Data Analysis Contracts in England

Data Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 89 99 115
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 898 1,149 1,688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.39% 2.44% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.72% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 812 1,127
10th Percentile £307 £308 £347
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.46% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 39 87
10th Percentile £18.00 £20.54 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.06 £21.24 £19.01
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.27% -33.86% +44.09%
75th Percentile £50.00 £36.65 £52.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £61.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £23.15 £32.60
% change year-on-year +15.16% -28.99% +34.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in England

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in England

Data Analysis
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the England region 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
London -2 491 £500 - 344
North of England +12 108 £450 -10.00% 168
South East -25 89 £463 -10.19% 121
Midlands +44 79 £400 - 113
North West +9 66 £450 -2.70% 103
West Midlands +54 61 £400 -16.67% 67
South West +23 48 £481 +1.32% 73
East of England +9 39 £425 +6.25% 51
Yorkshire +13 37 £475 -9.52% 37
East Midlands -2 17 £400 +17.65% 46
North East +8 3 - - 30
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.34%) Confluence
3 20 (2.23%) SAS
4 18 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.56%) IIS
6 12 (1.34%) Apache
7 8 (0.89%) MTS
8 6 (0.67%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.33%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 132 (14.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (2.45%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.78%) Simulink
7 6 (0.67%) SPSS
8 2 (0.22%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.22%) Mingle
9 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.11%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.45%) Endur
3 10 (1.11%) Aladdin
4 9 (1.00%) Aligne
5 8 (0.89%) EuroRunner
6 7 (0.78%) SimCorp Dimension
7 5 (0.56%) Primavera
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (0.33%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.33%) Shopify
10 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
10 2 (0.22%) Maximo
10 2 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 2 (0.22%) SAP IBP
10 2 (0.22%) SAP SD
11 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 206 (22.94%) Power Platform
2 116 (12.92%) Azure
3 62 (6.90%) AWS
4 29 (3.23%) Snowflake
5 27 (3.01%) Power Automate
6 23 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (2.23%) PowerApps
8 19 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.00%) GCP
10 14 (1.56%) Collibra
11 12 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.22%) WhatsApp
13 10 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.00%) Serverless
15 8 (0.89%) OCI
15 8 (0.89%) SaaS
16 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.67%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.12%) Internet
2 14 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 14 (1.56%) Network Security
3 5 (0.56%) 2G
3 5 (0.56%) 3G
3 5 (0.56%) 4G
3 5 (0.56%) 5G
3 5 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.22%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.22%) Wireless
5 1 (0.11%) HTTP
5 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.11%) SNA
5 1 (0.11%) VLAN
5 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (22.16%) Power BI
2 91 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (10.02%) Tableau
4 77 (8.57%) SQL Server
5 64 (7.13%) Big Data
6 43 (4.79%) Data Lake
7 36 (4.01%) Metadata
8 31 (3.45%) Data Mining
9 26 (2.90%) Oracle Database
10 25 (2.78%) Hadoop
11 20 (2.23%) Qlik Sense
12 16 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.56%) GIS
14 13 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.45%) Relational Database
14 13 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (1.22%) NoSQL
16 10 (1.11%) Power Query
17 9 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 53 (5.90%) JIRA
2 18 (2.00%) Git
3 9 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (0.89%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.56%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.56%) LSMW
6 5 (0.56%) Maven
7 4 (0.45%) ERwin
7 4 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.45%) Selenium
7 4 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.22%) Deequ
9 2 (0.22%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.22%) kappa
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 320 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 242 (26.95%) Finance
3 224 (24.94%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 80 (8.91%) Banking
6 36 (4.01%) Marketing
7 35 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (3.12%) Retail
9 27 (3.01%) Back Office
9 27 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.90%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.78%) Front Office
11 25 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 24 (2.67%) Legal
