Data Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics 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 225 238 209
Rank change year-on-year +13 -29 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 184 201 382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.89% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.99% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 144 259
10th Percentile £312 £313 £373
25th Percentile £358 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +0.47% +5.53%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £625
90th Percentile £728 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.00 £9.92
25th Percentile £14.78 £23.06 £24.23
Median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.01% +122.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £43.75 £78.60 -
90th Percentile - £79.19 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £78.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -67.95% +122.86% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Analytics 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
Midlands +44 72 £400 -25.93% 49
West Midlands +45 58 £450 -16.67% 35
South East 0 40 £363 -28.92% 48
North of England +17 34 £550 -6.38% 58
North West +22 28 £550 +29.41% 34
East Midlands +9 14 £365 -27.00% 14
Wales +33 13 £538 - 5
South West -6 11 £569 -24.17% 32
East of England 0 8 £363 -23.53% 12
Scotland +19 6 £425 -29.75% 22
Yorkshire +6 5 £515 -14.17% 17
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 6
North East - 1 - - 7
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (8.15%) SAS
2 5 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.63%) Confluence
4 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) CICS
5 1 (0.54%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.63%) SPSS
5 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.63%) Power Platform
2 25 (13.59%) Azure
3 14 (7.61%) AWS
4 6 (3.26%) GitHub
5 5 (2.72%) GCP
5 5 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.17%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.63%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.09%) Matillion
8 2 (1.09%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.09%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.98%) VPN
2 9 (4.89%) Firewall
2 9 (4.89%) LAN
2 9 (4.89%) MPLS
2 9 (4.89%) PBX
2 9 (4.89%) VoIP
2 9 (4.89%) WAN
2 9 (4.89%) WLAN
3 5 (2.72%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (2.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (2.72%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (2.72%) DHCP
3 5 (2.72%) DNS
3 5 (2.72%) Internet
3 5 (2.72%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (2.17%) Network Security
5 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.09%) Power BI
2 29 (15.76%) MySQL
3 24 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (13.04%) Tableau
4 20 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (7.07%) Big Data
6 10 (5.43%) Crystal Reports
6 10 (5.43%) Hadoop
7 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.80%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.26%) Impala
10 4 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.63%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.63%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (1.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 25 (13.59%) Git
2 8 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.80%) Cypress.io
4 6 (3.26%) JIRA
5 4 (2.17%) GitLab
6 3 (1.63%) Postman
6 3 (1.63%) Storybook
7 1 (0.54%) AppScan
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.54%) RStudio
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (19.57%) Finance
3 31 (16.85%) Social Skills
4 20 (10.87%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.35%) Retail
8 7 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.26%) Banking
10 5 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Marketing
12 3 (1.63%) Automotive
12 3 (1.63%) Korean Language
12 3 (1.63%) Law
12 3 (1.63%) Legal
12 3 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Agriculture
13 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (22.28%) Analyst
2 30 (16.30%) Data Analyst
3 21 (11.41%) Developer
4 19 (10.33%) Senior
5 18 (9.78%) Architect
6 11 (5.98%) Data Engineer
6 11 (5.98%) Project Manager
6 11 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (4.89%) Consultant
8 8 (4.35%) Analytics Manager
9 7 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (3.80%) Data Manager
9 7 (3.80%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (3.80%) IFS Developer
10 6 (3.26%) Data Analytics Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Data Consultant
10 6 (3.26%) Splunk Engineer
11 5 (2.72%) Data Scientist
11 5 (2.72%) Lead
11 5 (2.72%) Manufacturing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.43%) Web Services
2 5 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.72%) Vue
3 4 (2.17%) Laravel
4 3 (1.63%) .NET
4 3 (1.63%) D3.js
4 3 (1.63%) Playwright
4 3 (1.63%) PySpark
4 3 (1.63%) React
5 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.09%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.09%) CSS
5 2 (1.09%) HTML
5 2 (1.09%) Kafka
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.09%) PostGIS
5 2 (1.09%) SAML
6 1 (0.54%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.54%) NumPy
6 1 (0.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.89%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.26%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.72%) Life Science
7 4 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.17%) NHS
8 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.09%) FMCG
9 2 (1.09%) Insider Threat
9 2 (1.09%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.09%) Robotics
9 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.35%) Linux
2 3 (1.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) Analytics
2 58 (31.52%) Agile
3 57 (30.98%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (26.09%) ETL
5 35 (19.02%) Project Management
6 33 (17.93%) Scrum
7 32 (17.39%) Dashboard Development
7 32 (17.39%) Data Extraction
8 31 (16.85%) Software Engineering
9 29 (15.76%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (14.67%) Process Improvement
11 26 (14.13%) Requirements Gathering
12 25 (13.59%) Configuration Management
13 24 (13.04%) Visualisation
14 22 (11.96%) Data Analysis
14 22 (11.96%) Data Management
14 22 (11.96%) Data Modelling
14 22 (11.96%) Roadmaps
15 20 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (10.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 62 (33.70%) SQL
2 37 (20.11%) Python
3 14 (7.61%) R
4 6 (3.26%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (3.26%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.72%) Java
6 4 (2.17%) Bash
6 4 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.63%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.09%) C#
8 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.09%) Perl
8 2 (1.09%) PHP
8 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.54%) COBOL
9 1 (0.54%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.54%) SELCOPY
9 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.76%) Degree
4 9 (4.89%) CCIE
4 9 (4.89%) CCIE Data Center
4 9 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.17%) CCNP
7 3 (1.63%) CISSP
7 3 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CBAP
9 1 (0.54%) CISA
9 1 (0.54%) CISM
9 1 (0.54%) IIBA
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.98%) QA
3 5 (2.72%) GAMP
3 5 (2.72%) GxP
3 5 (2.72%) PMO
4 4 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (2.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (14.13%) Grafana
2 4 (2.17%) Ansible
3 3 (1.63%) Graylog
3 3 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.63%) Terraform
4 2 (1.09%) Nagios
5 1 (0.54%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.54%) Nessus
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.54%) Puppet
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 37 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.04%) Denodo
2 24 (13.04%) Talend
3 13 (7.07%) Oracle
4 10 (5.43%) IFS
5 9 (4.89%) Cisco
5 9 (4.89%) Splunk
6 5 (2.72%) Autodesk
6 5 (2.72%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.72%) Infoblox
6 5 (2.72%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.72%) Symantec
6 5 (2.72%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.17%) Databricks
8 3 (1.63%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.63%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.63%) Google
8 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.09%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.09%) Teradata