Data Analytics Contracts

Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 248 219
Rank change year-on-year +28 -29 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 464 600 1,169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.07% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.19% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 418 847
10th Percentile £333 £350 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £674
90th Percentile £765 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% +2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 20
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.10 £9.92
25th Percentile £15.81 £25.25 £28.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £78.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.95% +122.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £79.19 £35.94
90th Percentile - £87.84 £46.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -73.01% +122.86% +45.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +26 407 £550 +0.92% 492
London +23 234 £580 +0.87% 261
UK excluding London +12 173 £525 -1.41% 249
Work from Home +31 151 £504 -4.00% 236
Midlands +37 65 £450 -16.67% 63
West Midlands +28 51 £469 -13.19% 46
North of England +25 36 £550 -6.38% 59
South East -9 36 £405 -20.59% 43
North West +30 29 £550 +22.22% 33
East Midlands +14 14 £365 -27.00% 17
Wales +29 12 £550 - 6
South West -1 11 £600 -20.00% 36
East of England 0 8 £363 -23.53% 16
Scotland +8 7 £509 -15.91% 27
Yorkshire +10 6 £533 -11.25% 18
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 6
North East - 1 - - 9

Data Analytics
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 20 (4.31%) SAS
2 13 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.29%) Confluence
5 5 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.86%) govService
6 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.65%) CMS
8 2 (0.43%) Apache
8 2 (0.43%) CICS
9 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.08%) CPLEX
6 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.65%) SPSS
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) InVision
7 1 (0.22%) Sketch
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Endur
2 5 (1.08%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.65%) Shopify
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 109 (23.49%) Azure
2 108 (23.28%) Power Platform
3 60 (12.93%) AWS
4 33 (7.11%) GCP
5 23 (4.96%) Snowflake
6 18 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.59%) PaaS
8 11 (2.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 11 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (2.37%) Google Analytics
8 11 (2.37%) SaaS
9 10 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.51%) GitHub
10 7 (1.51%) Serverless
11 6 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.29%) IaaS
12 5 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.08%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.02%) Firewall
2 12 (2.59%) VPN
3 9 (1.94%) LAN
3 9 (1.94%) MPLS
3 9 (1.94%) Network Security
3 9 (1.94%) PBX
3 9 (1.94%) VoIP
3 9 (1.94%) WAN
3 9 (1.94%) WLAN
4 5 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.08%) DHCP
4 5 (1.08%) DNS
4 5 (1.08%) Internet
4 5 (1.08%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.43%) Intranet
6 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (23.06%) Power BI
2 58 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (11.64%) Tableau
4 40 (8.62%) Big Data
5 29 (6.25%) MySQL
6 25 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (4.53%) Data Lake
8 15 (3.23%) BigQuery
8 15 (3.23%) KDB
9 14 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.80%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.59%) Looker
12 11 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.37%) Crystal Reports
12 11 (2.37%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.16%) Data Mining
14 8 (1.72%) Metadata
15 7 (1.51%) NoSQL
15 7 (1.51%) QlikView
16 6 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (7.11%) Git
2 25 (5.39%) JIRA
3 11 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.16%) GitLab
4 10 (2.16%) Selenium
5 7 (1.51%) Postman
6 6 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.08%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.65%) Maven
10 2 (0.43%) Bugzilla
10 2 (0.43%) JMeter
10 2 (0.43%) JUnit
10 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.43%) Storybook
10 2 (0.43%) TestNG
10 2 (0.43%) TestRail
11 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 126 (27.16%) Finance
2 122 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 107 (23.06%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.34%) Banking
5 38 (8.19%) Retail
6 32 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.74%) Telecoms
8 20 (4.31%) Marketing
9 16 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.80%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.59%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.72%) Front Office
14 8 (1.72%) Legal
