Data Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis 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 106 125 125
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 417 444 647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.96% 1.96% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.20% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 296 388
10th Percentile £266 £263 £250
25th Percentile £381 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +6.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £665 £650 £643
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.46% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 73
10th Percentile £15.97 £16.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.77 £20.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -32.86% +57.30%
75th Percentile £43.75 £32.50 £43.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £48.02 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £23.15 £32.60
% change year-on-year +15.16% -28.99% +34.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Analysis 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 Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
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 Analysis 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
North of England +12 108 £450 -10.00% 169
South East -25 89 £463 -10.19% 121
Midlands +44 79 £400 - 115
North West +9 66 £450 -2.70% 104
West Midlands +54 61 £400 -16.67% 68
South West +23 48 £481 +1.32% 73
Scotland +19 45 £478 +0.53% 41
East of England +9 39 £425 +6.25% 52
Yorkshire +13 37 £475 -9.52% 37
East Midlands -2 17 £400 +17.65% 47
Wales +21 9 £412 -3.06% 9
North East +8 3 - - 30
Northern Ireland -7 2 £375 -17.13% 6
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
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 18 (4.32%) SAS
2 13 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.64%) Confluence
4 8 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.44%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.72%) Appian
7 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 76 (18.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.68%) Simulink
4 7 (1.68%) SPSS
5 5 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.24%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.72%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.48%) Maximo
5 2 (0.48%) Primavera
5 2 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 107 (25.66%) Power Platform
2 23 (5.52%) AWS
3 20 (4.80%) Azure
4 17 (4.08%) Power Automate
4 17 (4.08%) Snowflake
5 12 (2.88%) OCI
6 10 (2.40%) GCP
6 10 (2.40%) PowerApps
7 8 (1.92%) Google Sheets
7 8 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.68%) Collibra
9 5 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.20%) Serverless
10 4 (0.96%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.72%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.36%) Intrusion Detection
1 14 (3.36%) Network Security
2 2 (0.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.24%) 4G
3 1 (0.24%) 5G
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.24%) SSL
3 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (25.66%) Power BI
2 40 (9.59%) Tableau
3 38 (9.11%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (7.19%) Big Data
5 24 (5.76%) Data Mining
6 18 (4.32%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.84%) Qlik Sense
9 14 (3.36%) Metadata
10 11 (2.64%) Hadoop
10 11 (2.64%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (2.16%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.92%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.92%) GIS
12 8 (1.92%) Metadata Repository
13 7 (1.68%) Ataccama
14 6 (1.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.43%) JIRA
2 9 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.20%) LSMW
4 4 (0.96%) Git
4 4 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.48%) ERwin
6 2 (0.48%) kappa
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 130 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 108 (25.90%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (19.90%) Finance
4 62 (14.87%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.32%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.60%) Retail
9 13 (3.12%) Back Office
9 13 (3.12%) Legal
10 12 (2.88%) Banking
11 10 (2.40%) Mandarin Language
11 10 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.16%) Marketing
13 8 (1.92%) Local Government
14 6 (1.44%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.20%) Automotive
15 5 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 150 (35.97%) Analyst
2 79 (18.94%) Data Analyst
3 40 (9.59%) Business Analyst
4 38 (9.11%) Senior
5 31 (7.43%) Senior Analyst
6 28 (6.71%) Architect
7 22 (5.28%) Developer
8 19 (4.56%) Consultant
8 19 (4.56%) Data Architect
9 16 (3.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (3.84%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.60%) Lead
10 15 (3.60%) Senior Data Analyst
11 14 (3.36%) Data Scientist
12 11 (2.64%) Junior
13 10 (2.40%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (2.40%) Data Quality Analyst
13 10 (2.40%) QA Analyst
13 10 (2.40%) Quality Analyst
14 9 (2.16%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.36%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (1.44%) Kafka
3 5 (1.20%) .NET
3 5 (1.20%) PySpark
4 4 (0.96%) BAPI
4 4 (0.96%) D3.js
4 4 (0.96%) HTML
4 4 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.72%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.72%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.72%) CSS
5 3 (0.72%) SpaCy
5 3 (0.72%) XML
6 2 (0.48%) JSON
6 2 (0.48%) Middleware
6 2 (0.48%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.48%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.24%) React
7 1 (0.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.79%) Management Information System
2 16 (3.84%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (3.84%) Distributed Applications
3 9 (2.16%) NHS
3 9 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.20%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.20%) Taxonomies
7 4 (0.96%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.96%) Credit Risk
7 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.96%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (0.96%) Social Media
8 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.72%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.52%) Linux
2 14 (3.36%) Windows
3 13 (3.12%) Unix
4 12 (2.88%) Android
4 12 (2.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (24.22%) Analytics
3 91 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (21.34%) Visualisation
5 88 (21.10%) Data Modelling
6 58 (13.91%) Data Management
7 56 (13.43%) Decision-Making
8 51 (12.23%) Project Management
9 50 (11.99%) Data Visualisation
10 48 (11.51%) Agile
11 43 (10.31%) Data Governance
12 41 (9.83%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (9.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 37 (8.87%) Migration
15 36 (8.63%) Data Cleansing
15 36 (8.63%) Data Science
16 35 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (8.39%) Problem Management
17 31 (7.43%) ITIL
18 29 (6.95%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 107 (25.66%) SQL
2 68 (16.31%) Python
3 17 (4.08%) R
4 7 (1.68%) C
4 7 (1.68%) C++
4 7 (1.68%) MATLAB
5 6 (1.44%) C#
5 6 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.20%) Java
6 5 (1.20%) Scala
7 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.72%) Perl
8 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.72%) VBA
9 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.48%) VB
10 1 (0.24%) Bash
10 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.27%) Degree
3 28 (6.71%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.76%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.20%) PMP
9 4 (0.96%) ACCA
9 4 (0.96%) CBAP
9 4 (0.96%) CIMA
9 4 (0.96%) HNC
10 3 (0.72%) HND
10 3 (0.72%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.48%) CISM
11 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.48%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.48%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.47%) PMO
3 20 (4.80%) QA
4 17 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (2.16%) GDPR
6 3 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.48%) IFRS
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (1.68%) Docker
2 4 (0.96%) HDFS
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.96%) Grafana
3 3 (0.72%) MOM
4 1 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.24%) Kibana
4 1 (0.24%) logstash
4 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 52 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.19%) SAP
3 26 (6.24%) Oracle
4 17 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 17 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.84%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.88%) Dell
7 10 (2.40%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.40%) Google
8 8 (1.92%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.68%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.68%) Remedy
9 7 (1.68%) Trillium
10 5 (1.20%) IBM
11 4 (0.96%) BT
11 4 (0.96%) Informatica
11 4 (0.96%) Twitter
12 3 (0.72%) Brandwatch
12 3 (0.72%) Facebook
12 3 (0.72%) Splunk