Data Analyst Contracts in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £451 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 158 174
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 548 795 1,183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.48% 1.67% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.76% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 564 865
10th Percentile £270 £270 £250
25th Percentile £363 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £628 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 64
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.06 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.40 £17.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.43 £22.33 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -3.96% +29.89%
75th Percentile £40.00 £32.04 £35.00
90th Percentile £42.63 £47.23 -
UK median hourly rate £21.65 £20.47 £23.00
% change year-on-year +5.76% -11.00% +28.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £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% +14.34%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -3 297 £483 -3.50% 100
North of England +17 78 £450 +5.88% 37
South East +17 76 £400 -12.33% 27
North West +29 58 £450 +12.50% 19
Midlands +22 40 £375 -6.25% 30
South West -4 28 £425 -5.56% 25
West Midlands +5 23 £438 +9.38% 17
East of England +3 21 £438 -2.78% 12
East Midlands +17 17 £363 -3.33% 13
Yorkshire -8 17 £438 -12.50% 14
North East +9 2 £500 +9.59% 6
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 236 (43.07%) SQL
2 190 (34.67%) Finance
3 179 (32.66%) Business Intelligence
4 165 (30.11%) Power BI
4 165 (30.11%) Power Platform
5 157 (28.65%) Social Skills
6 152 (27.74%) Data Analysis
7 144 (26.28%) Analytical Skills
8 139 (25.36%) Python
9 135 (24.64%) Analytics
10 127 (23.18%) Data Quality
11 115 (20.99%) Visualisation
12 101 (18.43%) Data Modelling
13 93 (16.97%) Tableau
13 93 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (15.33%) Data Governance
15 82 (14.96%) Data Management
16 73 (13.32%) Migration
17 69 (12.59%) Data Visualisation
18 67 (12.23%) Microsoft Excel
19 65 (11.86%) Banking
20 61 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
21 60 (10.95%) Azure
22 58 (10.58%) Agile
23 56 (10.22%) Actionable Insight
24 55 (10.04%) Data Cleansing
25 53 (9.67%) Decision-Making
26 51 (9.31%) Data Migration
26 51 (9.31%) Data Analytics
26 51 (9.31%) Degree

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 25 (4.56%) SAS
2 12 (2.19%) Confluence
3 9 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 67 (12.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.82%) SPSS
4 9 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 165 (30.11%) Power Platform
2 60 (10.95%) Azure
3 32 (5.84%) Snowflake
4 26 (4.74%) AWS
4 26 (4.74%) Collibra
5 20 (3.65%) Power Automate
6 16 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (2.19%) GCP
7 12 (2.19%) PowerApps
8 10 (1.82%) Google Analytics
9 9 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.09%) dbt
11 5 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.73%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (0.73%) iPaaS
12 4 (0.73%) OCI
13 3 (0.55%) GitHub
13 3 (0.55%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.91%) DNS
1 5 (0.91%) Firewall
2 4 (0.73%) DHCP
3 3 (0.55%) IPv4
4 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.18%) NAS
4 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.18%) VLAN
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (30.11%) Power BI
2 93 (16.97%) Tableau
3 47 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (5.84%) Metadata
5 30 (5.47%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.38%) Data Lake
7 23 (4.20%) Data Mining
8 20 (3.65%) Big Data
9 17 (3.10%) Qlik Sense
10 13 (2.37%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (2.01%) Hadoop
13 10 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.82%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.64%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.46%) MS Access
15 8 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (1.28%) Impala
16 7 (1.28%) Looker
16 7 (1.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 28 (5.11%) JIRA
2 8 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (0.91%) PyCharm
4 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.36%) Git
5 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.18%) RStudio
6 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 190 (34.67%) Finance
2 157 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 144 (26.28%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.86%) Banking
5 32 (5.84%) Legal
6 27 (4.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 25 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.56%) Retail
8 23 (4.20%) Public Sector
9 18 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.74%) Marketing
12 12 (2.19%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.64%) Billing
13 9 (1.64%) Front Office
13 9 (1.64%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.46%) Local Government
15 7 (1.28%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.64%) PySpark
2 7 (1.28%) D3.js
3 5 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.55%) LDAP
4 3 (0.55%) Pandas
5 2 (0.36%) .NET
5 2 (0.36%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.18%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.18%) ADO
6 1 (0.18%) BREW
6 1 (0.18%) Flask
6 1 (0.18%) HTML
6 1 (0.18%) HTML5
6 1 (0.18%) JSON
6 1 (0.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.18%) Node.js
6 1 (0.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.29%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.10%) Data Structures
3 13 (2.37%) Credit Risk
3 13 (2.37%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (1.28%) NHS
6 6 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.91%) Reference Data
7 5 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (0.73%) Derivative
8 4 (0.73%) e-Health
9 3 (0.55%) CMDB
9 3 (0.55%) Life Science
9 3 (0.55%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.28%) Windows
2 5 (0.91%) Linux
3 4 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (32.66%) Business Intelligence
2 152 (27.74%) Data Analysis
3 135 (24.64%) Analytics
4 115 (20.99%) Visualisation
5 101 (18.43%) Data Modelling
6 93 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (15.33%) Data Governance
8 82 (14.96%) Data Management
9 73 (13.32%) Migration
10 69 (12.59%) Data Visualisation
11 61 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (10.58%) Agile
13 56 (10.22%) Actionable Insight
14 55 (10.04%) Data Cleansing
15 53 (9.67%) Decision-Making
16 51 (9.31%) Data Analytics
16 51 (9.31%) Data Migration
17 44 (8.03%) ETL
18 40 (7.30%) Data Science
19 33 (6.02%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 236 (43.07%) SQL
2 139 (25.36%) Python
3 30 (5.47%) R
4 10 (1.82%) T-SQL
5 7 (1.28%) Java
5 7 (1.28%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.28%) VBA
6 6 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.09%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.73%) Groovy
8 4 (0.73%) VB
9 3 (0.55%) C#
9 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.55%) VBScript
10 2 (0.36%) C++
10 2 (0.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (9.31%) Degree
2 16 (2.92%) Security Cleared
3 15 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.55%) CISA
8 3 (0.55%) CRISC
9 2 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.18%) ACCA
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CIMA
10 1 (0.18%) CISM
10 1 (0.18%) CISSP
10 1 (0.18%) MOS
10 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (23.18%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.29%) GDPR
3 27 (4.93%) QA
4 6 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.91%) SLA
6 4 (0.73%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.73%) GxP
7 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.55%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (0.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.66%) Oracle
3 36 (6.57%) SAP
4 35 (6.39%) Alteryx
5 23 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 22 (4.01%) Databricks
7 14 (2.55%) Google
7 14 (2.55%) Splunk
8 13 (2.37%) Bloomberg
8 13 (2.37%) Refinitiv
9 9 (1.64%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.28%) Adobe
10 7 (1.28%) Informatica
10 7 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.28%) Trillium
11 5 (0.91%) Ariba
12 4 (0.73%) Denodo
12 4 (0.73%) IFS
13 3 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.55%) Optimizely