15 7 (1.51%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.29%) Advertising
16 6 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (20.04%) Analyst
2 62 (13.36%) Senior
3 59 (12.72%) Architect
4 54 (11.64%) Data Analyst
4 54 (11.64%) Developer
5 39 (8.41%) Data Engineer
6 32 (6.90%) Analytics Manager
7 30 (6.47%) Project Manager
8 29 (6.25%) Data Analytics Manager
9 28 (6.03%) Lead
10 26 (5.60%) Data Manager
11 19 (4.09%) Data Architect
12 17 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (3.45%) Consultant
14 15 (3.23%) KDB Developer
15 14 (3.02%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (2.59%) Enterprise Architect
18 11 (2.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 11 (2.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.45%) Web Services
2 15 (3.23%) PySpark
3 13 (2.80%) .NET
4 12 (2.59%) HTML
5 9 (1.94%) CSS
5 9 (1.94%) jQuery
5 9 (1.94%) Middleware
6 8 (1.72%) Pandas
7 7 (1.51%) JSON
8 6 (1.29%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.29%) Flask
8 6 (1.29%) pytest
9 5 (1.08%) Django
9 5 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.08%) REST
9 5 (1.08%) Swagger
10 4 (0.86%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.86%) DOM
10 4 (0.86%) Node.js
10 4 (0.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.05%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.02%) Fixed Income
5 13 (2.80%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.37%) NHS
6 11 (2.37%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.94%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.51%) CMDB
9 7 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.29%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.29%) FMCG
10 6 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.08%) Life Science
11 5 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.86%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.53%) Linux
2 20 (4.31%) Windows
3 10 (2.16%) Unix
4 7 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.65%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) zOS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (100.00%) Analytics
2 137 (29.53%) Agile
3 126 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
4 87 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (18.10%) ETL
6 82 (17.67%) Data Modelling
7 72 (15.52%) Project Management
8 69 (14.87%) Visualisation
9 58 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 55 (11.85%) Data Analysis
10 55 (11.85%) Data Management
11 53 (11.42%) DevOps
12 48 (10.34%) Scrum
13 47 (10.13%) Data Science
14 44 (9.48%) Computer Science
14 44 (9.48%) Data Governance
15 43 (9.27%) Data Integration
15 43 (9.27%) Machine Learning
16 42 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (9.05%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 158 (34.05%) SQL
2 110 (23.71%) Python
3 22 (4.74%) R
4 18 (3.88%) C#
5 16 (3.45%) Java
6 13 (2.80%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.37%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.16%) Scala
9 8 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.51%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (1.29%) Perl
12 5 (1.08%) ABAP
12 5 (1.08%) C
12 5 (1.08%) F#
12 5 (1.08%) VBA
13 4 (0.86%) Bash
13 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (15.73%) Degree
2 65 (14.01%) Security Cleared
3 51 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.02%) CISSP
6 13 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.94%) CCIE
8 9 (1.94%) CCIE Data Center
9 8 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.86%) CCNP
11 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.65%) CISM
12 3 (0.65%) PMP
13 2 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.60%) QA
3 11 (2.37%) PMO
4 10 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.72%) GDPR
6 7 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.08%) GAMP
7 5 (1.08%) GxP
7 5 (1.08%) SLA
8 3 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.22%) NIST
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.37%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) HDFS
3 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 21 (4.53%) Grafana
2 15 (3.23%) Terraform
3 12 (2.59%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.08%) Ansible
5 3 (0.65%) Graylog
5 3 (0.65%) Matomo
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Nagios
7 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.22%) Nessus
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.22%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 85 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.11%) Google
3 30 (6.47%) Databricks
4 24 (5.17%) Oracle
5 19 (4.09%) Denodo
5 19 (4.09%) Talend
6 17 (3.66%) Adobe
7 14 (3.02%) SAP
8 10 (2.16%) IFS
8 10 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.16%) Splunk
9 9 (1.94%) Alteryx
9 9 (1.94%) Cisco
9 9 (1.94%) Informatica
10 6 (1.29%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.29%) IBM
10 6 (1.29%) Optimizely
11 5 (1.08%) Ensighten
11 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto