Exploratory Data Analysis Contracts

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 694 825
Rank change year-on-year +124 +131 -107
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 14 3 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.005% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.006% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 17
10th Percentile £388 £383 £405
25th Percentile £422 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £520 £503 £575
90th Percentile £589 £513 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £375 £415
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.64% -19.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £53.05
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £63.25
90th Percentile - - £64.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Exploratory Data Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Exploratory Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +98 14 £490 -0.76% 13
London +92 12 £490 -0.76% 10
Work from Home +120 6 £518 +16.70% 9
UK excluding London +29 1 £450 +20.00% 4
South West - 1 £450 - 1

Exploratory Data Analysis
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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) IBM Watson
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
1 4 (28.57%) Tableau
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
3 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Parquet
3 2 (14.29%) Power Query
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Deequ
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Data Scientist
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ADO
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
1 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 2 (14.29%) Great Expectations
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) JSON Schema
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
1 2 (14.29%) Tkinter
2 1 (7.14%) Flask
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 10 (71.43%) Data Science
3 8 (57.14%) Predictive Modelling
4 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (50.00%) Mathematics
4 7 (50.00%) Statistics
5 6 (42.86%) Analytics
5 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
6 5 (35.71%) Agile
6 5 (35.71%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
7 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Economics
7 3 (21.43%) Linear Programming
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Operations Research
7 3 (21.43%) Quantitative Research
7 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) R
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Alteryx
2 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
2 1 (7.14%) IBM