Data Analyst Contracts

Data Analyst
UK

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 160 172
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 655 918 1,454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.60% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.69% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 647 1,059
10th Percentile £270 £270 £263
25th Percentile £363 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.48% +12.36%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £413
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 46 69
10th Percentile £13.40 £13.52 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.89 £16.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.66 £19.75 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -11.77% +20.97%
75th Percentile £35.50 £28.41 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £36.63 £35.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.43 £18.57 £22.00
% change year-on-year +15.40% -15.59% +23.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in the UK

Data Analyst
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 Analyst 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 -8 557 £462 -2.68% 277
London +1 307 £500 - 136
UK excluding London +19 291 £425 - 161
Work from Home +36 261 £450 -2.70% 98
North of England +16 81 £444 +4.41% 41
South East +24 74 £400 -11.11% 41
North West +27 59 £431 +7.81% 21
Scotland +56 51 £465 +5.68% 11
Midlands +14 40 £375 +7.14% 32
South West -17 27 £425 -10.53% 13
West Midlands +8 22 £431 +22.78% 23
East of England +4 19 £450 - 22
Yorkshire -9 19 £450 -10.00% 18
East Midlands +26 18 £363 +3.57% 9
Northern Ireland +4 3 £338 -43.75%
North East +9 2 £500 - 2
Wales +9 2 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 260 (39.69%) SQL
2 228 (34.81%) Finance
3 206 (31.45%) Business Intelligence
4 196 (29.92%) Power BI
4 196 (29.92%) Power Platform
5 183 (27.94%) Data Analysis
6 173 (26.41%) Social Skills
7 172 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
8 162 (24.73%) Analytics
9 149 (22.75%) Python
10 145 (22.14%) Visualisation
11 124 (18.93%) Data Quality
12 112 (17.10%) Data Modelling
13 108 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (15.42%) Tableau
15 97 (14.81%) Data Management
16 88 (13.44%) Microsoft Excel
17 86 (13.13%) Data Governance
17 86 (13.13%) Data Visualisation
18 85 (12.98%) Migration
19 84 (12.82%) Banking
20 71 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
21 66 (10.08%) Agile
22 63 (9.62%) Actionable Insight
23 62 (9.47%) Decision-Making
24 61 (9.31%) Data Cleansing
25 60 (9.16%) Microsoft
26 59 (9.01%) Azure
27 54 (8.24%) Data Analytics
28 53 (8.09%) Data Migration

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 26 (3.97%) SAS
2 13 (1.98%) Confluence
3 11 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 88 (13.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.29%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.07%) SPSS
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 196 (29.92%) Power Platform
2 59 (9.01%) Azure
3 40 (6.11%) Snowflake
4 34 (5.19%) Power Automate
5 30 (4.58%) AWS
6 26 (3.97%) Collibra
7 23 (3.51%) PowerApps
8 20 (3.05%) GCP
9 17 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (1.53%) Google Analytics
11 9 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.92%) dbt
12 6 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.76%) GitHub
13 5 (0.76%) OCI
14 4 (0.61%) Adobe Analytics
14 4 (0.61%) iPaaS
14 4 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
15 3 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.92%) DNS
1 6 (0.92%) Firewall
2 5 (0.76%) DHCP
3 4 (0.61%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) NAS
4 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (29.92%) Power BI
2 101 (15.42%) Tableau
3 45 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.89%) Metadata
5 31 (4.73%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.82%) Data Mining
7 22 (3.36%) Big Data
7 22 (3.36%) Data Lake
8 20 (3.05%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.60%) Qlik Sense
10 12 (1.83%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.68%) Looker
12 10 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.53%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (1.37%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (1.22%) Impala
15 7 (1.07%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 42 (6.41%) JIRA
2 8 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (0.92%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.76%) PyCharm
5 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.31%) ERwin
6 2 (0.31%) Git
6 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) RStudio
7 1 (0.15%) Toad
General
1 228 (34.81%) Finance
2 173 (26.41%) Social Skills
3 172 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.82%) Banking
5 39 (5.95%) Legal
6 32 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (4.43%) Retail
9 28 (4.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 20 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.75%) Marketing
12 16 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.68%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.37%) Retail Banking
16 8 (1.22%) Billing
16 8 (1.22%) Front Office
16 8 (1.22%) Local Government
17 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.53%) PySpark
2 8 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.07%) D3.js
4 3 (0.46%) LDAP
4 3 (0.46%) Middleware
5 2 (0.31%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.31%) ggplot2
5 2 (0.31%) Pandas
5 2 (0.31%) Plotly
5 2 (0.31%) Shiny
5 2 (0.31%) XML
5 2 (0.31%) XSD
6 1 (0.15%) .NET
6 1 (0.15%) ADO
6 1 (0.15%) EDI
6 1 (0.15%) HTML
6 1 (0.15%) HTML5
6 1 (0.15%) JSON
6 1 (0.15%) Node.js
6 1 (0.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.58%) Management Information System
2 24 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 19 (2.90%) Credit Risk
4 14 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.22%) NHS
9 7 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.92%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.61%) Derivative
12 4 (0.61%) e-Health
12 4 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.61%) Life Science
12 4 (0.61%) Social Media
13 3 (0.46%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.68%) Windows
2 5 (0.76%) Linux
3 4 (0.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (31.45%) Business Intelligence
2 183 (27.94%) Data Analysis
3 162 (24.73%) Analytics
4 145 (22.14%) Visualisation
5 112 (17.10%) Data Modelling
6 108 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (14.81%) Data Management
8 86 (13.13%) Data Governance
8 86 (13.13%) Data Visualisation
9 85 (12.98%) Migration
10 71 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 66 (10.08%) Agile
12 63 (9.62%) Actionable Insight
13 62 (9.47%) Decision-Making
14 61 (9.31%) Data Cleansing
15 54 (8.24%) Data Analytics
16 53 (8.09%) Data Migration
17 49 (7.48%) Change Management
18 45 (6.87%) ETL
19 44 (6.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 260 (39.69%) SQL
2 149 (22.75%) Python
3 33 (5.04%) R
4 10 (1.53%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (1.22%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.07%) Java
6 7 (1.07%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.07%) VBA
7 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.76%) VBScript
8 4 (0.61%) Groovy
8 4 (0.61%) VB
9 3 (0.46%) C#
9 3 (0.46%) Scala
9 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.31%) C++
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 53 (8.09%) Degree
2 26 (3.97%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.46%) CISA
6 3 (0.46%) CRISC
7 2 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.15%) ACCA
8 1 (0.15%) APMP
8 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.15%) CIMA
8 1 (0.15%) CISM
8 1 (0.15%) CISSP
8 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (18.93%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.80%) QA
3 29 (4.43%) GDPR
4 9 (1.37%) PMO
5 6 (0.92%) SLA
6 4 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.61%) GxP
7 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.46%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.48%) Oracle
3 44 (6.72%) Alteryx
4 39 (5.95%) SAP
5 23 (3.51%) Databricks
6 21 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.90%) Google
8 17 (2.60%) Splunk
9 14 (2.14%) Bloomberg
9 14 (2.14%) Refinitiv
10 13 (1.98%) Atlassian
11 11 (1.68%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.37%) Dataiku
12 9 (1.37%) Informatica
13 7 (1.07%) Adobe
13 7 (1.07%) Trillium
14 6 (0.92%) Ariba
15 5 (0.76%) Citrix
15 5 (0.76%) Red Hat
16 4 (0.61%) IFS