Data Analysis Contracts

Data Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 105 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 1,001 1,349 2,082
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 2.36% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.62% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 923 1,413
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 50 97
10th Percentile £17.93 £20.33 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.79 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -15.49% +55.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.01 £55.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £32.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.60% -7.71% +61.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analysis 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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK

Data Analysis
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 Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +9 889 £500 - 1,006
London +4 499 £500 -4.76% 460
UK excluding London +17 404 £450 -5.26% 606
Work from Home +34 358 £500 +5.26% 413
North of England +24 103 £475 -1.30% 155
South East -17 93 £460 -10.69% 160
Midlands +33 74 £400 - 122
North West +4 66 £475 +1.33% 80
West Midlands +47 57 £400 -15.79% 77
Scotland +17 48 £478 +0.53% 36
South West +12 46 £519 +9.21% 60
East of England +11 36 £525 +22.09% 63
Yorkshire +18 31 £475 -8.43% 59
East Midlands +7 16 £405 +19.12% 45
Wales +20 7 £412 -3.06% 17
North East +13 4 £431 -13.80% 17
Northern Ireland -1 2 £375 -29.25% 7

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 32 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.70%) SAS
3 22 (2.20%) Confluence
4 21 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.10%) Apache
5 11 (1.10%) IIS
5 11 (1.10%) MTS
6 8 (0.80%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) Appian
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.100%) CMS
10 1 (0.100%) Jadu
10 1 (0.100%) Moodle
10 1 (0.100%) WebLogic
Applications
1 154 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (4.10%) MS Visio
4 36 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.90%) SPSS
7 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.70%) Simulink
9 2 (0.20%) Mingle
10 1 (0.100%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.100%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.100%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.100%) InVision
10 1 (0.100%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.100%) Sketch
10 1 (0.100%) Stata
10 1 (0.100%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.100%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 20 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.90%) Endur
3 11 (1.10%) Aligne
3 11 (1.10%) EuroRunner
4 10 (1.00%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.50%) Primavera
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.30%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.30%) Shopify
10 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
10 2 (0.20%) Maximo
10 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 237 (23.68%) Power Platform
2 127 (12.69%) Azure
3 72 (7.19%) AWS
4 36 (3.60%) Power Automate
5 29 (2.90%) Snowflake
6 27 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 25 (2.50%) GCP
8 20 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (2.00%) Collibra
9 16 (1.60%) Serverless
10 15 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (1.50%) OCI
11 14 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.00%) WhatsApp
13 9 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.90%) Google Sheets
14 8 (0.80%) Amazon S3
14 8 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.80%) Internet
2 11 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (1.00%) Network Security
4 8 (0.80%) 5G
5 6 (0.60%) 4G
6 5 (0.50%) 2G
6 5 (0.50%) 3G
6 5 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.40%) Wireless
8 2 (0.20%) HTTP
8 2 (0.20%) SNA
9 1 (0.100%) AMQP
9 1 (0.100%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.100%) DMZ
9 1 (0.100%) Firewall
9 1 (0.100%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (0.100%) Modbus
9 1 (0.100%) MQTT
9 1 (0.100%) SSL
9 1 (0.100%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (22.98%) Power BI
2 102 (10.19%) Tableau
3 89 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
4 80 (7.99%) SQL Server
5 65 (6.49%) Big Data
6 38 (3.80%) Data Lake
7 37 (3.70%) Metadata
8 33 (3.30%) Data Mining
9 25 (2.50%) Hadoop
10 23 (2.30%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.60%) Qlik Sense
12 15 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (1.50%) Power Query
13 14 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
13 14 (1.40%) GIS
14 13 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (1.20%) BigQuery
16 11 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 72 (7.19%) JIRA
2 13 (1.30%) Git
3 9 (0.90%) Eclipse
4 7 (0.70%) ERwin
4 7 (0.70%) Selenium
4 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.50%) LSMW
6 5 (0.50%) Maven
7 4 (0.40%) JMeter
7 4 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.40%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.30%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.20%) Deequ
9 2 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.20%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.20%) RStudio
General
1 344 (34.37%) Social Skills
2 282 (28.17%) Finance
3 255 (25.47%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 78 (7.79%) Banking
6 44 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 41 (4.10%) Marketing
8 31 (3.10%) Back Office
8 31 (3.10%) Retail
9 30 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 27 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 25 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.50%) Legal