13 21 (2.34%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.11%) Mandarin Language
16 10 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 311 (34.63%) Analyst
2 142 (15.81%) Data Analyst
3 122 (13.59%) Business Analyst
4 80 (8.91%) Developer
5 73 (8.13%) Senior
6 57 (6.35%) Architect
7 45 (5.01%) Consultant
8 40 (4.45%) Data Engineer
8 40 (4.45%) Data Scientist
9 39 (4.34%) Lead
9 39 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
10 35 (3.90%) Data Architect
11 24 (2.67%) C# Developer
12 23 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
13 20 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 20 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 18 (2.00%) Power BI Developer
15 17 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
16 14 (1.56%) Data Consultant
17 13 (1.45%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.23%) .NET
2 20 (2.23%) .NET Framework
3 15 (1.67%) WinForms
4 14 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
4 14 (1.56%) PySpark
4 14 (1.56%) WPF
5 13 (1.45%) WCF
6 11 (1.22%) Pandas
7 9 (1.00%) Kafka
8 8 (0.89%) JSON
8 8 (0.89%) Matplotlib
8 8 (0.89%) XML
9 7 (0.78%) HTML
9 7 (0.78%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.67%) ADO
10 6 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.67%) CSS
10 6 (0.67%) NumPy
10 6 (0.67%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 35 (3.90%) Algorithms
3 33 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
7 16 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
7 16 (1.78%) NHS
8 13 (1.45%) Derivative
8 13 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.34%) Equities
9 12 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.11%) Market Risk
12 8 (0.89%) Hedge funds
12 8 (0.89%) Social Media
13 7 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.78%) Solar Panel
14 6 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.12%) Windows
2 29 (3.23%) Linux
3 22 (2.45%) Unix
4 12 (1.34%) Android
4 12 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (26.73%) Business Intelligence
2 195 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
3 186 (20.71%) Analytics
4 184 (20.49%) Data Modelling
5 168 (18.71%) Visualisation
6 167 (18.60%) Agile
7 133 (14.81%) Decision-Making
8 103 (11.47%) Data Visualisation
9 102 (11.36%) Data Management
9 102 (11.36%) Data Science
10 99 (11.02%) Project Management
11 98 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 95 (10.58%) Data Governance
13 90 (10.02%) Migration
14 83 (9.24%) Computer Science
15 82 (9.13%) Actionable Insight
16 76 (8.46%) ETL
17 62 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 58 (6.46%) Business Analysis
19 56 (6.24%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 318 (35.41%) SQL
2 199 (22.16%) Python
3 46 (5.12%) C#
4 43 (4.79%) R
4 43 (4.79%) T-SQL
5 36 (4.01%) VBA
6 31 (3.45%) PL/SQL
7 23 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 23 (2.56%) VB
8 20 (2.23%) Java
9 19 (2.12%) C++
10 16 (1.78%) MATLAB
11 15 (1.67%) JavaScript
12 13 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (1.45%) VB.NET
13 11 (1.22%) Bash
14 9 (1.00%) Scala
15 7 (0.78%) C
16 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 146 (16.26%) Degree
2 86 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 48 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 37 (4.12%) Master's Degree
6 27 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 15 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.56%) PMP
9 10 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
10 9 (1.00%) PhD
11 8 (0.89%) CBAP
12 6 (0.67%) CIMA
12 6 (0.67%) Postgraduate
13 5 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.56%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.45%) HNC
15 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (13.92%) Data Quality
2 73 (8.13%) QA
3 33 (3.67%) PMO
4 23 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 20 (2.23%) SLA
6 17 (1.89%) GDPR
7 11 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.89%) IFRS
9 6 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
11 3 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.22%) Basel III
12 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) P3O
12 2 (0.22%) WCAG
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.00%) Docker
2 4 (0.45%) HDFS
3 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.33%) MOM
3 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.11%) Grafana
3 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.11%) Kibana
3 1 (0.11%) logstash
3 1 (0.11%) Rancher
3 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.11%) SysTrack
3 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 96 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.90%) Oracle
3 56 (6.24%) SAP
4 34 (3.79%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.34%) Databricks
5 30 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.78%) Citrix
7 17 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 16 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.67%) Dell
9 15 (1.67%) Google
10 9 (1.00%) Remedy
11 8 (0.89%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.78%) Cadence
12 7 (0.78%) IBM
12 7 (0.78%) SimCorp
12 7 (0.78%) Trillium
13 6 (0.67%) Adobe
13 6 (0.67%) iManage
13 6 (0.67%) Splunk