Data Analytics Engineer Contracts

Data Analytics Engineer
UK

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in the UK is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 680 821
Rank change year-on-year +123 +141 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 10 14 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.025% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.026% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 9
10th Percentile £506 £475 £468
25th Percentile £604 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £535 £800
Median % change year-on-year +17.76% -33.13% +48.84%
75th Percentile £635 £550 -
90th Percentile £665 £629 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £545 £500
% change year-on-year +8.26% +9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

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 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

Data Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
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 Data Analytics Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +92 10 £630 +17.76% 4
London +86 6 £640 +21.90% 3
UK excluding London +37 4 £590 +8.26% 1
Work from Home +113 3 £675 +23.85% 2
Midlands +20 2 £513 -5.96%
South West - 2 £630 -
East Midlands - 2 £513 -

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Data Analytics Engineer 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 Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Data Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 5 (50.00%) Big Data
5 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
5 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
5 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (40.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) Java
6 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
7 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
7 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
7 2 (20.00%) C#
7 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (20.00%) Perl
7 2 (20.00%) .NET

Data Analytics Engineer 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 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (20.00%) Looker
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Data Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (20.00%) ETL Development
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
6 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Perl
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Teradata