12 22 (2.20%) Front Office
13 21 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.80%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
16 11 (1.10%) Publishing
17 10 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 371 (37.06%) Analyst
2 183 (18.28%) Data Analyst
3 144 (14.39%) Business Analyst
4 89 (8.89%) Senior
5 78 (7.79%) Developer
6 61 (6.09%) Data Scientist
7 51 (5.09%) Architect
8 49 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
9 47 (4.70%) Consultant
10 39 (3.90%) Data Engineer
10 39 (3.90%) Lead
11 34 (3.40%) Data Architect
12 27 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
13 24 (2.40%) Senior Data Analyst
14 22 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 21 (2.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 20 (2.00%) Power BI Developer
17 19 (1.90%) C# Developer
18 18 (1.80%) Technical Analyst
19 15 (1.50%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.20%) .NET
2 16 (1.60%) .NET Framework
3 15 (1.50%) Pandas
4 14 (1.40%) XML
5 13 (1.30%) PySpark
6 12 (1.20%) WinForms
7 11 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
7 11 (1.10%) Web Services
7 11 (1.10%) WPF
8 10 (1.00%) JSON
8 10 (1.00%) Kafka
8 10 (1.00%) WCF
9 8 (0.80%) Matplotlib
9 8 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.80%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.70%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.60%) NumPy
11 6 (0.60%) REST
12 5 (0.50%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.19%) Management Information System
2 43 (4.30%) Algorithms
3 35 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 27 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.50%) NHS
8 14 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
9 13 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
10 12 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
10 12 (1.20%) Derivative
10 12 (1.20%) Market Risk
10 12 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.10%) Equities
12 9 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.90%) Genomics
12 9 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.80%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.80%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.20%) Windows
2 24 (2.40%) Linux
3 20 (2.00%) Unix
4 8 (0.80%) Android
4 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.30%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.100%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.100%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
2 214 (21.38%) Visualisation
3 212 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
4 209 (20.88%) Data Modelling
5 203 (20.28%) Analytics
6 199 (19.88%) Agile
7 140 (13.99%) Decision-Making
8 125 (12.49%) Data Visualisation
9 122 (12.19%) Data Science
10 107 (10.69%) Migration
10 107 (10.69%) Project Management
11 106 (10.59%) Data Management
12 102 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 93 (9.29%) Data Governance
14 88 (8.79%) ETL
15 86 (8.59%) Actionable Insight
16 82 (8.19%) Computer Science
17 76 (7.59%) Business Analysis
18 66 (6.59%) Machine Learning
19 61 (6.09%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 336 (33.57%) SQL
2 229 (22.88%) Python
3 59 (5.89%) R
4 44 (4.40%) C#
5 42 (4.20%) T-SQL
6 33 (3.30%) VBA
7 31 (3.10%) PL/SQL
8 24 (2.40%) Java
9 22 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 20 (2.00%) C++
11 19 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.90%) VB
12 15 (1.50%) MATLAB
13 13 (1.30%) VB.NET
14 11 (1.10%) JavaScript
15 9 (0.90%) Scala
16 8 (0.80%) Bash
17 7 (0.70%) C
18 5 (0.50%) Perl
19 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 152 (15.18%) Degree
2 109 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 73 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 29 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 13 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.10%) PMP
10 9 (0.90%) CIMA
10 9 (0.90%) PhD
11 8 (0.80%) CBAP
12 6 (0.60%) ACCA
12 6 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.60%) Postgraduate
13 5 (0.50%) ISEB
13 5 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.40%) CISSP
14 4 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (11.49%) Data Quality
2 81 (8.09%) QA
3 42 (4.20%) PMO
4 24 (2.40%) GDPR
5 22 (2.20%) SLA
6 16 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.80%) IFRS
9 8 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.80%) NIST
10 5 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.50%) GRC
11 4 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.30%) EMIR
12 3 (0.30%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.30%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.30%) WCAG
13 2 (0.20%) Basel III
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (0.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.30%) HDFS
3 1 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (0.70%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.40%) Grafana
2 4 (0.40%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.30%) MOM
3 3 (0.30%) Terraform
4 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.100%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.100%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.100%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.100%) SCCM
5 1 (0.100%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 119 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 85 (8.49%) Oracle
3 63 (6.29%) SAP
4 36 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 33 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 28 (2.80%) Databricks
7 24 (2.40%) Google
8 19 (1.90%) Citrix
9 17 (1.70%) Alteryx
10 15 (1.50%) Dell
11 12 (1.20%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.90%) Splunk
14 8 (0.80%) Cadence
14 8 (0.80%) Dataiku
14 8 (0.80%) Remedy
15 7 (0.70%) Adobe
15 7 (0.70%) IBM
15 7 (0.70%) SimCorp
15 7 (0.70%) Trillium