Data Analyst Contracts in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 163 172
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 534 751 1,176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.42% 1.60% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.69% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 524 864
10th Percentile £264 £270 £261
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £551
90th Percentile £638 £675 £629
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 61
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.04 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.40 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.43 £22.16 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -11.36% +35.14%
75th Percentile £40.00 £32.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £42.63 £48.15 -
UK median hourly rate £21.65 £20.24 £23.70
% change year-on-year +6.99% -14.62% +23.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
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 Analyst 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 -7 289 £486 -2.75% 79
South East +29 79 £400 -13.68% 27
North of England +2 70 £431 +1.47% 37
North West +24 53 £425 +3.03% 20
Midlands +16 41 £375 -6.25% 23
South West -8 28 £425 -8.11% 18
West Midlands +10 24 £443 +10.69% 14
East of England +3 18 £410 -8.89% 16
East Midlands +14 17 £363 -3.33% 9
Yorkshire -17 14 £450 -10.00% 10
North East +6 2 £500 +9.59% 7
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 238 (44.57%) SQL
2 182 (34.08%) Business Intelligence
3 181 (33.90%) Finance
4 168 (31.46%) Power BI
4 168 (31.46%) Power Platform
5 160 (29.96%) Social Skills
6 145 (27.15%) Analytical Skills
7 142 (26.59%) Data Analysis
8 139 (26.03%) Python
9 138 (25.84%) Analytics
10 126 (23.60%) Data Quality
11 118 (22.10%) Visualisation
12 96 (17.98%) Tableau
13 95 (17.79%) Data Modelling
14 89 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 84 (15.73%) Data Governance
16 81 (15.17%) Data Management
17 72 (13.48%) Migration
17 72 (13.48%) Data Visualisation
18 65 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
19 61 (11.42%) Azure
20 60 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
21 57 (10.67%) Agile
22 56 (10.49%) Banking
22 56 (10.49%) Actionable Insight
23 54 (10.11%) Decision-Making
23 54 (10.11%) Degree
23 54 (10.11%) Data Analytics
24 53 (9.93%) Data Cleansing
25 52 (9.74%) Data Migration

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 24 (4.49%) SAS
2 12 (2.25%) Confluence
3 9 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 65 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.87%) SPSS
5 6 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.19%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (31.46%) Power Platform
2 61 (11.42%) Azure
3 32 (5.99%) Snowflake
4 25 (4.68%) AWS
4 25 (4.68%) Collibra
5 20 (3.75%) Power Automate
6 17 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (2.43%) PowerApps
8 12 (2.25%) GCP
9 10 (1.87%) Google Analytics
10 9 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.12%) dbt
12 5 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (0.75%) iPaaS
13 4 (0.75%) OCI
13 4 (0.75%) SaaS
14 3 (0.56%) Google Tag Manager
14 3 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) DNS
1 3 (0.56%) Firewall
2 2 (0.37%) DHCP
3 1 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.19%) IPv4
3 1 (0.19%) NAS
3 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.19%) VLAN
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
3 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (31.46%) Power BI
2 96 (17.98%) Tableau
3 50 (9.36%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (5.81%) Metadata
4 31 (5.81%) SQL Server
5 25 (4.68%) Data Lake
6 23 (4.31%) Data Mining
7 19 (3.56%) Big Data
8 17 (3.18%) Qlik Sense
9 12 (2.25%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (2.06%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.87%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.50%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.31%) Ataccama
13 7 (1.31%) Impala
13 7 (1.31%) MS Access
13 7 (1.31%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 28 (5.24%) JIRA
2 8 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (0.94%) PyCharm
4 4 (0.75%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.37%) Git
5 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.19%) RStudio
General
1 181 (33.90%) Finance
2 160 (29.96%) Social Skills
3 145 (27.15%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.49%) Banking
5 32 (5.99%) Legal
6 23 (4.31%) Retail
7 22 (4.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 22 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.00%) Marketing
10 14 (2.62%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.06%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.50%) Billing
13 8 (1.50%) Front Office
13 8 (1.50%) Local Government
14 7 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.31%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.69%) PySpark
2 7 (1.31%) D3.js
3 5 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.56%) LDAP
5 2 (0.37%) .NET
5 2 (0.37%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.37%) Pandas
6 1 (0.19%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.19%) ADO
6 1 (0.19%) BREW
6 1 (0.19%) Flask
6 1 (0.19%) HTML
6 1 (0.19%) HTML5
6 1 (0.19%) JSON
6 1 (0.19%) Middleware
6 1 (0.19%) Node.js
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.62%) Management Information System
2 14 (2.62%) Credit Risk
3 13 (2.43%) Data Structures
3 13 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (1.31%) NHS
5 6 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.94%) Reference Data
6 5 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.75%) e-Health
8 3 (0.56%) Derivative
8 3 (0.56%) IoT
8 3 (0.56%) Life Science
8 3 (0.56%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.31%) Windows
2 5 (0.94%) Linux
3 4 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (34.08%) Business Intelligence
2 142 (26.59%) Data Analysis
3 138 (25.84%) Analytics
4 118 (22.10%) Visualisation
5 95 (17.79%) Data Modelling
6 89 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (15.73%) Data Governance
8 81 (15.17%) Data Management
9 72 (13.48%) Data Visualisation
9 72 (13.48%) Migration
10 60 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 57 (10.67%) Agile
12 56 (10.49%) Actionable Insight
13 54 (10.11%) Data Analytics
13 54 (10.11%) Decision-Making
14 53 (9.93%) Data Cleansing
15 52 (9.74%) Data Migration
16 42 (7.87%) ETL
17 39 (7.30%) Data Science
18 30 (5.62%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 238 (44.57%) SQL
2 139 (26.03%) Python
3 28 (5.24%) R
4 10 (1.87%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.50%) Java
5 8 (1.50%) VBA
6 7 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.75%) Groovy
8 4 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.75%) VB
9 3 (0.56%) C#
9 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.37%) C++
10 2 (0.37%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) Go
11 1 (0.19%) Tcl
11 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (10.11%) Degree
2 16 (3.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (2.81%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.56%) CISA
8 3 (0.56%) CRISC
9 2 (0.37%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ACCA
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.19%) CIMA
10 1 (0.19%) CISM
10 1 (0.19%) CISSP
10 1 (0.19%) MOS
10 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (23.60%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.68%) GDPR
2 25 (4.68%) QA
3 6 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.12%) SLA
4 4 (0.75%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (0.75%) GxP
5 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.56%) PMO
6 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.19%) IFRS
7 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.56%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.49%) Oracle
3 35 (6.55%) Alteryx
4 31 (5.81%) SAP
5 23 (4.31%) Databricks
5 23 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.43%) Bloomberg
6 13 (2.43%) Google
6 13 (2.43%) Splunk
7 12 (2.25%) Refinitiv
8 9 (1.69%) Dataiku
9 8 (1.50%) Informatica
10 7 (1.31%) Adobe
10 7 (1.31%) Trillium
11 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.75%) Denodo
12 4 (0.75%) IFS
13 3 (0.56%) Citrix
13 3 (0.56%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.56%) Teradata