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 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 161 163 174
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 645 881 1,418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.50% 1.56% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.65% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 622 1,035
10th Percentile £268 £270 £263
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £675 £627
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £420
% change year-on-year - +1.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 47 67
10th Percentile £13.05 £14.56 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.05 £16.98 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.65 £20.47 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.76% -11.00% +28.49%
75th Percentile £27.75 £29.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £35.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.95 £19.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -0.29% -19.49% +33.90%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 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
England -6 548 £451 -5.16% 238
UK excluding London +35 297 £425 - 142
London -3 297 £483 -3.50% 102
Work from Home +29 245 £450 - 85
North of England +17 78 £450 +5.88% 37
South East +17 76 £400 -12.33% 25
North West +29 58 £450 +12.50% 19
Scotland +58 53 £453 +6.47% 12
Midlands +22 40 £375 -6.25% 32
South West -4 28 £425 -5.56% 25
West Midlands +5 23 £438 +9.38% 18
East of England +3 21 £438 -2.78% 12
East Midlands +17 17 £363 -3.33% 14
Yorkshire -8 17 £438 -12.50% 14
Northern Ireland +5 4 £338 -43.75%
Wales +8 3 - - 2
North East +9 2 £500 +9.59% 6

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

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 featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 265 (41.09%) SQL
2 222 (34.42%) Finance
3 207 (32.09%) Business Intelligence
4 193 (29.92%) Power BI
4 193 (29.92%) Power Platform
5 182 (28.22%) Data Analysis
6 175 (27.13%) Analytical Skills
7 168 (26.05%) Social Skills
8 164 (25.43%) Analytics
9 150 (23.26%) Python
10 138 (21.40%) Visualisation
11 132 (20.47%) Data Quality
12 114 (17.67%) Data Modelling
13 112 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (16.12%) Tableau
15 94 (14.57%) Data Management
16 91 (14.11%) Data Governance
17 89 (13.80%) Microsoft Excel
18 86 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
19 82 (12.71%) Migration
20 73 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
20 73 (11.32%) Banking
21 66 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
22 64 (9.92%) Decision-Making
22 64 (9.92%) Agile
23 63 (9.77%) Microsoft
24 61 (9.46%) Degree
25 60 (9.30%) Azure
26 59 (9.15%) Data Cleansing
27 54 (8.37%) Data Analytics

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 (4.03%) SAS
2 12 (1.86%) Confluence
3 10 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.62%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 89 (13.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.55%) SPSS
5 7 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
4 1 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.16%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 193 (29.92%) Power Platform
2 60 (9.30%) Azure
3 42 (6.51%) Snowflake
4 33 (5.12%) Power Automate
5 27 (4.19%) AWS
6 26 (4.03%) Collibra
7 23 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 18 (2.79%) GCP
9 16 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.71%) Google Analytics
11 6 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (0.93%) dbt
12 5 (0.78%) GitHub
12 5 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.62%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (0.62%) iPaaS
13 4 (0.62%) OCI
13 4 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.47%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.78%) DNS
1 5 (0.78%) Firewall
2 4 (0.62%) DHCP
3 3 (0.47%) IPv4
4 2 (0.31%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.16%) NAS
5 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.16%) VLAN
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (29.92%) Power BI
2 104 (16.12%) Tableau
3 51 (7.91%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.96%) Metadata
4 32 (4.96%) SQL Server
5 26 (4.03%) Data Mining
6 24 (3.72%) Data Lake
7 22 (3.41%) Big Data
8 18 (2.79%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.64%) Qlik Sense
10 12 (1.86%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.71%) Looker
12 10 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.55%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.24%) Impala
14 8 (1.24%) MS Access
14 8 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (6.20%) JIRA
2 9 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (0.78%) PyCharm
4 4 (0.62%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.31%) ERwin
5 2 (0.31%) Git
5 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.16%) RStudio
6 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 222 (34.42%) Finance
2 175 (27.13%) Analytical Skills
3 168 (26.05%) Social Skills
4 73 (11.32%) Banking
5 40 (6.20%) Legal
6 32 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (4.03%) Retail
10 20 (3.10%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (2.48%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.48%) Marketing
13 12 (1.86%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.55%) Billing
14 10 (1.55%) Local Government
15 9 (1.40%) Front Office
15 9 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.40%) Retail Banking
16 8 (1.24%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.55%) PySpark
2 7 (1.09%) D3.js
2 7 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.47%) LDAP
3 3 (0.47%) Pandas
4 2 (0.31%) .NET
4 2 (0.31%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.31%) Middleware
5 1 (0.16%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.16%) ADO
5 1 (0.16%) BREW
5 1 (0.16%) EDI
5 1 (0.16%) Flask
5 1 (0.16%) HTML
5 1 (0.16%) HTML5
5 1 (0.16%) JSON
5 1 (0.16%) Node.js
5 1 (0.16%) RESTful
5 1 (0.16%) XML
5 1 (0.16%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 23 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 19 (2.95%) Credit Risk
4 15 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.09%) NHS
9 5 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.78%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.62%) Derivative
10 4 (0.62%) e-Health
10 4 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.62%) Life Science
10 4 (0.62%) Social Media
11 3 (0.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.09%) Windows
2 5 (0.78%) Linux
3 4 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (32.09%) Business Intelligence
2 182 (28.22%) Data Analysis
3 164 (25.43%) Analytics
4 138 (21.40%) Visualisation
5 114 (17.67%) Data Modelling
6 112 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (14.57%) Data Management
8 91 (14.11%) Data Governance
9 86 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
10 82 (12.71%) Migration
11 73 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 66 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
13 64 (9.92%) Agile
13 64 (9.92%) Decision-Making
14 59 (9.15%) Data Cleansing
15 54 (8.37%) Data Analytics
16 53 (8.22%) Data Migration
17 46 (7.13%) ETL
18 43 (6.67%) Data Science
19 40 (6.20%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 265 (41.09%) SQL
2 150 (23.26%) Python
3 32 (4.96%) R
4 10 (1.55%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (1.09%) Java
6 7 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.09%) VBA
7 6 (0.93%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.62%) Groovy
9 4 (0.62%) VB
10 3 (0.47%) C#
10 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.47%) VBScript
11 2 (0.31%) C++
11 2 (0.31%) Scala
12 1 (0.16%) C
12 1 (0.16%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (9.46%) Degree
2 25 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.72%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.47%) CISA
8 3 (0.47%) CRISC
9 2 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.16%) ACCA
10 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CIMA
10 1 (0.16%) CISM
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) MOS
10 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (20.47%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.27%) QA
3 31 (4.81%) GDPR
4 9 (1.40%) PMO
5 6 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.93%) SLA
6 4 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (0.62%) GxP
7 3 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.16%) MiFID
9 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.47%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.13%) Oracle
3 44 (6.82%) Alteryx
4 39 (6.05%) SAP
5 23 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.41%) Databricks
7 17 (2.64%) Google
8 15 (2.33%) Splunk
9 13 (2.02%) Atlassian
9 13 (2.02%) Bloomberg
9 13 (2.02%) Refinitiv
10 9 (1.40%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.40%) Informatica
10 9 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.09%) Adobe
11 7 (1.09%) Trillium
12 6 (0.93%) Ariba
13 4 (0.62%) Denodo
13 4 (0.62%) IFS
14 3 (0.47%) Optimizely