Hat